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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 8h

🪶 Siskins! I've never seen them in my yard before!

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Had a visitor today. Note the size of her crop - she'd just finished her second squirrel of the afternoon. 🪶

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🪶 The distelfinks have discovered the coneflowers!

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eepy. And no, the belly is mostly not a trap. She is remarkably tolerant of me burying my face in her floof.

A tortoiseshell cat with an amazingly fluffy belly asleep on a beige carpet cat condo. She's lying mostly on her side but sort of curled up so her belly floof is on display. It is not precisely a trap - she will permit one to bury one's face in the fluff.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There was a plan for today - I achieved exactly two things. And incurred another one for tomorrow. Bah. I did get the panel that will be sleeves cut, and the piece for the collar and cuffs and underarm gussets. Sadly, that was only one item on the list.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Client: "This report is broken, it has always been broken! Fix it!" Me: *investigates* Nope, not broken. Excessively stupid, but not technically broken. I am frankly amazed at the depth of the stupid on this one, honestly. <sigh>

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Saw this lovely on Saturday while waiting for the hummingbirds to show up. A ginormous bee.

A large bee on (and slightly in) a purple Salvia with green leaves behind it.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Butterflams on the new echinacea. I think they're Painted Ladies?

Two orange and black and white butterflies on a wine red coneflower.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Judging from the number of volunteer tomatillos in my garden, someone local is either growing them or put some on a compost pile that is accessible to critters. They grow really well in the mulch, and there are a lot. I am torn between pulling them and leaving them for the bees.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I have planted the blue indigo, 3 of the 4 echinacea, murderated some dandelions, weeds, and other miscellaneous things* that do not belong in my garden, filled the birdbaths, and watered the plants that need extra water. *mostly elm seedlings and a volunteer tomato.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I bought an equigroomer from Girl with the Dogs, and it is amazing. I have already removed half a kitten from the Kugelprinzessin.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Realistically I need to do some tweaking to the shirt - a full bust adjustment at minimum - but the Time Of The Garden* is winding down so in theory I will have more inside time to spend in the sewing room. *I have a lovely garden, and it's still nice to sit outside and enjoy the green.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I went looking for the Kugelprinzessin and there she was...

A tortoiseshell cat with green eyes lying upside down on a red couch with her paws in the air.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yesterday I went and bought plants. So today we went birding, naturally. A good variety of raptors - the vultures are migrating, plus two separate pairs of eagles, two northern harriers, and a couple of red tailed hawks. And about a million billion red winged blackbirds.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Goddammit cat! @rahaeli.bsky.social (or anyone else, for that matter) do you have any reccies for a mattress protector that's waterproof on 5 sides? The piss terrorist managed to soak the underlying mattress topper this time.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I took a bath yestereve, and neither cat even attempted to see if I was ok. Amir, I am disappointed.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I had a mighty craving for posole so I ordered real Mexican food for gringos (as opposed to gringo tex-mex, which #2 will eat) and I ate outside until I realized that I needed to go back in before I was trapped by industrious orb weavers.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hi! I'm Mom was holding me in her lap with no car seat when the car got rear-ended! I also go by Drug Overdose and sometimes by Nasty Concussion in Gym Class With a Generous Helping Of The School Done Fucked Up*

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is humid enough that my eyelids are sweating. Ew.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🪶 Red winged blackbird horde. They're now having pool parties that I can't get video of because of the plants.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It is a lovely afternoon, and I am inside cuddling the Kugelprinzessin, because demanding tortie. I would love to take her outside and cuddle in the gazebra but she Does Not Go Outside, for Reasons. On the one hand, she never tries to sneak out. OTOH, a trip to the vet is VERY stressful.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's not topstitching. It's flat-felled seams.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

EVERYTHING on this shirt is topstitched. GAH. On the one hand, I'm saved from having to deal with overlocked seams. On the other hand, there are a lot of seams to rip...

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

On Monday the elm goes away - it is almost entirely dead at this point - and there will be a couple of feet of the stump left. The pine tree stump got turned into a birdbath. I don't know what to do with the elm stump yet.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am deconstructing a shirt. I am doing this in the bedroom because it's cold in the sewing room, and Amir is "helping. "

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

When you're hydrating in between stints of gardening and were going to go back out but you have to wait for the downy to finish on the suet...

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🪶 There was a great fuss of robins in the tree in back, and this was why. Not sure what it's got, but maybe a blackbird.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Is it a real project if you bleed but manage to not drip on the fabric?

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not me having a conversation with the cats about 1. Respecting Boundaries and 2. Appropriate Responses To Disrespect. Amir was NOT respectful of the Kugelprinzessin's boundaries, but she was Very Good and Used Her Words Correctly before swatting him and leaving.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Then, there are these... This yellow gem is safflower. I didn't plant it, it came from the bird feeders. The house finches and cardinals love it (and the blackbirds and grackles don't). There are a handful of plants. They look cool.

A small yellow flower a little like a dandelion on a green plant with prickly leaves.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Go buy them and read them, they are DELIGHTFUL!

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I would like to blame both @tkingfisher.com and @kbspangler.com for the native plants thing.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bloomscrolling! Some of the garden is in bloom so I took pictures. These are echinachea - coneflowers. I don't remember what kinds.

Pink, magenta, and white coneflowers in a garden.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bloomscrolling! Some of the garden is in bloom so I took pictures. These are echinachea - coneflowers. I don't remember what kinds.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I am reminded, as I am awake at stupid o'clock, of why I evict the cats from the bedroom. One queen bed is insufficient for one human, one extremely clingy brown cat, and one hyper-possessive anxiety dumpling of a tortie. I thought I'd be nice to them. No good deed goes unpunished.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The merlins have fledged! Three bebes! Not sure exactly where the nest is (not up the block as I'd hoped, alas), but they're vaguely in the neighborhood so I'll take it.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sat outside for a bit as the fairy lights in the garden came on, while the sprinkler was going for the ferns. Sadly, mosquitoes.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Summer event recap: hot. Chicken pomegranate stew mostly good. Chicken wrap lunch buffet always good. Fish delicious. Roast beef good. Cheese condiment excellent. Ant-free lime basil syrup excellent. Spiced pomegranate syrup excellent.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I fail to understand how this can possibly be comfortable, but I am not a cat. More important, the Kugelprinzessin is a tortie so normal cat rules don't apply.

A tortoiseshell cat stretched out asleep on a pile of books on an unmade bed.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I have made six bottles of drink syrup - ant-free* lime/basil, lime/mint, lemon/basil, lemon/mint, plain pomegranate which is way too sweet**, and spiced pomegranate. *last year when I taught the class we found ants got into the lime/basil syrup. **if I remember I'll add some lemon to it.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning. Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee. This is the moment on which the war depends /1

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today I cut out a corset pattern and I ate paratha. And five mulberries.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ah, creeping bellflower, how I hate thee. To the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Amir sticks his tongue out when he stretches, but he usually pulls it back in before I can get a picture.

A brown lynx point cat with blue eyes, lying on an unmade bed, showing the tip of his tongue. The scene has a dark orange pink cast due to fun lighting.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hoot hoot hoot! There's a nuthatch complaining about something in the back yard. Possibly that the grackles ate all the suet.

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