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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@thetnholler.bsky.social Hat delivered to western Nebraska today! Thanks for doing what you do!

Man wearing red, white, and blue TN HOLLER hat whike reclining in deck chair with blue sky, brick house, and young cottonwood tree framing his face.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wall art from my compassionate and optimistic 12yo daughter's bedroom.

Dry erase art on a wipeboard in my 12yo daughter's room includes a Pride flag next to a cross above the words "Christians who ACTUALLY SUPPORT EVERYONE"
(The Hamilton-standing-on-a-star icon points up to the words.)

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maggie prefers to be outside the chicken pen thank you very much.

Rhode Island Red hen greeting me on the weedy red flagstone path to the chicken pen this morning.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yes! We had a nice rain too!

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My morning view of the Scottsbluff National Monument off to my west.

In violet sky under wispy gray clouds the full moon hangs low over a natural sandstone bluff. Green alfalfa field in foreground and city spread left to right under the bluff.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hello from western Nebraska.

Wide and distant view of a cumulonimbus cloud building and puffing white with a blue sky surrounding it and my neighbor's alfalfa field and stackyard on the horizon.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Reread books, my friends. I'm using the first four paragraphs of chapter fifteen in this one by @cindybaldwinbooks.bsky.social for an assignment in a graduate course on reading comprehension. It's fantastic writing!

Personalized and signed title page of Where the Watermelons Grow in black, gray, and white.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So, I'm up much later than normal and just went to refill my water and tidy the house when suddenly I feel like I interrupted a sacred ritual or standoff or something.

Three cats in a triangular formation staredown around blankets in my living room.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Goodnight from my corner of humanity.

Wide outdoor view of green yard foreground, hayfield midrange, tree-lined horizon to the right with red-glow sunset while to the left side horizon a prominent sandstone prominence intrudes on a quiet purplish cloud cover that gives way to scattered white clouds in blue sky at the top of the frame.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Must get it on my bookshelf next to this one then!

Red and green book titled Where the Watermelons Grow in the foreground partially covering the face of an old white guy sitting in his home office.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

These baby swallows say "Keep your chin up!"

Baby swallows peeking over the rim of their mud hut which is pasted to my brick house right under the white ceiling fascia.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Her 12yo person is spending today with a human friend.

Curled up calico cat on a gray-patterned area rug and leaning against the blond oak front door.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Authentic animal content FTW! (Also, there's a real bunny hiding in this real photo I took today with my weak-sauce but real Samsung phone.)

Landscape with various weeds, gray woodchip mulch, and evergreen trees in which a young bunny hides in plain view by scrunching down on the mulch center left.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Nasty little storm just went through. Tornado missed us but the hail did not. Back window of my son's car got wrecked. Still, nobody got hurt and we got a nice rainbow now!

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Cute baby killdeer near my driveway. #birds

A baby killdeer (small brown and white bird with a black neck ring) looking left in the short grass and readyvto duck and run!

Two sibling baby killdeer standing on the boundary of grassy field and woodchip mulch bed.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Can't collect eggs rn because #cat I guess. #countrylife

Curled up orange and white cat asleep in the egg basket on my back deck.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy Pride Month, everyone! A storm just went through minutes ago. Now, here's a nice local rainbow kick-off to celebrate you survivors and champions of freedom!

Rainbow settles near a distant rocky prominence while a tree I planted in the foreground bends toward the bright colors. My checken pen fence frames the lower portion of the frame.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Watch this cropduster work my neighbor's alfalfa field. #aviation #agriculture

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My classroom checkout is done and I'm turning in my keys tomorrow!

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This superkid ran a 5:34 1600m this past week, breaking her middle school's 41 yo record! A friend took this pic of her and her proud dad celebrating. (They'd just finished hugging.)

Calm and cool female track athlete dressed in red and black giving thumbs up to a gray-haired guy who's smilng and staggering about like a celebratory fool.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Because my daughters began cupcake season tonight.

A clear plastic enclosed tray of 14 chocolate cupcakes with swirled buttercream frosting on top.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My wife is looking through our closet for the proper robes to wear to work today.

White Jesus in scrubs, red robe, and white coat with hands open, stethoscope over shoulders and backlit sun over his head.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Here's a sad-looking but deliciously rich birthday cake I made for my daughter a few days ago. Blueberries baked in a yellow cake with raspberry butter creme frosting.

On a wooden kitchen table rests a lighter, a large knife. And a hella delicious-looking double layer cake with pink frosting oozing over everything.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Last fall I collected seeds from the best cherry tomato plants I've ever grown. I dried the seeds over winter in my unheated shop, sandwiched between paper towels. Two weeks ago I planted a section of the paper towel in potting soil in a plastic Tupperware dish in a dirty shop window. Experiment!

Lower right side foreground shows sprouting Cherry tomato plants in a small plastic dish in a dirty metal shop windowsill. Left of that is a torn and dried paper towel "sandwich" with Cherry Tomato seeds trapped inside. View above the PTs and sprouts out the window shows mulch, trees, and gravel driveway.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Took this pic a few days ago. The sun keeps rising, as should we.

Morning pre-sunrise lit by soft orange and purple clouds above and expansive bare field in the foreground while a tree-lined horizon encroaches from the left.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Good morning from me and the bird of prey.

Golden orange sunrise sky backlighting a hawk perched on a pivot sprinkler arm at the edge of a grassy field.

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Rob Polk @curiousrob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

My Scottsbluff St. Agnes 5th Grade class is getting a big dose of this along with Catholic Social Teaching tomorrow. Jesus came to love, serve, and sacrifice. I pray all Christians remember and live this. #MLKDay