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@forestlands.bsky.social
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Music, Books, Birds, Stars, Cider, Wine, The Cure
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Homegrown cider cheers back at you from Washington State.
2 partially full pints of cider on a marbled blue countertop
December 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Such a great song. My first instinct to post for this prompt. Here’s that note from the Ziggo Dome a few years back. Amazing voice. 🖤
December 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Will put in the effort and put on some makeup though.
Robert Smith laying in bed in striped blue and white pajamas, with messy big black hair, heavy eye shadow and smeared red lipstick, in The Cure’s Lullaby video.
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I will concede there are still small family farms, but small farms are being subsumed. I have a small farm myself (apples and grapes) in a county full of consolidating big farms. Some are “family owned,” which are family owned large corps that act just like any big shareholding corp does.
USDA chart showing the amount of farm acreage in US from 1850 with fairly constant amount, while there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of farms and a huge increase in the size of farms since the mid 1900s.
December 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Have you read this book?

www.jonathanmeiburg.com
Cover of the book “A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey” by Jonathan Meiburg. It has a tan background with a large drawing of a striated caracara, a black bird with ruddy legs, large yellow talons with long black claws, a mottled black and red head bent over with small keen black eyes and a sharp hooked beak.
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Got some Christmas Decorating done
Winona Ryder (as Joyce Byers in Stranger Things) staring at multicolored Christmas lights haphazardly strung on the ceiling and pinned over the English alphabet painted in black paint in three rows on the wall over a messy couch in an 80s- style living room.
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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#NewWaveNovember

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Day 23

Talking Heads- Burning Down The House

Incidentally, my husband once spent a day with David Byrne, showing him how to blow glass.

youtu.be/_3eC35LoF4U?...
David Byrne sits at a glass blowing bench in a brightly colored shirt while Ashley Rowley, in a black Go Outside shirt, leans over to help him shape the hot glass bubble. In the background in the glass studio, a handful of onlookers sit or stand in front of shelving full of containers of brightly colored glass frit while Dale Chihuly walks by in a bright red shirt.
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Just finished my Canadian licensing boards exam (after close to two decades in my field in the US). First step towards immigration. Can’t say Trump hasn’t been inspirational! 😂 Time to check out Ottawa and celebrate! 🇨🇦
Sunset with red clouds over Canadian Parliament and Byward Market with Ottawa sign.
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Thanks for the heads up! Have been dying to find out where it would be (hopefully) showing in my area.
Preview of seating of The Cure’s A Show of a Lost World showing in south Seattle.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Can you post that AP report you heard or read? Because it is inconsistent with data published elsewhere. The Pew Research Center also shows non-Hispanic whites as the largest recipients of SNAP benefits at 39.8%. Read the full report here:
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Pew Research shows breakdown of SNAP recipients by race as non-Hispanic white 39.8%, black 27%, Hispanic all races 27%, and 87.8% of all recipients born in US.
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Pretty drive home from work today.
A forested autumn road with ferns, evergreens, and vine maples. The maple leaves are thinning and beginning to change from green to yellow and orange. Many fallen brown and yellow leaves have accumulated along the edges of the road, which narrows between two larger trees, bends slightly and then fades into the distance.
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Another bucolic vineyard scene while harvesting.This time with my neighbor two properties over providing the, uh, atmosphere.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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#birds

Out harvesting grapes and this beautiful bird has been soaring overhead. Has been hanging around all summer. Merlin app says it’s an osprey, but seems to lack that bent wing thing they have. Any bird ID folks out there?
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Gorgeous fall day, out picking apples and pears for cider and perry pressings.
Red apples hanging on tree with a white barn behind it. An old wood barn and a small mountain with granite face are further in the distance, with a blue sky background.
October 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Loved seeing Modest Mouse at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CA tonight! They were great yet again. It was my husband’s birthday- he was born 10 minutes away from here 50 years ago today!
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Fontaines DC were great in Paris tonight!
August 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Grapes are sizing up!
Green Pinot Noir grape cluster in vineyard before veraison, hanging in front of grape leaves in dappled light.
July 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Aha! So we shall see how it unfolds as we get more production. I relayed this conversation to the husband and he immediately went to the cellar and brought a gallon of perry in. I suppose the haze isn’t too bad.
Pint of perry sitting on a table.
July 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Bottling our wine today. 🍷
Two glasses of Pinot Noir wine on a sun-dappled wooden patio table.
July 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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“I’m outta here”
July 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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#Birds
Fledgling Bald Eagles scrounging for worms and whatnot.
July 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Lovely relaxing day with birds singing and the neighbors shooting guns. 🙄
June 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Ahhh…. Summer. The blue skies, the sunlight on your skin, the gentle breeze in your hair, watching the birds on the wing… and listening to your neighbors enthusiastically exercising their second amendment rights loudly and repeatedly for hours on end. 😕
Blue sky with sun rays, a field with yellow flowers, with a small barn and orchard and forested hillside in the distance.
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Out working in the grapevines today. Flower buds are beginning to open. Earliest stages of this year’s wine!
Pinot noir flower buds beginning to open.
June 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Peaceful anti- Trump antifascist protest march in Seattle today. Massive turnout.
June 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM