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In Everett because we wanted to check out the viral Alidas Bakery (excellent, and in a great food strip mall), got some Korean fried chicken and picnicked by the water and it's all I want for a peaceful weekend Also lookit the Virginia V steamboat toot by

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The funniest part of that whole clip is the absolute befuddlement that anyone would go to an Atlanta Hawks game and because I also forgot that they had an NBA team.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway she's baked, she's singing I'm going to bed.

A crusty small loaf of sourdough in its little sourdough sling

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just baking bread at 11 pm

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is gloriously Fall right now in the PNW which means either oh god it's raining and will never stop or holy shit the gods of pumpkin spice have bestowed us with light sweater weather and pockets of red leaves among the evergreens

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything Bagel Seasoning is western furikake

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No one should have let me out of the woods because I cannot interact well with people in the wild.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Like I already have problems telling human and dog treats apart and now the Girl Scouts have announced a dog cookie for next year

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Introducing mom to the phrase "trash panda" as a nickname for raccoons is almost as delightful as introducing her to the entire concept of a possum

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Went to the older kid's middle school. Her history teacher is delightfully unhinged which bodes well

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's something specifically overwhelming about Fred Meyers that make me physically ill every time I'm in there for more than half an hour

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dahlias are the Muppets of flowers

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One day I'll get used to looking out the window and seeing a bear. But it's still not that day.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme was so good and John Cena delivered the Looney Toon equivalent of Tim Curry's performance in Muppet Treasure Island

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I saw a family bringing two Instant Pots full of something delicious to a park potluck and it's a Next Level Auntie move I can only aspire to

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Im gonna tell tourists to skip the Argosy cruises and just take a dang ferry to and from one of the islands because dang what a nice way to travel

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't know how to keep calendars organized for two kids, mom, my work, home and pta life.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our kid's middle school stocks their bathrooms with menstrual supplies. Kiddo still has a prep bag but it's just really nice to know the staff has that level of thought and compassion

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm on my cottage cheese kick that happens every few years where I remember cottage cheese exists, eat it incessantly for two weeks, think about the texture too hard, and then stop eating it until the cycle resets

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are so many times I have to make sure something is human food and not a dog treat

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What if rucking but because your middle schooler's backpack is bigger than they are and it's a mile walk home

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why is my child Murdle years old

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Middle age pre-gaming is all of us standing around a table applying sunscreen before going out

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As I was doing a check of the garden while eating sourdough, I realized that I'm someone else's ancestor's wildest nightmare

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tbh there's something soothingly familiar to this

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I will never get tired of our kids interrogating well meaning nature volunteers. They're polite but insistent

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I'm learning knit colorwork and I finally got to do the thing where I knit one color continental and the other color English and it feels like cheating

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The 11 year old is at the perfect point of interests to make A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking a good family audio book

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Kid just handed me mystery candy they she said she found on the floor of the playroom and did I eat the floor candy? I sure did

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Like I clowned on Taco Time a little when I moved back to Washington but if I don't think of it as anything but it's own little genre of food, it's actually still pretty great. I don't know why a king ranch chicken flauta and tater tots hits just right sometimes but it does.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a genuinely sweet game that my kids and I loved playing together. At less than $4, you can't go wrong

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The sandwich Gen effect of your instagram algorithm being about child rearing and elder support and a splash of screaming

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Another year of buying school supplies and another year of thinking "gosh wouldn't this be simpler and cheaper as a classroom bulk order that teachers didn't have to pay for out of their pockets almost like a collective effort across a community gosh what could that be"

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Foam earplugs at movie theaters are so helpful.

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The trouble with being the kid that hyper focused into chemistry and didn't touch it for twenty years is that you still remember that sodium bicarbonate decomposes at higher temperatures into a sodium carbonate and now you're baking baking soda to make more pretzely pretzels

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I just yelled at our kid (who was climbing something she did not need to be climbing) "DON'T BE THE REASON THEY PUT UP A SIGN"

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was telling the kid about The Parent Trap and they want to watch it. I asked if they want to see the old one or the new one and then found out the "new" one is almost 30 years old

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ever since mom started realizing that sourdough is tasty and relatively inexpensive to make (well minus time and a growing array of accessories), she has started to see it as a new source of currency

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I just threw some leftover schezuan on top of tortellini. I call it Mapo Polo

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This weekend we learned that the little dramatic hop that springboks do is called "pronking"

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My favorite way to hang out with friends in town is still to go run a totally mundane errand with them. Grocery run. Car wash. Random park with the kids. No pressure just a little company in the normal day to day

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's loaf is an exercise in higher hydration and extra steam time. The crust is singing Child is getting more creative in her slashes

A loaf of sourdough on a dark green granite counterop. You can see my foot

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Part of my morning routine now is logging into mom's email and marking off all the spam and scams

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today's loaf. An experiment in skipping cold proofing. It's great and a little more sour. Also adding a second steam after the initial bounce. Resulted in a baguette-texture of crust which was super nice I let the kid cut the ear today and I am so brave

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Emily @mildlyreal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a queso in a baked potato kind of day

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