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Joe 🏊🍺✨
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gen x midwest kid in the south
nature, family, kindness & love

Hit The Drink 🏊: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhsbe63mq2msrtaxgix7g73y/feed/hit-the-drink

Home Brewing 🍺: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhsbe63mq2msrtaxgix7g73y/feed/home-brewing
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Joe 🏊🍺✨ @j2woolums.xyz · Aug 1
What do I see when I swim? 🏊‍♂️👀

It's not just the black line marking the center of the lane, a static point of reference as I go back and forth each lap.

It's also the dance of sunlight and water, constantly moving, shimmering on everything below the surface - beauty in motion ☀️🌊✨ 😌

#swimming
underwater photo of the bottom of an outdoor swimming pool; the black tile line marking the center of the lane, and shimmering all over from sunlight passing through the moving surface of the water
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📢 exciting news 🎉

I studied this book 💡📚💙 and passed the Tennessee business and law management exam - another step towards becoming a qualifying agent for a contractor license 🏗️🚧👷

also planning to do this for more states 📑

#construction
Reference book for Tennessee business and law management exam: "NASCLA Contractors Guide to Business, Law and Project Management - Tennessee" by National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies (NASCLA)
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It felt good to swim laps today after a few days off. The air was a little chilly, but sunlight peeking through the cloudy sky was nice 🏊⛅😊
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool on a cloudy December 1st afternoon. Steam can faintly be seen rising from the water due to the cool air temperature. The black line marking the center of a lane is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, walls of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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This recap of my year on Bluesky is neat - it seems I'm below average on interaction numbers, but rather proficient at grass touching 😉

The @anisota.net interface is pretty cool too 😎
Posts By Type - Total Posts: 441 (82% below average) Standalone Posts: 122 Replies: 319 (81% below average) Threads: 13 (90% below average) Unique Interactions - Total Unique: 2,366 (23% below average) Mentioned: 9 Replied To: 152 Liked: 2,138 Reposted: 50 Quoted: 17 Engagements Received - Total Engagements: 3,065 Likes: 2,676 Reposts: 115 (99% below average) Quotes: 22 (98% below average) Replies: 252 Mentions: 13 Grass Touching - You're a "Night Owl" with 1 posts/day Activity Patterns - Active Streak: 14 days Longest Break: 6 days Most Active Time: 7pm Most Active Day: Sunday Most Active Month: October Days Active: 364/365
November 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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(sharing to BookSky)
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Good morning.
Hope you can manage to squeeze some side quests into your day.
👑🪶🗝️✨

(via @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social)
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Hope you all have a beautiful day 🏞️💚

#NatureVideo #River
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Milestone alert: We're celebrating our first anniversary today! In just one year, we went from an idea on a blog post to sending 8.6 *million* users 23.5 *billion* posts across thousands of feeds created by thousands of brilliant, creative people who are working together to create a better internet.
An illustrated image of a city in the distance between from the perspective of a canyon and the text YEAR ONE DONE overlaid
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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that moment when you try to click the "search post buttons" but accidentally hit unfollow and have to follow them back hoping they don't notice.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Home Brewing 🍺 is a feed about brewing your own beer (also mead, cider, etc.)
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The grill stayed hot for a while Sunday afternoon/evening - smoked chicken and apples for dinner tonight 🐓🍎🧀🫘🍺 and smoked sirloin tip roast (beef) to use later this week 🥩 are What's Cooking 🍽️ here.

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
upper left: chicken breasts and honeycrisp apples smoking on a charcoal grill. apples are seasoned with brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. upper right: apple, baked beans, chicken, and cheese (cheddar and colby-jack) on a red plate. a glass of homebrew pumpkin ale is next to the plate. lower left: sirloin tip roast (beef) smoking on a charcoal grill. lower right: smoked sirloin tip roast sliced on a cutting board.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Flavors of fall are What's Cooking 🍽️ here for a different twist on my usual breakfast - half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on top 🍂

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on a small blue plate. A coffee cup is next to the plate on a wooden table.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness. n.pr/49S06UX
If you're going to be kind to another human, today is the day to do it!
November 13 is World Kindness Day. Its goal is to encourage acts of kindness. (After all, one kind day is better than none.) Here's a look at the nature and nurturing of human kindness.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Buy yourself the flowers. You deserve it. ❤️
A red vase full of red and yellow flowers. The bouquet includes roses, carnations and mums.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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With cool autumn weather in mind 🍂 chili and cornbread are What's Cooking 🍽️ here tonight, accompanied by pumpkin ale homebrew 🍅🫘🌶️🫑🧅🧀🌽🎃🍺

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Homemade chili in a green bowl with melted cheese on top. Cornbread on a small blue plate, a bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce, and a glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer are next to the bowl on a wooden table.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The smiling will continue until your morale improves
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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We're excited to share the name of this year's penguin chick — Tater! 🐧 🥔 A recent blood test revealed that our newest Gentoo (hatched in May to parents Carla and Big Foot) is male. The name was chosen by the winning bidder of our annual fundraising auction.
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Hit The Drink 🏊 is a feed about swimming - for recreation, fitness or competition - in a pool or open water
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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This smiley-face sky and I are wishing you a happy #SkySunday. 😊
White puffy clouds form the shape of two eyes and a smiling mouth against a blue sky. Beneath are the tops of green trees. There are the tops of a yellow and white tents at the very bottom.
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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In celebration of autumn 🍂 Pumpkin Ale is What's Cooking (Brewing) here 🍽️🍺 This amber ale began by steeping pumpkin puree with malt to convert pumpkin starches into fermentable sugars 🎃🫧, and finished with a bit of pumpkin pie spices 🥧😋

Cheers! 🍻
#beer #homebrew #BskyBeer
A glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer sitting on a wooden porch railing. The ale is amber in color and has a frothy head. Three small pumpkins sit on the railing next to the glass. A forested ridge is visible in the distant background.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Another rainy lunchtime lap swim here 🏊🌧️

Not a problem, though. This outdoor pool is heated (look close and you might see steam rising from the water). And the feeling and sound of raindrops keeps it interesting 😁

#swimming #fitness
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool on a rainy day. Ripples from raindrops are visible on the surface of the water in the foreground, and steam can be seen rising from the water due to the cool air temperature. The black lane marker line is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, wall of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I enjoyed reading Hit The Floor by @dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social 😊

Mystery and drama, along with some humor and relatable characters, plus a feel-good ending ☺️

⚡📚💙
#BookSky
cover of Hit The Floor by dawnruhnaybrown
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I feel like I can relate to this avatar - watching all the vibrant creativity going on here, and even being inspired a bit myself 👀✨

Thanks @graze.social for helping folks do cool stuff!
Image clipped from Graze Social's new brand artwork. Clipped image shows a little white character with a pointy nose sitting on something that looks like a leaf, watching all the thriving creativity going on at the top of the scene.
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Some of my favorite moments while swimming are the few seconds each time I push off the wall for backstroke. Looking to the sky from underwater, light bending and dancing through the moving surface - it always seems magical 🏊🌤️🌊✨☺️

#swimming
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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You can be damaged and still be beautiful 🌱
A small cluster of blanket flowers (I think these are Gaillardia pulchella) with vibrant red petals tipped in golden yellow. Several of them lost petals to heavy storms, insect bites and time.
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM