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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY
Cold Weather Safety

When it's cold out, it's important to make sure your pets are safe! The best option is simply allowing your pets indoors during cold weather!

When they're outside.

- Dog houses should be solid wood structures with a flap on the opening.

- Straw provides warmth. Don't use blankets as they become wet and can freeze.

- Use heated water bowls to keep them from freezing.

On walks...

- Pay attention to ears and toes. They're susceptible to frostbite.

- After each walk, wash and dry your pet's feet and stomach to remove ice and salt.

- If your dog is short-haired, consider getting them a coat or sweater.

Call Animal Control if you suspect an animal is suffering in the cold weather. 402-444-7800 Ext. 1

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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A person with gray hair wearing a hat, gloves, sunglasses and a big smile stands outside holding a protest sign that reads, "Childhood Vaccines Cause Adulthood".

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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A black and white photo of Gisèle Pelicot sitting at an outdoor table, holding her glasses in hand, and staring directly at the camera. There is harsh sunlight on the trees and bushes behind her but she is shaded.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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A photo of three flags against the backdrop of rolling hills - Canada, Mexico, and Ukraine, in that order.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Stumbled upon this beautiful post from the other place today... like time traveling, and a good reminder of her love. 💜 @aschmugge.bsky.social

A three part post from Amber on X, dated Nov 17, 2022.

I may not have always known your face, but I know your pets and how your hands ache. I may not know your real name, but I know your questionable sense of humor and fierce generosity. I know your delightfully weird obsessions and how you understand family is who you choose.

You said, hey world, come. Look at my little joys and big disappointments. At this sorta funny joke or Tom Holland in the rain for the 300th time. Learn about this neat thing. Look at this cool picture. Yell with me about things that are important and those not important at all.

I hope you are always as well as possible and cared for like the precious thing you are. (l love you) I hope you are always happier than the world tells you should be. (l love you) I hope you are surrounded by people who choose you and accept you exactly as you are. (I love you)

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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An image of Chasten wearing round glasses, a casual olive green button down shirt and a big smile. He's holding a copy of his children's book with the title Papa's Coming Home in big, colorful letters. The illustration on the cover shows Pete crouched down, lifting his daughter in the air. She is wearing a star headband and red sneakers. There is a suitcase and briefcase behind Pete. In the background, Chasten is balancing a many tiered cake and holding a leash as their son and their dog run towards Pete.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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Six frame comic. Santa sits in an armchair looking tired and a little despairing. He complains, out loud.

1st Frame: Well that's finally over.
2nd Frame: Another year of Me, Me, Me.
3rd Frame: Give me this. Give me that.
4th Frame: When do I get something?
5th Frame: Mrs. Claus appears and leans over and gives him a kiss on his bald head. A little red heart appears above him.
Sixth Frame: Santa's eyes are closed and his hands are clasped across his belly and he looks contented. Thinks to himself: Works every time.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24 A decorated tree from several years ago. The ornament was a gift from my Dad when spouse and I bought our first house. It's been just over a year without him.

A live Christmas tree decorated in warm white lights, red with sparkling gold balls and an ornament in the shape of a house that says Home with a heart in place of the o.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 22 Thinking about drier days in California, this past spring.

A white, angular, Desert Modernism house with a bright blue door and two bright blue chairs against a bright blue sky and a row of palm trees.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 21 Current winter mood. Instead of falling asleep by counting sheep, I fall asleep trying to list all the different kinds of rain.

A vertical shot from below of a stand of tall, thin evergreen trees, giving the viewer a feeling of craning their neck and looking all the way up to the top of the canopy. It looks almost black and white because the forest is thick with fog.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 I seem to be on a sunset kick. This one's from Utah 2018.

A view from above a valley. The foreground is in darkness. There are two layered hills in the distance, in lightening shades of purple. The sky is filled with sunset lit clouds - gold and lit from behind the hills near the horizon line and a mix of fluffy in various shades of pink and purple and streaks of fiery gold.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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DOT Unveils Comprehensive Protections for Airline Passengers with Disabilities

• Airlines must provide safe, respectiul support for passengers with mobilty challenges.

• Mandatory annual hands-on training for disability assistance by June 2026.

• Ensure timely boarding, deplaning and wheelchairs retumed in original condition.

• Cover costs for delayed, damaged, or lost wheelchairs, offer loaner devices, and compensate fare differences due to wheelchair-related issues.

• Phased implementation of enhanced onboard wheelchair requirements, fully in place by 2031.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

You've probably seen stories about people who had received messages from loved ones who had passed. I dragged myself out for a walk on the water last winter, very present to these stories and desperate for one of my own. This is what I saw that night. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 17

A light blue sky with a firey and streaky orange sunset which is reflected on rippled water. There's a dark land mass cutting through the horizon line and old pilings in the bottom right with barely discernable cormorants sitting on them.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 15 Went to buy a fresh wreath and ended up making our own.

An evergreen wreath with pine and cedar boughs, sprigs of green and white holly leaves, red holly berries, blue juniper berries and variegated boxwood lays on a wood workbench with a pair of blue clippers in the background.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 More of the Oregon Coast in the quiet of winter.

Three large rocks sit on the shore of an Oregon Coast beach. They are surrounded by wet sand that reflects the rocks and the expansive, low cloud filled sky. There are low waves in the distance right and two foggy, layered hills in the distance left. One of the rocks kind of looks like a walking bear.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 11 Oregon Coast sunset. Winter on the cusp of spring.

Expanse of beach with muted sunset. There is a lone figure who looks almost like a shadow standing on a swath of wet sand which cuts through the middle of the frame and reflects the soft peach of the sky.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 I could not for the life of me find a way to edit this down to a normal size and still love it as much as I do. Utah. Fall 2018

A tall stand of Birch or Aspen trees with an almost painterly effect. The leaves are mixed shades of deep gold and bright yellow and are small and round like dots of brush. The grass below is also gold and there's a corner of a path in the bottom left. The sky is vivid blue but peeking through various clouds.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 9 Another one from the California desert this fall.

Close up of a short, round cactus. There are three bright pink flowers blooming on the top, that look like the texture of crisp paper.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Something a little different today. I love playing with unique framings. #ArtAdventCalendar Day 8

In the background, a young giraffe sits on a little grass hill, his body folded with a bright white and dark tan pattern across it and his neck tall. He is framed by an older giraffe whose close-up face and neck form an arch across the top of the foreground. She is cream and tan spotted. They are both facing to the right. They are in shade but the lime green grass behind them shows us it's a bright and sunny day.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Another moody one for #ArtAdventCalendar Day 7 Oregon coast a couple of years ago - brisk spring day - lovely walk along the wet sand of the beach.

A gray, choppy ocean against a muted blue, cloudy sky. On the horizon sits a large, worn rock and perched atop the rock is a small, square, black and white lighthouse.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Post four characters that describe your personality.

Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten in Station Eleven. She's wearing a worn out one piece swimsuit, rolled up plaid button down shirt and backpack. There are bushes, trees. and a blue sky behind her and she's staring off into the distance

Carrie Preston as Elsbeth, wearing a pink buffalo plaid shirt over a black turtleneck. She's in a restaurant and her hands are up like she's assessing the scene, with a perplexed look on her face.

Cartoon blue heeler Bluey from the hit children's show (but for everyone) standing with her hands (front paws) at her side.

Meredith MacNeill as Sam from the show Pretty Hard Cases. She is wearing a blazer and jeans and white roller skates with pink or red pompoms. She appears to be at a roller rink, in motion, bent over with one hand on the ground and the other up by her head doing some kind of hand signal

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 Took this over 10 years ago and still love it. First time at the Chihuly exhibit in Seattle.

Close up of a Chihuly piece. A cluster of rippled glass bulbs extend tendrils into the black darkness on the left side of the frame. They are soft teal and blue and lit from within.

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Kat by the Sea 🍁 @downsideupkat.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Dipping my toe into #ArtAdventCalendar on Day 5. A little nerve wracking putting stuff online. Trying to find my way back to photography after giving it up years ago when I kept getting sicker. Going through my phone camera roll first.