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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My doctor asked me to take my blood pressure a couple of times a day. Turns out it is lowest after fishing. Obviously, I need to do more fishing.

Photo of a 14” rainbow trout in a net. Don’t worry, it’s barbless hooks, catch a release.

Photo of the Lowrt Deschutes River, central Oregon, in the evening light. Foreground is the river, slightly mottled surface, steel gray with some golden reflection. In the background, grass covered hills, tan and golden, some trees along the bank, and a blue sky.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We’re going to plant a maple at the fishing cabin. 🍁

Photo of the back of a white pick-up truck with a tarp-wrapped maple sticking out about 10’. You can see the red/yellow leaves coming out the top

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What is this absurdity? There were at least 2 players in the baseball field today (Nats vs Angels) wearing socks up to their thighs and pants cut off above the knee. It looks ridiculous. Any idea why?

Somewhat blurry screenshot of Angels player Neto, having just struck out in the 9th, wearing the above mentioned “fashion”

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Y’all. Check out The Librarians, which just won an Emmy for exceptional merit in documentary film making. It follows librarians in Texas and Florida (two former homes) as they fight for the first amendment and against book banning. So very proud of everyone. @technolibrary@bsky.social

Screenshot of thelibrariansfilm.com website highlighting the Emmy Win and announcing streaming options.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My new needle stoppers make me very happy. 😊

Photo of a knitting project on the needles. The yarn is teal and purple. The needles are capped with miniature baseballs. ⚾️

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This photo brings me so much joy. The first grandchild’s wedding for my 91-year old father. But also, he could not have done this 6-months ago. My mother’s long departure left him weakened. He’s so much stronger, and younger today. Hoping he is dancing all all the other grandkids weddings too.

Photo: setting is a garden, Victorian home and large trees in the background, grass underfoot. An old man, in blue slacks and a plaid shirt, glasses and white hair, spinning under the arm of a young woman in a long blue dress, dark curly hair, seen from behind. They are dancing, of course.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Found this on our bumper today. I don’t disagree, but I also don’t want it on my car. Peeled off easily; now, where to put it?

Sticker on a dusty, dark gray car, showing a drawing of Donald Trump, head and shoulders, with the word Pedophile below, all caps, black letters on white.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Maybe you’re a funny guy. Maybe you got into politics to help folks. But when the bad things you do are monstrous, they must not be glossed over in death.

A screen shot of a post be Michael Fanone:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn't going to listen to her blame Trump for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage from that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a hell I hope you're in it.”

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s a damn good thing we stock our pantry properly, because we’re going to need potato salad for the US World Cup game/dinner tonight. @dukesmayobowl.bsky.social

Photo showing a nearly empty Dukes mayonnaise jar, open, and another full jar (closed) on a dark granodiorite counter.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Here is Oregon’s Mt. Washington. One of the lesser cascade volcanoes at only 7795 feet.

Photo of a volcanic mountain, mostly bare with some snow patches. Pine and fir forest and a lake in the foreground. Clear sky.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Our mountains are beautiful, as always, but they are also late-September bare. This does not bode well. North and Middle Sister from Bend OR.

Photo of two cascade volcanoes forming the focus is the image. They have snow in places, but are about 40% bare. Foreground shows treetops and streetlights.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The LBJ Presidential Library in Austin TX has a new exhibit for our 250th. It’s called “What We Bring to the Table, tales of history and home” and it’s presented as stories of families who helped make America. Friends this is an exhibition about immigrants and how they built the US. It’s superb.

A set of 9 tiles with facts about immigrants in the US:

25.7% - share of immigrant workers in the construction industry today
17.7% - share of immigrant workers in the labor force today
14.3% - foreign born residents in the US
230 - number of Fortune 500 companies headed by immigrants or children of immigrants
23.6% - share of STEM workers who are immigrants
$167.28B - amount immigrants pay in rent
$43.8B - economic contributions of international students
28.4% - health aides who are foreign born
58.7 % - share of immigrant plasterers and stucco masons

Additional set of 9 tiles with start is on immigrant contributions.

26.1% - share of immigrants in the agricultural industry
$651.9B - tax contributions by immigrants
74.1% - share of immigrants in the manicurist field
15.9% - percent of nurses who are foreign born
11,615,100 - number of immigrant homeowners
1,126,690 - number of US college students who are international students
$1.7T - immigrant spending power
64.7% - share of immigrant graders and sorters of agricultural products
23.6% - share of entrepreneurs who are immigrants

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Just finished CS Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (1942) - letters from a higher-up in hell advising his nephew, who is new to the recruitment job. Here he explains the ties between fear and hatred and advises sow fear to breed hatred. So relevant to today’s MAGA party.

"Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful... Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame. To make a deep wound in his charity, you should therefore first defeat his courage."

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Dusk at my favorite fishing hole. Two Red-winged Blackbirds were sitting on a bush next to the water. The Kingfisher was zooming up and down along the opposite bank, the ducks, of course, were swimming. Deschutes River, Central Oregon.

Screenshot from the Merlin all of the birds identified April 20, Deschutes River. Dusk.

Western Meadowlark, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Green-winged Teal, Belted Kingfisher, Red-winged Blackbird, Canada Goose, Mallard.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The morning chorus at my fishing cabin (Lower Deschutes River, OR) on Saturday. Also out and about, Anna’s Hummingbird and Osprey, who have occupied all the nesting platforms in the area.

Screenshot from Merlin Bird ID app which shows the following birds identified by sound: House Finch, American Goldfinch, American Robin, American Crow, White-crowned Sparrow, House Sparrow, European Starling, Cedar Waxwing, Red-winged Blackbird.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The SAVE act is not about keeping noncitizens from voting. We have laws for that. It would be the first time in the history of our great country that federal laws were enacted to restrict US citizens’ ability to exercise their constitutional right to vote. I can’t think of anything more shameful.

Image of a tattered US flag, at half staff, blowing in the wind. A dark landscape and sky in the background.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Happy Pi day, y’all This is from Austin TX about 10 years ago. 5 planes wrote about 100 digits of Pi in the sky.

Photo of a deep blue sky, the sun and some palm-like shade structures in the lower left. Written across the sky, in an arc, are the digits 3.14159265358. Each numeral is rendered in 5 rows of dots. 5 skywriting planes wrote out about 100 digits of Pi in Austin that dates

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’m not an influencer. I don’t have a large social media following. But in light of this week’s Epstein/Trump revelations, I think women should start sharing how old we were when we first attracted sexual attention from an adult male. @womensmarch.com

A dark gray background with sand dunes and stars. In white, the words “I was 12.”

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Another book recommendation for the times. John Fugelsang was raised very Catholic (as was I) and wrote this book to refute, using the bible, the very anti-Jesus message coming from the “Christian” right. It’s scholarly, it’s funny, it’s shocking, and it’s a great gift for your MAGA pals.

Book cover: The Separation of Church and Hate, A sane persons guide to taking back the bible from fundamentalists, fascists, and flock fleecing frauds. By John Fugelsang

The cover is bright red. The words Separation, Church, and Hate, and the author’s name are in black. The other text is in cream. Different fonts are used to make the text stand out.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Girl, Woman, Other, B. Evaristo, 2019 Booker Prize is one of those rare books where the prose is so striking that you back up to read it again. TJ Klune’s 2-book story is an allegory to the US today. It’s charming, and a good lesson in fighting for everyone’s rights.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

You shared a photo of this earlier this month. I’ve spent the last week trying to work out the pattern. Heading to Ravelry now to see how I did. 🙃

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Friends — did you know that Jesse Jackson was a speaker at the 1st National Conference on Minority Participation in Earth Sciences? This 1972 USGS event sparked a lot of great work before R’s decided to shut it down. I was surprised when I learned of his participation-maybe you are too.

Black and white photo of Jesse Jackson, taken by Don Carl Stefan in 1972. It is a head and shoulders shot of Jackson, arms crossed and looking over his left shoulder and st something off frame to his left.

Jackson here is a young, black man dressed in a dark, collared shirt, light vest. He has a medium-length Afro and a mustache. He is sporting a button that reads “Ingreso adecuado ahora” which means adequate income now.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Finished my hat. I’m very happy with how it turned out. Celtic headband first, switched to smaller needles, picked up 84 stitches along one edge, decreased in 5 places, every other row, and finished with an ichord. Going to give my other 2 Melt the ICE hats away.

Photo of a knitted red cap sitting on an oatmeal colored carpet. The hat has a cabled Celtic knot pattern around the rim, and stockinette stitch crown with spiral decreases. It finishes with a short peak and a tassel.

Three knitted red caps arranged in a circle on a white carpet. All three have a peak and a tassel. Two have a wide rib folded back and a flat decrease - in two places, along the side in this view. The third is the cap from the other linked photo.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Making my own hat pattern. Step 1, a Celtic cable brim. Next, I’ll pick up stitches along the moss stitch edge for the hat body. Still deciding how to decrease and finish it, but it is likely to have a point and a tassel.

Photo of a knitting project resting on my leg. It shows about 8 inches of a cable pattern, intertwined and crossing, about 5 inches wide. The yarn is a few orange-red color. There are two stitch markers on the fabric, used for counting rows.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It’s far too early for buds to start showing up here in Central Oregon, at 3500 feet, but we have had unseasonably warm weather this month. It will be interesting to see how these trees cope if it gets cold again. Birch and Crabapple. 2/9/26

Small branches of a birch tree showing tiny red buds on the ends, against a bright blue sky.

Branches of a crabapple tree against a blue sky. The tree morphology shows pencil sized branches with clusters of smaller branches coming off of them, and small, white, fuzzy buds on the clusters of smaller branches.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Given your name, I thought that was why you are taking up knitting. Melt the Ice hat, based on Norwegian resistance to Nazi occupation. It’s an easy one. Pattern here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Photo of a knitted hat, red, with a pointed top and a tassel. The design is based on a cap that Norwegians made and wore as a symbol of resistance to Nazis. It was so effective that the occupiers banned it.

The pattern was redeveloped as the Melt The Ice Cap, signifying opposition to ICE activities in US cities, specifically (first) Minneapolis.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

For years folks have said they need unrestricted access to guns to protect themselves from the government. Ironically, those folks are more likely to have joined ICE than to be fighting to protect the civil and constitutional rights of their neighbors from reckless, lawless, unrestrained DHS.

Screenshot of a headline from The Independent, a UK newspaper, reading:

ICE shooting latest: Man shot and killed in Minneapolis by federal agents after being wrestled to the ground, police chief confirms

Footage of the incident appeared to show law enforcement officers struggling with a man on the ground before a gunshot is heard.

Byline: Mike Bedigan, Saturday 24 January 2026 17:18 GMT

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

My current project is an illusion shawl. Depending on the angle of your view, it could look like stripes, or a pattern emerges. Fun project and a nice gift - she has auburn hair. Pattern is Sunshine Shawl, by Mark Jamieson, available on Ravelry.

Half of a hand knitted shawl, on the needles, sitting on a white carpet. The shawl is triangular. It shows a sunburst in deep reds and oranges with a background in blues and greens.

A closer up view is the same shawl. You can see horizontal stripes of the orange-red and blue-green, but the sunburst pattern is hard to see.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Making a shawl for my daughter. I was worried these colors were too similar, but I think it will work out. Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair. Lace weight. Red Current and Pink Daisies. Size 4 needles. #knitting

Close-up photo of a square of knitting showing a very fine yarn with a lot of fuzz, and open garter stitches. The bottom half of the work is a deep cherry red. The top half is a bright pink.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Also Trump. It’s not about the drugs. I wonder if Venezuela has any oil? (I know the answer, of course.)

Headline from the Washington Post: Trump plans to pardon former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking.

Accompanied by a photo of Juan Orlando Hernández in handcuffs.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Loved this dystopian book, although it veers quite close to home in its near-future dystopia (the US President is proudly illiterate.) “She said the church was a broken compass. That our job always and forever was to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it.” ~ pg. 237

Book cover for I Cheerfully Refuse, by Leif Enger. The title is at the top in sans serif white texts and the author’s name at the bottom. It also says “a novel” in smaller text in the center and “Author of Peace Like a River” also in smaller text below the Author’s name.

The cover art is a painting in deep greens and blues showing hills and bodies of water, and and a large fire in the middle-left. There is also a small sailboat on the left side. Much of the story takes place on a sailboat on Lake Superior.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Ireland understands what it is to be invaded by the military of a wanna-be King. So do Americas. #NoKings (Dublin, 10/18/25)

Photo taken at the No Kings protest at the US Embassy in Dublin. Several people in the image, and a prominent sign reading “No Crown for the Clown” and depicting Donald Trump in clown makeup.

Lower down a sign reads Past, 1776 with a red circle/slash through George III, Present, 2025 with the slash through an image of Trump with the US Capitol as a crown, and Future, with a frog and the slogan communities, not crowns.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Turns out it’s the same in Europe. The “early bird” is the Robin. Sunrise is still 20 minutes away.

Screen shot of the bird call identification app Merlin, showing a visual image of the sound recording, and the identification of the European Robin, which is a small bird with an orange-red head and breast. The top reads 16-Oct Annascaul, Co. Kerry

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Guess which country they no longer ship to, here in Dingle Ireland?

Hand written sign saying “shipping rates available to Canada, United Kingdom”. There is also a line, covered up by paper, that used to read United States.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I’ve been reading a lot in retirement, and two books I finished last week stand out for great writing, compelling characters, interesting relationships, and mothers and daughters. Both highly recommended. See thread for a little more about each book. 1/3

Book cover art is a painting of the corner of a house, one wall in sunshine and the other in shadow, with greenery and flowers growing along the a wall. There is a window on the sunny wall with an orange cat peering out. The title and author are on white text: Three Days in June, a novel, Anne Tyler.

Book cover art is a painting in block-color of the half-faces of two women. You see their noses on the painting edge and their ears in the center. Title and author’s name in white all caps: Like Mother, Like Mother Susan Rieger. In between, in smaller black script, “a novel”

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

As a Johnny Cash fan, I am particularly fond of this comment

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is the first book I’ve read in a while that I feel compelled to share in real time. It’s really good. Inventive format, beautifully written, beautifully translated. Given the prose in English, I’d bet the Spanish is even better, so if you read Spanish, get the original (and report back!)

Cover of the book Clean, by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes. The cover is tan in color with broad stripes of bright blue. The title and author’s name are in all caps, one word on each line, spaced to fill the cover, top to bottom, with blue stripes that fade to the tan between the words, and parallel to them. There is a drawing of a fly.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

True, apparently. That’s the Greenland flag on the side.

Photo shows a person holding a red cap with white letters reading “Make America Go Away”. The red and white flag of Greenland is on the side panel. The creator calls it the anti-MAGA hat

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

For those of you bewildered by the Find-Out stage of FAFO, I just want to let you know that you are welcome here in the America that supports all Americans. Let’s work together to reiterate and uphold our national values.

Written in white on a red/green blurry background are these words: You are allowed to say, at any point, I can’t support this. Even if you did. Even if you were unsure. You can at any point say “this has gone too far.” And while the best time to say that was earlier, second best time is now.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Final blocking before adding the buttons and sending this off. Welcome to the world, sweet babe. I hope we can hold the democracy for you. #knitting

Photo of a hand-knit baby sweater set out on a pink towel. The sweater is a cardigan in a baseball jacket style - red body, white raglan sleeves, blue and white striped cuffs and collar.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We’re in a constitutional crisis. I’m calling and writing daily, are you?

Photo showing the US Capitol Dome with a yellow-orange sky on the background. In the foreground, 11 US flags, all at half-staff.

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The text of the letter is in Alt Text except for the final paragraph (too many characters.) “I have been a weekly, or more, Target shopper for decades. I am done with Target runs until you reverse this decision that is bad for business, but more importantly bad for humans. Do better.”

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Eleanour Snow @docsnow.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Retirement plan #1: write 2 letters per week about important issues. The first one asks Congress to act in response to the EO defining gender as binary. Silly me. I happen to believe in the radical idea that we all have inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 1/2

A round, blue button with white text that reads “Make America Human Again” sitting on a textile with a red and white, circular pattern.

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