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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️

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Amateur photographer, avid reader, retired sys admin, ecologist at heart, a grandparent, and responsible for Guy Noir the black cat and Monty the gray shih tzu dog. Timeline follows my train of thought, such as it is. Illustration by Henrique Alvim Correa

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 2h

Tempus fugit
Selling the "family home"

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Selling The House

The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks!

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Thanks!

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Alexander S. Kunz Photography @alex-kunz.com · 5h

#SilentSunday

A color landscape photo showing a winter scene with trees silhouetted in backlight from the low sun. In the foreground a row of dry reeds catches some of the low sun as well, behind the trees a river's calm water reflects the light. The sky is almost clear, but hazy.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 4h

A tall “virgin” pine on our place. There are several of these survivors on the place. My great great grandfather may have stood by this tree. We lost one of the biggest on the property to a lightning strike recently. Anyway I love these old trees.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 3h

Looks wonderful. So much to see.

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 3h

My mother was a seamstress, or more appropriately a tailor. I learned an appreciation for cut, material and sewing from her. It's an art.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 3h

Virginia creeper effects
#Artsy #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #EastCoastKin

An artsy rendering of a photo of fall colors in a Virginia creeper: a few palmate, almost fluorescent red leaves emerge from a confusion of fall colors, pink, red, green and yellow against a smoky brown background. The ambiance is stormy, probably because there was a thunderstorm in the park where the vine is growing and flowing down the fences.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 6h

So true. As pointed out, a good shirt made by fairly paid labor is going to cost upwards of $200.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 6h

$30 buys you a cheap Target shirt. I don't know what planet he's living on.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10h

tl;dr Yes prison labor will probably play some role. But the bulk of the US's farm labor by far will probably come from WAY more H2A visas.

Which the Trump admin just lowered wages on! They've also made it a lot easier to do modern day farm slavery on H2A workers & get away with it.

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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12)
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ICYMI: Cross Country Edition (10/12)

The Board of Directors has developed a real taste for the long distance run, and we are lucky enough to be in a district with an elementary cross country program.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 10h

We need to get rid of the idea that a SAVIOR will help us return to sanity. We need to return ourselves to sanity; the headliners might give us an example, but they aren't the necessary base we need to build. They're just boards in the building.

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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 10h

In case anyone needs it today.

A letter by Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Charlie Brown, in response to an inquiry he received, in which he states the importance of holding on to democratic values and living in solidarity with minorities.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 10h

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 10h

Floating ...

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 10h

How Housman's The Shropshire Lad relates to Donald Trump's life
H/T @dianeravitch.bsky.social substack
#Poetry #Parody #TheLifeOfDJT
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Sunday Pages: "Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff"

A poem by A.E. Housman

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

Merveilleux alt text aussi!

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

Scary stuff for mostly dry areas. The Animas can be a real ripper, too. Dolores! All of that is scary.

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

If only it was that simple!

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

ROTFL

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

Gruel sounds good too! I've always liked oatmeal, except the gluey style. I have oat flakes and pinhead oats, to make both. 🥣🍪

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

My dad used to say everyone is "a nice guy" when you share a beer with them. It doesn't make them good people.

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 11h

I used to live by the creek above Bayfield. I suppose that cabin is washed away. Pagosa Springs, further north, is in trouble too. Fires destroy trees which help slow down floods.
#ColoradoFloods #FireAndRain

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Raging creeks cut off evacuation routes in southwest Colorado as about 390 households were forced to flee

Heavy rain sent by Hurricane Priscilla forced about 390 homes at the north end of Vallecito Reservoir to evacuate. More weather is on the way.

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