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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Survived the first firing (aka: first Christmas market of the year is in a week so I’m doing half-assed math and combining clays with different shrinkage rates)

A two colored (brown and white) yarn bowl, fresh out of its first trip through the kiln.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 2d

It doesn’t help that they come do like, 1/2 a step of the process once every 2-3 weeks.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 3d

Will they finish this before it starts snowing? Place your bets now.

Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nothing like the power company rolling up with 4 bucket trucks to figure out what’s been wrong with the power in your neighborhood since last September to make your week get Significantly Better.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 4d

Your website is hideous, what is this, Xanga??

(This is a subtweet)

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 4d

Another month later and they’ve been back out at least twice more to continue digging the hole, but so far, no new pole has shown up.

Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 5d

Brain doesn’t know the difference between potentially confrontational situations and being chased by a bear, thus, stress dreams about something that already happened.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 7d

Welcome to the knowledge that will never fully leave you.

Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 8d

Every once and a while I’m reminded by the universe that someone I once considered a friend didn’t know that magic erasers are just Very fine grit sandpaper and was using it to regularly “clean” her menstrual cup.
Do not do this.
Do not be this person.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 13d

Mornings with Archimedes: she will steal your pillow for the fake sunny spot.

A tabby cat lays on her human’s pillow, basking in the artificial sunlight of a sunrise alarm clock. It is 5:27am, medicine and snack time is at 5:30. The pillow belongs to her now.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 13d

I still know my (now) dead grandmothers phone number and she’s been dead for 9 years and was in a nursing home for about 4 years before that.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 18d

Roo (like kangaroo)-Shee
(No I don’t know why)

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 18d

I see this and raise you: Russia, Ohio.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 21d

Ah, the dulcet tones of a monthly tornado siren test.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 21d

There’s very few feelings quite like stepping off a plane to the wall of humidity after being somewhere where it is Properly Fall.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 21d

Ran a half marathon this morning (for the first time since the fall of 2023, somehow), didn’t die, would do this race again. Not looking forward to being at the airport at 4am.

A photo of the Presumpscot River from US Route 1 during the Maine Half Marathon with an overlay of race statistics.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 21d

That one. That is me.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 24d

Airport knitting (Fire Pink and Virginia Bluebells from @dyemadyarns.bsky.social)

A hand knit child’s sweater in progress. There is nondescript airport carpet in the background.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 24d

A month later they have finally come out and dug the hole for a new power pole behind the house (to replace the one that’s there) so they can add a second transformer.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 24d

You could have just changed the jewelry instead of taking it out. That’s not rocket science.

Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 26d

The holes aren’t always the size they’re “supposed to be”, your crochet hook’s hook is larger than the barrel.
.75mm hook is what you want for beading

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 26d

Welp, at least I know what the rest of my timelines (and my day tomorrow) will look like..

Reposted by Allison Switzer

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 26d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · 27d

Taper week: the one where I always pick up the weirdest injuries. (This time, wrist)(it’ll either be fine by the time I go to Maine at the end of the week or it’ll turn itself into tendinitis)

Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · Sep 24

Almost always: a corner hit will do it.

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Allison Switzer @allisonswitzer.bsky.social · Sep 23

Ou as in oo Shoup the road is ‘shoop’ (at least that’s the common pronunciation)

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