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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊

@barbarakb.bsky.social

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Thoughtful Michigan Person 💭 Garden (6A), plants, birds and cooking Adore music, movies, bad TV & good books Detroit and Cincinnati baseball fan ⚾️ Politics: Midwest MYODB Meta Nonsense: threads.net/barbarakb Some Fediverse: mastodon.social/@barbarakb

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · Nov 24

Hey, new folks 👋🏼

Live in SE Michigan, a bit west of Detroit. Career in digital marketing.

Here, posts about my family, garden, cooking, Michigan politics, travel, and baseball.

Kinda nuts about baseball both Tigers and Reds. Other Detroit events!  
Sometimes discuss TV shows, movies & books.

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 2d

as I age, I’m less equipped to communicate well with young people I hire to do stuff around my home.
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it’s likely a generation gap but it’s sad to me. I’m feel like the old lady.
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doing certain aspects of the project myself becuz this person and I don’t communicate well.

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 3d

today was also
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find the Northern Spy Apples
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for the yummy pies and applesauce
🥧 🍽️ 🍜 #baking #cooking

A wooden crate filled with apples with a sign “Michigan Northern Spies $.99 A-LB”

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 10d

srsly happy so many showed up today in SE Michigan, Waterford Township, outside Detroit #NoKings

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 10d

Witnessed over a mile-long crowd along M59 (Highland Road) protest in *very conservative* Waterford Township, Michigan 🇺🇸 #NoKings 👑

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 11d

they are fun to grow 🌱 🌺

Peach and red dahlias in SE Michigan garden

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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 16d

Reminder on indigenous peoples day, permaculture, and regenerative concepts, are a rebranding of indigenous peoples’ models - they are the original authors. (Lots of white guy hippies teaching certification courses etc.) We garden on stolen land, we are benefactors of indigenous wisdom. 🌱

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 18d

the sea, she was rough today 🌊 #OuterBanks #Atlantic #Ocean #waves

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 18d

4th inning. it’s time.

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 19d

#beachart #beachvibes #shoes #OuterBanks #ocean

Sandal covered in rhinestones now with green moss and encrusted shells on a sandy beach ground in Outer Banks North Carolina near Rodanthe

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 20d

the Detroit Tigers fan energy we’re bringing to everything we do today. #GrittyTigs #Tigers #MLB #baseball

Wide-eye orange and black tiger drawing with mouth open and teeth bared

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 24d

DETROIT
vs
EVERYBODY*

*especially baseball commenters. lol! #mlb #baseball #tigers

a meme that says " you just lost to the 2025 detroit tigers " is shown

Alt: a meme that says " you just lost to the 2025 detroit tigers " is shown

media.tenor.com

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 24d

the Yankees off our televisions in three games would make lotsa baseball fans happy ⚾️ 📺 #MLB #baseball #BlueJays

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 26d

hateful men are literally killing Jews on their holiest day, Yom Kippur, in a synagogue
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how do Jews forgive this?
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how do they heal?

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 27d

roasted salsa-making night 🍜 🍽️ #coooking

Roasted Tomatoes, onions, peppers and garlic on two sheet pans cooling on top of a stove

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Mayor of Halloween Town @joshuajfriedman.com · 27d

Want to get to know Bad Bunny's music before he headlines the 2026 Super Bowl? Follow Becky's SIX-WEEK ANNOTATED SYLLABUS for all the essential listening and reading. (We all deserve a friend who'd make us a tabbed spreadsheet like this.)

Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 27d

Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo

Bad Bunny 101

docs.google.com

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re complaining about Cleveland & Detroit baseball fans not filling Progressive Field for a 1:00pm weekday Wild Card game tells me
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YOU’RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE ECONOMY
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PEOPLE IN THESE HARD-WORKING MIDWEST CITIES ARE AFRAID FOR THEIR JOBS #baseball #MLB #Tigers

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 28d

Motown can keep the slimy orange stuff it thinks is cheese

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 28d

that’s only a problem in Detroit

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 28d

it would break this both Tigers and Reds fan (live in Detroit, grew up in Cincinnati).

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 28d

it’s no **sacrifice** bunt when a runner comes home in a tight game in my baseball world

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · 29d

Today’s flower-cutting job site is the front yard’s dahlias. Sweaty but much-needed labor. 🌱 🌿 #flowers #dahlias #bloomscrolling

Various colored dahlia blooms on a table in a SE Michigan home

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · Sep 28

are you currently watching the correct Detroit vs Cleveland sports ball game?
📺 👀
I know I am.

🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · Sep 28

and not in today’s starting lineup against the Red Sox. he’s been struggling to hit anything lately. lotsa strikeouts.

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · Sep 23

health care costs and grocery prices

that’s it

it’s our *only* message this next year

hound it with various hammers

and those hammers are diverse Dems

doesn’t need to be one “GUY”

ignore everything else

we will win 🗳️ #voting #politics

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🌱 BarbaraKB in Michigan 🛶 🌊 @barbarakb.bsky.social · Sep 27

when cutting zinnia flowers becomes your job 🌱 🌿 #garden #flowers

Bunch of zinnias on deck floor near green zinnia patch with yard beyond

Various colorful zinnia flowers in a SE Michigan home

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