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Andrea Cesari
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Living in a two loom garage with an attached house in the Cascadia bioregion. Mostly things related to textiles, and lots of photos of Victor Velluto, an elegant goofball Russian Blue cat.
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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · Jan 21
Victor has made it clear that this is the only correct and true configuration of office equipment that will meet his needs.
A grey cat, asleep (he wants to think) on his back, his front paws curled up bunny-style, and his fang showing, just a little bit. Behind him is a pale green iMac and in front of him is a black adaptive keyboard. This positioning assures frequent breaks for belly rubs (his, not mine.)
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Can anybody recommend a knitting pattern for a medium sized dog sweater? 🐩
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer Gertrude Jekyll was born #OnThisDay in 1843. She bought this pair of men's leather boots when she was in her 40s and continued to wear them (after many repairs) until her death in 1932. Guildford Museum collection. #fashionhistory
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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IT’S CATURDAY AT SLUGGO’S TOO!
SLUGGO IS ON THE TELEPHONE WITH NANCY AND SAYS… CATS HE IS SURROUNDED BY CATS , THEY ARE CLIMBING ON HIS SHOULDERS AND SITTING ON HIS LAP.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
For #caturday Victor says you need to relax and look at things from a different perspective
A gray cat lies on his back on a cream fleece blanket. He is looking at the camera. His fangs are just visible
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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At first, I was uncertain whether to feature a large crowd in this three-cat, portrait-poster, and it was a lot of work but really worth it in the end. The crowd represents a diversity of jobs, furs, abilities, ages, and cultures in unison.
A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Born #OTD in 1898: C. S. Lewis, creator of Narnia!

This hand-drawn map is his own sketch, later redrafted by Pauline Baynes for Prince Caspian.

Spot Aslan’s How, Cair Paravel and Lantern Waste on the map. 🦁

Shelfmark: MS. Eng. lett. c. 220/1, fol. 160
Illustrated map of the fictional world of Narnia, showing notable locations such as Cair Paravel, Lantern Waste, and the Wild Lands of the North, with annotations and directional compass.
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Mobile manicule service - 13th/14th century, Montpellier. Bibliothèque interuniversitaire, Section Médecine, H 51, f. 138r
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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sloughs. This road in Red Pheasant leads to 'Strawberry Town.' Nobody knows why this name. The dogs would run under the cart on a hot day to keep in the shade." - Allen Sapp. From the book 'A Cree Life,' 1977. Painting: Allen Sapp (1929 - 2015)
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Aftermath
November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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It is difficult to put precise dates on #Victorian menswear. In this case, the misfortune of Ord&Purvis, the manufacturers of our tailcoat, is our luck:
They opened in 1872 but declared bankruptcy in 1874.
Images from 1872 ‘The Gentleman’s Magazine‘ illustrate that the cut is indeed typical.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Life here is full of tomorrows.
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I can’t recall how I managed to put this on my watch list but gosh it’s good!
Alchemy of Souls (TV Series 2022–2023) ⭐ 8.7 | Action, Drama, Fantasy
1h 20m | TV-14
www.imdb.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A Terror Bird in seven-league boots. Brown pencil, 68 × 89 mm. From 2020.
Humorous drawing in brown pencil of a phorusrhachid, a 'terror bird', an extinct flightless bird from the Cenozoic Era with a large head; a stout, heavy, hooked beak; small wings; and long, robust legs; striding merrily in a pair of cavalier boots.
October 19, 2023 at 5:08 PM
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Kitty is thankful for a beautiful stargazy pie 🐟
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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My annual appreciation of Bell’s Poetry Seasoning. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone
oldbluedoor.bsky.social Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · Nov 28
My first Thanksgiving in Oregon I asked a grocery store clerk where I would find the Bells Poultry Seasoning. He didn’t know and asked his manager where the Bell’s Poetry Seasoning was, and that’s how I’ve thought of it ever since. #thanksgiving
The box art for Bells Poultry Seasoning, which has a very Victorian vibe, with artwork of a turkey in the center, framed by side columns of green leaves against a red background. The lettering BELLS POULTRY SEASONING in white lettering on a red background. The William Bell Company Since 1867. I think it’s a New England thing.
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Northwest Battle Buddies, a nonprofit pairing service dogs with veterans with PTSD, celebrated its 300th pairing last week in Vancouver, Washington.

📹 ✏️ by Saskia Hatvany/OPB
✂️ by Joey Lovato/OPB
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A digital approximation of a child’s crayon drawing. Am outline traced around a hand has been transformed into a turkey in profile, filled in roughly with brown, and with the fingers becoming green, red, orange, and yellow feathers and a bird’s eye, beak and wattle added to make the thumb into a head facing to the right. A pilgrim hat with buckle has been put on the turkey’s head and its stick feet are standing on green crayon grass. To the left, either in the distance or much smaller is a stick figure pilgrim with similarly buckled hat holding a hatchet. The turkey has a very roughly drawn speech bubble containing the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I remember watching news coverage of Solidarity demonstrations and thinking fax machines had to have enabled them at least in part. Here’s a man who helped make that possible
Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The Southwest American
Fort Smith Arkansas,11.25.1917
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE P1 MR.TRUE: WHY, HELLO, JOHNSON, WHAT BRINGS YOU AROUND THIS WAYS WON'T YOU COME IN? MR.JOHNSON: YeS, EVERETT, I CAN STAY A LITTLE WHILE. I WAS JUST OVER VISITING WITH I THE SMITH'S. FOUR OF THEIR CHILDREN HAVG THE MEASLES, AND - P2- MR . TRUE THROWS MR.JOHNSON OFF THE FRONT PORCH.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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My brain thinks that “restless” should be spelled “wrestless” every single time!
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Last zoom workshop of the year! Make your holiday gifts.

Pay-what-you-can

12/6 at 1pm ct

www.eventbrite.com/e/1975114061...
Intro to Embroidery with Badass Cross Stitch
Learn to embroider, stitch something brilliant, have a laugh, try something new! Just in time to make all your holiday gifts!
www.eventbrite.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Just out!

As @sarahsemple.bsky.social says, '544 pages and 190 images of pure sculptural joy!'

A fantastic cast list and a tremendous achievement @ascorpus.bsky.social.

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November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Auggie looks like a man with a prodigious knowledge of bawdy jokes
jdmccafferty.bsky.social John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3d
August von Sachsen, 1565

Lucas Cranach the Younger

(Kunsthistrosches Museum Wien)
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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May that person never hold a position of responsibility again. A couple of hundred hours of pro bono support for soup kitchen and food bank IT systems might be a nice idea, Mr. Bally.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM