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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I am so pleased with tonight’s cocktail hour that I am posting it into the ether here even though I never post and almost no one follows me*. Blistered shishito peppers and tomato martinis**!! *I do not care, I promise **garnish is a blossom from my garlic chives

Bright green peppers with strong char marks sit in a shallow black pottery bowl on a wood table. Just behind the bowl is a glass coupe with tomato-pink liquid with a cluster of small white flowers floating in it.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

THANK YOU!!! Mine are struggling in the drought. Just one variety out there going nuts. Now I can at least enjoy others’ success. (I am an enthusiastic but undisciplined gardener)

Dahlia plants with pinky red flowers in various stages of blooming.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Lenny is here for you! And he brought you an empty yogurt cup!

A small black dog with a large square head holds an empty yogurt tub upside down in his mouth. He seems to be offering it to the camera. His front feet are on a sofa next to a woman in a gray striped dress (she is only partially visible). She scratches the dog’s neck. He gazes at her with big brown eyes. His face is flecked with white around his eyes and muzzle.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A proper gentleman at 11 years old.

A handsome black dog looks off to the left with a curious expression. He has a big block head, short but floppy ears, and soft brown eyes. His muzzle and eyebrows are flocked with silver.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Collards cooked correctly after a freeze are the most glorious sweet and tender forkful of joy. This was a particularly good year for them, and I will hear no slander. They made a potlikker so good I made a martini out of it.

A Nick and Nora glass sits on a wood table next to a pair of tortoise shell glasses. The glass holds a cloudy liquid that is an alarming shade of yellow green that almost glows. The liquid is flecked with cracked black pepper. It is a potlikker martini, and despite its disturbing appearance, it is DELICIOUS.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Text to a friend earlier tonight. Screamed so loud I scared the dog.

Text messages:
I need Wallace to win tonight
IT WILL HEAL ME
Where’s Wallace? Where’s the boy at?!?!
WINNING A DAMN OSCAR IN A JUST WORLD.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ooh!! I have one of those mixed ones too!! I love it so much.

Camellia tree with a fully open, bright pink bloom and two partially open variegated blooms with bright pink and pale pink.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is what we have (it’s apparently been sitting on a table in his office all this time).

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Agreed! Beans and greens! Super flexible, always delicious.

Brothy stew of large white beans, chicken, carrots, and kale.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Here is a Lenny. Also I went to my local bakery and just as I was about to order they brought out a tray of fresh savory Danish. Also we are getting snow at the beach in NC.

A little blockheaded black dog with sugary white eyebrows and muzzle lies on a pile of green fuzzy blankets. He rests his head on his favorite person’s leg, which is wearing plaid flannel pajamas. His ears are perked up, and he gazes at the camera with love and hope (for a treat).

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The world is a garbage fire. Take your dog to look at Christmas lights.

A small black dog with a big block head and sugar on his muzzle sits in the back seat of a car. He looks off to the right out the window. The colors of downtown Christmas lights reflect in his eyes.

A small blockheaded black dog presses his nose against a lowered car window. Outside the window we see a building typical of downtown in a small city. The building is draped in festive, multicolored Christmas lights.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Oh yay!! Glad it worked for you! Here it is holding sweet potato pie for later today. (I couldn’t bear to trim excess so I folded the edges and kind of love how it turned out)

Deep orange fluffy sweet potato pie with a golden crust in a white ceramic pie plate

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This is beautiful. I am a firm believer in pie. My sweet potato beauty, baked last night to eat later today.

A fluffy deep-orange sweet potato pie with a burnished gold crust sits in a white fluted ceramic pie plate on a mottled countertop.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

If you’re already into mysteries, you’ve probably seen all of these, but this is what I sent her. With my commentary of course 😂

On Acorn:

In addition to Suchet Poirot, Joan Hicks Marple (the only Marple I recognize), and Midsomer Murders (sooooo much fun):
Murder Before Evensong
Queens of Mystery
Broken Wood Mysteries (later seasons not so much)
Dalgliesh (🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷)
Foyle’s War
Madame Blanc (only season 1)
Dead Still
Murdoch Mysteries (not *good* but fun Canadian batshittery)
Under the Vines (not a mystery, just fun and funny and lovely, set on a vineyard in New Zealand - ADORE this one)
Irish Blood (fun, not art)

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Had a jump scare getting the mail today

An old metal mail box on a white column. The bottom of the box has open grill work. Behind the grill, you can see the lower third of a face smiling slightly.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Lenny says hi. He’s never met you, but he loves you. That’s his way.

An extremely black dog sits on a blue sofa. His face is alert, expectant, and happy. His ears sit high. He looks into the camera with love.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Because I’m in that frame of mind: my Martha

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It’s been a frustrating, scary, exhausting day on so many fronts, so I’m just gonna post some of my dahlias. This new hobby has been a lovely bit of joy in my life this year.

A collection of dahlias sits on a table. Some are tight ball forms, others big blowsy loose blooms. They are various shades of yellow, pinks, orange, red, and purple.

A light red dahlia with neat and regular tightly packed petals. The petals are a pinkish red with lighter pink edges. The center is magenta because it hasn’t fully bloomed. In the background is lush green overgrown grass.

A beautiful perfectly regular dahlia with pointed lilac pink petals in front of a wooden fence.

Two large red dahlia blossoms with lighter edges in front of a wooden fence. They are surrounded by several buds in various stages of blooming.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Good work, puppies! This one supervised his new best friend* patching holes from new wiring in the living room! *everyone he meets is his new best friend

A sausage-shaped black dog lies sleeping on his side on a neutral diamond patterned between a blue sofa and a wood and glass coffee table.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This guy let me hold him like a teddy bear when he wasn’t sleeping on my head. And he told us about his urinary blockage in time to get him to the vet to save him. He told us about the cancer too, but it was faster than we were. Absolutely no question he loved us and his canine siblings.

A large, extremely handsome long haired black cat sits neatly on a cat tree looking with great interest at something off camera. His green eyes are wide and his ears cocked forward.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

SAME! I grew five last year, and they did so well I put in 30 more this year. Have already ordered about 15 for spring. I’m constantly plotting where I can add beds and pack them in tighter. This is my haul from a few days ago.

A fist full of big dahlia blooms in shades of yellow, pink, red, and orange held over a stone patio and grassy lawn beyond.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Scene from Die Hard: Bruce Willis crawling through an air duct. He is battered and a little bloody, wearing a dirty white undershirt. He flicks a silver lighter so he can see.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I grew these dahlias and finally got a contractor for some necessary house repairs.

Big fluffy dahlias in shades of white, burgundy, pink, and gold sit in a green pottery vase on a woven tray.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This drifted into my feed and for a moment I thought it was my Len, who also just had some lumps removed. So glad Bailey is doing well. Len sends smooches.

A small black dog with a big square head looks at the camera with soft brown eyes. He has a little white on his muzzle and eyebrows from years and years of love.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Lenny will share his blanket.

A black dog with some sugary white on his muzzle looks lovingly at the camera with big brown eyes. A soft reddish blanket drapes over him like a hood. He looks very cozy.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

YES! Look at the perfect Kissing Spot on this noggin. He gets millions of kisses.

A blockheaded black dog snuggles on dark yellow blanket on his favorite human’s lap. His human rubs his right ear as the pup gazes up adoringly, clearly hoping for a kiss on his Kissing Spot.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I got this one from Emily Nunn’s Department of Salad newsletter, and it’s outstanding. Put everything in a small jar with a good lid and shake.

Dressing:
2tbs sherry vinegar
2tbs lemon juice
Zest of 1/2 lemon
1tsp Dijon
4tbs olive oil
2tsp honey
Pinch of salt
Black pepper
Pinch of cayenne

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

How you know you married the right person: this was his immediate response.

Spouse: "A Full Suamsh MAKES FOR YOU A Happy Heram" 🤣
Me: YES!!! SUAMSH IS EXACTLY WHAT IM GIGGLING ABOUT
Me: I kept it together until that phrase
Spouse: I wanna somehow make it part of the lexicon
Me: YESSS

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

And this made me realize I don’t have a lot of solid pics of the house, but I have captured bits of it. So I can offer representative vignettes I guess?

Spring cocktails in green embossed glasses sit on a marble-topped table with books, messy green plants, and an antique bronze peacock lamp with a scalloped black shade. The table sits next to a sofa upholstered in black fabric with a cream circle print. Several windows look out on wax myrtle trees and the yellow house next door.

A glossy medium wood mantle holds a small painting of a black and white dog, a green pottery vase full of orange dahlias, and two rustic white metal goats. The wood extends up the wall. An ornate gold colored mirror hangs in the upper right corner.

A line drawing of a pitbull wearing a shawl hangs in a very formal gold frame with thick blue-green matting. To the left of the picture hangs a gray and white striped curtain. Below it a vase of fake pink roses.

In the foreground, the remains of a festive meal sit on an antique wood table. White ceramic plates, crystal goblets, green cloth napkins. The room is dim. Through open French doors we can see a lit Christmas tree.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Also Lenny! Tell Lenny and Lenny that Lenny says hi!

A black dog with a block head is sitting on a brick porch. He looks back over his shoulder at the camera with big eyes.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Well now I must share too. My sweet lumpy boy.

A black dog with a blockhead and small alert ears relaxes on a blue sofa. He has a little white in his muzzle from age. His mouth is open in a happy smile, revealing some adorable purple spots on his tongue. A hand rests on his right shoulder, clearly petting him, which could be why he’s smiling.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

He’s so good Doin’ what he should He’s the babiest dog in The whole neighborhood Hey hey look it’s Lenny (To the tune of The Monkees theme obviously)

Smiling black dog with a block head and a sprinkling of white in his muzzle relaxes on a blue sofa. His mouth is open in a happy smile, showing the purple spots on his tongue. His mother’s hand reaches into frame and rests with love on his right shoulder.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Only his second real snow at almost ten years old. He does NOT want to come inside.

A small black dog with a block head and some white hairs in his muzzle stands ankle deep in soft snow while wearing a red and black plaid jacket. He looks up at the camera with soft eyes.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We took Lenny this year, and he loved it!!

A little blockheaded black dog wearing a cuddly sweater looks out the car window at a Christmas light display.

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Kat Vernon @katbird.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This simple is from a Smitten Kitchen cocktail recipe, but it makes a tremendous mocktail with Fee’s Black Walnut Bitters, Fee’s Molasses Bitters, and ginger ale. Measure as your soul dictates- pretty sure you can’t go wrong. Garnish with lemon or orange peel.