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Fruit Trees, Scions, and Rootstocks for Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines

and for @chuckwendig.bsky.social cause even I know it is his thing. www.cumminsnursery.com/buy-trees/pr... the NY35 particulars from the science side of the farm selling trees and scions and rootstock old and new. Truly you need to order years in advance for some trees.

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Meh, macintoshes. But whoa lots of Cortlands. We had a March 80 degree day so most things blossomed early and then got a bit of frost damage on the baby fruit. A good year for sauce and cider. Looking at booklet. "Ludacrisp" are coming soon. Sign me up.

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@bookreadingguy.bsky.social was forced to backtrack on foot and access the fenced pixieland orchard because I am pretty sure I am a fan of pixie crunches. But the apple in the photo is a NY35. So new it still hasn't got a name! I stuck to the vintage trees some of which are 50 years old.

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The kids are certainly old enough that we could do his favorite Oscar winning movies. But Shawn the Sheep had become an inadvertent standard due to TV with the grands. It gives me a fuzzy to think about him chuckling despite nominally reading something else. Especially since I do the same.

So my Dad's last birthday was spent in the hospital chasing the tail of his leukemia and dying. So for the first birthday without him, I made sure we did things that he would have liked. A trip to our favorite orchard that he never got to visit and a couple of episodes of Shawn the Sheep.

a glossy apple of red and yellow atop a glossy map with annotations and arrows for orchard.

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it is the time of the season shift when you get a bit nervous when your best hunting cat stares so intently at something you can't see. Now v serious. Paw got lifted to strike and released. Laser focus attracted 2nd cat to assist. Odds of it not being a spider extremely low. I'm outta here!

a beige carpet foreground with fluffy black cat standing alertly in front of book cases staring intently at a spot behind a hiking boot in the floor.

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the number of my friends from middle school who got diagnosed later in life is very high. Which makes me think that those middle school educators who saw us socially struggling as tweens and assigned us to a lunch table had an eye for zebras in need of a herd. College friends similar.

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I still struggle with my first born but ya I was so much more ready to support the second kid. Seeing myself in them much much more and sitting with the late diagnosis and making different choices. And! telling my brother that my diagnoses are medically real and not woo woo. fyi nieflings.

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I'm not sure but my kid asked to have my high school letter jacket -lately used as a dog bed - dry cleaned so they could wear it to school. and then came home with commentary from their teachers.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My teen, diagnosed in her tweens, agreed to medicate when highschool started several years ago. Me, diagnosed in 40s, telling her I used to go to highschool on a package of pop tarts or maybe an apple. Them- uncomprehending and appalled - affirming they don't like /want having a day off meds. ever

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oh certainly not. my non scripter has worked with me for a couple of (hard) years. and I'll still push back because is better living through chemistry really going to stop my constant background awareness of late capitalist enshittification? my scripter is pusher who never reviews chart notes.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think I might need this or something like this. Perhaps waking up from a news influenced nightmare and getting back on the phone to check the news was not a great choice.

LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

and did your professional have concrete suggestions for you?

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

but Lora, a decade or so ago you loved to collage, why don't you come back to it? because I need my dining room table? (Rarely for eating, let's not be silly.) Also the set of sorted and trimmed animal images. totally not in these drawers and boxes.

a surface cluttered with piles of magazine pages and folders and storage boxes.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have successfully not lost this chapstick long enough to deplete it to fingernail scrapings. I've changed.

a pale hand holding a chapstick tube with a little bit of product visible in the top portion normally covered by a cap. a wooden desk is in the upper background and a broken black keyboard in lower.

I am a bit concerned that the writers are going to be extremely cruel about it.

I enjoyed your lead comment about how can things get done. I am not happy with the fact that it is Macklemore is causing Jewish people discomfort. It is much harder to find people willing to explain the nuance in long form.

I will respond to this here, instead of the bad place!

sigh "Dismissal by the EEOC was not a determination on the merits of the issues purported to be raised in the charge." Do I try and rustle up a contingent lawyer specialist in employment law or do I just go to my next EMDR session and continue to try and move on emotionally?

this feels like one of those words that is should/ is going to get culturally appropriated.

LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am definitely fine with oblivious roosters. Especially when mini.

LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Do I have too many cockerels this year? Totally. But this lil mini guy is so cute! I call them the Butters (2 pullets) and they are otherwise quite aloof. I like that they are maturing as slowly as their standard size breed. Freeloading cuties.

a bantam buff brahma cockeral (left) and pullet (right) on a straw covered ground with some pecked pears and apples. Logs, branches, pallets and cinderblocks are in the rear.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hurrah! My libraries do not have.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me, attempting to leave for work at a responsible time - wow that's a lot of wet alright. Guess I don't need to worry about ragweed today and can skip the Flonase. 2 hours later- ded of snot. I forget that I'm allergic to mildew and mold.

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

waaaa. I always forget about fall raspberries.

LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

me, 90 min ago. Wow this canned beverage has a scoodle boot of caffeine. Better decant. Me now-DESK CHOCOLATE 4 STRESS!!!! plus tachycardia (but I do still have 2/3 of a can left. 120 mg of flat natural jitter juice tomorrow)

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oooof. 3 more closets poked at and nominally thinned/shuffled/reassembled. Still no bag, so I was forced to creep into my home office. aka Doom room. Visible and grabable with mere stretch into the closet! Reckoning is deferred. Possible residual spoons to finish other side of bedroom?!

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over here in ADHD day off back to school land.... Pip is having a marvelous time. I did not find the bag I wanted in the closet. onto operation clean my bedside. Half a dozen titles to dust and one is clearly barely started. 2 are looking good- I can't remember last time I picked up a book.

a view of a patterned wingback chair with a pile of blue and white striped fabric on the left and an open closet on the right with open shelving.

a black and white cat on a wooden surface investigates a left corner while behind some empty shelves.

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honestly tho. way better than anything I could do individually or with a team.

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is that the hood of her ewok costume peaking out from under the blonde wig? The Mafia pasta thing? what the heck. He doesn't keep his "a" vowel consistent in the same sentence. At least it is ending. phew..

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it's the u's and the "er"s I think I just caught one of the lineless background vamps popping his 5c fangs like dentures.

I will just have to imagine I'm hella drunk. ...and wondering if this has a high school stage version...

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

umm. I don't think that I have gummies strong enough to make this wander into good. this guy and his accent, speech patterns. I am now wondering if the opening means we've been a flashback. thank goodness it's hella short.

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A little over a year back in an office has flown, but I struggle still with microwave friends. Unlike 15 years ago when connections were tied to children, now it seems to be aging parents. a link to a business insider first person about an article (not book) club share.google/ijQbldySBeAu...

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LoraT @ltimonin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I hope you took the day.

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sniff sniff. all the adults shall whine and the teen shall manage the house!

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verdict. Covid-easy peasy flu- ouchie. teen has decamped to retail establishments across the road.

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also whoo doggie can you imagine not having an appointment. sheesh. 30 min and counting and why is she on the phone and how long will we cause this pharmacy line to be.

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you always have to work on the weekend. :p

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and I titered my measles and it is intact. Meanwhile the teen mayn't have any vaccinations at drug store. Only peds Adult child may only have flu, their state coverage doesn't recognize Covid yet. Poor @bookreadingguy.bsky.social could have pneumonia today but we'll keep it 3-shingles plus

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