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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 09/01/2026

So... In my defense, I am waiting on unit tests to finish running. 😂 It's not quite right, but it was fun! 🎉🎨 (5 min pencil sketch of a White-Bellied Go Away Bird + Ring-tailed Lemur pseudo-gryphon, because... reasons.) ((Very very good reasons!)) (((I need to dig out my prismacolors...))) #art

5min Pencil sketch of a White-Bellied Go Away Bird and Ring-tailed Lemur pseudo-gryphon

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 06/01/2026

He dug many holes (bucketloader) and was a friendly doofus (buckethead). 😂 So his full name is: Sir Buckethead the Gallant He's a bit scary looking, so I named him something silly so when I introduced him to folks they'd laugh and relax. He's older but still a friendly doofus! 😂

A photo of Bucket, a tan American Bulldog/Lab (we guess) cross a few days after adoption from the pound. Estimated to be about 8mo old. (He's now 9+)

The current frosted snickerdoodle dog! (9+ years)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 05/01/2026

And this is why I am incapable of getting any -actual- writing done in a timely manner... sigh. Worldbuilding, gogogo! (Also, interclass Herbology lessons ftw!) ((The copper kettle was created in transfiguration))

Screenshot of a spreadsheet with a partial lesson plan for Potions, Year 1

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 04/01/2026

New year's resolution to get back on the treadmill and check off the guild-of-one achievements is a go! 1.5mph in 15 minute chunks means I'll get all my alts to 80 slooooowly but surely. (Did I forget that it's an Alli guild and level some of my Horde alts first by mistake? Why yes, yes I did. 🤦‍♀️)

Picture of a treadmill with a wall mounted computer monitor showing the World of Warcraft launcher and a spreadsheet.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 04/01/2026

The less fun side of a micro-micro-business is dealing with accounting procrastination. (In my defense, I sold almost nothing last year, but income is income.) ((Woo?)) So time to figure out the 2025 financials, onwards! (This old Camera Angles strip seems apropos... 🔥🤦‍♀️🔥)

A comic panel where a stick figure Author is fighting a stick figure Plot Dragon for control of the fuzzy little plot.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 04/01/2026

I -almost- have the next chapter of An Ode to Normal done and today's #WIPSnips lined up well with a silly convo from an earlier chapter! 😁 (And I am on team-Slinky, Spots is just species-ist)

A screenshot from a silly conversation in a Harry Potter fanfic that uses the word Home.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 04/01/2026

One of the projects that I wanted to work on this year was cleaning up (and properly backing up) my writing archives. To give you an example of this chaos, I have just shy of 600 fanfics (mostly drabbles) scattered about and unknown horde of non-fanfic that's even less organized.

Screenshot of a Google Doc showing my current fanfic list (incomplete)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 03/01/2026

I spent time drafting up daily/weekly/monthly planner pages for the new year... and have barely used them. 🤦‍♀️(sigh) Work still hasn't given me any assignments (everyone else is still on vaca), so time to plan out some of my own NestJs/React projects for next week. Progress-ish!

Photo of blank handmade dayplanner pages. One is for a review of what happened during the week and one is for planning out the goals of the next week.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 25/12/2025

I hope everyone is having a Merry Christmas if they celebrate and a lovely Thursday if they don't! ❤️🎄

Percy (Sir Edmund Percival Hillary) who is my Mom's young tabby cat sitting in an artificial Christmas tree, sans decorations... Because they cannot coexist with a kitten. 😂

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 27/11/2025

One chapter down, five to go! 🎉 Am I going to get it done before Monday? Possibly! Am I going to get it so close to done that I can finish it out in December? Much more likely! 😂 Also, AO3 only lets you save drafts for so long... so it'll get done by Tue 16 Dec 2025, come heck or high water!

Screenshot of a draft fanfic on Archive of Our Own (AO3)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 25/10/2025

We made it here a little before when we needed to open the doors and I had a chance to set up my table before we started checking people in. Half the fun of the craft fair is running the craft fair, but I do like trying to come up with booth layouts that don't look absolutely horrible. 🤣

A photo of a craft pair table with magnets, tiny books and ornaments.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 23/10/2025

Everything is packed up, the workbench is clear, time to head to NoVA for Mom's Craft Fair! Wooo! 😁🎨🎉

A photograph of an almost clean workbench. It is missing the giant pile of things I was working on for the craft fair.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/10/2025

I don't have too many striped #modelhorse wander the shelves, but I do have this little pair who has been in my gonna-finish-it-someday WiP herd for, err, literal decades now. 😅 I'm actually not even sure which body box they're in at this point. 🤔 #art #wip

A partially painted Breyer Stablemate G2 Arabian in a orange tiger pattern.

Partially painted Breyer G1 Standing Foal into an orange tiger pattern

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/10/2025

It looks like #NaNoWriMo lives again! 😁 I'm glad Chris Baty it once again stepping into things, brings back that kick of nostalgia! Now I just need to find a new place to get writerly t-shirts from. 🤔 nano2.org

A screenshot of the new NaNo 2.0 website (a replacement for NaNoWriMo)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/10/2025

Today's #modelhorse prompt may be a little less horse and a little more wild, but I figured October is a great time to play dress-up! 😁 Today's horse bookshelf scavenger hunt is for Things With Stripes! #horse #art #breyerhorses

Model Horse Prompt: Stripes

Search your shelves for zebras, zebroids (zorses, zonies, zedonks), brindles, primate duns, fantasy rainbows, if it’s an equine with stripes then post it here!

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 19/10/2025

Spend today lazily prepping for the craft fair next weekend. I was bundling everything else and finally gave into the urge to bundle the cat magnets into sets! 😂 (Magnets are a sturdy mixture of plaster and wood glue, recipe here: martha.net/2015/12/perf...)

Cartoonish cat head magnets made from plaster and wood glue painted in fantasy colors.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 17/10/2025

If you ever do, I'll happily donate some micro-fencing/bridges/whatever to the cause! 😂 (Tiny bits of wood I can do, tiny bits of leather, notsomuch)

Pewter 1:64 scale model horse drafter (by Maggie Bennett) with a wooden fence and a train grass base

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 14/10/2025

I love this dude a ridiculous amount! ❤️🐎 I actually only own two PAS (the other's a dapple grey), because they are a bit of a pain to fit into bookshelves. 😅 They are just a little too tall and a little too long... so I collected a lot more smaller scale arabians instead. #modelhorse

Bay Breyer Traditional Proud Arabian Stallion from the Arabian Horses of the World Set, 1991-1992 Sears Holiday Catalog (4,350 made).

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 14/10/2025

Another throwback #modelhorse prompt for the day-- show me your bays! 😁 (Because I want an excuse to post my old PAS because the new Breyer anniversary PAS is making me want stablemate scale versions SO BAD. 😭)

Model horse prompt: Bay

Post a photo of any variation of bay! Dark, red, blood, splash overos, appaloosas, fantasy blue-bay– show us what you’ve got (or wish you had!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 11/10/2025

The tiny bags are in and now it's time to start assembling the craft fair mystery hauls! 😂 (To be fair, the tiny books won't be random) Will this work? Who knows! But at least I have fun making them... 🎨

A screenshot of labels-in-progress for the craft fair bags.

A photo of tiny books of writing prompts and the bags for the craft fair.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 09/10/2025

A #modelhorse prompt that I meant to post earlier in the week! 😅 More of a 'feeling' than a color prompt, it's time to get a little creative! Which of your model horse herd reminds you the most of the season? Halloween horses, shaggy winter-coated ponies, maple-leaf decorators, trot 'em all out! 😁

Model horse prompt: Fall/Autumn

Take a gander at your bookshelf herds and pick the model horse that most reminds you of fall!

(Halloween horses, zombies, or just a pumpkin pie colored pony all count!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 07/10/2025

I went searching my shelves for this #modelhorse prompt... and oddly enough the I didn't find any roans (other than the CWPs and pulling them out of the conga is a pain). So here's my old custom Breyer Stablemates in fantasy roans! I wonder if I have any roans in the body box, I should check... 🤔

Customized Breyer Stablemate G2 Saddlebred into a a literal blue roan tovero with purple ribbons.

Customized Breyer Stablemate G2 Saddlebred into a copper roan with minimal sabino markings and red ribbons.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 06/10/2025

#modelhorse scavenger hunt prompt, AWAY! Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.! If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂) #breyerhorse #horseart #modelhorses

Model Horse Prompt: Roans

Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.!

If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 02/10/2025

The tiny plastic ponies have arrived! 😁🎉🐎 ...Now to think of fun colors to paint them... eventually. 😅 #modelhorses #breyerhorses #TooManyPoniesToPaintAndTooLittleTime

Breyer stablemate scale model horses from the Deluxe Horse Collection.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 30/09/2025

The other horse I wanted to share for today's #modelhorse prompt was this appaloosa (that I also don't own) that I absolutely LOVE but I can't find a good studio link! 😭 It's a Thoroughbred Mare sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw. www.equineresindirectory.com/showhorse.as...

A bay appaloosa traditional scale (1:9) model horse. This is the Thoroughbred Mare artist resin sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 30/09/2025

For a silly response to this #modelhorse prompt: these are not models I own, but taking a time machine back to 1990's Breyer... (thanks to Identify Your Breyer!!) this is what we used to have as options! Polkadots! 😂

Breyer classic scale Black Beauty, model #705498 Classic Appaloosa 3-Piece Set from 1998

Breyer traditional scale Morganglanz, model #700893 Appaloosa Sport Horse and Canongate Saddle Set from 1993

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 30/09/2025

It's a bit of a grey overcast day here, so let's brighten up folk's stream with LOTSA SPOTS! 😁 Today's #modelhorse prompt covers all versions of appys from few spots to leopards appaloosas and all the dotty goodness in-between (even no-spots, I suppose, if you -must- 😂)! Show me your ponies!! 🎉🐎🎨

Model Horse Prompt: Appaloosa

Post a photo of any variation of appaloosa! From blankets to leopards, snowcaps to roans – show us what you’ve got (or wish you had!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 28/09/2025

I decided it was well past time to embrace the 'least viable option' and reset the terrain tiles to simple colors for the alpha. I kept tweaking the pixel art again and again... instead of getting the game playable! 😅 Good note, everything's working again and I'm back to balance testing! 🥂 #gamedev

Very rough alpha of a title screen for a computer game I am creating.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 28/09/2025

My pick for this #modelhorse prompt was... Breyer's traditional scale Marguerite Henry's Stormy! 😁❤️ I've had this model (and Misty) ever since the mid-80's and read Misty of Chincoteague until the book poor almost gave up the ghost. 😂 T'was one of the first horse books I read and a fond favorite!

A Breyer Traditional Scale model horse, Marguerite Henry's Stormy.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 27/09/2025

Today's #modelhorse prompt is all about the younglings! 😁 I was looking over the shelves trying to think up a good scavenger hunt idea and saw a classic quarter horse foal poking it's nose out... so baby horses it is! 😂🐎

Model Horse Prompt: Fun-Sized!

Most model horses are adults, but there are quite a few foals and fillies out there. Check out your shelf daycares and share one of the younger crowd!

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 27/09/2025

I finally got the Saturday Story Prompt archives looking good! The newer images are less colorful than the old ones... but the old ones took forever. 😅 I really should start these up again. 🤔 #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity 3500+ prompts in the archive! martha.net/category/wri...

Screenshot of the redesigned Saturday Story Prompt archive page.

Screenshot earlier more colorful Saturday Story Prompts.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 25/09/2025

I had to go digging to find a chestnut (I have SO many bays! 😂). This is the Breyer traditional scale Dream Weaver (model #833 from 1991) on the Black Beauty mold... who has spent several decades causing shelf avalanche events with his conga line herdmates. (The Running Stallion aids and abets!)🤦‍♀️

Breyer Traditional scale Dream Weaver model horse. Model #833 from 1991, he is a chestnut on the Black Beauty mold.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 25/09/2025

It's that kinda week, so for today's #modelhorse prompt I figured I'd dip back into the basics! 🐎 Time to scour your shelves for the most basic of horse colors (aka 'brown')... hopefully this one will be an easy scavenger hunt! 😁 (I have so many bays, this may take me a min! 😂)

Model Horse Prompt: Chestnut

Post a photo of any variation of chestnut! Liver, flaxen, red, tobianos, blanket appys-- show us what you’ve got (or wish you had!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 23/09/2025

I very rarely buy model horses at the moment (as I am trying to use up my -existing- body box first) but Breyer's Deluxe Horse Collection stablemate set has a whole bunch of molds that I haven't customized yet... and it gives me Gollum feelings! 😂 www.breyerhorses.com/collections/...

Breyer's Stablemate scale Deluxe Horse Collection (eight model horses on a beach)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 23/09/2025

I normally sell handmade magnets and tiny #handbound books of Saturday Story Prompts at the #craftfair that my Mom runs in October... but this year I'm pondering trying something new. 🤔 I have no idea what that something -is- and Oct 25 is not that far away... so it feels a little like NaNoWriMo. 😂

My workbench with various tiny handmade books of writing prompts.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 23/09/2025

Today's #modelhorse prompt is all about the future! What's in the cards for your herds? Is your fortune crystal clear or do you have a foggier future? 🤔

Model Horse Prompt: In The Cart

Have a model you’re saving up for? Or waiting on a release? Or on the hunt to find? What’s next for your herd?

Or do you add new horses to your herds spontaneously?

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 23/09/2025

I keep thinking I'm -almost- ready for the post of an alpha... and then I ended up adding something new! 🤦‍♀️ Right now I'm pausing to add in the ability to choose buffs for a dream (independent of relics)... At least the framework is all there so I don't have to add much! 😅 #gamedev

Screenshot from a work-in-progress computer game.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/09/2025

Because I stumbled upon it looking for something else... BEHOLD! My really really old (and really really silly) Imaginary Gate Team 5 (aka Stargate Atlantis) fanfic-ish! I have no idea if this will be legible here, so here's the link to larger images: martha.net/2016/03/amys... #fanfic

A badly drawn stick figure comic drawn on lined paper depicting the first page of a Stargate Atlantis fanfic (Imaginary Gate Team 5 are all OC's)

A badly drawn stick figure comic drawn on lined paper depicting the second page of a Stargate Atlantis fanfic (Imaginary Gate Team 5 are all OC's)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/09/2025

I grabbed the first buckskin I saw on the shelves, which turned out to be the Breyer Stablemate G2 Quarter Horse from the Mudslinger Collectibulls Play Set (2005-6)... only I don't remember ever buying that one? 😖 Best guess is he came from a body-lot auction from eBay. Mystery horse! 🤔 #modelhorse

Photo of a buckskin Breyer Stablemate Quarterhorse (G2) and a Beasts of the Mesozoic Zuniceratops christopheri

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 21/09/2025

Today's #modelhorse prompt is all about the not-quite-bays! 😁 Take a gander at your shelves (or your wishlists!) and share one of your dark-pointed ponies! 🐎

Model Horse Prompt: Buckskin or Dun

From grullas to claybacks and zebras, sooty to buttermilks– Post a photo of any variation of buckskin or dun!

Show us what you’ve got (or wish you had!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 20/09/2025

I went to do this prompt thinking that the Breyer Brighty was the second in line, but it was technically the Breyer Classic Swaps! 😂 (You can just see his ears behind Brighty.) #254 Hawk (1991-1992) and #1295 Brighty (I think?) ...I may need to get more bookshelves. 😅 🐎🐎🐎

Another shelf on the bookshelf crowded with model horses.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 20/09/2025

Time to start up the #modelhorse prompts again! 😁 A fun one to start with, sort of a riff on the 'take the book to your right and turn to page 50, line 10'. 😂 Older prompts are also fair game (see martha.net/2025/03/mode...) so feel free to respond to an old one instead! 🐎

Model Horse Prompt: Second Horse on the Left...

…and straight on ‘till morning!
Post a photo of the second horse on your shelf/bookcase/desk/etc! (If your horses aren’t currently in a line, feel free to reorganized them!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 15/09/2025

I'm gearing up to start #modelhorse prompts again, but figured I'd post random models in the meantime! 😁 This poor fella is the Breyer Classic Silky Sullivan (#603 released 1975-90). I stepped on him as a kid and his broken neck and head were poorly repaired with super glue. 😅 I love him anyways!

Breyer Classic scale (1:12) Silky Sullivan model horse. Based off the Maureen Love sculpture for Hagen-Renaker. This is #603 in the original chestnut, released 1975-1990.

This model was stepped on and has a broken neck and head that has been improperly repaired with super glue.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 14/09/2025

The room itself still needs more cleaning but the workbench is now ready for a new project! 😁 Mom's craft fair is at the end of October, so time to start prepping inventory for that... Magnets, ornaments, and tiny books gogogo! 🤔 unitedchristianparishartandcraftfair.com

My completely clear artist workbench (aka Ikea table) after being scrubbed down after the last order. Ready for a new project!

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 13/09/2025

Dooooooone! 🎉 Final approval photographs are all done, now I just need to get approval and the #modelhorse fences (and bridge) can finally get in the mail! Woo! 😁 This order has taken forever, but was a lot of fun! 🎨

Custom traditional scale (1:9) model horse model horse modular fence and bridge order. There are white three-rail fences, stained four-rail fence, attachable supports to help doll placement, and a weathered wood bridge. All made by me over the course of a month.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 13/09/2025

The fun things about hobby game design is figuring out -why- I love the games I do (since I'm writing something for myself). The game I'm working on is pseudo-incremental, so I'm spending a time playing indies and thinking about the Whys and Hows... and taking notes for SCIENCE! (not really 😂)

Screenshot from the current wip of Wandering Empires which is a weird combination of kingdom builder, incremental, and rouguelike.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 11/09/2025

Sagebrush's lovely little faux-fox inspired me to go digging through my archives for a bit of whimsy to post too! Mine is just a tiny Safari Ltd. TOOB pony, but she's still Whimsical! 😂 #modelhorse #art

Andromeda is a custom painted (by me) TOOB Standing Pony with a black base, metallic rainbow starburst and the glossiest of glosses! #modelhorse #art

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 11/09/2025

The massive #modelhorse props order is complete! 🎉 (Well, there is still a small bit of tweaking to do to the white fences, but 99% complete!)

Large collection of white and stained modular Traditional scale (1:9) model horse fencing (and a bridge!)

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 06/09/2025

To be fair Bucket -did- give it the old college try earlier in the day...

Large tan dog (aka Bucket) with his head in a cat bed.

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Martha Bechtel @martha.net · 06/09/2025

Apparently this is how one appropriately uses a cat bed. 😂🤦‍♀️

A large tan dog (aka Bucket) and a black and white tuxedo cat (aka Taft) demonstrate the correct usage of a cat bed.

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