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Erin Ryan

@erinleeryan.bsky.social
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Doctor of space rocks turned professional curser at computers. Human of Freya the dog and of Modicello the garden 🌱 (USDA 7b). Does crochet 🧶 in her off time, also cooks a lot 🍽

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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 7m
Argh, my attempt at elderberry apple cider this year must have gotten contaminated and I'm going to have to toss it as it has a kombucha like scum across the top. Boo.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 3h
It is so cool outside this morning that it finally feels like cinnamon sugar toast season!
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 15h
Just now: Freya does a sing song jingle jangle as she prances thru the 2nd floor hallways before the main bedroom and leaping on the bed. Also Freya: gives me the glare stating that momma snuggles _will not_ happen tonight. My cuddling of squeaky feral hog toy last night was 5 steps too far.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 17h
Tonight I made a Persian inspired chicken thighs in pomegranate molasses rice casserole type situation and....maybe for once I don't hate rice? The hell-i-o?
A shallow white bowl in the foreground with rice cooked with sauteed onions and garlic, chicken stock, pomegranate molasses and honey with two chicken thighs that were marinaded in pom.molasses, lemon juice, garlic, and cumin before searing and thus are extra dark. In the back is a bowl of salad with apple, pomegranate arils, goat cheese, and candied pecans and there is also a tall white ramekin of remaining pomegranate aril from the garden pom I used tonight.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was not quite 3, but I remember pulling my blankie over my head as Slimer scared the shit out of me in Ghostbusters.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Day two of cool rain for fall called for roasted butternut squash soup with a pesto focaccia with boursin.
A foreground bowl is filled with an orange toned soup with a line of light purple flowers and a bunch of cracked pepper. Next to the bowl is a slice of bread with slightly crumbly cheese smeared on top and in the background is a bowl with more bread slices and a glass of pink wine.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As if there was any doubt....yes, I am someone who goes out before it gets too danged dark to pick purple rosemary blooms off my BBQ Rosemary to use as a garnish on my butternut squash soup tonight.
A small white ramekin on a black granite counter full of dainty little light purple blooms.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I think I have officially used my Sunday to make a dough monster.
A foccacia dough speckled with green pesto in a 13x9 inch silver baking pan where the dough has started to rise above the top of the pan.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Me this morning: I am concerned, it is October and the saffron crocus showed no signs of being up yet. Me now that rain has stopped: that is no longer the concern. New concern...when should I divide the bulb clusters.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pesto focaccia has been mixed up thid morning and just needs stretch and folds and a bunch of rising before dinner where it will be served next to a roasted butternut squash soup.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Slowly but surely the crochet project continues on as I get new hand cramps.
An approximately 24 inch wide and 6 inch tall swatch of crochet in suzette stitch with a self striping rainbow motif in amonst white/cream atop my gray sofa. My red crochet hook is hanging out at the top right hand corner at my newest row and more yarn to continue in white and tellow green is strewn at the bottom of the frame.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today in yay adulting: spreading the granulated insecticide for ants around the house perimeter and sowing arugula and kale seeds for coldframes because it's a rainy day and no better time to naturally water that stuff in.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Freya likes Friday nights with GBBO because it means singing 'Dog Dog Dog...Doggie Doggie Dog, Dog Dog Dog' along with the theme song with accompanying booty bops on her dog booty. My furchild is weird.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am very confused by Bakeoff tonight and wondering how/why they've decided American biscuits/cookies should be decorated. (Srsly the classic American cookie is a variation on chocolate chip, it's fine basic recipe that cranks out 30+ cookies easily) #gbbo
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I guess my garden is still doing something right in October as I just got buzzed by a hummingbird.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sooo, that heavily discounted merino yarn I tried to tell myself I did not need has arrived 😬
A bag with 10 balls of grey yarn punctuated with highlight colors of blue, purple, and pink.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is another day and this time I heard the car crash for the block whilst on the toilet.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh no, reddit posts from a county school board member town hall yesterday suggested 15 staff (including 3 principals) werer out on leave but the local Fox affiliate just said 17 staff. What the frack Albemarle schools?
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have just upset the dog because I told her that her toes are smelly dirty toes but not like...comforting corn chips smelling toes. She wants to know all her smellies cause human cuddles.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Somehow I think...my crafty yarn shit is going to turn out pretty here in the future with a crochetted scarfigan.
A yarn ball with multiple colors and white at the edge of a blue blanket covered chaise with a stripe of crocheted suzette strip thats about 23 inches x 3.5 inches  where each roe has punctuations of color.amongst white that starts green at the bottom, then goes to purple, orange, yellow, more green, then blue, then something in the teal family.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Y'all I just finished watching Snowpiercer (the TV show) and...while I know people hate season 4 it was just...overly familar and so much ugh (but also hope at the very very end).
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*laughs heavily in that standards decayed so horribly post 9-11 that my drug dealer cousin became a Marine where he became a white supremicist Nazi who regularly used MySpace to threathen to kill his sisters whilst in the service. A beard would have been the least issue*
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nope, not me looking at things to do with excess basil and seeing basil salt and getting irritated that suggested uses are...on caprese salads etc. My friends...deepest darkest winter is soon upon us...I mean yes I could keep said salt until next summer but boo to that.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Booo this afternoon I found myself ache-y and having thermal regulation issues. Spouse stopped at CVS on the way home to buy new COVID/flu/RSV tests and thankfully just the control lines there. Maybe my immune system still working thru last week's vax?
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oops, it's harvest and fill the fridge with pesto season.
A very large pile of basil stalks atop a counter and stove. The pile almost reaches the stove hood.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way everything is going I really want some brownies. Meanwhile I did not bake any today, boo.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh #dwts, making Amber go first after elbowing Pasha in the face this week in rehearsals was mean.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faux-potle dinner turnned out okay with (boxed) cilantro lime rice, black beans, freezer carnitas, a roasted corn, tomato & roasted poblano salsa, with shredded cheese and a poblano cilantro crema.
A bowl wheee black beans are on the left, rice on the right, meat down the center and salsa and cheese everywhere topped with a bunch of green sauce.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lol, I picked this evening to try and understand cable crochet patterns. I was so confused and frustrated, then I watched the YouTube where they talked about their numbering they did not fracking ever write down!11! (In other news I'd like clear and crisp non blurry diagrams pretty plz & thank you)
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I made a dinner of not quite lasagna because Wegman's sells lasagna rollettes as frozen pasta so I could just make my own sauce, then baked everything and tada a dinner happens. (Aka some nights I do just take shortcuts)
A cast iron lasagna baking dish with pasta rolls covered in a tomat sausage sauce and melted mozzarella fresh out of the oven.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tucson friends of certain time and persuasion will understand as I say I was craving a Hen House from Frog and Firkin so I baked my own mini baguettes and made my own toum to make sandwiches...just served with onion rings instead of fries.
A shallow white bowl with a sandwich cut in halves and onion rings. The sandwich has apple slices, bacon, chicken, and melted cheddar cheese (and hidden toum).
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am not laughing that we got the pittie out to where the patio joins the grass before she went "wait, is this rain? Oh no, fuck this, fuck this, I will hold my pee til morning" 🤣
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today 15.4 kWh of the power our solar generated went back to the grid (> 50% of our generation)....after topping off our batteries so we can run grid free at night and powering the house during the day. I appreciate fall temps and clear days when they happen.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me to myself: you do not need discontinued merino yarn even though you instantly have a planned project for it. Also me to myself: just make sure you buy enough and have the right size needles/hooks.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dear self: you have a cabled crochet project planned, you do not need to suddenly practice knitting and then try to knit a swear because you've learned about steeking this week. That said, it does sound like a good way to do a colorwork sweater with all the random 15 yr old hanks that are stashed.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's Friday night and the pittie beast has made herself a corner of the sofa nest.
Freya the black pittie lab at the corner of the chaise on of the sofa with the front half of her body on a green floral pillow, with another green floral pillow propped up behind her and one in front of her. She is in a cozy doggie shrimp/ball shape as she looks at the camera and heavily snorks as though to tell me that no, she will not concede my spot back to me.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Things I didn't expect in November when we put in a new fence: that proximity for top of fence and cherry tree branches would mean the clematis climbing in the tree in the fall and blooming.
A wooden fence with some close overhanging tree branches from a cherry that has already dropped its leaves. Up one specific branch is multiple buds and blooms in shades of pink.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This morning the temp was in the 40s and the dog is not entertaining my needs for her to come be with me so that I may steal her warmth whilst she snuggles.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Noooooo the frost advisories in the "local" forecast area have begun 😭
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Okay, it's not just me...spouse got his vax today but got one in each arm and is saying his flu vax arm is already bothering him.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things I now have to play with: a bike cargo trailer.
A rectangular steel structure with a plastic bottom, two bike wheels (one on either side) and a connector arm sitting in the middle of my kitchen. The enclosed cargo area is large enough for at least two cases of wine.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I should not laugh that he outsourced knowing his address and phone number to women. Just say you yearn for the days of subserivient woman managing your life and work bro.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So any hope I had for last night that the vaccines kicking my butt would make me just pass out was incorrect...I was so achey I kept waking up.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally got my first post solar install power bill: $8.28 for a combination of Distribution Service Charges and City Tax. And 125 kWh excess generation banked for the winter.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Me on the sofa now: Wheeeeee! Spouse: you need anything? Me: No, wheee everything is great and aches like a mofo and my brain is smooshy. And I can't feel that I'm on my period so this vaccine response is a strong ass motherfucker, wheeee.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So...one thing I will note about getting my flu vax and Novavax today is that I was asked about my allergies and two things that stuck out to me were being asked about gelatin and yeast. My brain clearly flagged gelatin because there are so many religions with feelings on that and how it's sourced.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am very ache-y right now. I wonder if it is thanks to doing 4 miles of walks in the rain today or is that 7 hrs later the vaccines and my immune system are having a tiff?
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Wednesday night let's just throw things together dinner: crepes with leeks from the freezer, a random small zucchini, and a bit of chard with leftover roasted chicken in a white wine, cream, and gruyere sauce.
A shallow white bowl with threr creoes folded into quarters topped with remaining chicken and veggies in a cream sauce.
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Other pluses to today: I finally got to provide ~feedback~ about our whole solar install process and I was constructive with the 'had an all installers and client and project manager meeting of approx 30 minutes happened day 1 before any tools were used the big problems could have been avoided."
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Erin Ryan @erinleeryan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Novavax and flu shot: in my arm. Next up: early voting.
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