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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Found in my crafting stash today: Three gallon ziplock bags of MILKWEED FLUFF. Was I planning to use it for pillow stuffing or something? And where did I get it from?? What would you do with it?

Close up of milkweed fluff. Theres a seed stuck in the fluff.

Ziplock bags full of milkweed fluff on an oak table.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

And here are pics of the inside of the rustic one (plus my kid!)

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I don’t have much of the modern one (Thompson Peak), but I’ll see if I can upload the video I took.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I stayed at two very different fire lookout towers this month. One somewhat modern and one far more rustic. I enjoyed both! And grateful to the USFS for maintaining these old structures as unique rentals for the public.

A modern-ish fire lookout tower with large communications and cell towers next to it.

A rustic fire lookout tower, which is essentially a small cabin at the top of a 41 ft wooden scaffolding. Several flights of steep stairs lead up to the cabin.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

That’s gorgeous! I’m in western Montana, USA, and colors were very clear with the naked eye.

Green and red colors of the northern lights.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Missoula area friends, GET OUTSIDE NOW AND LOOK AT THE NORTHERN LIGHTS!!

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I have been told that the Salish name for the Bitterroots means “Red Mountains”. True or not, it’s an apt name.

Bitterroot Mountains framed by pines and Douglas firs. The mountains are glowing red in the morning light.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I saw hundreds of them yesterday near Kootenai Creek! It seems it’s an irruptive year for this species.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Saw hundreds of freshly emerged California Tortoiseshell butterflies today at a friend’s place. It’s been an irruptive year for them!

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Or rather, a robber fly (Laphria sp.) that looks like a bumble bee.

A bumble-bee-mimicking robber fly (Laphria sp.) on a snowberry leaf.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Omg you guys, I spent a few days in the Missouri River Breaks (amazing, highly recommend) and we found a SCORPION!!! I’ve never even heard of them here in MT! #MTSky #MontSky

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Last week I was in a remote part of northern Montana and saw the most glorious intact shortgrass prairie. Blooming with carpets of prairie smoke and pussytoes, wildflowers everywhere, shimmering with butterflies. I kinda lost my shit a little - is this what the world looked like when it was new??

Intact shortgrass prairie with the Sweetgrass Hills in the distance.

A view from this beautiful remote site in northern MT

Prairie smoke (Geum triflorum). There were carpets of them at this site.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Amazing turnout today at the Hands Off Rally in Missoula, MT!

View of rally-goers. One amusing sign reads “And you probably thought Idiocracy was satire”.

More views of the rally goers. There are thousands of people here today.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

What an amazing turnout for Missoula’s Rally For Public Lands!!

Selfie of us at the Rally for Public Lands

Rally goers on Beartracks Bridge - view towards downtown Missoula.

Rally goers on Beartracks Bridge - view towards the south.

A protest sign showing Donald Trump‘s face, but with a H1tler mustache and swast!ka and the word NOPE at the bottom.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Okay here’s what I came up with:

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Princess Bride is one of our family’s favorite movies. It’s also a lovely, family-friendly, resistance movie. If you haven’t seen it, you should! #resistance #PrincessBride #YouKilledMyFatherPrepareToDie

Still shot of the marriage scene in the movie, The Princess Bride.

Still shot from the Princess Bride of Inigo Montoya where he confronts the six-fingered man and says, “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Hell yeah.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Theoretically we could look up all the parts we’d need to maintain this rig. When military trucks were converted for civilian use, the canvas cab tops were replaced with fiberglass and the truck was painted. Ours is orange. Maybe it was yellow before that? Original color is olive drab, of course.

A list of the publications and manuals for this truck are posted inside the cab.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Check out the gas tank fill. It has this sleeve in it that you can pull out to make it easier to fill with a carboy.

The gas tank has a metal sleeve inside that can be pulled out to facilitate pouring gas from a carboy. Kid is demonstrating it here.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Here’s the front. Kid is requiring the headlights. Check out the marker lights and hooded blackout lights on the front. This is a retired military truck, btw.

The front of the 1954 Dodge powerwagon. The hood is up and my kid is working on the passenger side headlight.

Similar image of the front of the truck.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The interior is rough, but check it out:

The interior of a 1954 Dodge power wagon. It is in rough shape and the driver seat, which was taken from a jeep Willys, is duct taped, and tarp with a black tarp. Nearly all the switches and controls are original as well as the steering wheel. Check out the cool old defroster which doesn’t have a connecting hose right now.

Image of the very rough interior of a 1954 Dodge power wagon M 37.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My kid is fixing up our 1954 Dodge PowerWagon M37. My husband bought it for $600 and we’ve had it for nearly 30 years. It has been a good utility rig at our place in the mountains. I thought I’d share some photos of this cool old truck. #MontanaSky #Dodge #M37

These are some of the specs of the truck that are posted on the passenger side of the dashboard of our 1954 Dodge power wagon.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post something really green. A field of Wyethia at Red Rock Pass in Montana this past summer. 🌿 #MTsky

A field of blooming Wyethia, a wildflower, at Red Rock Pass in Montana.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The tree is up! I love decorating it with my children, though I often get a little emotional. Each ornament was a gift or was handmade. It’s like a record of our family’s life together, and of all the past Christmases. Anyway, hold your loved ones close and enjoy the time together! 🎄❤️🎄

A lit and decorated Christmas tree is standing in the corner of a room. There are windows behind it where you can see conifer trees covered in snow.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My carrion flower plant (Stapelia sp.) bloomed for the first time ever today!!

A carrion-flower plant blooming in a window.

Another photo of the carrion flower plant. It has opened a little more. It is a large, pale yellow, 5-petaled flower with small red lines throughout. It smells disgusting. Truly like crap.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

One of my kids once called this area of town, “Ancient Missoula” and I will always think of it that way.

A photo of the Ceretana building in Missoula, a defunct grain elevator now converted to offices and artist studios. There are the remains of the Bitterroot Line train tracks in the foreground. The sky is cloudy and lit up orange in places because the sun is setting behind me.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Look what I found earlier this week!

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #643,907!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #643,907, Marirose Kuhlman ‪@mkinmt.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 19, 2023"

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Yesterday, I saw the first butterfly of the year - a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell! Today I saw bitterroot rosettes. It’s really spring!

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

We’ve had some dry El Niño winters in the nearly 30 years I’ve lived here, but I can’t remember one where we had almost no snow AT ALL this late into December.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Earlier this December, when I did a cartwheel for the first time in at least 25 years, maybe more. As you can see, I was elated! Here’s to a 2024 with at least a few cartwheels from me!!

A woman (me) standing in the grass of a park with arms stretched up to the sky. It is winter but there is no snow on the ground. A fenced in tennis court is in the background.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I can’t get enough of this place - I’ve visited several time already and it just opened! We are so so fortunate to have a butterfly house and insectarium in our community. Many folks worked hard for years to make this happen!

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

Drop something blue from your gallery.

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Marirose Kuhlman @mkinmt.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Gorgeous spider alert! Check out this beautiful garden orb weaver spider (Argiope sp.) I found when I was out collecting knapweed biocontrol weevils for work this week!! Her much much smaller mate is in the first pic, a over her to the right.

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