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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you pat your dog after he’s been outdoors and you wonder what that gross thing is on your hand. Yuck.

A happy fluffy dog looks up at me oblivious to the fact that he has carried a slug into the house on his fur. The guilty slug is on a tissue on my lap and has been moved outdoors.

Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not in the habit of shouting at the tv screen but Blue Lights has had me do it more than once. I am so invested in these characters.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the hypnotic stare of a dog who is trying to make me feel guilty about not sharing my carrot cake with him. 🐕😵‍💫

A large fluffy dog sits on a sofa and stares me right in the eye as I insensitively eat carrot cake without offering him any.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our neighbours are trimming their trees. The contractor knocked and told my husband that branches may fall on our side.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Letterboxd is down. Why do I always feel that I’m the one that broke the app. I just left a review.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tried to plug my iPod cord into my book. Not the first time. 🙈

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I groomed Jasper. He seems happy about it. 🐕🤎

A very shaggy dog poses while sitting for its owner yesterday

A freshly groomed dog seems to grin as it poses in the same place today.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I made pork cutlets tonight with a method I saw online. Instead of pounding them, you use a tortilla press. It worked so well!

A thin pork chop in the process of being flattened by a tortilla press.

On the left are two flattened chops ready to be breaded. On the right are two chops before they’ve been flattened in the tortilla press.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Little weirdo. Quite lovely. 🌱 I found this little guy on the side of my basil pot today. #cicada

A cicada sits on the edge of a round grey flower pot. It is facing forward with one wing clearly visible and the other tucked to its side.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sitting outside listening to the crickets. One of the joys of August. 🦗🦗🦗

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sad to hear about Glen Hansard. He had a singular way of singing. I love his song “Sure as the Rain”. “Light luminescent, hold on somehow Burn low if you have to, but don’t go out.”

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Sure as the Rain by Glen Hansard on Apple Music

Song · 2023 · Duration 5:50

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I've been deep in family history research in the past few months. Today I was looking into a remote part of the family with the last name Park who named their son Mansfield. And he in turn called his son Mansfield.📚 Me with my English Lit degree found it funny.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just got back from a week in Toronto visiting our daughters and going out and about. Still thinking about the wonderful cold beet soup (chlodnik) at the Ukrainian restaurant Hoyra on Bloor Street. They’ve just been open a year and are definitely worth a visit.

A bright and delicious pink soup made with beets and yogurt topped with radishes , dill and egg served at Hoyra restaurant on Bloor Strret in Toronto.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Forty-five minutes after the fireworks ended here, Jasper has finally stopped barking. Poor guy.

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Hockney had such a gentle, confident joy about him. I need to read 'Spring Cannot Be Cancelled' again.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We’ve just started watching the series River. If I could choose whom to be haunted by, it would definitely be Nicola Walker.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've been too tired to read the past few days as we've been working on big house and garden projects. But today's a rainy day and I thought it would be nice to continue my book. Do you think I can find my prescription reading glasses anywhere? I wish they had a beeper.

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John-y-Cash (vac) @john-y-cash.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

Bonne soirée à vous ! 🙏 Car vous ne verrez rien de plus créatif aujourd'hui ! #TomDeininger #Art #Talent #sculpture

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Took a photo of the tree peonies today because there’s a full day of rain ahead and it’s hard to know how they’ll fare. There’s three more buds so hopefully more beauty to come. 🌱

Two gorgeous and lush pink Japanese tree peonies in perfect form against their spring green leaves.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Me, the eternal optimist, watching a British crime series where one of the main characters was kicked, hit with a rock and thrown off a cliff. Maybe he's still alive?

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I removed a tick from Jasper’s eyelid yesterday and found one crawling on me tonight. Thought it was an ant until I saw its shape. Yuck. Check for ticks!

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Saw the first hummingbird of the season yesterday. (Joy.) Saw the first garter snake today. (Shudder.) #signsofspring

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pride is a promise — that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we recommit ourselves to fight for the dignity, security, and equal rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada and around the world.

Prime Minister Carney marches in the Vancouver Pride parade in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

When I opened the curtains, there was a kid off his bike picking one of my tulips. Because I waited all winter to see my tulips and they've just started to open, I knocked on the window and wagged my finger at him. He nodded so maybe it won't happen again. I hope his teacher likes her tulip.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The fight of humans against artificial intelligence isn’t new. I watched Desk Set with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy tonight. Maybe we have Bunny’s gumption in fighting the current version.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The daffodils are just opening here. I would have left this in the garden but the rain last night left it flat so it was begging to come in. A beauty. 🌱

A delicate and frilly cream and dark yellow daffodil held in my left hand.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s only been a week since the garden woke up here and there is already so much beauty. 🌱 Don’t miss the tiny bee at the center of the purple-striped crocus. 🐝

A beautiful purple-striped crocus open wide with a tiny bee at its center.

Two pale yellow crocuses against a backdrop of brown autumn leaves.

A huge patch of deep purple dwarf irises

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The past week has been full of spring signs here (at last!) but this is the best one: the chorus frogs are singing. From our walk with Jasper this evening.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I would just like to say that I am in the anti-tapping-everything-with-your-fingertips segment.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ate a mouldy piece of toast for breakfast. As I was eating it I was thinking it didn't taste quite right but I was very sleepy. Checked the remaining bread after I ate it and it definitely wasn't okay.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Nice to have a day that ends with a glimmer of a better world.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

So happy the Artemis astronauts are back home safe. I still have the newspaper editions about the 1969 moon landing from the New York Times, Toronto Star and Toronto Telegram. Historic moments. 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Brutal.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
@michaelfdubois
Mukad A QuBoy
@michacifdubois

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I was five during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I still have vivid memories of a kid down the street yelling 'Khrushchev is coming' every time a plane flew over when we were playing outside. I didn't understand what was going on in the world but I knew it was something scary. That fear remains.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Having a glass of wine. Here's to kind souls the world over. And a pox upon those who live off of the fear of others.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My husband and I were impressed by how many errands we’d fit in this morning until we got home and looked at the clock. I forgot to change the time in our old van.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

From today’s evening walk. Surfaces. Reflections. What’s up is down.

A photo of a small stream in a forest. The water is partially melted and the trees and sky are reflected on its surface.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just turned off the gold twinkle lights on the big shrub out front. I leave the Christmas lights on until the first day of spring. I was reluctant to turn them off this time as there's still snow on the ground but if I pretend it's spring, it will start behaving like spring. Right?

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m having an egg salad sandwich for lunch. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to crack an egg without thinking of Emma Thompson cracking hers on the car dashboard. I loved her prickly character in Down Cemetery Road.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

March weather can be mean and beautiful. A week ago it was 12C and almost all of the snow melted. Since then we’ve had an ice storm and, last night, about 10 cm of heavy snow. But I heard a cardinal sing its spring song today so there is hope.

A snowy forest scene from our dog walk at the end of the day.

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Kathleen • Trowel and Paintbrush @kathleenmaunder.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. A double blink from my dog 2. The first sip of coffee in the morning 3. A text from my daughters

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