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EverlyFinch

@everlyfinch.bsky.social
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Storyteller/writer, baker, introvert, dog lover, gardener, artist and naturalist

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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Japanese Knives I ordered new knives because I have a drawer full of dull knives. I opened one up and cut my finger. They work.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I would much rather be outside. With weeks of triple digits, I water in the morning and stay inside the rest of the day. I decided to pickle my meager onion crop for the holidays. Tam jalapeños next. I’ve been gardening for so long, I wouldn’t know what to do in summer.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I caught a cat. I caught a cat.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some kind of bee on my sunflowers. It’s been in the triple digits. I can only go outside in the morning or late evening. Love these.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I know everyone thinks their grandkids are wonderful, but this one is the sweetest boy on earth. I asked him once what made him such a great kid and he said, “I just had love in my heart.” He was 10 when he said that. He’s a senior this fall and a big life to come. Love Oliver!
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I gave this tiny boy a bath today and he screamed like a banshee. Sorry Timmy.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You’ve probably had dogs barking while you try to sleep at night. Me, I have bullfrogs. When one stops, another croaks back. It’s like little tubas in my bedroom.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A critter next to my flower bed. It’s alive. What???
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Raised bed gardening. The plants are doing well. Even planted a Ranier cherry in a pot. We’ll see how it grows.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Had some welcome visitors today. They grow up so fast.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I love these little things.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just bought a new white peach tree. Nothing more flavorful than this.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Said pecan pie. It’s always pi day.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Pi Day
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This old nanny goat has another summer left in her. I found lettuce and onion sets to plant.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Someone laid an egg. She wants me to feed her and let her swim in my goldfish pond. So much work to do. I’m getting too old to work my gardens.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
So what did I do with my Buddha’s Hand citron? Flavored some vodka with it. Nothing on earth smells better than this lemon.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Apple dumpling kind of day.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Rosebud.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
The smell of heaven. I grow Buddha’s hand citron and its sweet, floral scent is like no other earthly smell. Order a plant and you will see. My kitchen is filled with it’s smell.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Haven’t made a chess pie in a long time. I am making pecan pie and a tart cherry pie for Thanksgiving dinner. I just might make one of these too.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I would have liked Truman. I tend to like unlikeable people. Sagittarius to the bone.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Never hit anyone. Selling off antiques on eBay and decided to sell this old fortune teller’s card. So, would you ever club someone? I decided I would if I caught someone mistreating an animal.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
First frost and had to scramble to get all of my citrus trees up. I have a closet built into the side of my house where they spend the winter with grow lights. The mandarins broke the stem by too many fruits. The Ponderosa lemon got in the way. Some thorns are 4” long and plants too big. Oh well.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I saw a special about a southern chef who has a restaurant and is famous. I can’t remember her name. A story she told was about middlins, the broken, leftover pieces of rice slaves would gather to eat. I was so surprised to see these in Fresh Market the other day.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
First rain in more than thirty days. This fall has been unusually hot.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Maypop, i.e. wild passion flower. I never knew. They are growing in my lower garden. Read up on them. Native Americans ate them and supposedly the fruit tastes like expensive passion fruit from the store. Since I couldn’t garden this summer in the beds next to the lake, I guess some seeds started.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If the other side of the universe hears me and makes my dreams come true, why has my summer sucked so bad? Maybe this container is empty.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
She asked for some pecans this morning.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Tried all summer to lure hummingbirds to my feeder. Finally got one.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The destroyer of tomatoes. They are hard to spot. They freeze and are camouflaged. This one is getting pitched down into the lower yard. It is lucky I don’t throw it in the lake.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Haven’t baked any bread lately. This was a cocoa, dried cherry loaf inspired of course by none other than the GOAT, Seamus Blackley.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Never saw it again after I put it in the goldfish pond.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
How can someone, who hasn’t got time to work in her garden, fall and break her pelvis in three places? I can’t just let it go. I have so much to do!
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We own acreage on a mountain that had two old log cabins from pioneer days. They say you can find the front by finding flowers. This is an old one they brought with them from Europe. It’s amazing they made it across the Red River to Indian territory.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A goose with a hurt foot called me till I went out to feed it. Lo and behold, a pigeon I’ve been trying to commune with for two weeks, was there and I fed it too. It flew up on my head and I got in a tickle. Made my summer. We don’t have them here and it hangs with the ducks.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Weenies with oregano and strawberries.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
My three littles just taking a walk and not even scared of Bigfoot. Seems not a thespian in the group. Some of the grandkids are going to the farm this weekend to fish and look around.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Raindrops on roses. Planted these last summer. They smell heavenly. I’m not religious, but excited for the white smoke at the Vatican.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My middle daughter is following in my footsteps. She cooks and bakes, has chickens and is now starting to can. She made pickled redbuds. Yes, the berries from a redbud tree. I have never heard of this in my decades of canning. Learn something new everyday.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Woke up to reflections from the lake. I sleep with curtains open. Don’t like it dark. My sister slept with eye covers and pitch black. I like the play of light across the back of house.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Turtles waiting for food. Gander goes hurriedly to see what his lady goose is fussing about. She’s standing over her nest hooting.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This lemon-sized strawberry is probably the last one for a time. They came from California, but wonder who picked them? I know we’ll be getting hit with dump’s tariffs. I’m going to plant the green tops to see if they root.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I’m late but got it done. Juiced the oranges and lemons. Citrus is easy to grow but in zone 7, it has to go up in winter (lower than 40). My citrus is my pride and joy. Grow it in pots.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The lake finally melted yesterday. This red tailed hawk has been in the cottonwood tree out back, but decided to come to the porch. That’s where all the birds come to eat. He did not catch one. #hawks #lakes #winter
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I ventured out to see the snow and the ducks came! They want me to feed them. I dare not go down the stairs to the lake. My fall last week is still healing. Took out half an eyebrow and road rash on my cheek. Black eye is going away. Poor ducks. #ducks #winter
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
There must be different kinds of matcha. They had some at Starbucks this summer that was heavenly. I had two packets. Both failed miserably. I can’t get it up to my mouth. It smells like liquid fish fertilizer and tastes worse.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My middle daughter, head of the Woody Guthrie Museum and caterer extraordinaire, made this nutcracker charcuterie board. It was delicious, but I could only eat a bite or two. We always have too much. What bombed? I bought a boatload of colossal shrimp. Little shit daughter thought it out too long.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Have you ever had pink strawberries? Best I’ve ever had.
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EverlyFinch @everlyfinch.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Ol Mr. Grinch came to our festivities. The littles didn’t miss a beat. As soon as Ollie said something, they knew who Grinch was. Dr. T is behind the pillow and Grinch is trying to see which gift to steal. You’ll never guess what I got. A taser. I’m going to tase myself.
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