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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 13h

4 degrees above freezing here this morning: the steel cut oatmeal season has commenced!

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 14h

“ I began a Stockin for my Self” Everyday #DressHistory

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am patiently waiting for Auroch 2.0 myself

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“I have been mending my own Cloths” Everyday #DressHistory

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Thankless household task #1,438 - rescreening windows. All 13 frames finished this afternoon!

An aluminum screen window frame rests on a wood workbench along with scissors, a splining tool and a utility knife. The new screen has been fitted into the frame, ready for the final step of trimming the screen

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My semi caffeinated brain decided to replace “hunting” with “haunting” and now I’m gonna dream about ghost Irish elk like any normal person would.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That is certainly very…polychrome

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

😆😆😆 in real life crosswords, I struggle with anything to do with sports, obsolete currencies, and the names of Eastern European rivers

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A fine Saturday morning with little fog, a little drizzle, and a varied thrush calling. They are great fans of the huckleberry bushes in my yard.

merlinbirds.org

Check out this bird - Varied Thrush

Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This right here is peak cat helpfulness.

A large gray cat has assumed the classic cat loaf position on the recto side of large Moleskine notebook. He faces away from the writer, on the theory that I can't see him there if he can't see me. Fortunately, I'm writing on the verso side of the previous page right now.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/10/2026

‘October’s “bright blue weather”, A good time to read’ Albert M. Bender, 1936-40 www.loc.gov/item/98509532/

october
bright blue weather
a good time to read
a person reading a book, with ghosts and a haunted house and a detective as part of the tableau

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The big dance numbers will be spectacular!

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For all the knitters. I knit a gansey many years ago and still wear it for chilly days at the coast. If you’re up for a big knitting project, consider a gansey. #DressHistory 🧶

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“No dear, bunnies are the next barn over. Be sure to give my love to the Flemish Giants - so cheeky!”

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Welcome to the poultry barn! Is this your first time here? Turkeys on the right. The blue slates are absolutely gorgeous this year.” “Hello hello. Don’t miss the doves, all the way down on the left, poor dears, feeling a bit neglected I think.”

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminds me of an elegant gray goose I saw at the state fair poultry barn many years ago. From its cage near the entrance it kept up a steady murmur of greetings and directions “Oh hello hello hello. Love your shoes. Fancy chickens down the aisle on the left”

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briancentrone.bsky.social @briancentrone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"There was power in a properly made suit." Set in a quiet tailoring shop on the edges of Germantown, C.D. Phillip's "Windowpane Check" tells the moving story of Saul, a thin, awkward teenager living with scoliosis. 1/6

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When you’re ready for it, this is a recipe I use a lot. I make it without the spinach, freeze it in 1 pint containers, then add the spinach (fresh or frozen) when I reheat it.

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Ras el Hanout Chickpea and Spinach Stew (Published 2025)

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Bloomsbury News & Events @bloomsburynews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Have you ever heard of nalbinding? Sally Pointer is an experimental archaeologist and heritage educator specialising in traditional craft skills. Find out how she was first introduced to nalbinding and the difference compared to knitting. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

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Nalbinding patterns, techniques and tools | Sally Pointer on Nalbinding

Sally Pointer's guide, Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting, contains modern-day designs, teaching how to use various nalbinding techniques and stitches.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That is just the weirdest headline

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The chicest art on paper I ever worked with, this costume remains in my head as my dream fancy-dress outfit for a belle époque party. Hand-coloured pochoir plate by Fabius, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1914 (Chester Beatty Library, Dublin)

A fashion illustration of a very chic young woman dressed in a stylish harlequin outfit with diamond patterned skirt, tight black jacket with flouncy white cuffs and collar, black eyemask

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You deserve a postcard.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What fictional character said something along the lines of “Can novel reading and Sunday travel be far behind?” when confronted with a situation outside the norms of the period. I think it’s a great line but it falls entirely flat in this day and age 📚

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the afternoon we went to the plague village.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Best of luck to you on your Gavilyte-with-white-grape-juice-chasers day

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Our Bandit, who art in Dumpster “

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Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 04/10/2026

The Heritage Apple Corps have found trees in central Oregon that are genetic matches for some of the rare "lost" apple varieties we find in the islands. With more sampling, both here and there, we hope to be able to properly identify these varieties and bring them back into production.

centraloregondaily.com

These 130-year-old Central Oregon pioneer apple trees are still bearing fruit

Apple trees planted by Central Oregon's first homesteaders 130 years ago are still producing fruit, and some varieties are so rare that DNA tests came back as unique.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Those “missing” stones at henges? Yeah, they wandered a bit in the night and just didn’t make it back to the flock by dawn. 🐑 🪨 🐑

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In a properly sheep-centered view of things, sheep would readily transmute into standing stones and vice versa. At night the stones become flocks of sheep roaming the countryside and then return to stone forms at dawn. 🐑 🪨 🐑

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a lovely illustration. I especially love the grasshopper going off to fill the wine flagon

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This would make a great beer mat. The other side would read something along the lines of WELL FINALLY

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I moved to OR from ME my 1st winter here was so confusing to my sense of landscape. The leaves all fell and then the landscape became not gray and brown, but…pale mint green. Now I look forward to that time of year.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This was my go-to park for a number of years. In lichen we trust.

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APOPO @herorats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#APOPO is heading to San Francisco! 🌉 Join us at the Wildlife Conservation Expo on October 10th, where we'll be sharing how we are training rats to help protect wildlife. Stop by to meet the team and find out more! Register: bit.ly/4jyF4Q0 #HeroRATs #WCNExpo

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Conference very interesting, lots of tractors.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hot buttered toast doesn’t solve all of life’s problems, but it’s a pretty good start

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The number of people I’ve told about the existential elevator…

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Headspace really needs to make an eight hour recording of the pebbles in the surf

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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy First Day of Halloween 🍂 Throwback cartoon. Circa 2023

A black and white illustration of me driving in my car happily. Beside me, buckled in, is a carved pumpkin. It's an old cartoon. But a goodie.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gourd Folks! 1/ Undertaker (fairy tale) and little'un (acorn squash)

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a heads up: when I become Empress of the Universe I’ll be banning gas powered leaf blowers. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 🍃 🍁 🍂

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The internet is so broken! When I search for “custom mattress makers in OREGON” one of the first hits is for a mattress company in Portland MAINE. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent advice 🧶 (And far less expensive than a red sports car and far less fraught than skydiving)

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Progress report on the purple balaclava for an elderly lady. I really think this is going to need to be accessorized with Dame Edna style sunglasses 🧶

An older white woman wears a purple balaclava in the process of being knitted. The balaclava is knit from the top, and is designed to cover both the nose and mouth, leaving only the eyes visible. Right now the balaclava reaches just to the bottom of my nose.

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Buffalo or clove currant bush, leading the way into autumn color

A branch of a clove or buffalo currant bush. The deeply lobed leaves are about two inches across and have turned a very clear red

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