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ShyViolet 🇨🇦

@shyviolet71.bsky.social
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Still standing in the back dressed stupidly and looking stupid. she/her 💜🖤🤍 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

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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
gofund.me
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
Ha! Well if by normal you mean pjs until 2pm and scrounging for leftovers and extra chocolates like a fairground rat, then YES!
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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 · 08/10/2025
Happiest of days to you! You're one of the reasons I still linger here 💜 It sounds like you're having a truly splendid, well deserved day! May there be many, many more 🎂
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It's beautiful and moody, and I would live there quite happily!
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
thank you! I was so lucky to be able to get in with the artist when she was doing a guest spot in Vancouver.
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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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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
First beet harvest! In fact the first vegetable harvest ever for me! They were delicious 😋
A bunch of freshly picked beets in a stainless steel sink.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
generally speaking, we are! I've largely absented myself from most of the social medias these days - what was once fun and beautiful and informative has become just an endless cycle of misery and fear and it was really not good for my mental health.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Oh no! I hope it can be fixed. Not silly at all, I'd cry too.
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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 · 14/05/2025
these are fantastical!
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The summoning tree in my old neighbourhood was very clear about its nature.
An old tree with moss and scarred bark, and one wide open eye.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Yeah. I'm going to miss viewing Thedas again through a new character's eyes. And at least in the game the bad guys get what they deserve.
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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 · 05/05/2025
I can handle that, what's getting me at the moment is kid #1 will turn 27 this year, which is the age I was when I had them 🫠
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Birdsong on a bright morning never fails to give me a little thrill
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a little girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must wear a mask at all times. For Neverfell's emotions are as obvious on her face as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, though entirely genuine.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The people of Caverna are more ordinary, but for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned. Only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to show (or fake) joy, despair or fear — at a price.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"In the underground city of Caverna the world's most skilled craftsmen toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare. They create wines that can remove memories, cheeses that can make you hallucinate and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer even as they slit your throat. "
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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 · 04/05/2025
oh man I LOVED those books when I was a kid!!!!
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I just hope I have enough to make one big pot of borscht!
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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 · 03/05/2025
Just one half of the yard to start, it's huge and I don't have the energy to do the whole thing. I might look into hiring someone to use a sod cutter on the other side next fall or spring.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Oh I'm actually removing the lawn! I'm using the dethatching rake to pull up the all the dead grass and roots - it's all dead, I deliberately killed it. I'm reseeding it with bee turf and putting in a new flowerbed.
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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 · 02/05/2025
I am basic - Kettle krinkle cut Salt and Black Pepper, or if I'm going Canadian then Miss Vickies Lime and Black Pepper. With a Fentiman's Ginger Beer.
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I believe it!!!!! Every vacation is just an hors d'oeuvre for the main event these days
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
yay!!!! we'll have to get matching caftans to wear during mid-week morning zoom-brunches!
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
it seems so far off, but I know the time will go quickly!
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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'll worry about whatever happens when it happens, and make action plans then. For now I'll just focus on what's in front of me (behind me is a huge glass wall - the only thing separating me from a polling station, lol)
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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
It's mostly just stiff, but who knows what tomorrow will bring!
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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
Mouse reading in bed
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
oh perfect!
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ShyViolet 🇨🇦 @shyviolet71.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
those are all excellent outcomes! I love it when you don't have to be there for this stuff.
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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
YES
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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
it's just stupid I'm wondering if I should just go part time and make do with a lot less money
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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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