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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Hello friends! If any of you remember Damate from the good old days on the bird site, she could use some help. Her family has had it really rough over the last few years and any little bit would be so appreciated. gofund.me/bca58e648

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Donate to Help the Kohlers Repair and Recover, organized by Michelle K

My name is Michelle Kohler, and I am a wife and mother in my 40s living in rural Tennes… Michelle K needs your support for Help the Kohlers Repair and Recover

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Happy Day After Boxing Day from my living room that is still full of boxes!

A Christmas tree in front of a fireplace with evergreens across the mantle, and a pile of twinkling lights where a fire usually is.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The summer is winding down and I feel there may be a light at the end of my deep dark tunnel of caregiver burnout. Despite my exhaustion and extreme social withdrawal, there have been good things.

Shoulder tattoo of a lady-faced snail with a black and white castle in her back, surrounded by lit up Chinese lantern plants and black stars.

Freshly picked beets with the tops still on in a stainless steel sink.

A colander full of freshly picked potatoes with the dirt still on them.

Snippet of a garden bed with orange snapdragons, purple delphiniums, pink cosmos, and orange nasturtiums.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Is it weird that I miss the internet from the late 2000s and early 2010s? People were getting paid as bloggers, polaroid cameras were popular again, Instagram was full of pottery and people photographing their lunches, Etsy was full of real artists selling real stuff...

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I still haven't finished Veilguard, not because I don't love it (I do, very much) but because I know it'll be the last first time forever and that makes me sad. So I continue to teeter on the line before the final mission, dragging it out as long as possible. #DATV

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

the potatoes are coming up! I figure in a few months between the garlic, beets, potatoes, & onions I might have enough of a harvest to make one pot of borscht!

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I appreciate the yeoman's work being put in on these play-by-plays - means I get the gist while being able to laugh instead of cry.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Fuck Harry Potter, read literally anything by Frances Hardinge. Especially the perfection that is A Face Like Glass.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN!!!! My beet seeds have germinated.

Closeup of a tiny beet seedling. It has a red stem and 2 bright green leaves

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Dethatching my dead lawn is brutal. I can not stop sweating.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

crossed off another month on my seemingly endless countdown to retirement chart (only 72 to go!)

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I did everyone's taxes, and now I get to sit and watch old lady murder mysteries until bed time

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So nice to wake up to good news for once!

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I voted on Easter, nothing I can do about any of it now so instead of worrying myself into fits I'm trying to focus on the fact that another one of my notoriously tempermental Bells of Ireland seeds has germinated and poked a tiny green sprout out of the soil.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

did some dead aunt apartment cleaning, then came home and dove straight into garden and yardwork - got one new bed finally planted with zinnias, cosmos and feverfew, dethatched some of the lawn I killed (on purpose!), planted potatoes, beets, and onions. My aged spine would like a word.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🌼Benefits of a Weedy Lawn🌼 ♡ good for pollinating insects ♡ many weeds are medicinal and/or edible ♡ dandelions are for granting wishes! ♡ weeds tend to repel sociopathic individuals who lay on their bellies and trim their perfect lawn with tiny, tiny scissors.

News article about how to keep dandelions and other weeds out of the lawn

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When I say “something came up” this is what I mean

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I did something to my leg the other day, resulting in constant pain and making walking/sitting/lying down equally uncomfortable. It's slowly getting better, but it's soil delivery day today and I have garden beds to dig and eleventy billion things to plant, and I am extremely frustrated.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

the constant low hum of noise in the office and the devil fluorescents above me are making me crazy today

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

oh no my lily order has shipped, and I have two more dahlia orders on the way, and I still have to dig the new garden bed

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

wow, back at work after 10 days off and yeah, I don't know if I'm going to last the 6 years until retirement

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

am I feeling stompy and weepy and all the feelings because I have to go back to work tomorrow or is it because menopause countdown has reset once again?

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Waiting for the sun to come out so that I can do a little work outside on this, my last day of vacation. I have a comfortable cat snoozing on my lap and feel no sense of urgency.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

everyone in our household voted today! The whole process, including walking to the polling station with my 92 year old father, was 15 minutes.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

trying yet another paska recipe, hopefully this time it comes out the way I imagine it! No raisins though, my baba always used them and that whole family loved them but I loathe the wrinkly little turds. Sorry Dad.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

voting on Easter Sunday on our way to brunch just to make the conversation interesting!

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

my spine would like to announce that standing and sitting and lying down are all bad, but using a shovel and a rake are infinitely worse

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

it seems I've reached the standing for too long makes my back hurt age, but also the sitting for too long makes my back hurt age

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As a birthday treat (it's my birthday today) I ordered bunch of little cakes. Delivery service claims they were delivered, but I have no cakes. I am exceedingly annoyed about this.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I could easily fill a second set up with seedlings, guess I'd better start saving for a greenhouse.

Two tiered grow lights with seedlings in multi-coloured pots

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I did not enjoy the migraine that flattened me last night, and today I'm not enjoying the migraine hangover it left me with.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The next year is going to be so wondrous in the world of cozy/farming games! August - Story of Seasons Grand Bazaar (eldest grub and I LOVED this on the DS) December - WITCHBROOK!!!!!!!!!!!! at last!!!!!!! sometime in 2026 - My Time at Evershine (so. excited.)

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 05/04/2025

The US Embassy’s post on Kryvyi Rih made no mention of Russia. President Zelenskyy responded.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

it's light out long enough that i can go outside and work in the garden after supper for about an hour! So good to get dirt under my nails and twigs in my hair as the sun goes down.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I read this over the last two days - it's wonderful, a sort of Wilkie Collins/Frances Hodgson Burnett mix, with magic!

Book cover - green, with pink roses and yellow outlined leaves bordering each side. In the centre is the silhouette of a woman, with the title text over her. (The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt)

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I am hopeful that two more bins will be enough to get all my brother's remaining stuff packed up so I can stow it in the garage until he eventually takes it away. A functioning living room is getting closer.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am enjoying purchasing from Canadian Tire instead of Home Depot these days. I wish we had more Home Hardware stores around here, but alas we do not.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

eeeeeeeeee!!!! just filled out a booking form for a tattoo!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

americans what the fuck did you do to the bloc quebecois

6:05 p.m. EDT: Bloc Québécois calls for ‘buy Canadian’ act to counter U.S. protectionist measures
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has called for Canada to adopt a law that encourages the federal government to purchase goods made in the country.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

oh thank the gods, my grow lights have arrived at long last

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

first dahlia tuber order arrived and they sent me some extras! Garden is going to be splendiferous this year 🌼

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

i know everything is elections and horrors and whatnot around here right now, but I'm here to announce that my dahlia tubers are coming out of dormancy and most of the daffodils I planted in December are blooming.

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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

one of the good things to come out of my commitment to buying Canadian and non-US products is a step towards slowing down the pace my life. This is something I have been wanting to work on, and the research and longer ship times have definitely helped with impulse buying and false urgency.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I'm actually pretty good with money as long as I don't go outside where all the stores are or stay inside where my phone is

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I would rather die in a drone strike than be American. 🖕

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Nearly Doubles

The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

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