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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had to print it out a little. Snow is accumulating. As soon as I clean up, I’m putting my kicking it pants on and making tea. ❄️

A letterpress print that states, Snow. I am not ready.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In exchange for dog watching, I’ve been paid in takeout from the Korean place in the bowling alley in Fairbanks. Even straight out of the container, having ridden 4.5 hours in the back of a pickup, it is delicious. I can’t wait to get this heated up and in my belly 🤤

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Muskrats have the most frightening nails

A photograph of two muskrats out of the water. One is looking directly at the camera and has long nails

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did the swans wake me up at 4 am or was I already awake? Don’t know. Looked out the window but didn’t see them. Stars were reflecting in the pond. It was beautiful. I fell back asleep easily 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just installed a wifi Toyo in the bath house and I’m so excited about it. I really, really, really wish I could have this in the outhouse too.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trying to wait patiently for the clouds and fog to lift so I can see how far down the mountains the snow has come. If there’s any on Willow Mountain (~3200 feet, we’re at about 1235), winter is at the doorstep.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Neighbors and friends are starting to leave for the season. I’ll miss them but am looking forward to winter peace and calm 💙

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My favorite Alaska purchase so far has been the log splitter. Its name is Helen, and together she and I plow mightily through whatever bucked up wood my husband throws our way. I love the big wood. I love the small wood. I love whatever wood she helps me split 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hubs still receives calls on an ad he placed on Alaska’s List many, many years ago and can’t remove/have removed. I laugh a little every time someone calls about the dog he posted way back when, but I’m also irritated. I guess AL used to be useful, but I would never, ever, ever buy or sell from it.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes a happy little moon waxing towards full is all I need (it was last night) 💕

Moon rising over the Chugach Range near Kenny Lake, Alaska

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When the swans took off yesterday afternoon, one banked left while the other continued straight. The one that went straight soon turned to follow the other over towards Willow Lake and the Richardson 💕

A photograph of a trumpeter swan in flight near Kenny Lake, Alaska

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The sheer joy of finding a pair of jeans that comfortably fits cannot be overstated. I’d been elastic-waistband-only since before covid, but I’m now the proud owner of two (two!) pairs of jeans I could wear and wear and wear. Hallelujah 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The drive thru at the Palmer McDonald’s was a worthy stop yesterday 💕

A photo of a Hello Kitty x Godzilla figurine

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I thought yesterday’s drive to Valdez was spectacular, but today’s journey to Palmer was height saturated color symphony. Coming through Eureka was especially beautiful, mostly making having to come in just for roofing screws tolerable 🧡

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Earthquake? Sometimes it’s like that 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Drove down to Valdez to check out the Rarified Light photography exhibit at the museum. The drive was so beautiful, I mean, it always is but the fall colors put on such a good show…such a good show. I love this time of year 💛

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not sure why it’s taken me so long to realize I can make okonomiyaki with Krusteaz pancake mix, but the light bulb went off today and I did it and it was delicious 🇯🇵💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yesterday for the drive home we really could have done with a Dairy Queen malt, but since the DQ in Palmer is closed we hit the McDonald’s drive thru instead. I was so delighted to see posters for their Hello Kitty x Godzilla Happy Meal toys that my husband bought me a toy to go with my sundae 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s almost jacket-in-the-outhouse weather. Sigh. The tomatoes aren’t super happy this morning and my peppers are too tiny to pick yet. I did, however, see the nighttime moon for the first time in months. I suppose I’ll be able to see stars soon 🥶✨💕 (there needs to be an aurora emoji)

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know I’m loved by my BFF when she sends me home with enough cabbage, cauliflower, and cucumbers to last me all week (she knows I’m still trying to figure out gardening and she, as always, is more than generous with what comes out of her garden) 💚

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If I can help it, I will probably never fly United again (super bad experience at SFO a few years ago). However, I appreciate the free birthday upgrade offer to Economy Plus they emailed me to use for travel anytime next month. Companies getting on the birthday train is nice to see 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today’s print was going to be a congratulatory note for my sister, but after I printed the corners, I heard the news and switched tack. I might do another layer, I might not. Dolly, you will be missed.

A letterpress print that simply states, Dolly

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Making the kind of dinner tonight in which the vegetable is tater tot :)

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh how I love the trumpeter swans. I happened to have my camera out while I was drinking coffee this morning, and good thing too (Kenny Lake, Alaska) 💕 #alaskasky

Two trumpeter swans in flight near Kenny Lake, Alaska

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A silver quarter amongst the regular quarters in a roll makes having to go to the laundromat tolerable. At least this time 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The dog we’re sitting has the best post-pooping zoomies and it makes me wonder if we all shouldn’t try doing that 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My 77-year-old neighbor has to do a turn-and-burn to Anchorage today because hotel rooms are too expensive this time of year. It’s a problem for all of us, especially when medical stuff requires overnight stays. She’s going to have to do 9+ hours of driving on top of the things she needs to get done

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yeah… Sofra is a definite stop in Anchorage. Overfed myself with a serpme kahvaltı and, ohmeohmy, it was so delicious and I have no room for mochi donuts 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The ladies of Kenny Lake (some of us) are going on a Spa Jong weekend to Alyeska (spa + mah jong 🤣). The body-in-a-swimsuit gripes have started and it just makes me want to scream at everyone, YOUR BODIES ARE BEAUTIFUL! Our bodies are beautiful, and I refuse to see it differently 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The one thing I miss about being off the other social media sites is the reels/pics/blips my BFF sent me daily. She must miss it too because she’s started to screenshot stuff and text it to me 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Taught hubby how to use an old strainer to make a rudimentary pinhole camera to view the eclipse 💕

A man holds an aluminum strainer to cast a shadow on a piece of paper as a method of viewing the partial eclipse from Alaska

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Husband is snoring beside me. Dog is snoring downstairs. I just looked outside and birds are snoozing on the pond. I’m ready for coffee but also am enjoying the sounds of others sleeping 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Going through some totes to weed out stuff and found this pic, the border crossing into Hyder, Alaska, circa November 1978. Pretty sure the dog on the right is Baranof 💕

A November 1978 photograph of the border crossing into Hyder, Alaska, with two dogs in the foreground.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The flight feathers must have regrown (and grown on the cygnets) because the swans are back! 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Valdez ladies’ fishing derby is today…. I’m not much of a fisher, but dagnabbit, I’m determined to catch myself a winner. Or at least have a lot of fun today out on the water with the girls 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A flower for Friday because 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Since 2019, I’ve done a near yearly photographic series on the flowers in my yard. I went out and photographed a little this morning. Flowers make me damned happy, flowers in Alaska especially so 💕 This year’s series so far can be viewed here: www.bluemashstudio.com/photography/...

A photograph of a blooming poppy in Alaska

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fun geography trivia from @civixplorer: Alaska is closer to three foreign capitals than to Washington DC.

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Laundry day. I hate laundry day this time of year because I never know if there will be enough washers or dryers available (more visitors/tourists/summer people around who also need clean clothes and laundromat isn’t so big). I really like washed sheets, though, so today I go and wait if necessary 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So.much.sun these past few days. My petunias seem to hate it. Peppers are finally flowering. And the beets that were totally munched down by rabbits are showing a teeny bit of new leaf life. Hubs has been working on a new deck/mount for the solar panels and I now have the faintest of sock tan lines💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hubs reminded me that there’s a BTO-at-the-state-fair episode of The Simpsons and we laughed. Now we want to search for all the 2026 acts that have been in episodes 😁

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If the best news I get today is that the BFF is finished with her colonoscopy and has no polyps, that in itself is worth a day of happy dancing 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today, while waiting for the fruit truck to arrive, I stood in a roadside pullout and spoke to strangers about the difference between ballot measures 1 & 2, and talked somewhat in-depth about the three different items BM2 contains. I guess it’s not so widely known that BM2 isn’t just about RCV

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’ve never been to Seattle as a tourist but hubs wants to go so we can visit places important to each of us: locks, Mt Pleasant Cemetary, Ivar’s in Bothell…. things like that. I’ve never had to do the hotel thing there, so I’m curious if anyone has stayed anywhere in the Seattle area they’ve loved?

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A Saturday night surrounded by friends, laughter, and a bounty of delicious food is such a blessing. I need a community to hold me in place and help me flourish here; I have found that in folk who are weird and wonderful and full of curiosity and joy. Yay for Kenny Lake, Alaska 💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The sun is out. There’s no wind. I may or may not be laying down outside on a cot exposing more skin than I’ve ever exposed in public. The warmth of the sun feels sooooo good. A few planes are now overhead so I’m flipped over and covering up…. kinda

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Friday night = me in ear protection, my neighbor cupping his hands to his ears, and my husband disappearing into a couch all while eating a curried moose stew and listening to a mix that included Eric Johnson, Motörhead, Vio-lence, Saxon, Peter Gabriel, Flotsam and Jetsam, and Frank Marino 🎸💕

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Kirsten Lawrence @mashinter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Logged out and deleted Meta apps from phone. Feels like a big decision because so many in my social circle use Messenger. Tired of ads/sponsored content/toxicity, though. But also, I don’t want group texts on my phone, so I’ll have to see how it goes 💕

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