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Maryanne W 🇺🇦

@uptownone.bsky.social

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Edmontonian, grandma, former Winnipegger, ebike owner, known cookie pusher. Retired & living the dream. I’m nice, not sweet. In a world where you can be anything, be kind. ESTJ🇨🇦

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 19d

Wise words from the doctor last year, still valid today.

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 8h

Dear Newfoundland:

Good luck.

Love,
Alberta

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 8h

Healthcare’s a mess, teachers are on strike.. I know, new license plates!
Wait…do I smell a fart?

Woman in purple dress & white jacket sitting with her talk notes and a confused look on her face.

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 19h

Work continues on the old Hurtig log home.

Partially dismantled log home with orange scaffolding and pipes stacked in front

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 23h

Wtf? A cybertruck owner with a sense of humor?

Black Tesla cybertruck with FORD written on trunk

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 23h

This Dollarama card for a 4 year-old is on its way to a soon-to-be 74 year-old.

Birthday card with a number 4 and 3 elegant princesses on blue mat

Modified card for a 74 year-old with 3 princesses on blue mat with paint brush, felt pens & white paint tray

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 1d

My chef friend gave me a hot tip for stock making: high pressure 45 min, quick release.
Repeat.

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 1d

The “steam release” button on my Instant Pot™️ ought to be renamed “release the delicious turkey stock aroma into the house” button.😜

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 1d

I try not to, I get it.

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 1d

Social media has made far too many people comfortable with saying things that in past would get you punched in the mouth.

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 2d

Done:
Turkey on the smoker✔️
Cranberry sauce✔️
Gluten free pumpkin cheesecake✔️
Gluten free gravy✔️
To do:
*bacon roasted Brussels sprouts
*roasted garlic mashed potatoes
*ambrosia
*roasted cauliflower
*hot garlic & spinach dip
#nomnomnom

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 2d

I am not knowing of gander. I’m pretty happy here!

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 2d

What Jim, Aaron & Glenn said!! ❤️

Jim Wachowich @jimwacho.bsky.social · 2d

This sums it up nicely.

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 3d

Well that was a fun (albeit a bit chilly) ride to honor Dr M.
My heart is full.

Large group of cyclists gather in a snowless park on a cold fall day

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Cranksgiving!
See you there.

5 cyclists of varying ages gathering to ride

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 3d

There’s something particularly satisfying squeezing warm roasted garlic into a bowl for future uses.

Blue gloved hand skwishing roasted garlic bulb into blue bowl with 2nd garlic bulb waiting on foil wrapper for its turn

Blue bowl of freshly roasted garlic with spoon on black counter

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s an exchange between Dr M and I from last year.
Still can’t quite believe he’s gone.

A freshly repaired trail in the bush in the river valley with explanation “sorry I was digging.”

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been so long since we had a good bout of precipitation here in Edmonton, I’d forgotten how rain ringing off the windows sounded like.

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 4d

Feeling Dr M’s presence….

Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 4d

Adventure walk with the boys on the single track by Emily Murphy Park. Beautiful day!

Man & 2 boys off in the distance with tire-covered wooden bridge with fall colours abound

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 5d

Hosting 2 small humans while their teachers fight with the Alberta Govt.
They’re not so little anymore (my shoes for comparison.)

3 pair of shoes on colourful mats, 2 kids-size & one grandma size.

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Dr. Larry Mitchell™️ @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 5d

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 6d

Thursday thoughts.

Baby bunny wearing armor holding a book & carrying a spear with a teapot hooked onto it.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 6d

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Maryanne W 🇺🇦 @uptownone.bsky.social · 6d

Watched a few episodes of Jeffrey Epstein:Filthy Rich on Netflix and not only is it terribly disturbing with regard to his treatment of young girls but how money & power are intermingled with the Justice system which is supposed to protect people from the likes of smarmy predators like him & DJT.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social · 7d

Did Trump write the infamous Epstein birthday letter? You decide.

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