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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social

@dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social
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Wasn’t always Dem but sure am blue and MAGA I despise you. Love critters, trails,travels,science and people. Always try to leave it better than you found it

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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IMO (and it’s only an opinion) anyone interfering with access to vaccines should be charged with attempting harm or potentially murder. Take a walk in any old graveyard and see childhood fatalities prior to the age of vaccines keeping kids safe and alive. Makes my blood boil
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last ….. as much as I/we love the beach, there’s no place like home!
Betsy the hound and Kittle the cat cozily napping on the couch
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just have to say how blessed I am to have a house-sitting niece who goes 200% when you give her chores she requests (to not be bored) Also one of my few friends I really do know on here. She’s way beyond a blue sky to me ( which you may know is one of my favorite things)
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Courtesy of my SIL who stood still on the hike to see what these furry friends were up to!!! I call it frisky
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Some of my fave little birdies at the beach, Pine Knoll Shores, NC
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A few of the wonderful sights of fall in Pine Knoll Shores NC
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most interesting squirrel in Pine Knoll Shores neighborhood
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So while chilling at a beautiful peaceful beach day, a most amazing thing happened. I saw a man getting close to a seagull in the surf. Closer and closer. He actually grabbed it and began untangling it from fish line on its wing. The gull was not limp but struggling. Somehow he did it. Cont’d
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oldie but a goodie - lovely Halloween genius snack plate in honor of film “Hocus Pocus” I don’t know who the creator was but they are wonderful!!!!
Crackers, cold cuts, sliced cucumbers and strawberries with cleverly shaped characters to resemble the Sanderson sisters (Witches) from the movie “Hocus Pocus”
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He is sick and should be tired as he sundowns constantly posting insane rants….so let’s give him credit for a few truths (so rare)
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You know sometimes I get a little bit hopeful for the US. For good to overcome evil. Sadly I think it’s just when I am not paying attention. See photo below for something that shocked and dismayed me … seriously. Who is paying money to read (or just buy) a book about a F written by a F. Sycophants
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One little volunteer popped up under the geranium that the deer devoured!
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We live on a mostly shaded property so blooms are rare , mostly woodland and ferns - gorgeous to a green lover. But September brings one late bloomer I can’t stop looking at - a few marvelous hardy hibiscus. They were supposed to all be red but the one pink makes me so happy
Hardy hibiscus in a true pinkVermillion hardy hibiscus vermilion hardy hibiscus double bloomsTrue pink hardy hibiscus
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So darn funneeee! First you try to lock up & boot so many furriners out then you want to ponder why no one wants to visit. And you jack up the visas and park entrance fees and use the park’s money for chump change?? So perplexing why they don’t wanna come! Eeeejit who do not belong in WH
Article photo from Fodors featuring dodo fake POTUS
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
All good things come to an end! But hope springs eternal …. If that’s not enough platitudes for you today then….
Quote from L.M. Montgomery saying “That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs”
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was pondering what to do with a swampier area of grass now that we have a stupid heavier mower. This may just be the solution- maybe we only need a path. We’ve sure got the deer to populate it
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yeah it’s all about pretend! Pretend you can put gas in your car and food on the table! Pretend you really have a government for the people Please forgive my childishness - I could not get the photo to go away so I decided to show realistic shitface and finger- there’s no pretending there
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
An old sunsetting photo from our special beach place Pine Knoll Shores, NC
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
AIs description of brain drain in US
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Had special guests today! Made me get literary about them! Grandchildren are brought to this earth (in part) to remind their grandparents of the extreme dizzying nature of love they were lucky to first experience when their own children (the parents & siblings) were born and raised!
Little girl wearing way-too-big purple boots and garden gloves being supported by her grandmother6 month old baby boy being held by his grandfather but smiling joyfully at his mother the photographer!
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I tried unsuccessfully to do a photoshop of the weinermobile as the catering vehicle …. But how much more fitting it would have been. Just room for a single prick No disrespect to the company or product
Oscar Mayer weinermobile
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I fiddled about with this photo I found, it was bronze but titled Gold Weight from Ashanti culture, Ghana There’s a certain leader who should be gold coated, perhaps he’d then be satisfied and glorified as he’d prefer No disrespect to history but no one deserves it more especially if lips sealed
Exhibit from Penn Museum “Gold weight” from Ghana, Ashanti culture.
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My friend Cheeto
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
From NYT today Soooooo the contemptible voices in Congress are going to hold him in contempt. Well - may they all rot!! How many lives did you save during Covid you tRump boot licker a-holes?
NYT published photo to accompany article regarding Congress questioning Dr. Anthony Fauci
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A lovely unexpectedly ducky day at the Pittsburgh Zoo was still very enjoyable. 5 women got thoroughly soaked but warm enough that it was 👍. Three left a little earlier but remaining two had a real treat when we swung back by the lion exhibit to see a little miss having fun and stealing the show
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fleecing us is the problem! To see such a crook benefitting from us is so wrong. He has never never never paid his share- bankrupt numerous times and now has the whole country working that way —- robbing from the regular and poor to benefit the rich
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What is wrong with those “barely a third citizens” seriously? 🤮 Are they unaware this fake pedo felon POTUS threw us, the US into a war there was no reason for? Except ? benefit sons’ munition companies? That his big bogus bill benefits billionaires not we the people? He/crony misfit crew deal death
Photo of NY Times article 8/2/26. Red X on face is not a death threat merely a visual symbolizalion denial he’s a real human or a president IMO
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Where’s Waldo (not the cartoony one in the red & white striped sweater) Our backyard brush pile over a hill…. glad it chose an out-of-the-way spot.
A relatively large snake apparently comfy atop a pile of trimmed branches
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
See alt text for captions ; )
Lush green view of our woodsy back yard featuring a cat eyeing up a doe and her faw. They are all the same color of caramel soft orange.Our only two delightful grandchildren after a bath. Hard to believe the older (2yrs old) told us a few months ago “Baby brother should leave” Looks like he won her over
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We downsized from an antique hot tub to a kitty pool recently
Hot tub with green coverGrey and white variegated old-as-heck Jacuzzi2 cats enjoying a drink from small blue pool
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Happy Monday BlueSky folks! We’ve survived another weekend and awoke with breathing intact. Hallelujah!! Keep blooming!
A just-beginning-to-bloom black eyed Susan flower
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I did not yet read article but it summarizes my fury! tRump needs removed convicted locked up! There was no reason to start it, lies!!! All wrong - Killing children, killing boat folks, attacking Indian freighters, killing sailors Robbing poor to pay rich Costs all of us Inflation for US & world
Article heading title “What’s More Unpopular Than Starting a War”
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Added a bit more to Jon’s campaign $. I truly appreciate his very fine work calling out the bad folk capitalizing off We the People. He tells it like it is and fights for the people.
Advertisement for Jon Ossoff of Georgia running for US Senate there.
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Left paragraph is taken from the excellent linked article from Heather Cox Richardson. Right photo sums up why I do not want Stephen Miller’s abby-normal brain assessing who is “normal” looking and who is not. Weirder and weirder this admin and its cuckoo club get open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson piece today containing quotes from Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon1922 Nosferatu/Stephen Miller
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a post that will show what antiques my husband and I have become. Not like fine wine aging either. We are on a trailer-hauling road trip through Michigan (some call it camping 😂). Lake Erie last evening! Cont’d
Lake Erie shore with long sand bar and gorgeous blue sky, wading old husband
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’s been over 6 mos since I retired. My beloved desk has been usurped by the Orange Man. He does look like he had a lampshade accessory. I can’t seem to downsize and send the desk onward though
Orange cat enjoyably snoozing on a pile of bills and papers on a desk
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope I get to do there again! It’s magical
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Some tolerate the heat better than others 😻Happy Caturday and Independence Day
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sorry I am all out of free articles! But to me this is really exciting because I love the NIH, scientists and health science. And today in the US the clueless buffoons guiding it politically want to go back to the dark ages and stop learning and progress. So it’s the world we can collaborate with!!!
NYTimes article 6.30.26 “NIH announces World’s Largest Integrated Health Database”
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
As I scroll and read your post I was struck by a few furnishing similarities- see photo. Betsy the rescued hound has achieved total comfort but it’s been years since she arrived
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Well I 🙄 am responsible for not getting the birdhouse in before dark before Bruiser the bear demolished it. Bear wanted its share of delicious summer mix seed (birds had gobbled) It also dumped garbage can down by road/took off with a bag! Little scary going out last walk👀 Thankful for handy husband
A wooden birdhouse demolished by a bearA wooden birdhouse repaired after the bear damage
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This was our favorite of the big 5
Sunset Point trail, Bryce CanyonSunset Point trail, Bryce CanyonSunrise Point, Bryce Canyon
Sadly dog only allowed at overlook, not on any trailsSunset Point trail view
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Saw this in a thrift store today and thought it matched our current fake POTUS philosophy
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A non profit (Environmental Defense Fund) sent this with address labels and garden tips. 2026 calendar with half a year on each side of this little sheet. I hate mailed appeals, wasted mail paper to recycle but admire this thoughtful, chockful-of-good-stuff little info and cannot throw it away. Yet!
Server tip chartThe other side of small sheet flyer from Environmental Defense Fund
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My philosophy today is 30 min of work cleaning a carpet now followed by a hound resting on me…. Maybe 3 hours will be good enough
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The minimal planting is done for this season but I must admire things that just happen to grow such as these
a spotted dead nettle - reportedly non  native but I have extended an invitation to stayFerns - we have fewer of this type but I like how they make their little bed borders
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Arches
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yesterday’s yard adventures! Usually I enjoy the adventure of trails forgetting about the beauty of our own very green space.
Husband built this very cute log seat and I found a vining succulent that would live there…has to go more to the sunny side of the fire ringA plant I have never had yet called angelonia! We’ll hope it likes the shady woodland!A newly bare spot (where a small wood pile had lived) deserves a nice bright geranium in honor of LindaSurprise! Husband passing by with wheelbarrow spotted this visitor just as they were close enough up to shake hands … or not. We think it was a rat snake, very peaceful critter enjoying the day. Very big though probably 6 foot.
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I only got one tick on me putting a few plants in the ground! Thankful for the sharp eyed husband who spotted it running up my shirt
Tuberous begonias
A work in progress but the new things are perennials- salviasNature planted - flawlessly - several varieties of fernsThe end of the bleeding hearts second bloom of the spring!
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dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social @dreadpiratechooch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We had a 24 day trip by truck and trailer to UT from PA. Thought I posted some before but can’t see them. So many favorite views but the pictures cannot do it justice! Three older folks went, all with lower body reasons to not hike far but Wow we did some awesome little ones!
Goblin Valley State Park from a distance. Very nice hike but way too windy, sand hurts the eyes A goblin that reminded me of the Pittsburgh Penguin mascotWalking to the inside of a slot canyon (Long Canyon Slot) in UT, best little hike ever, a paradise feeling!View from a sandy trail ( I guess you’d call it the breastworks) above not long after sunrise Quartz Valley State Park. I should have done a panorama because the giant boulders all around this lake were stunning!
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