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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧶 Knitting! At the service center. Car is being weird and my usual mechanic claimed the electronics were beyond his ken. So I'm at the dealer. Ugh. Week 2 of MKAL, and I'm only on section 2 of Clue 1.

A knitted fabric in shades of purple, teal, blue and pink. The pattern is in a fan and triangle shapes so far.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've got most of my October personal challenge mapped out; let's see if I can bring home a 31-sentence spooky story.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

10/10. A fast read with twists and narratives dexterity. It left me thinking about the characters, the events, and how it worked. I wanted to go back and reread it as soon as I finished, but it was late. A man disappears from a party in a near bleak future that still allows for a life to be lived.

The cover of Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. It shows an L.A. skyline in blue, then vertical green lines shading into orange lines that shade to a Paris skyline flipped at the bottom shading into pink.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm prepping for my personal October challenge: write a short story in 31 lines to be posted one sentence a day in October. Asking myself if it's cheating to plan a little in advance?

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got my flu and COVID vaccines today. This will be my excuse to do nothing but read all weekend.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Seriously, I just spent at least a full minute looking for a fan. You know, the electric ones that would have to plug in the wall because the a/c isn't working because, wait for it, the power is out. Sometimes I amaze even myself.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm going to light some candles and curse the lack of a/c.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Power went out just as we returned from our walk to cook fish for dinner. According to Dominion it won't be back until 9. We have no grill. The fish may be doomed.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A cloud I saw this morning that looks like a spaceship. I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords? Or not. I didn't see any overlords, but maybe they were headed to another neighborhood.

A long cloud lit underneath by the sunrise. It is pink, orange, and yellow underneath and a darker purple-gray on top. Wisps on the right look like exhaust. It is tapered at the ends, and bumpy in the middle underneath. Trees are dark silhouettes against a pale sky that shades from yellow to blue to gray in pastels.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's nothing like the feeling of stepping out of the shower, clean and fresh, then stepping in cat barf, right by the bed, in shadow. 😿

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just for fun. We're looking at a used Mini Countryman SE. I do miss my Mini Cooper. Not good for buttons. Alas.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pray for me. We are car shopping today and all my spouse wants is "real buttons and not huge screens" and fully electric and not $$$$$. We're hunting unicorns!

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🧶 Back on my nonsense ordering a set of yarn that I may or may not actually get around to knitting. Let's see, I think I have 4 projects in the queue and another 3 actively on needles.

A set of eight 50-gram skeins of yarn from left to right: pale grayish, pale blue with pink/purple highlights, pale pink, pale teal-ish with purple, dark blue with purple and bright blue highlights, dark teal, purple with hot pink and blue highlights, rich purple. The label on each skein has a large L-I-T-L-G, for Life in the Long Grass yarn dyers.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

10/10. Spillover, by David Quammen. A fourteen-year old book that was prescient (re: Ebola, COVID), humorous at times, and still a good read in 2026. Bats, horses, pigs, goats--so many animal-human interactions are fraught. The gaps in our knowledge, the current state of science--still timely!

Book cover in black with a stylized picture of an aggressive baboon-ish primate face, mouth open, teeth bared.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Went hiking in Shenandoah today and was kind of bummed to see lantern flies everywhere when we stopped for a late lunch/early dinner after coming off the mountains. Their VA presence seems to have exploded this year?

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Her nickname is "Ray of Sunshine" for a reason. #CatsOfBluesky #torties

A tortie cat in a lap looking up at the camera adorably. Her nose has a pink tip and is split between orange and black all the way to her forehead. A hand is scritching behind her ears.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We have finally gotten around to watching For All Mankind, and don't you dare take my space soap away from me.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

*stares speculatively at day-old coffee in pot*

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is it just me, or are some print magazines becoming unreadable thanks to the poor layout/design, as if print were an afterthought to putting things online? I don't always want to stare at a screen. #oldpersonrant

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The mountains are calling...for 2 inches of rain, so we're postponing our hike. Ugh.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After almost a year I finally took the insulated coffee mug that's been sitting in a cabinet since I arrived down to the break room and washed it. I have no idea who it belonged to, as the previous occupant said a visitor had left it, and he doesn't remember who it was. Fly free, little mug!

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Look at her cute little black-hearted toes! #CatsOfBluesky #torties

A tortie's back foot with beige toes and a little black heart

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

These books aren't going to read themselves, I mutter, pulling a book off one of the TBR stacks (the "already in progress" stack) scattered on every horizontal surface in my room, ignoring the several bags of WIP knitting.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I keep journals but pity the anthropologist who someday finds them buried in a landfill and just reads endless variations of "I'm so tired" interspersed with lists of books I'm reading and the names of the cats I played with that day.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think we lost something when we abandoned the cloak as standard outerwear.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Important update* #CatsOfBluesky *no, I'm not getting a lot done. Why do you ask?

A tortie cat stretched out on her back on a person's lap. The cat is stretched out, back feet anchored against a table and front paws hanging over the lap. The cat's belly is exposed, with large cream/orange patches between her legs.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My little lap warmer doesn't understand that a) those little claws are in direct contact with bare skin b) its pretty warm, actually, and a lap warmer is not in fact called for But, she is purring, demanding scritches, and adorable, so I'll allow it.

A tortie cat curled on a person .with the person's knee in the background.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This small bunny spotted on our evening walk exhibited no fear. #bunny #rabbit

A small rabbit chewing placidly in the grass. We were not 10 feet away.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Joys of Home Ownership, Chapter 1: The ceiling is cut out and the thunder is rumbling. We are determined to find the source of the leak that reared its head over the 4th of July weekend, and slowly worked its way across the living room.

A long stretch of ceiling over a window with beams exposed.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Why do I feel like garbage, I wonder, surveying the hazy view outside and turning the air purifier on high while my mouth tastes of ashes.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My loss is their gain: forgot about some cherries and so I put a few that weren't moldy outside #squirrel

A gray squirrel sitting on a brown deck and eating cherry it is holding in its front paws.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My album cover for Apocalypse Sun. I'm glad I still have some face masks in the car. This air is no joke--people north have it much worse and I'm hacking like a 20-year pack-a-day smoker.

A 7-11 with a few random cars and a murky sky--the sun appears as a neon orange dot over trees in the background. Power lines run across the foreground.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Random thought of the day: the house is just a big box for the cats.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Other cats: Ooh--a dangly feather--let me at it! Willow: Gimme that stick--no, not the dangly feather end, the other end. Yeah. Plain stick. It doesn't suspect a thing. #CatsOfBluesky #torties

A tortie cat sitting upright on a gray bedspread and staring intently at the end of a black stick that is peeking out from under a blanket.

The tortie cat has captured the stick and is chewing on it, looking very intense.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🪶 This disheveled fledgling Carolina wren is so adorable.

A young wren with some baby down still sticking out of the soon-to-be splendid chestnut brown feathers, sitting on the post of a deck.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Sauerkraut and yellow mustard are my only requirements.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On the one hand, my house is leaking water in the living room when it rains, from a still-unknown source. On the other hand, a lantern fly brazenly landed on my patio while people were looking at the roof overhang and I killed it, and I now feel conflicted and sad. It is a cruel world.

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Pemberley Intern @hallie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Once when I was in first grade I came home from school, and my mom had made hot chocolate and cookies. She sold advertising for a local paper, so her schedule was kind of random, but I remember that day and have wanted cookies and cocoa when I get home at least once a month for the last 50 years.

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