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Jodi DeLong 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
@bloomingwriter.bsky.social
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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canadian techy nerd/galactic sci-fi being. 🇺🇦💛🇺🇦💙NO DMs. Liberal, Ally. I write, edit, cook, take pictures, garden, knit for cat rescues. Bossed by 4 rescue cats. Nflder in NS. #slavaUkraine "We are caged in simulations" ~ Muse
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The dark months are upon us, although on sunny days with snow down, they are wondrous. Lots of botanical themed items in my house, including this locally-made sunflower beeswax candle. I may not burn it for years, it's so lovely. #gardenSky #gardeningFeed #gardening #bloomscrolling
Photo is of a locally made beeswax pillar candle with sunflowers carved into it (or carved in the mould the wax was poured into, more likely.
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Happy snowy Monday (Nova Scotia, or parts of it). Heavy snow in the Valley, so I had grinchmas kisses for dessert. Sandy was briefly interested in them, while I was vastly amused by them. #blueskycats #rescuecats #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop #grinchmaschocolates
Very handsome orange and white kitty sitting on an orange-print quilt, with something odd in the foreground. What can those be? Pretty orange cat isn't interested in the Hersheys Grinchmas chocolates, but his human finds them vastly amusing. One says Stink Stank Stunk, one says 'You're a mean one", the middle one is the Grinch's face, and the little papers in the chocolates say Grinchmas.Yes, the human is easily amused.
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This blurry little rascal is why i don't put up a big Christmas tree anymore. He's never seen one and he would be at the top of it! He's blurry because he was fixing to attack the yarn skeins... #sundaywithcats #blueskycats #rescueismyfavouritebreed #adoptdontshop #tabbiesofBlueSky
Photo shows a somewhat blurry tabby cat, blurry because he is planning to attack the two skeins of multicoloured, custom dyed yarn I bought yesterday in Mahone Bay for my cat rescue fundraising. Delivering some mittens and hats to a local shop this morning.
December 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Happy Caturday from my herd. I do knitting for cat rescues, mostly Newfoundland style hats & mittens. I have a load to take to a rescue down Yarmouth, NS way, and was winding yarn while Herby 'helped'. He approves of my work. #myfavouritebreedisrescue #adoptdontshop #blueskycats
My bad tabby kitty is sprawled on the table where I wind yarn. He makes it challenging. Beside him is a multi-wood, stand alone swift, which holds the skein while I wind it. Bad tabby cat approving a few patterned wool hats in many colours and different designs, for a cat rescue. Standalone swift holding a skein of custom-dyed wool yarn, ready to be wound into a cake or puck.
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Good morning & happy #thursdaypurrsday. Also happy Thanksgiving to our US friends. More of yesterday's funloving pair battling for bed supremacy. #blueskycats #adoptdontshop #myfavouritebreedisrescue #cats
Dueling fierce kitties, one pale ginger tuxedo and one pastel calico. They are best buddies but don't always want to share this bed.
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Today is not so much #whiskerswednesday as #furflyingday. Cassie Marie Growltiger, the floofy calico, was laying in her throne bed when Sandy Goldeneyes Fraidycat arrived, wanting to cuddle. Shenanigans ensued. #rescueisthebestbreed #Blueskycats #adoptdontshop #catsarebetterthanmostpeople
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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You know how it is when you're just so busy with all the things, you think the garden has packed it in, then you realize there is still a surprise out there. Wallflowers, still valiantly blooming in their multihued glory. #gardenSky #gardenFeed #bloomscrolling #gardens
A cluster of multicolour wallflowers (Erysimum, variety forgotten) today, 25 November in Nova Scotia. Flowers are rust, pink, gold, bronze and still fragrant. A cluster of multicolour wallflowers (Erysimum, variety forgotten) today, 25 November in Nova Scotia. Flowers are rust, pink, gold, bronze and still fragrant.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Some may remember 12 days ago I posted a flower of David Austin 'Crocus' rose, blooming away. Here is a new flower, with my watch to verify that it is Wednesday 19 Nov in Nova Scotia. Still three buds to open, whether they will or not who knows! #gardensky #bloomscrolling #wednesdayroses
Photo of an Apple Watch showing today's date and previous time, Nova Scotia, and Crocus rose with yet another flower. Still several to come, too. Photo (slightly blurry as sun was dropping) of the golden Crocus rose, fully open and fragrant. And determined. Always blooms into November but this is the latest yet, I think.
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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We are a couple of days late, but happy Gotchaversary to Herby Bells the badass tabby & Sandy Goldeneyes Fraidycat. Went to Sussex, NB two years ago & brought them home to Nova Scotia. Joyful creatures, them & me. #blueskycats #adoptdontshop #catsofbluesky #rescueisthebestbreed
Photo is of a young tabby cat and a slightly older pale ginger tuxedo, laying on a rainbow, felted cat cave in their new home, two years ago this week. #rescueisthebestbreed
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Blustery snow happening here today, but not sticking so far. My response is to offer up a few purple flowers from summers past. "Not yesterday I learned to know/The love of bare November days/ Before the coming of the snow..." ( #robertfrost) #gardeningsky #blueskygardens #bloomscrolling
Bumblebees clustering in purple aster, earlier this year. Purple Spanish lavender. Not hardy here in Nova Scotia but it blooms and blooms and then I wave it off to the compost in November.
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Swiped from Fat Cat Art on FB, art by Elly Liyana.
Famous painters' cats. #caturday #blueskycats #adoptdontshop
Illustrations of famous artists' cats, by Elly Liyana. Each cat looks like one of the artists' works but the names have cat in them: Eg Pablo PIcato, Edcat Munch. Vincent van Cat, Salvador Catti...
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We have a fundraiser this weekend for @spaydayhrm.bsky.social & I have made the first five dozen Newfoundland Snowballs, under the watchful eyes of Herby. #blueskycats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed #fundraisingforcatrescue #newfoundlandtreats
HerbyBells the wicked but sweet tabby oversees most everything I do, from editing work to cooking and baking. He never begs for food, just wants to be with me. Newfoundland snowballs are a mixture of butter, milk, sugar, cocoa, oatmeal and unsweetened fine coconut. Always popular at bake sales.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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It's #whiskerswednesday, and two of the house clowns are showing off their feeling-finery. Sandy is enjoying a YOW catnip mouse, and Herby is attempting to help his human wind yarn for Newfoundland pattern mittens. #adoptdontshop #blueskycats #rescueisthebestbreed #catsmakemehappy
My lovely but not-bright pale ginger tuxedo, Sandy Goldeneyes Fraidy Cat, has a fresh YOW catnip mouse and he defies anyone to take it from him. A bug-eyed tabby is sitting on a counter underneath a yarn swift. This holds a skein of yarn still and untangled while I wind it into a cake on the yarn winder. Herby likes to help. This is not helpful but he persists.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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With apologies to Wallace Stevens, Cassie & Herby demonstrate his poem Sunday Morning "Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair..." Cassie doesn't deign to wear a peignoir. #blueskycats #caturday #rescueisthebestbreed #adoptdontshop #sundaycats
Her greeneyed worshipfulness, the dilute calico Cassie Marie Growltiger is lounging on top of the buffet cabinet. Her hind end seems to have gone missing in this picture but it IS there, in all its floofiness. Another greeneyed kitty, this one Herby the Badass Tabby, lounges with my coffee mug and an orange, and ipad for good measure. He doesn't eat oranges and doesn't read poetry, but it's a relaxed Sunday morning here for sure.
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A rose is a rose is a rose... Crocus rose, 7 November, 2025, Nova Scotia. Defiantly still pushing buds. A good metaphor to hold on to for all of us. So say we all! #gardensky #bloomscrolling #rosesofbluesky
The pinky peachy bud of the David Austin rose Crocus, which will open to soft yellow-white. My favourite rose for its hardiness and length of bloom time.
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes Night is often celebrated in my home province of Newfoundland, not so much in Nova Scotia. Waiting for the wind to die down so I can plant my new #daffodils for next spring. #springbulbs #gardeningsky #blueskygarden #bloomscrolling
A split-corolla daffodil, Sunny Side Up, with soft yellow blooms and lots of frills. (photo from bulb catalogue) One of my favourite mini daffodils, Pipit has yellow corona (outer petals) surrounding a white cup or corolla. Dainty and beautiful. Photo from bulb site. Jetfire is a mini daffodil with reflexed outer petals of yellow, and an orange corolla, or cup. Lovely little charmers.
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Swiped from Facebook. This has been a day that didn't shine. But we are all still breathing, and the healing purrs of cats work on human as well as feline spirits. Although purring in my ear at 4 am, that wasn't great, Herby. #blueskycats #rescueisthebestbreed #catsmakeeverythingbetter
An art poster of a female person with black hair and a gold sweater holding a white cat. There are flowers drawn around the female and cat, and the caption says "Not every day has to shine. Some days are for breathing." The green eyed tabby devilchild Herby giving his best "who, me?" look while laying in a wicker cat bed. Does this look like a cat who woke his human at four am by licking and purring in her ear?
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The cats demonstrate their opinions of #fallback, which they consider just a reason to be limp and plan world domination. As long as they get lots of love, treats and toys, they really don't care if it's dark or light outside. #blueskycats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed #cats #sundayfunday
A pale ginger tuxedo cat and his sister, a dilute calico, playing footsies. The resident tabby badness sprawls on top of a cabinet, surrounded by rainbows from sun catchers. The long cool Loki cat in a black tux sprawls while his pale ginger brother thinks about attacking him.
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Princess Cassie Marie Growltiger deigned to wear a reindeer hat once, but she says no way is she going to wear a Halloween costume. Just as well as we don't get trick or treaters here. Happy Samhain Eve, everyone. #blueskycats #halloweencats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed
Green eyed dilute calico wearing a reindeer hat and her best tolerant expression.
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A late October treat: Hamamelis virginiana is in bloom, and the fragrance from those funny, tassel-like flowers is delicious.

#gardenSky #gardeningFeed #gardening #bloomscrolling
Photo of a fall-blooming witch hazel, with its yellow flowers and delicately sweet fragrance. The last bloomer in the garden, I believe.
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Apparently, today is National Cat Day. In my house, that's every day. These three characters sat up nicely to receive their treats, while Loki the deaf tuxedo kitty had his delivered to him. #blueskycats #cats #adoptdontshop #rescueisthebestbreed #whiskerswednesday #nationalcatday
Very pretty dilute calico sits up politely for her treat. Green eyed tabby cat looks fierce but he's very polite receiving a treat. Pastel ginger tuxedo Sandy has learned to sit up for treats, too.
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Never mind science and peace and literature… A Nobel prize is deserved for the person who can successfully stuff a queen size duvet into its cover while being “helped” by a cat. #caturday #adoptdontshop #blueskycats #blueskytabbies #rescueisthebestbreed #helpfulcatishelpful
Photo is of a very bug eyed bad tabby cat, who is trying to help his human stuff a duvet into a duvet cover.
October 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Long Cool Loki in a Black Tux keeps his own schedule as to how he wishes to express himself, thus his #tongueouttuesday is on #friyay, in anticipation of #caturday #Blueskycats #cats #rescueisthebestbreed #blueskytuxedocats #adoptdontshop
A very handsome and green-eyed Tuxedo cat sits in a box with his tongue touching his nose, in anticipation of a treat or three.
October 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Yes, they're grown in these 'tables' or trays, and they grow very well. They're high in sugar and really tasty. Here is a photo from a previous season.
Strawberries growing in a tray or table system, Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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October 23, and we are still enjoying local #Novascotia strawberries! Got them at #Stirlingfarmmarket at lunchtime and they are sweet and worth every penny. #localfarmers #eatfresh #strawberries
A quart basket of ripe strawberries, grown right here in Nova Scotia, on October 23, 2025. These are grown in trays inside large greenhouse tunnels and are day neutral berries, meaning they will bear until a freeze.
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM