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Miss Nan

@handynan.bsky.social
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Happily Married Generation Jones to Beloved. Daughter is referred to as DD (Darling Daughter). Cat is Resident Dictator, aka RD🐈‍⬛. Born and bred in Charleston, SC. Was raised “It isn’t what you have, but what you do with it.” I chose to be people positive.

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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Beloved can’t get the inside of his car windshield clear so next he is going to try alcohol, H2O and a bit of white vinegar mix. He asked what kind of Alcohol to use. I suggested rubbing alcohol but offered that I do have EverClear if he thinks it’s better. (I have it to make bitters, not drinks.)
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Define Normal.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The city just made us move DD’s car so they could use a water jet to dig around the water meter to see if we had lead pipes. Good news, we have copper. They didn’t say why they were checking only us on the block but at least we are clear.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We are not a British Colony.
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Golden Butter Biscuits Cooking
ALT: Golden Butter Biscuits Cooking
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see W’m Hansom of on the ‘Gram posting about proper English Table Manners. Please note: they are not the same as Southern US manners. I was raised : Forks scoop food with tines facing upwards, fried chicken can be picked up with your hands and fresh biscuits are first split and buttered.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hate “Headache Days”.. I drank water- no change (N.C.) Steamy shower- (N.C.). Decongestant -(N.C.). OTC pain meds- (N.C.). Got out of the house- (N.C.). Laid down and rested- (N.C.). Now going hardcore. Merlot 🍷 Nurse chart: self medicated with OTC depressant drug. (Yes, alcohol is a drug.)
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Yzma's Ugh Headache
ALT: Yzma's Ugh Headache
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The predictions for this winter’s El Nina is for a mild winter. In order to smoke cheese I need temperatures below 60f which is usually only a few days in January. I’m not sure it will be cool enough at all. My Grandparents would understand watching the weather to prep food- just not cheese.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DD brought down the Halloween decorations including My Beloved’s favorite pumpkin. I can’t find a working battery tea light so that’s my next quest.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tried a foot soak that is 1/2 blue mouthwash, 1/2 white vinegar& 1 cup hot water. Don’t know is it will soften my feet but it did stain them blue. 😀 Update later.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m sorry. I am personally have gotten so put out with insomnia I have gotten up and done housework. If I’m awake and tired, at least I have something to show for it.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I miss Joe Anne’s and other respectable sewing supply stores. A package of buttons is $9. (Don’t care what the Hobby place has. They save so much money not giving woman proper healthcare they can steal artifacts from the Holy Land) I’m studying how to make vintage clothes closures.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I flip that. I do it all night, awake.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Resident Dictator 🐈‍⬛ is rather aloof. He is not impressed with cat toys. I heard good things about “springs” so I bought a package. He is not impressed with them either. I’ll try introducing them later. Tomorrow is flea treatment day and it will take at least a week for him to forgive me. (Sigh)
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
DD has spent most of today either washing and drying part of what she took camping. The other part she dried and brushed. Because of the dangerous squirrels in the backyard pecan tree the tent dried in our small front yard. Neighbors had questions. Hardware is now back in storage.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The request for a code could be considered a safety feature. Weak but it is something.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like that.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Old enough to do anything you want while also old enough to get out of anything you don’t want to do. Locally they leave it to the individual. Some folks want to watch the drama for $5/day.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How do you know?
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Are they people who deliver or the people who can afford DoorDash?
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meanwhile I’m researching replacement tents. Perhaps I should research “cargo trailor campers”. Prepare for the worst, Hope for the best. I can multitask it as a “Evacuation tool”. I’m probably over planning cause I’m a retired #PublicHealthNurse and #SouthernWoman. Whatever. Adapt- ‘cause I am.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
DD did that camping trip to the mountains with 2 novices. 1st night they returned to the tent filled with 2” of rain in the tent. (Worn out?!) They relocated to a hotel room. I’m calling it “Real Glamping”. DD has been guiding them to falls and they help cover her share of the room. They enjoyed it.
tent.is
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I guess that’s why landscapers use a relative large herd of goats penned in. The numbers are outpacing growth and the goats eat even bark. I have seen on the ‘tube their humans pulling and/cutting down vines. That really helps them outpace the growth.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Convenient that an institutional color is a passable selfie background. Good.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Like my younger brothers? Not familiar so not food? Sad.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They would need to be milked in the morning & evening. I have never heard of a landscape goathearder with a milking trailer. This needs to be a thing. How would the milk/ cheese be posted? I am poor but I would pass up Merlot to support “Kudzu Feta”.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Your flu shot site has a selfie backdrop? Full service!
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goats are good. Any chance dairy goats? Never heard of it but it really reinforces the “food” part of it.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dark thought: the “ai Monster” disconnected us ‘cause its programming identified that we would be dangerous together. Yes,I like that! Unnerve the unreal. (As opposed to the undead. Lower case on purpose. Not only easier to read but lower case has a certain meaning.)[English literature minor here]
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Native Beauty Berry in our front yard. I understand it is a desperation food source for local birds. If it is the only food left, they will eat it. I can relate. I felt that about some foods my Mama fixed when I was a child. (I will hard prune this spring. I like it 4” tall as opposed to 12”).
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We thought that we would have a good harvest of pecans this year but the squirrels are picking them, tasting and rejecting them for being green. The ground is treacherous. I don’t hunt and it’s illegal inside the city limits but if we desperately need protein I have a possible source.
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Dug the Dog: Squirrel!
ALT: Dug the Dog: Squirrel!
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s all good.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@jg-pgh.bsky.social , you weren’t following me already? Okay. I’m lucky how this has worked out. 😊
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Totally AI. No one would kiss that guy.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do they move while you color them?
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looking great.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I had perfect measurements of 36”, 26”, 36” when I was 13 years old. I was not allowed to leave my yard alone because grown men tried to get me in their car alone. My measurements changed but I learned to spot preditors. (Supervised by my MGM. Born 1886. Florence, SC. She had my Mom at 45 years.)
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like a photograph. 👍
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s so overwhelming when gravity wins. Healing thoughts.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just finished an emergency trip to the dentist. I arrived with him making judgments about my maintenance care but he changed his mind. Apparently this is part of aging. “?Old teeth dehydrated, shrink, and pop fillings.?) This has been expensive. Miffed that I now have a survey homework.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Something that should be all future sewing machines is a sensor that lets you know when the bobbin is empty. 😔
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
DD is trying to rush our winter garden. I’m afraid that Charleston’s 9a zone is not great for garlic, kale and the such right now. September is better. Our frost might show mid December. January I might “cold” smoke cheese with a pellet tube. Warm February probably fake out azaleas and peaches. Joy!
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Sassy Southern Belle Lemon Breeland
ALT: Sassy Southern Belle Lemon Breeland
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wonder what the bark means when translated into English
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DD just got a refresher course on how things work. She asked me what dinner was. I told her pasta, meatballs and marinara sause. She started telling me what is wrong with my sause. Long pause. She fixed dinner. 😉
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Is this a “bar” as in serving a drink or “bar” as in hand held and open the wrapper? The second I may add to my emergency supplies.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just came back from grocery shopping. Between the prices of fruits and vegetables, and the danger of the food chain I think it might be cost effective to start gardening again.
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CLUELESS SHOPPING
ALT: CLUELESS SHOPPING
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hope all these good people passing are making official reports at the Pearly Gates before they go to their paradise. Have accountability waiting.
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Heaven's Welcome Gate Opens to Bright Sky
ALT: Heaven's Welcome Gate Opens to Bright Sky
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m retired. I avoid early mornings. 😴
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The ‘Gram reports that as a response to Orange Guy wanting to buy Greenland the Danish want to buy California and give them healthcare, Rule of Law, Fact based Politics and Danish pastries. I would like that for SC. Especially if we wouldn’t have Orange Guy but could keep Bennie Wafer cookies & rice
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
DD likes to camp and we have family equipment she can borrow. Her present group of friends (never camped) have asked her to arrange the trip. She is not happy about the seriousness the group is expressing. If this was a cruise I expect at least 2 would be left on the dock after going ashore.
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Miss Nan @handynan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There are so many honorable, talented and intelligent people are passing. If this trend continues the people running the U.S. government will live forever.
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