imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 15h“It is a pity that doing one’s best doesn’t always answer.” #brontefest Jane Eyre Chapter XI “Leah, make a little hot negus and cut a sandwich or two.” Negus- A beverage of wine, hot water, lemon juice, sugar, and nutmeg 120
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 16h#Geese is today’s theme for #birdoftheday and #green is the alt theme. This fulfills both! 0100
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Argiope aurantia Gardenia, the Garden spider. Also called a Writing spider. She has trapped her prey (insect?) and wrapped it in silk. She bites it and inject a venom which liquifies the prey. She can then suck up the contents. #argiopeaurantia #gardenspider 000
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#birdoftheday #crooners A friend painted this from a photo of a Painted Bunting. I was on a team studying/banding Painted Buntings in south FL. A few years later, this bird was spotted in SC and ID’d as one of ours! 140
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#blueskies is today’s theme for #birdoftheday a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Arkansas… we have so many here in summer and I never tire of seeing them 190
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#brontefest The story of Eutychus in Acts 20. “A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.” 141
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#BronteFest “our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet: I remember well the distracting irritation I endured from this cause every evening, when my feet inflamed; and the torture of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning.” 040
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#black&white #birdoftheday A Trumpeter Swan in Heber Springs, Arkansas 1110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#birdoftheday #bokehballs (had to look that up!) A bird with a fuzzy background…extra credit for bokeh balls….no extra credit here! A Tufted Titmouse in winter 1101
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I solved the Monday 9/28/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 9:35! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 010
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#brontefest I guess we will go have to go here: 😊 www.bronte.org.uk/visitbronte.org.ukVisit | The Brontë Parsonage MuseumWalk in the footsteps of the Brontë sisters.Explore the rooms in which Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. We bring 180
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#brontefest I’ve read this. I think one of my granddaughters has it. 140
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I solved the Monday 9/14/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 7:27! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 010
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#brontefest What are some of the books we will be reading? I may have to do some ordering. 120
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Soames- “So absorbed in landscape painting that he seldom looked seriously for effects of Nature out of doors—“ #forsytesaga26 171
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I solved the Monday 9/07/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 8:52! 011
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026mydialect.us/quiz-standar... #mydialect Yep…they got it right! Chicago it is. “Gym shoes” will do it. 👟👟 000
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#forsytesaga26 www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... Making a haycock in the traditional way.irishexaminer.comThree men make hay the old-fashioned wayThe old way of farming brought to life 260
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I solved the Monday 8/31/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 8:08! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026@literaturesc.bsky.social Have you seen this? We haven’t read classics for awhile. . www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...nytimes.comBook Review: ‘Agrippa,’ by Robert Harris (Gift Article)Robert Harris’s new novel, “Agrippa,” follows a statesman who witnesses the transformation of a republic into an empire. 110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#forsytesaga26 “Tradition! And again Tradition!”static.klipy.comChaim Topol as Tevye Sings "Tradition!"ALT: Chaim Topol as Tevye Sings "Tradition!" 041
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026 #forsytesaga26 www.pavilionbooks.com/2022/06/10/l...pavilionbooks.comLord's Cricket ground: Eton vs Harrow - Pavilion siteTake a look at the iconic Lord's Cricket Club in this extract from Cricket Clubs Then and Now by Brian Levison. 171
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#forsytesaga26 Time4 bird facts. Nightjars are a group of crepuscular or nocturnal birds. They have long wings, short legs, short bills. They feed on insects as they fly. In the US, we have nighthawks,whip-poor-wills, Chuck-wills-widows and a few more. In the UK, Eurasian Nightjar is the most common 251
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Today’s theme for #BirdoftheDay is #NaturalSeeds. A few years ago, we had an irruption of Purple Finches. They consumed all the seeds from several Gray-headed coneflowers in a couple of days! 070
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026#rainydaybirds is today’s them for ##birdoftheday. Birds in the rain or with wet plumage. A Painted Bunting in a birdbath…. 1120
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I solved the Monday 8/17/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 7:45! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 010
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026#birdoftheday #warblers is today’s theme. Here is a Chestnut-sided Warbler at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary in Chicago. 090
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I solved the Monday 8/10/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 6:46! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#birdoftheday alt theme #busted Birds looking directly into camera… A Snowy Owl atop the concession stand at Montrose Beach in Chicago. 091
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#birdoftheday #littlebrownbird White-throated Sparrow 160
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026#forsytesaga26 Seaweed on Jupiter Beach. Seaweed with Sanderlings. 170
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026#robins #birdoftheday An older picture, but one I’ve always especially liked. 160
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I solved the Monday 8/03/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 9:28! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026#overtherainbow #birdoftheday A quizzical Laughing Gull at Paynes Prairie in Florida… 0100
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Here’s a Cattle Egret for #egretsandherons #birdoftheday 0121
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026#forsytesaga26 This second interlude starts off reminiscent of A. A. Milne and ends reminding me of Proust. 183
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I solved the Monday 7/27/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 8:16! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 110
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I solved the Monday 7/20/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 11:23! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 111
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I solved the Monday 7/13/2026 New York Times Daily Crossword in 6:56! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...nytimes.comPlay The New York Times CrosswordKeep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine. 010
imnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026#birdsilove #birdoftheday For three winters, Athena, an Eastern Screech-Owl, roosted in our owl box. 020
