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A fabulous spinster
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Chemist by education, now retired from an engineering profession. Amateur artist. Portlander for now, but still missing NM. Spinster style: More Vera Stanhope than Auntie Mame. (she/her)
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Cinderella Skeleton is an amazing book
Girl, same. And I’m loving the kids who are more excited about the books than the candy.
I’m giving out books tonight in addition to candy.

It’s funny. Some kids are like ‘no book’ and some are like ‘oh wow, I got a book!’
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BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin
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'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post
Carved the pumpkins I grew this year and finished decorating the house to be spooky.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon messing around making baskets out of the invasive English ivy I cleaned up.

Very, very rustic baskets, but it was actually pretty fun.
There’s something so lovely about sitting in bed on a rainy Sunday morning drinking a good cup of a coffee with your dog snuggled up next to you.
Agreed.

Also appreciate you breaking out the word ‘guff’.
The GIF is perfect.
When a new technology suddenly pivots from being sold as a tool for business and governments, to individual subscription services and “adult” entertainment (porn) it’s a bad sign for anyone who’s invested in said new technology.
a woman with a soap bubble behind her face
Alt: a woman looking delighted as she pops a soap bubble.
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I’m watching ‘Gilmore Girls’ for the first time.

I can’t even with Lorelei. But Luke and Dean are both hot.
I wish I weren’t moving soon or I might be running to adopt that black beauty.
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Punk bands played his stuff in the 80s, dipshit
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.
Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?
Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.
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A painting I did of a friend’s cat who recently passed. The cat’s name was Kevin Garnett. RIP Kevin
Currently at the animal ER for the second time this week due to my dog’s seizures.

Zero out of five stars. Do not recommend.
Oliver is trying to wind down for the night.
‘I had a bad habit
Of missing lovers past
My brother used to call it
"Eating out of the trash” …’

Girl, that lyric hit. 😂
My girl pup’s day in the ICU for seizures has worn both dogs out.

Tonight starts life with a dog with epilepsy. Hoping her new meds keep things under control going forward.
I took a ‘bird anatomy’ watercolor class today. It was a lovely way to spend a late Saturday morning.

Here’s the studies I painted.
Really enjoyed the first two episodes.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Sep 22
Ethan Hawke plays a bookstore owner who moonlights as a muckraking reporter in Tulsa, Okla. Though The Lowdown occasionally meanders or misfires, every episode of the FX series is bracingly alive.
'The Lowdown' isn't just a good show. It's a good hang
Ethan Hawke plays a bookstore owner who moonlights as a muckraking reporter in Tulsa, Okla. Though The Lowdown occasionally meanders or misfires, every episode of the FX series is bracingly alive.
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We have new renters on the other side of my leaf blower dad neighbor, and those renters include a leaf blower dad…the kind that uses it daily to clear his front steps. 😫

Brooms…brooms work just fine for steps.
I currently feel like a spider scrabbling in a glass jar.

Just saying…
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Time to break out the chart