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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 02/04/2026

Money is the weapon of the rich to force everyone to submit for what they and their families need to survive. Freedom can’t come from government designed to place fat rich philosopher kings above everyone else. Freedom comes from caring. Moms, nurses, janitors, care so we are free to live.

Kandiaronk: I have spent six years reflecting on the state of European society and I still can’t think of a single way they act that’s not inhuman, and I genuinely think this can only be the case, as long as you stick to your distinctions of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’. I affirm that what you call money is the devil of devils; the tyrant of the French, the source of all evils; the bane of souls and slaughterhouse of the living. To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one could preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 30/03/2026

Centrism is just this bullshit. Don’t listen to someone like @centrismfanacct.bsky.social

A “We want to kill black people” sign held by the kkk and a guy standing between them and black people protesting for civil rights holds a sign “compromise?”

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 15/02/2026

This can be yours if you want it.

CANCEL ALL DEBT NOW.

Replace representative democracy with sortition

Citizens chosen by lottery to govern.

Join the movement for financial freedom and true democracy

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 29/11/2025

Fungi are the base and core of the ecosystem. We want humanity to last? We have to make our society resemble nature. At the core it must upcycle wastes and design things to break down naturally. We must become fun guys and make this world fun for our kids. No more dangerous chemicals.

Polypore mushroom with some awesome greens, oranges, browns and some white in there!

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 03/11/2025

Had a great Halloween this year. Took my nieces around and made some cool pumpkins. Carving pumpkins come from the Irish who upon finding pumpkins in the new world found them much easier to carve than potatoes.

A carved pumpkin of a ghost coming out of a pumpkins.

A witch riding a broom carved pumpkin on steps.

A skeleton pirate head carved in a pumpkin

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 01/11/2025

Chrysanthemums can be made perennials in zones like 6a. Just heap and bunch of straw or leaves over the dead mum to insulate from cold. They’ll come up next year and be massive. 🌱🌎

A bunch of chrysanthemum (mums) flowers with soft pink tips that slide to white then yellow from outer edge to the center.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 20/10/2025

A lot of people’s worries can be mended by realizing what is existentially true. #poem #poetry

A FRANK FRIEND

Your body, your mind, what are they?
Eaten food grows your behind, child’s play.
Grown from gathered life you are
Cut your hand off and stick it in a jar.
You’re in two! You're here and trapped afar?

Surely not! Hear this and know it true.
What you own cannot be you
Your hand obeys your will
Is it you? Are you eager to die on this hill?
Gathered from outside, it's not you still.

Writing with clouds, a plane prints out thoughts.
You’re the same when thinking about was’s and oughts.
A plane could write the word ‘sky’ in effort of wit
But the word would not be the true blue, bit would not be it.
Is a blank canvas a problem?
I’m glad space is empty, does that larn em?

What tells the bees to build a hive?
What beats your heart keeping you alive?
It cannot be named, labels offend it chiefly
Words don’t work even when used briefly
Searching inward always helps, no matter how measly.
What is this life sustaining thing that supports even a sea flea?

Look inside and what do you find?
What's beneath the raging waves of your mind?
Everything you think of is a copy rearranged.
Without memory are you gone? A husk deranged?
A blue sky, a pretty day, this is your mind defanged.
If we miss the sky for the cloud we’d be sorry for certain
More happens under the ocean than on the surface.

Identity is a crutch Something to lean on when you’ve forgotten.
You’re like this moment, eternal, never rotten.
Worries of the past and future happen now
Engage in life while sap is in the bough.
Break your mask and be in the play somehow
Cast off, blindly leap, in love please fall.
Explore the world, nothing sacred to keep, love all.

By: Nathan Traini

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 30/09/2025

A perennial flower the Blue wood aster and an eastern bumblebee. They say this plant is only supposed to grow to 4 feet. It was 7 feet tall before it bowed under the weight of its bloom. 🌱🌎

I’m multitude of baby blue flowers that two bumblebees are feeding from. The heart leaf Astor or the blue wood. Aster is native to the central and eastern parts of North America.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 11/09/2025

These guys flower in the hundreds. Doellingeria umbellata: It is native to the eastern and north-central United States (from Nebraska and the Dakotas east to Maine and South to Mississippi, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

8 fully in frame tiny white petal’d flowers with yellow centers. Doellingeria umbellata is a perennial up to 200 cm (80 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. It can sometimes produce as many as 300 small flower heads, each with as many as 16 white ray florets and 50 yellow disc florets.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 20/08/2025

Zinnia elegans (syn. Zinnia violacea) known as youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

A beautiful purple flower with yellow flowers in the center. Naturalised in several places, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 13/08/2025

Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos, Mexican aster or cosmea, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the Americas. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Here we have the Mexican daisy just unfurling to bloom. Its pink speckled white flowers and hardy yellow center is striking.

This plant is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. It is used as an ornamental plant in many countries, but it is an invasive plant in many areas of the world. It has naturalized in scattered locations across North America, South America, the West Indies, Italy, Australia, and Asia, where it is a garden escape and in some habitats becoming a weed.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 31/07/2025

Coreopsis grandiflora is a North American species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Tickseed flower with bright yellow tips and red center. It is found in eastern Canada (Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick) and much of the United States, especially the south-central part of the country (Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc.)

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 30/07/2025

Stylophorum diphyllum, commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy. It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Here is a bright yellow wood poppy flower amongst its green foliage. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests over calcareous rock, particularly in ravines.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 27/07/2025

Mandevilla sanderi, the Brazilian jasmine, is a vine belonging to the genus Mandevilla. It is a rapidly growing, creeping, perennial plant, pruning shoots about 60 cm per year. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

A red five petaled flower with a yellow center. species is endemic to the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.🇧🇷

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 16/07/2025

Coreopsis grandiflora is a North American species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

This 8 petaled flower is bright yellow with a deep red ring around the stamens. The center it yellow. This plant is native to the US and Canada and has been cultivated in china and naturalized there.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 12/07/2025

Monarda fistulosa, the wild bergamot or bee balm, is a wildflower in the mint family Lamiaceae, widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Day 1 of the first signs of flowering. Tiny tubes of light purple erupt. The leaves from this plant have been used as a medicinal tea.

Day 2 those tiny tubes have grown a few more millimeters. This plant is not related to the bergamot fruit.

Day 3 and those tiny tubes explode with pollen rich goodness. A bubble member goes to town and reminds us why it’s called bee balm. Thymol is an antiseptic in mouthwash and this plant is the natural source.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 07/07/2025

Hibiscus moscheutos, the rose mallow or swamp rose-mallow is native east of Texas and north to southern Ontario. It likes moist soils and partial sun. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

This rose mallow is beautifully pink, with a maroon center. This plant is edible and has been used medicinally for a variety of ailments.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 04/07/2025

Penstemon barbatus- known by the common names golden-beard penstemon, and beardlip penstemon, is a flowering plant native to the western United States. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Penstemons have this tubular structure that bees and hummingbirds love. This version is associated with piñon–juniper woodlands, ponderosa pine forests and Douglas-fir forests in the southern parts of their ranges, and with Gambel oak, usually at elevations of 1,200 to 3,000 meters (3,900 to 9,800 ft), but occasionally as high as 3,400 meters (11,200 ft).

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 02/07/2025

The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Here is a sunflower with mostly red with yellow tipped petals. Native to the western US and Mexico sunflowers have many uses both by wildlife and humans. This wild version boasts multiple blooms on one stalk instead of the single head domesticated species.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 28/06/2025

Hemerocallis flava, known as lemon daylily, lemon lily, yellow daylily, and other names is a plant native to China, northeastern Italy, and Slovenia. #gardening #nativeplants

This showy orange 6 petal’d flower was one of the first daylily’s used for breeding new cultivars.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 25/06/2025

Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America. It is commonly known as butterfly weed. 🌱🌎 #gardening #nativeplants

20 some orange flowers bunched together typical of butterfly milkweed. To have beautiful surroundings you must do the right things.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 17/06/2025

Iris versicolor L., Northern Blue Flag, or Harlequin Blueflag is native to the lower 48 states and appreciates wetlands. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Here you see a blue flag iris flower that’s with its yellow center and blueish purple flowers. It’s been beaten up by the constant downpours every week in western Pa.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 10/06/2025

Geranium wallichianum or Buxton’s Blue is native to the Himalayas. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌏

Two Five petaled blueish purple germanium flowers with their alien-like reproductive organs.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 07/06/2025

Sisyrinchium angustifolium- Blue-eyed Grass is a Pa native, enjoys moist/average soil and part sun. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Blue eyed grass has 6 petal flowers light blue with a bright yellow center.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 04/06/2025

Sundrop or Oenothera fruticosa is apart of the Evening Primrose Family, Onagraceae. Loves full sun and can tolerate drought. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

A sundrop flower with its four hand-fan-like bright yellow petals and striking clawish reproductive organs.

Native to North America this plant is host to many butterfly and moth species.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 03/06/2025

Phragmipedium besseae is a species of orchid in the genus Phragmipedium. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

A pink orchid with three large pink petals and and dark pink slipper with a yellow inside. It is a terrestrial plant native to the wet montane forests on the eastern slope of the Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 01/06/2025

Rhododendron kiusianum, the Kyushu azalea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to Kyushu, Japan #gardening #nativeplants 🌏🌱

Reddish pink flowers abound on the 3 foot bush, as an ornamental bush not much information is available about any uses. It is the official flower of Unzen, Nagasaki, and of Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 31/05/2025

Penstemon digitalis or Foxglove Beardtongue is native to the central US and has been naturalized across the eastern US. #gardening #nativeplants 🌏🌱

Purple tubular flowers that little bees crawl in and fall asleep.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 29/05/2025

Philadelphia fleabane is common in most eastern states and Canada. Looked at as a weed, I appreciate its tiny flowers. 🌱🌎

A white pedal flower with a yellow center next to a pink flower about to bloom from the same plant.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 25/05/2025

Allamanda schottii is called bush Allamanda and is native to parts of Brazil. It thrives in rich moist soil but is drought tolerant. Pollinated by butterflies, the fruits contain irritants. #nativeplants #gardening 🌎🌱

A bright yellow 5 pedaled flower, with a deep cup with equally spaces brown lines.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 21/05/2025

Pilosella officinarum or mouse eared Hawkweed is an invasive plant in the US. It is native to Europe and Asia. It excretes a substance that slows root growth around it, including itself. #gardening 🌱🌎🌏 #nativeplants

A bright yellow flower with 4 pronged petals is very low growing. This plant has evidence of being used in psychoactive regards as a cannabis substitute and folk medicine in Europe.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 15/05/2025

Rhododendron maximum is native from Ontario to Georgia. Rhododendron translates to rose tree, they love acidic soil that’s moist and in a shady area. #gardening #nativeplante 🌱🌎

A close up of rhododendron purple flowers with their amber patterning on the vertical pedal. They bloom in bunches and smell wonderful.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 13/05/2025

Chrysogonum virginianum is a native to the US’s eastern states, and good ground cover for shady areas or sunny areas. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Green and gold Chrysogonum virginianum flowering yellow, beautifully.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 04/05/2025

Trillium erectum is native to the Easter US. Here it’s naturally growing in Oil Creek State Park. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Indigenous peoples used this plant as a poultice to treat ulcers and tumors and the roots used to make a tea to help childbirth.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 27/04/2025

Phipps Conservatory during their Spring Flower Show. This was one of 15 rooms of differing ecosystems. #gardening #conservation #nativeplants 🌎🌱

Flowers of many kinds flowering purple, white, red, and yellow burst forth either side of an indoor pond. The white steel and glass greenhouse enclosing this oasis has a teardrop shape. In the back are tall shrubs behind and waterfall feature.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 25/04/2025

Jatropha integerrima, commonly known as peregrina or spicy jatropha, it is native to Cuba and Hispaniola. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

Three bright red 5 petal flowers from the Peregrina. The family Euphorbiaceae is called the spurge family. Some are bushes or trees, and have resemblances to cactus. It is poisonous to eat the Peregrina.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 24/04/2025

Fothergilla gardenii, also known by the common names witch alder, dwarf fothergilla, American wych hazel. It is native to the southeastern US and hardy from zones 5-9. 🌎🌱 #nativeplants #gardening

White puffballs with a gradient of green as you get closer to the center. This native US plant is a welcomed whimsical wonder.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 23/04/2025

Here is a bugle weed and a bee hard at work. 🌱🌎 #nativeplants #gardening

Bugle weed in flower as a bee does its thing.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 22/04/2025

Anemonoides blanda the Grecian windflower or winter windflower is native to southeastern Europe and the Middle East. This one is poisonous but pretty. 🌱🌎 #gardening #nativeplants

This purplish blue flower struck me as somehow perfect. Its center springing forth with stamens and tiny disk shaped flowers. Petals are flat and has a certain feeling of peaceful existence.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 20/04/2025

The Red Powder Puff or Calliandra haematocephala is native to Mexico south to Venezuela. It’s used in the green synthesis of silver and magnetite nanoparticles for healthcare applications. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

This red spiked puffball is a flower with many hidden healing benefits that are only useful now due to our current technological development.

Silver nanoparticles are used for antibacterial, antitumor and sensing contaminants. Magnetite nanoparticles are used for MRI and cell labeling and tracking methods.

The green synthesis of these nanoparticles are easier to make than starting from scratch.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 19/04/2025

Passiflora vitifolia, the perfumed passionflower, is a species of Passiflora, native to southern Central America and northwestern South America #gardening #PhibbsConservatory 🌱🌎

A red passion flower with its flat petals and stamens springing from the center. The fruit of this flower takes a month to ripen and when ripe taste someone like sour strawberries.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 17/04/2025

Lamium purpureum- known as red dead-nettle, purple dead-nettle, or purple archangel, is an annual herbaceous flowering plant. Not native to North America.

A stock of dead nettle with its tiny purple flowers and purple top leaves fading to green.

The tops are edible and have been used in salads or as an antioxidant. In folk medicine it was combined with two other plants and an incantation was recited to reduce pain.

It is considered invasive by the department of agriculture but not invasive according to the PA state government.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 13/04/2025

Before and after of my front yard garden expansion. All done with native flowers. #gardening #nativeplants 🌱🌎

The front of a house with a weedy and small garden bed.

A line has been cut with a shovel in the front lawn to guesstimate where to put the stones for a new garden bed

The same house with the garden bed expanded with large stones. In the garden are black eyed Susan’s, butterfly weed, male, and Christmas ferns, poppies and many more.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 07/04/2025

Viola sororia Wild is the common blue violet. Another perennial native to PA that’s edible. Too pretty to eat though! 🌱🌎 #gardening #nativeplants #macromonday

A zoomed in picture of a violet flower with veins of dark purple leading into the flowers’ center of a light yellow. All around the flowers are different grass types and clover.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 02/04/2025

Claytonia virginica L. Or springbeauty is fit for human consumption above the ground. Although I wouldn’t want to disturb them unless I was starving.

Here amongst the leaves are four 5 pedaled white flowers with stripes of pink with bright pink stamens. Springbeauty’s petals reflect UV light.

10 or so springbeauty flowers flower for 3 days, sprouting out of dead leaves in the forest. Their stamens are only active for a single day.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 15/03/2025

Crocus tommasinianus is not native to the US. Originally found in Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, and the former Yugoslavia. Common names are Early Crocus and snow crocus. #gardening #nativeplants 🌎🌱

A bunch of small purple flowers called tommies of the Crocus tommasinianus variety. They have a bright yellow claw like filament and anther surrounding a more red colored stigma.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 01/02/2025

Winter was strong in most of January for Western, PA. To start February snow has melted and winter seems to be on pause for a few weeks.

Snow clings to thousands of branches of trees that create a tunnel of pure winter over a state road.

Crimson sunlight illuminates altocumulus clouds. Captured while traveling a down a road going deep into the sun’s domain.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 18/01/2025

How close I feel spring is Vs How close it actually is. #Spring 🌱 #SoClose #YetSoFar

The back and front bumper of two cars are so close the electrons are talking to one another.

A vast expanse of a winter wonderland that looks impossibly far away.

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Shire resident @securetheshire.com · 12/01/2025

Our beloved Coco (Nut) passed away at the beginning of December. Coco will never leave our hearts. Today we picked up Coco’s successor Millie (Vanillie).

Coco (Nut) our family member for 12 years passed away. Here she’s sitting on a summer day on the brick patio. In the back is a metal rocking chair, a small brick retaining wall and a tan 8ft tall fence.

Always having a doggie grin when we would get home Coco was my friend. She chewed things and reminded us of the folly of materialism. A true spiritual guru. She’s sorely missed everyday.

Our latest edition to the family. Millie is a sweet labradoodle with white paws, a golden coat, and a white spot on her chest. Here she is lying on a cheetah print blanket against a pillow sleeping off her excitement. She’s been playing and getting aquatinted with her new home.

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