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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's garden updates: my spiders have hatched, and the first toad lily has bloomed.

Yellow marigolds, with a large spider hiding among them, and one dead Marigold has a spider egg case attached to it and covered with baby spiders

A branch with several buds on it has two blooms with six white petals with purple speckles and a purple center piece, with greenery in the background

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our Planet Fitness has installed a bike rack! I'm not sure if anyone else will use it, but I am super excited.

Bike rack with one bike locked to it in front of windows with exercise equipment inside

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tennessee was nice but it's good to be home

A close-up of an apple fritter with frosting, and four donuts, and a scone, and the donuts are decorated with frosting, coconut, and chocolate chip chips

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thumbs up for the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg 🧂🫑

Shelves filled with hundreds of sets of salt and pepper shakers shaped like vegetables, organized by type

Shelves filled with hundreds of sets of salt and pepper shakers shaped like cats

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When you accidentally pick a garden spider... Technically I didn't pick the flowers; they broke off during heavy rain. I have relocated the spider's branch back to the garden. #bloomscrolling

A bunch of greenery and orange marigolds with a green spider and her egg case hanging on a Webb in the middle, with house siding in the background

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have a momma spider with an egg case on my marigolds. She seems very agile and moves it under the flower to get out of the sun or rain, but I hope she has a plan when the flowers die.

A stem with 3 blooming yellow marigolds and three buds, and one bloom has a green hairy garden spider underneath it with her legs around a brown egg case

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week's #fridayfling is "flower" so here's a line from the meet cute of my WIP, Sourdough and Sweethearts.

Text that reads "The woman blinked and stepped forward, and Linny swallowed again and forced herself to meet the woman’s gaze as she hastily tucked her short, straw-colored hair behind her ears. This was a customer, and Linny was a shopkeeper. She couldn’t let her nerves get the better of her just because the woman was prettier than a bouquet of summer flowers" with a backdrop of zinnias growing outdoors.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Coco's latest modeling gig* is such a good fit for his personality... www.amazon.com/Veil-Wicked-... *pretend

Cover of a book called "Veil of Doom" by Sara Bourgeois, showing a black cat looking at the viewer and sitting in front of a hearth with dark, purple wallpaper and curtains around him, as well as glass bottles, a witch hat, books, and furniture.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I spotted my first lycoris of the season this week. Today I saw this extra large golden variety!

Tall Lily with a straight long stem and golden orange petals on top, with a fringe of Stamens along the bottom, in from of a rock wall and iron fence

Lily with ring of clusters of thin, golden orange petals on top, with a fringe of Stamens along the bottom

Lily with ring of clusters of thin, golden orange petals on top, with a fringe of Stamens along the bottom, compared to a hand for size, which is about the same size

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Someone found a good spot at the thrift store

Room full of furniture, lamps, and decorations, with a sofa in the center covered with pillows, with a beagle asleep on top

Close-up of beagle sleeping on top of pillows on a sofa in the thrift store

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Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Triangle-area friends: I'm looking to re-home this precious stray dog. Dolly is a 2 yr old pit mix, sweet as can be, with a heaping helping of separation anxiety. Needs TLC and someone who is home with her. (No advice, please, I promise I'm doing all the other things for this pup.)

Blue eyed pit mix smiling at you. She's chocolate brown with a white blaze on her face, chest, and paws. Her nose is brown with pinks spots and very boopable.

Sad little sweetheart pit mix lays on a red couch, pleading with her blue eyes: adopt me!

She is baby. Brown pittie puppy all cozy in a plaid armchair with a floral pillow.

Sweet doggy laying on gravel in a barn. She's tired after running around.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My parents and I saw Coyote vs. Acme yesterday. Three thumbs up. It was funny and also heartfelt. It drew heavily from the 1980s-era shorts, which made me so happy.

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Wile E. Coyote's Curious Watch

Alt: Wile E. Coyote opens a telescope and looks into it, and his eye appears in the scope glass

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hillsborough buzzards prepare for a busy day cleaning up our streets

Brick buildings have buzzards lined up along the roof line, with the street and some cars below

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Best part of FCW Norah's cat toys (other than benefiting Boston's Forgotten Felines) is how it looks like your cats are eating key lime pie and hostess cupcakes

Black and white cat Lies on wood floor holding a wedge-shaped toy to his face

Tabby cat Leyes on a cat tower with a felted toy in his paws that is brown with a white swirl like a hostess cupcake

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This WRAL weather image is terrifying. I mean look at the giant lightning hitting poor Benson.

A map showing counties in North Carolina with various bands of green, yellow, and orange showing storms, with dozens of lightning symbols scattered across it including several that are very large

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello folks! Comment on the USDA's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule here: www.regulations.gov/search?searc... Scroll down to the document that is labeled "open for comments." Deadline is 9/21 (a very short window). More info here: backpackinglight.com/dispatches/h...

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Anime Forest with Butterfly

Alt: Anime Forest with lush trees, rocks, flowers and two Butterflies

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I love stories where someone writes a letter and it makes a difference. Like this "This day in history" from @tanglenews.bsky.social (underneath the Flock camera story) www.readtangle.com/flock-survei....

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The Flock surveillance cameras debate.

Plus, looking back at the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A sweet baby dove figuring out how to access the birdbath. Now sitting submerged in the water and lookin' around.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Book is bedazzled! Hayley, the bedazzle teacher, is online with her books at prettycoverco.com (she sells kits too)

The Book the Forest Bride, showing a drawing of a man and woman embracing in a forest, with sparkly pink rhinestones lining the title and pearls floating among the trees

The Book the Forest Bride, showing a drawing of a man and woman embracing in a forest, with a tube of glue, two trays of sparkly rhinestones, a pair of tweezers, and a tool like a short white pencil on the table beside it

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today's #fridayfling is *bake* and my cozy fantasy WIP is Sourdough & Sweethearts, about a villager bread baker and the rival (?) cheese maker across the square...

board with flour and loaves of bread, with text over it reading, “Do you have some extra sourdough starter?”
Linny stared. Her parents’ voices barged into her head, warning her. She had to protect her sourdough starter at all costs. It was the key to her bakery’s success, a secret to be guarded, not something to share. The one time she’d shared the family starter had been a disaster. She had been too trusting.
But the fairy waited with wide innocent eyes. She probably just wanted to bake a loaf for herself.

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Someone's been rolling in sugar this morning

A bakery case with a plate of spiral shaped rolls that are coded in sugar in the foreground, with the label peach butter brioche roll

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

These peanut butter–filled pretzels. No finger residue so you can pop them in your mouth and keep typing. They also work well at events! #stetchat

Bag labeled peanut butter filled pretzels, with a picture of square pretzel shapes

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sometimes it's good just to get something done, even if it's not the most important thing, so you get the happy feeling of accomplishment. Today I made a @bookshop.org store with my books and some lists, including best comps and other cozy romantasies: bookshop.org/shop/ejb

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I used my chemistry background and six years as a bread baker to write Bread Science, which explores the science and craft of baking bread. My second book, Somewhere and Nowhere, is a memoir of a bicy...

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Must've been some dark magic afoot last night at the Dual Supply

The front of dual supply hardware store, with various items for sale in the windows, and a large trail of black paint has spilled out onto the sidewalk as if it is rolling out the door

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I could never be an Instagram sensation—I always forget to take pictures. Here is the wonderful Montgomery and Taggart romance bookstore in Chester, CT (photo taken as we drove past on our way home).

A small house with wooden shingles and a front porch with rocking chairs, and fence around it, and a wooden sign hanging out front

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There's something a bit Easter Island–like about the benches at McCook Park

A green park with a path leading to a flag pole and surrounding trees, with five gray benches in view all facing to the left

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not sure if I'm more impressed by the vertical sticky buns or striped croissants... (Sift Bakery)

A bakery counter with several shelves of pastries including croissants with colored stripes painted across them and sticky buns shaped like 4 inch tall columns

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think my ultimate acceptance of self-driving cars will come down to whether or not they can navigate around turtles

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Turtle Flag

Alt: A flag with a picture of a cartoon turtle waves in a breeze

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

All set up at "read between the wines" at Zin Winery in downtown Garner. Loads of awesome authors and other treats—we'll be here 6–9!

A table with a row of cozy romantasy novels, with bookmarks, and other tables with Books in back, and they covered outdoor space

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tomorrow is Read Between the Wines, the "cozy bookish market" at Zin Winery in Garner, NC. I'll be there 6 to 9 PM with my cozy romantasies and a bunch of other romance authors 💜

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Emily Jane Buehler (she/her) @ephemerily.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I don't have any wardrobes or closets in my WIP, Sourdough and Sweethearts, for today's #fridayfling, but I found some clothing...

a stone bench beside a wall, with text pasted above it that reads, What was she doing out there? She couldn’t be sitting on that bench before dawn for no reason. Even in the morning darkness, the fairy exuded lithe gracefulness. Even with her legs propped up like that and her simple clothing. Her toes curled off the edge of the bench seat.

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