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@sawdustmaker.bsky.social

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Legal immigrant, living and working in Texas, small holder, beekeeper, wood turner, geoscience subsurface data wrangler, dog owner, cat butler, pony feeder.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · Dec 25

This is feed for beekeepers. It's run from a contributor list that I maintain and pulls posts using the keyword beekeeper, hive, honey, varroa or the honeybee emoji 🐝.

If you want to join the conversation, use #addbeekeeper in a post and I'll add you.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 4h

Sooo...I'm tweaking my home/office ratio such that today I'm in the office but tomorrow I'm not and I'm mightily confused cos I think it's Thursday. I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually.

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 1d

🦎 Oops! No Lizard pictures today!
But I did see this Lizard yesterday!

Almost adult male green anole on his way down some sort of stem lifts his head to look at us with lizardly disdain.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 1d

If it's not back by next week, I'm going to hit them hard with a major and I mean major leaflet campaign!

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 1d

Here used to be the best coffee machine in the building. But no more. #coffee

An empty kitchen space with tiles and a significant lack of coffee machine.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 1d

Clean as a whistle. No over heating problems this afternoon! #smallfarmlife

The front radiator of my tractor after it's been cleaned of seed fluff.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 2d

The seeds had covered the radiator too. Its a new 2nd hand tractor for me and it took me ages to find the lever to open it up after i saw the temperature gauge touching the red. I'm going to get the shop vac out to clean it properly

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't keep your tractor grill free of fluffy seeds, it's ability to cool the engine will be impaired. Ask me how i know! #smallfarmlife

Front of tractor covered with light brown fluff from seeds.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. We had to shovel out the ash each day before starting the fire so that shoot could have saved a lot of work.

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 2d

D'y'all not have a fire grate? In all the houses with open fires, we had a metal grate which allowed the ash to fall through. Are you building you fire on the floor of the fire place.

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 3d

I think his voice is better now than back in the 80s.

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know if it's on audio book but The Map that Changed the World en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Map...

The Map that Changed the World - Wikipedia

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 4d

Being an adult is hard but occasionally I can decide to have cake for lunch and then cake for dessert. So that's nice. #cake #cakeisnice

A purple milk tea and creme brulee cake.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 8d

Ugh...5am alarm and the commute in to Houston was most unwelcome but the sky this morning was beautiful. #beautifulsky #fullmoon

A bright moon shines through low clouds.

sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 9d

We are lucky to have a neighbour who comes to visit twice a day. And by the state of the house when we got back i think they might have had a couple of illicit parties while we were gone.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 9d

RoadTrip. End of the road. BonBon and Doggo join me for an impromptu snuggle now that we're home. Big Boy Clyde is under the table still a little irked at being left alone for so long. #dogs #cats

Grey and white cat leaning against me on one side and a white dog leaning against the other.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 10d

I'm starting to go native. I held it from OKC until I crossed the border to Texas and a buc-ee's restroom.

Inside of a buc-ee's. Shelves of candy and best restrooms in Texas.

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 10d

I did not get any Lizard pictures today, but I did see TWO (2!) green anoles yesterday!
Here is the second one!
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Adult female green anole climbing u a wedelia leaf with her back to us. She has a mottled stripe down her spine that looks quite like a blade of grass with seed pods on it.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 10d

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Billy Bragg -There Is Power In A Union

YouTube video by Col “Honest Col”

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 11d

RoadTrip. Day Friday. The Oregon trail in Nebraska. You have died of an easily prevented disease. Thanks, brainworm guy. #vaccines

A man holding on to the horn of part of a 6 oxen team (made of plastic) hitched to a wagon at Scott's bluff.

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 12d

RoadTrip. Is it Wednesday or Thursday? Anyway...one for the film buffs. do do do-dooo

Devil's tower, a large volcanic plug of Grey rock jutting out of the landscape against a blue sky.

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 13d

🦎 Baby Lizard of the Day just woke up!

Incredibly tiny baby green anole clings to a wedelia leaf, looking extremely waif-like.

Same baby lizard, viewed from a distance so we can see how incredibly teeny tiny & itty bitty he is, cautiously makes his way up a wedelia stalk. He is so tiny! Did he just hatch? Is this the first time he has ever climbed anything?

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sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social · 14d

RoadTrip. Day...I have no idea. but here is a picture of a bear.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16d

👀 ⛳️ 🏌️‍♂️ 🏆 #RyderCup

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 16d

🦎Lizard of the Day suspects you are not a bug!

Also, I don’t have a picture because I was holding Cat, but Gobblekins saw me pick up Cat & was SO CONFUSED!
This has happened several times before, & Gobblekins is always flummoxed & looks all over to see where Cat went!😹

Juvenile green anole climbing up some sansevieria leaves, turning its head to look at you with deep suspicion!

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 17d

The Ryder Cup is a perfect microcosm for America in 2025 - overhyped, performatively chesty, whiny, and boorish. IOW, a 'complete embarrassment'

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