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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

@bloomingwriter.bsky.social

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canadian techy nerd/galactic sci-fi being. 🇺🇦💛🇺🇦💙NO DMs. Liberal, Ally. I write, edit, cook, take pictures, garden, knit for cat rescues. Bossed by 4 rescue cats. Nflder in NS. #slava Ukraine "We are caged in simulations" ~ Muse

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · May 30

THIS.

GrandmaDeb @deebee54.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

😂 exactly!! Priorities.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, he's a good boy. He's about 16 and deaf as a post but smart as a whip and very affectionate. His younger siblings all treat him well because he will scream if the youngest one plays too hard. (deaf drama queen).

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 1d

All better here, a good night sleep and kitty therapy always does wonders. Thanks! 😊

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Had three vaccinations yesterday and today feel a bit tired, sluggish & achy, so I was reading earlier & fell asleep. Woke up to Long Cool Loki looking earnestly at me. "It's Caturday!" Time to celebrate! #caturday #blueskycats #rescueisthebestbreed #adoptdontshop #blueskytuxedocats

Photo of a green-eyed tuxedo cat with impressive white whiskers staring at his human.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕🍂🎃 @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 3d

"Like the moon, we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again. So remember, you do not have to be whole in order to shine." ~ Harlow James

Art by Aniko (Aušrinė Aniko Daugėla)

#Caturday

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🗽⚖️ Þe Wyrst Gēnēre the hate & cruelty = fear & cowardice @patcat13.bsky.social · 3d

It’s #Caturday Night Eve!

Do you know what your cats are up to as you sleep?

#cats

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Some of us are working very hard to educate people to keep their cats indoors, cleaning up feral cat colonies, adopt from rescues... I have four indoor cats, & most everyone I know keeps theirs indoors. So we're making progress but it's hard when irresponsibles don't spay or neuter or keep inside!

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Shadow Cats TNR @shadowcatstnr.bsky.social · 4d

It's Global Cat Day and it's also National Feral Cat Day!

#GlobalCatDay #NationalFeralCatDay #CatsAreCommunity #TakeAction #TNR #communitycats #cats #tnrsaveslives #Volunteer #trapneuterreturn

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 4d

LOL. I have a little wooden box of those same treasures. Cats don't bother them... so far.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 4d

#thursdaypurrsday We've had some rain, it's cool & an excuse for my comfort quilt while I work, which invites Princess Cassie Marie Growltiger to come make biscuits & purr along to Gordon Lightfoot. #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop #cats #rescueisthebestbreed #kittybiscuits

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a tough year for sunflowers in many gardens. Not enough water meant they were stunted in size, and most are gone past and are dropping their seeds for the birds. Still a kind of wabi-sabi beauty about them, though. #gardenssky #bloomscrolling #gardens #droughtflowers #NSdrought2025

Photo is of small sunflowers that never grew to their full size due to drought, now fading and dropping their seeds. Photo has a bit of a vintage look from a filter.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 5d

For #WhiskersWednesday, Princess Cassie Marie Growltiger and her invisible whiskers. they're quite profuse but just the way she's lounging, white on white doesn't show. #cats #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed #dilutecalico #guardkitty

A very beautiful dilute calico with green eyes is looking lovingly up at her human. Her whiskers, which are profuse, are also white and look invisible here.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 6d

That's the biggest puffball I have ever seen! Please send the rain up here to your friends in Nova Scotia, and enjoy your largesse.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 7d

The bumblebees are slowly going to that forever sleep, except for the queens, of course. This makes me sad every autumn, but I guess going to sleep in an Apricot Lemonade cosmos flower is a good way to go. Thank you, bumbles. #gardenSky #pollinators #gardeningFeed #gardening #bloomscrolling

Photo shows half a dozen Apricot Lemonade cosmos, which are yellow with a peachy-pink centre, and a bumblebee in one of the flowers.

Two bumblebees collect pollen and bask in the mid October sunlight in an Apricot Lemonade cosmos. The flowers were slow to get going but bloom like mad maniacs.

Yet another bee in an Apricot Lemonade cosmos. The bumbles are slowly dying as they come to the end of their season, with only the queens overwintering in the ground. Thank you bees, and sleep well, o Queens.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 8d

No hard frost here yet, so many things continue to bloom, including these huge-flowered Luna-type hibiscuses. It's a good day to do some general tidying in the garden. #Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, much to be thankful for. #Gardensky #gardens #bloomscrolling #gardeningpeace

Photo of a big, red, hardy perennial hibiscus, not sure of the name. Two large flowers in deep red are in bloom, while the foliage is starting to change colour for autumn.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 9d

It's been a long and emotional day. Glad to get home to the furballs, to cuddle & be cuddled & celebrate #caturday with them. #adoptdontshop #blueskycats #catsofbluesky #rescueisthebestbreed #calicosofbluesky

Her Royal Floofiness, Princess Cassie Marie Growltiger, a semi longhair dilute calico, is waiting to be brushed, one of her favourite things. Her green eyes are begging for brushings!

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 10d

A sunny fall day, perfect for making food for a funeral gathering tomorrow, assisted (or at least observed) by several of the Herd. Sandy Goldeneyes Fraidy was fearful of my hairdryer this morning so hid for a while but finally emerged. #BlueskyCats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed

In the foreground, a pale ginger and white cat with very golden eyes squints at his human. In the background, a very busy tabby sidles up to his calico sister. Shenanigans ensue!

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 13d

What I listen to depends on what I'm doing. When editing or writing, classical like Debussy or Bach or Chopin. When stressed & done work, Queen, Bowie, Muse... or Gordon Lightfoot. Just watered most of my Hoyas and warbled along to this, one of my desert island discs for sure. Now to sleep.

Photo is the cover of Gordon Lightfoot's 1975 double record Gord's Gold. One of my favourite albums of all time, still played regularly, along with other songs from other albums. Summer Side of Life, Looking at the Rain, Talking in your Sleep, Circle of Steel... the soundtrack of my youth, and that of so many other Canadians, and others, too. Thank you for all the music, Gord.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 13d

Isn't that the truth? Even with cat drinking fountains, they manage to flick crunchies in!

Cat And Dog Tips @catanddogtips.bsky.social · 13d

Every time.... 😉 #Cats #CatsOfBlueSky #BlueSkyCats

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 14d

Just a slipcover. It's my old and much used pale yellow leather recliner, & I found this slipcover online at the evil empire, and love it. (4 pieces but easy to put on. )

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 14d

When I proofread, I sit in my recliner with the footrest up, and put my laptop on the arm of the chair. Which is totally inviting to Sandy Goldeneyes Fraidycat, who is purring very hard like a foot massager. #catsofbluesky #rescueisthebestbreed #adoptdontshop #tabbycatsofbluesky #blueskycats

A pale orange and white tuxedo kitty is asleep between his human's feet, on the recliner in her office. (which is covered with a slipcover that replicates Van Gogh's Starry Night.) Human is proofreading and he is purring hard like a foot massager.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 14d

Very dry here, too. Several wildfires in the Annapolis Valley where I live, and today we can smell the smoke from the one some 45 km away. Farmers, forests, gardeners all desperate for rain.

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 15d

Missed Caturday yesterday because busy outside, so please enjoy the lounging, squinting beauty of Herby Bells the Badass Tabby. #catsofbluesky #rescueisthebestbreed #adoptdontshop #caturday #tabbycatsofbluesky #blueskycats

Photo is of a very pretty black and grey tabby laying on the edge of a butcher-block type bench in the kitchen. He is squinting at his human as she makes Salisbury Steak. Later, he will climb on the back of her chair, put his feet in her hair, and roll around purring, and not even bugging for food. He is a good boy, but busy and mischievous.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 15d

The garden is still flourishing in spite of no significant rain for better than 2 months (but a deep well so I can water). Golden tomatoes still producing, asters comforting fading bees, & begonias in bloom. #gardensky #gardens #bloomscrolling #canadagardens #fallflowers #heritagetomatoes

Still producing tomatoes though I've pulled some vines. A soft yellow colander is full of golden and yellow tomatoes, both paste and sandwich types. All delicious.

The bumblebees are slowing down as they come to the end of their lives. Here, three bumbles hang out in the hot pink fall asters, a cross between two varieties. The queen bumbles will overwinter, and the workers and drones will die. Always makes me sad.

Photo shows a basket made of purple lobster wire filled with two massive tuberous begonias, in white and red to make a Canadian planter. No frost here yet so I just water them occasionally and they keep going.

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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 16d

It would be SO nice if we had an edit button. That should have been #gardensky and #gardening in the hashtags. Anyway, my pink asters are profuse!

Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @bloomingwriter.bsky.social · 16d

A perfectly huge profusion of pale pink Harrington's Pink fall asters. I trim tall asters back in June by about ⅓ which results in them being shorter, absolutely smothered in flowers. Bees, other pollinators love these flowers. #gardenssky #bloomscrolling #fallasters #pollinators #gardens

A perfectly huge profusion of pale pink Harrington's Pink fall asters. I trim all my tall asters back in June by about ⅓ which results in them being shorter and absolutely smothered in flowers. The bees and other pollinators love these flowers.

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