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boss lady in the challey

@quemini.blacksky.app
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longtime gardener 🌱 | part-time cowgirl 🤠 | budding urban farmer 🌺

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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
He’s a little darker…but what else is it about him? Because…
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I will never get past white-dominant spaces in Detroit playing Black music for ambiance. I walked into this spot and Mint Condition ‘Breakin’ My Heart’ is blaring through the speakers at the *height* of the song. And white people are just…talking… Anyways, I can check the wine bookstore off my list
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
our group energy really could be summed up as
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
Me, by the end of #Lionness
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
Us, while I’m doing some reading this morning
A gray pit bull mix dog snuggles next to my leg while a book is held up, hovering over his head and my leg
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
My brain, now being asked to use the tech part that’s been dormant for 6 months
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
And then a good friend is building me a farm web app based on an idea I just told him about in passing last week and THAT looks promising. The beginning of this year almost took ya girl out but now?
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
An illustration of a woman mimicking shooting a basketball but a baby in a diaper is what’s flying through the air
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
media update (from the weekend) 😉
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026
it’s a good morning
a cowboy exhuberantly dancing at a rodeo
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
maybe just one
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
Also, as I was perusing my meme folder… … Destin Conrad being one of my fave meme-making kids from like 10 years ago is taking me down. Whoda thunk it?
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
A certain creole queen is selling an empty wooden box for $1000 for her birthday?
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
once he finally turned her loose
An otter with its mouth open as if it’s saying the text on the image: “I SAID GOOD DAY!”
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
Spent a little time reorganizing my urban farm work tools into a new bag then doing an inventory of my community garden tools and moving those into a new bag/trunk organizer. Then I noticed my first porch sunflower was starting to open and got a mosquito bite standing out there taking pics of it 😅
In the foreground, a dwarf sunflower is just beginning to open. In the background is a brick wall.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Slightly cross-faded and spinning some new vinyl tonight. First - Jodeci ‘Diary Of A Mad Band’. Gonna spin their debut album after that.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Detroit is such a special city in the summer
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 30/08/2026
Am I having tacos for the 2nd day in a row? Yep Did the bartender make my 2nd drink strong as shit?
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
Was having an epicly sexy dream and a man in the dream found a way to mess it up. I was asleep like
image of a man with his face on a pillow, asleep with an angry face
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
I’m realizing there aren’t that many more states I have a strong desire to visit - CO, AR for an ancestry journey, maybe somewhere in the PNW…that might be it
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026
Not a big breakfast before work person but these smoothies have been getting me through - frozen peach, mango, pineapple, and strawberry with a passion fruit, orange, guava juice.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
Merging works most effectively when people merge at the point that the lane ends. Early merging actually produces slower traffic.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
I’ve answered the call to the streets by my horse people
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
Literally and symbolically starting a new journey
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
I started HOTD late but I just finished and all I have to say is
Meme of Thomas The Train with a very unsure-looking expression and the text “Thomas had never seen such a mess” on the image
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
And trappin ain’t dead
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
This one was super inspiring because everything they grow they give away to the community for free. And they have a WIDE variety of delicious things. Absolutely love this place.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
Third stop: Cadillac Urban Gardens, an urban garden of 300+ raised beds built on a parking lot behind one of the last formerly-functioning Cadillac auto plants in Detroit.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
The Director, Naim Edwards, gave such a great short talk on the importance of green spaces like this having a place to gather and rest (like the circle of benches around their fire pit), a place to process what’s grown for sale, and a place to eat what they’ve grown (like their pizza oven).
Director of MSU’s Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning, and Innovation - Naim EdwardsPizza being made from what’s grown on the urban farm in an outdoor pizza ovenAn urban vegetable garden
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
Second stop: MSU’s Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning, and Innovation - a 3+ acre urban food forest with 65 different fruit and nut trees as well as a rain garden and vegetable garden.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
In addition to an all-purple bee/pollinator garden, they’re also growing a yarrow lawn that only needs to be mowed once a year. And of course I picked up some local honey.
Anise hyssop in bloom with lavender-colored floretsA close up of a lawn of all yarrowTim Jackson, co-founder of Detroit HivesA Black woman’s hand holding a jar of local honey made by Detroit Bees, with a bee garden in the background
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
First stop: Brightmoor Botanical Garden, one of the hubs for Detroit Hives
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
My little cut flower garden experiment is starting to pop. Calla lilies and dwarf snapdragons are up. Still waiting on dahlias, gladiolas, and celosias but they’re all growing.
Dark purple calla lily flowers in an urban garden raised bedVibrant red calls lily flowers in an urban garden raised bedVibrant pink-red dwarfsnapdragon flowers in  an urban garden raised bedSoft coral-pink dwarf snapdragon flowers in  an urban garden raised bed
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
Even though I’m still quite sick, I can’t let the kids miss their appointments. Just a pedicure and a spray down in fly spray then slapped the horse equivalent of cuticle oil on her hooves. That’ll have to do.
A dark bay horse stands in the bathing area in front of a barn on a farm
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
Now…NOW they’re starting to let indigenous tribes do what they used to do to save us all but apparently, they have to apply to do their burns and approvals are often delayed. An article I found out of British Colombia although it’s Ontario on fire right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Firekeeper Joe Gilchrist demostrates how a cultural burn is started in a pile of sage brush near Savona, B.C.

This June, British Columbia earmarked $359
million for future wildfire protection, with $1.2 million invested in burn projects this year. 

The province says it supports cultural burning which is prescribed by the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan (UNDRIP).
But fire ecologists say that support is falling short and plans to burn often fizzle out because of approval delays.
In B.C., hundreds of thousands of hectares used to be deliberately burned each year, but now fewer than 10,000 hectares of land is set on fire for community protection.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
A lady on the Clock app in Canada said that the wildfires keep happening because Canada outlawed indigenous people from doing prescribed burns. Did a little digging and yep - settler colonialism is to blame. indiginews.com/features/wil...
A century of fire suppression

Before settler colonialism outlawed the use of fire on the land through legislation such as the provincial Bush Fire Act of 1874, Interior Salish Nations had been prescribing fire to the land for thousands of years.

Burn cycles were designed to nurture/support certain landscapes and ecosystems, often to sustain diversity for hunting areas and to promote the growth of berries and medicinal plants - which all supported various ceremonial purposes.

This work of regular burning ultimately helped to maintain the ecological health of the land by limiting overgrowth and mitigating fuels.

However, settlers and their rapid fire suppression practices effectively removed fire from the ecosystem in the last century.
This has resulted in the spread of trees across landscapes that were not historically forested, all of which has led to the accumulation of wildfire fuels and debris across landscapes.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
I’ve never witnessed the AQI be this high with my own eyes
A screenshot of the Apple Weather app showing an AQI of 500, the highest number on the scale on screen
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
The people doing fireworks near me have so many going at once that it sounds like a marching band that’s also shooting guns (sound up to hear the low steady rumble between the big pops). And they started at 9pm when it was still light outside.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026
New month. New blessings. New page on my Lego wall calendar.
A Lego wall calendar flipped to the month of July. July’s featured Lego flower is the lotus and the image shows a fully open pink Lego lotus, a partially open white Lego lotus, a closed pink Lego lotus, and 2 Lego pieces that make up the pink lotus.
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
When the evening temp and humidity is ‘warm breff’ >>>
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Finally went ahead and binged the last 4 episodes of Euphoria
A cartoon of a person laying in a puddle of their own tears
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Me, now:
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Me to my Spirit Team: “Put me in the path of the people I need to meet, show me what I need to see…” My Spirit Team: “Show you what you need to see??”
A scene from the viral hit movie “Bird Box” when a man forcibly pries open a woman’s closed eyes
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026
Someone posted footage of us 😄 (I’m on the 3rd horse)
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 20/06/2026
last night And sometimes the outfit is ‘titty’. I don’t make the rules.
A Black woman in a white bodysuit and jeans poses in a living room mirrorA Black woman in a white bodysuit poses in her carA Black woman in a white bodysuit and jeans poses in a set of artistically styled mirrors
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
Reading a romance novel written by a Detroit girl and I know I’m a bird because this made me swoon
Highlighted excerpt from a book: “I finished my look off with a gold Rolex,
gold Cuban link chain, and a pair of buffs.”
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 11/06/2026
New seasonal Costco sundae just dropped - strawberry shortcake (available with vanilla or strawberry ice cream)
A Black woman’s hand is holding a cup of strawberry shortcake ice cream
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026
Keeping up a tradition I created for myself where if I have to do a task for my dad who’s gone on then I treat myself immediately after
A glass of dark red wine, a metal container full of fries, and a double cheeseburger sits on the bar of a restaurant
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boss lady in the challey @quemini.blacksky.app · 04/06/2026
This is the worst news about the SpaceX IPO (article: finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...) If you use ETFs for your retirement/investment accounts, watch out.

The Forced Buyers: S&P 500 and
Nasdaq-100 ETFs
SpaceX is expected to enter the S&P 500 at roughly a 0.5% weight. That sounds small, but the S&P 500 is the benchmark for trillions in indexed assets. Every ETF tracking the index will be required to purchase SpaceX shares upon inclusion. The largest affected funds:
• VOO (Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, $1,003.51B
AUM): Would need to buy roughly $5B in
SpaceX
• IVV (iShares Core S&P 500 ETF, $859.73B
AUM): Similar forced purchase
• SPY (SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, $787B
AUM): The most liquid S&P 500 ETF
• SPYM (SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF,
$149.68B AUM)The Nasdaq-100 follows on a slightly different timeline. A revised Nasdaq methodology effective May 1, 2026 allows any newly listed company ranked among the top 40 by market capitalization to enter the Nasdaq-100 after just 15 trading days - with the prior free-float requirement eliminated.
That puts SpaceX into the index around July 6, triggering additional forced buying from:
And there's performance under pressure.

• QQQ (Invesco QQQ Trust, $495.70B AUM):
The world's most-traded tech ETF
• QQQM (Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF, $98.48B AUM): Lower-cost alternative long-term investors
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