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Ash formerly @costsofwar

@mountainash.bsky.social

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Recovering Marylander in Wa. Mamma. New orchardist!Gardener. Writer. Spanish teacher. Veteran’s advocate for my former SOF spouse #saveourforests thefungiresistance.etsy.com

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · Aug 6

I started watercoloring to show my son it’s ok to make something imperfect,but what came to be was a vocation to show the beauty of the PNW Old Growth to all.

You,too can be a part of The Fungi Resistance.Original designs on organic cotton $40 includes shipping.DM me

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 4h

I will never, not for one moment, regret moving here or having this time with him.

A child in a red shirt and rain boots reaches down to his mom’s hand from atop a fallen old growth tree

A child in a red shirt examines the cap of a mushroom

A child in a red shirt stands between two giant old growth trees

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 4h

The killing frost had use bring in the rest of the tomatoes-30 lbs!

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 4h

How are you after the rear-ending?

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 4h

Shakes head

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 5h

Postal fuckery has my art prints possibly not arriving until too late for the big festival this weekend and I really need you all to manifest a witch on a broom to get these to me asap.

a cartoon of a witch flying on a broom with the words woohoo below her .

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 19h

Love this so much about you

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not the mom factor nothing me so much, but the out of touch-ness of too many people in the elder generation of my family

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

So envious. Our former fig tree is now apparently producing heavily

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

We hit 26

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

I need a second cup of coffee

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Or… “maybe he can just ask for his job back?

Or, at 8am on Sunday, “maybe you should file for unemployment.”

I am too busy to hold space for your anxiety about my problems which I am unceasingly trying to solve.

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. Funny, I enjoy having cats, and I enjoyed my high school students

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch! If not makes you feel better, I sprained my thumb because I did a stupid thing on a ladder

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t make a cat do a single thing

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

How old are they? What breed?

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

wtf? My mom called just to ask if he’d talked to my 93yo grandfather on the east coast for advice? “Maybe if you moved back he could get you guys a job.”

In this economy?From a continent away?From his assisted living?

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

What happened?

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Both my divorced parents, who we haven’t asked anything of ever in our marriage, think it’s appropriate to pop into my text as their anxiety sees fit, to give me fucking financial advice.

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Yay!!!!!!

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Was told Enzo Valentino would not be affectionate, to not give him any,just visit. But that boy begged for scritches on that giant head when the nice lady brought him food.

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Time to harvest rose hips

Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Cats tend to be magical

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Ash formerly @costsofwar @mountainash.bsky.social · 1d

Well done, girls

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Scout and T @scoutandt.bsky.social · 1d

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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