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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 1h

I met a coo.

A Highland coo peering at me from the other side of a fence. It was teeny. Maybe 3' at the shoulder.

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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 4h

Black on Maroon
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4891

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 3h

Pentiment is so great! I only wish there was a way to restart the game partway through, rather than play from the beginning, to see the different outcomes.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 4h

No illusions that anyone might like it or want it. No illusions that it might be delicious, or that I'll ever make it again. It certainly won't make anyone "happy." Just checking this box that I hadn't gotten around to checking before: yes I have made proper fed fruitcake for Christmas. So there.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 4h

I will do my diligence and ask people what they want, but the answers will be shrugs (except that the kid probably wants a box-mix cake.)

This means anything and everything I bake for the holidays, I am baking for me. I NEVER made a proper, "fed" fruitcake, so here we are.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 4h

As an overconfident 20-something, safe in the knowledge that no one cared what I did for Christmas, I made some amazing things. Crystallized peel. Stollen. Gingerbread houses.

In my mid-40s, with a picky kid, keto parents, and a husband without specific desires, I am once again free.

A bowl full of delightful dried fruit: candied cherries, dates, apricots, raisins, pineapple, ginger.

The fruit now diced and doused in liquor.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 4h

I'm old enough to feel some dread, too. Trying to find ways to mitigate it.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 6h

Oh lord, it's over. The holiday season has begun.

I'm old enough that I'm not sure how I feel about that anymore but... it's begun!

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 22h

Alt: a fingerbone candle, a corner of a carved jack o lantern, pumpkin lights strung in the window. Real lights off so they glow.

Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 22h

Roasted pumpkin seeds

A bunch of golden crisp pepitas in the shell

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 22h

All spooky and stuff

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 1d

Late spring, so that should come soon but... I can't get the Big Wind Storm event that will give me the raccoon shop! This is an OLD save file and I've played about ten days in it with no luck so far. Hope it happens soon.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 1d

I BOUGHT THE CLOCK!!!

But last time I played I had just cut down all the trees in the forest, and now I need like 50 moss to do the new crafting stuff so fml.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 1d

Omg there are new crafting recipes fml

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

www.hakes.com/Auction/Item...

Wayne Boring “…And Remember, Boys And Girls, Your School - Like Our Country - Is Made Up Of Americans Of Many Different Races, Religions And National Origins. So…If You Hear Anybody Talk Against A Schoolmate Or Anyone Else Because Of His Religion, Race Or National Origin - Don’t Wait: Tell Him That Kind Of Talk Is Un-American. Help Keep Your School All-American!” (1950)

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

Have you heard that crows can recognize human faces... and that they hold a grudge, maybe for years?

Ever wonder how we can *know* that?

The answer:
Halloween costumes 🎃 & some innovative UW scientists working over decades, led by John Marzluff, co-author of "In the Company of Crows and Ravens".

John Marzluff, a professor at the School of Environmental and Forest Scients at University of Washington, in an ogre mask, for science.

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Masataka Hakozaki @mhak.bsky.social · 1d

Ghosts in the tank 👻

Made glowing and translucent ones too

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween! Acquired fancy coffee, planning to play Stardew Valley later because it's been forever and I'm close to 100%. I don't think I've seen the seasonal outfits, if that tells you how long.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop:

Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop)
Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller)
Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made)
Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie)
Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween! The rather scary looking Roos Carr figures with their quartzite eyes. Dating to the late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, the figures are part of the collections at the Hull and East Riding Museum of Archaeology. 📸 My own. #Halloween #Prehistory #Yorkshire

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 2d

The planner that works for me is a weekly spread that is OPEN on my desk all the time so I can't help but see it. I possess this and I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WANT A HOBONICHI INSTEAD. It wouldn't work for me!

It wouldn't!

Really

probably

i mean, maybe...

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 3d

Cherokee? Thinking Cherokee.

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 2d

There are soft pill pouches you could tear apart. Or liquid treats?

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Katharine Tree @treesandwords.bsky.social · 2d

a black and white cartoon of four skeletons standing in a cemetery .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of four skeletons standing in a cemetery .

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 8d

Oh in case I haven’t said it lately — there are a lot of museums on BlueSky and you should follow them all! They are interesting and have fun banter with each other! The exact opposite of hostile disinformation!

Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 8d

Want more spine-tingling history? Join us at the Spooktacular Family Fun Night on 29 Oct! Costumes, games, eerie crafts, spooky treats, and unforgettable fun inside Colchester Castle.

Book now and make this Halloween one to remember: colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/spook...

Spooktacular Family Fun Night | Colchester Museums

Join us for a spine-tingling adventure at the Castle Spooktacular Family Fun Night!

colchester.cimuseums.org.uk

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