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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Today’s #dogventure was a lovely jaunt around Jubilee and Oak Bay

Cream coloured dog eating grass in front of a yard with ducks who are watching from just behind the fence

Cream coloured dog sniffing along a wood chip path next to bluebells

Cream coloured dog happily running along a neighbourhood path

A weird memorial to two deceased dogs in someone’s driveway, complete with candles and a weatherproof notebook where one is encouraged to leave one’s thoughts. Also a picture introducing the new puppy.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What are you doing that you LOSE CONTROL WHILE REVERSING ??

At 4:45 p.m., in Colwood, a driver was reversing on Ocean Boulevard when they lost control, hitting a parked car which was then pushed over the embankment onto the beach.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Today I got to make pistachio cream eclairs for a birthday present for someone, and the sample one made me say ‘oh my god’ out loud. 🍽️🍜

The tops of eclairs coated in chocolate and chopped pistachio

Pistachio cream eclairs on a cooling rack

Pistachio cream eclairs in a box for delivery

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Yesterday I made (enough for tonight’s dinner too) a gorgeous pot of beans, fresh cheese and fresh tortillas for tostadas to go with the avocado, chorizo and pickled onions I already had 🍜🍽️

Tostadas on a plate with beans, chorizo, fresh cheese, avocado and pickled red onions

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Today’s #dogventure route was chosen for reasons known only to the dog

Cream coloured dog runs along a sidewalk next to some businesses

Cream coloured dog runs along a sidewalk next to a big garden

Cream coloured dog looks back at me with a smile as he contemplates a big grassy field with bluebells and a yard containing ducks beyond

Cream coloured dog stares through a fence at some ducks feeding in the grass beyond.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Fresh homemade pasta with spicy Italian sausage tomato sauce pasta and Parmesan from cheese club 🍽️🍜

A blue and green rimmed bowl of tomato sauced pasta topped with a mound of grated Parmesan in front of a bamboo thicket

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Fresh pasta for tonight’s dinner to use up leftover spicy Italian sausage and tomato sauce and random veggies 🍽️🍜

Fresh pasta on a bamboo butcher block counter top

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Apples are going to be prolific this year

Mostly white with a bit of pink apple blossoms in peak bloom

Apple blossoms, mostly white with a tinge of pink

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The dog stopped to watch some violent duck sex today

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I love the way the morning light catches these dandelions-gone-to-seed

Dandelions gone to seed in the morning sun

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Today’s much earlier #dogventure was a springtime delight

Cream coloured dog walking up a grassy hill with camas and rocks in the morning sun

Cream coloured dog sniffing the ground intensely next to a camas meadow with Garry oaks in the morning sun

Cream coloured dog running happily down a chip trail path dividing a camas meadow

Cream coloured dog staring hard at an orange and white kitty under the edge of a car. The kitty kept following us up the street and overtaking. The dog really wanted to chase it but I had to hold his harness to keep him back so the cat wouldn’t run into the road as cars kept driving by. Eventually a nice couple saw what was happening and herded the cat into a yard and kept it there so we could go around the corner and it would stop following. Yay for nice strangers! I thanked them.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today’s #dogventure was utterly gorgeous and we went to forests and the beach twice

A duck sits on a log bathed in sun in a reek running through a forest. Ferns and other foliage are in the foreground.

Morning sun lighting up trees in Mystic Vale

Cream coloured dog running along a beach on a sunny morning

Cream coloured dog splashing through the edge of the water on the beach on a sunny day

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This Mexican snowball plant has very fun flowers

Mexican snowball plant flowering pink stems shaped like candy canes with pink bell shaped flowers with yellow edges

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I made this once, for a Twitter black box cooking competition. It looked beautiful and tasted like dirt still. It was beet and ginger pudding with I forget what in the whipped cream and a tuile of some sort. Not a helpful response but at least it’s pretty 😂

Beet pudding with whipped cream and a tuile

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Free bus fare today for Earth Day, that’s pretty sweet. #yyj

Free fare cloth over the fare box on the bus

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The camas are making a gorgeous indigo carpet in Uplands park #yyj

Purple camas in green grass in the morning sun

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It’s another cherry blossom walk, this time on Davie St #yyj

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Short #dogventure today but the dog was very specific about the route he wanted to take

Cream coloured dog running down a neighbourhood path. A pink cherry tree can be seen at the end

Cream coloured dog licking as he looks at the camera while walking along a plaza sidewalk

A stuffed rat wearing a plaid kilt and formal wear and a beret on a desk as part of a free pile

Cream coloured dog running happily along a paved path next to an embankment with native plants

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Today’s #dogventure took us to the beach, sore paw be damned said the dog.

Cream coloured dog runs happily along a beach on a sunny day

A bunny pretends we can’t see it as it sits out in the open in a clover patch

Sun shining on tulips that are red but rimmed in yellow

Cream coloured dog running happily along the beach on a sunny day

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It’s camas flowering season 😍🌱

Purple flowering camas in the morning sun

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The dog has a sore paw so we just did a short #dogventure that was mostly sniffing

Cream coloured dog on a chip path in the morning sun

A view of a golf course from under a Garry oak tree on a sunny morning

Cream coloured dog eating some grass near a pond

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

One of my favourite trees for catching morning light 🌱

Maple leaves lit up red by morning sunlight

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today we went on a super random #dogventure, although he seemed to know where he wanted to go

Cream coloured dog running along a tiled area at the university

Cream coloured dog running along a path next to some
Grass

Cream coloured dog running through a forest trail

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Baking sourdough in the middle of the night and the moon sure is bright

A full moon behind clouds framed by the edge of bamboo leaves and a plum tree

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Even without zhuzing it up, Shin black ramyun is so good

A bowl of ramyun. The sauce is a hazy red and the noodles are visible, as are bits of vegetables and mushrooms. Black chopsticks rest against the edge of the white bowl with blue trim

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I’ve never seen two different types of magnolias growing from the same tree before

A magnolia with bright pink/purple flowers facing up, and also white star shaped flowers

A magnolia tree with two different types of flowers

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The new permanent patio at the Penny Farthing looks nice #yyj

The new outdoor patio at the Penny Farthing

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today’s pretty little flowers are the lungwort

A little cluster of bell shaped flowers in pink, salmon, magenta and violet with green leaves dotted with pale spots

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The city planners that caused us to have streets of cherry/plum blossom canopies were amazing 😍

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A punishingly paced #dogventure run today because I worked the last two days and that is how the dog registers his displeasure, by making me run really fast.

Cream coloured dog running along a sidewalk next to flowering plants

Clouds overhead of a yellowish horizon above the fairly calm waters of Oak Bay. Boats are moored in the distance and foliage is in the foreground

A whale’s tale public art with bare trees, clouds and a yellow horizon behind

Cream coloured dog spots ducks on the beach below as he runs along a sidewalk

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

And we can avoid “towers in Saanich” by allowing small apartment buildings (3-5 storeys) to be built in any neighbourhood.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It makes me laugh there’s a development proposal notice on this construction site.

The front facade of an old building being held up and covered in scaffolding very obviously under construction. A city development proposal notice is attached to the fence, as if no one had any idea a development was happening there.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Did someone need some fawn lilies in their life? 😍 🌱

A fawn lily in the morning sun growing near the base of a Douglas fir with ferns and other greenery.

A row of fawn lilies in various states of open lit by the morning sun

A fawn lily flirting with the camera, one petal lifting way up to show the yellow pollen covered stamens hanging down.
Come hither, pollinators, it’s saying.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The dog is happy the otters have returned to the beach so he can roll around. Also dogs are gross.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Today’s #dogventure was all about the scents, especially on known “kitty” streets

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here’s my favourite patch from someone’s garden 😍

Snake’s head fritillary in shades of purple in front of crown imperial in orange and yellow

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’m glad I made cake earlier. Oh, look it’s a whole different day actually. Piece one of Saturday cake then.

Apple cake on a plate being eaten by the light of a phone so as not to wake the sleeping partner and dog.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Have you contributed to All The Best Things $2 million Go Fund Me to buy this building and covert it to the above named Cafe/Wine/Beer bar? Although it’s not on a bus route…

A one story building painted cream with red doors. It is somehow vaguely Spanish or Germanic looking due to the black painted trim around the windows and other accents.

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Salted caramel apple upside down cake… right side up 🍜🍽️

A cake covered in sliced apples and a caramel sitting on a tray on a butcher block counter

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I am probably getting a sunburn out here on my couch deck

Blue sky with some puffy white clouds and a bright squinty sun with a bamboo thicket on the right, fig branches in the middle and ornamental plum branches to the left

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Rayna Rambling @raynarambling.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Red flowering currant in full glory

Red flowering currant in full bloom. Some are light pink but the focus of the shot is a big cluster of dark pink red flowering currant that is being lit up by the afternoon sun since it turned into a hella beautiful spring day

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