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🦃 Helena 🦃
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Knitter*Reader*Tea Drinker*Granny*Awful pop music lover*Love me, love my cats*Always hopeful for a pony*Madly in love with @toomuchfunkk*member of Oxford Comma Enthusiasts since 2024
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🚨🚨🚨BABY SQUIRREL UPDATE🚨🚨🚨
A not-so-little-anymore squirrel on one side of the trunk of a split cottonwood tree. He is gauging whether or not it is safe to come down and get a peanut. A not-so-little-anymore squirrel is perched on a branch of the same cottonwood tree, eating a peanut. This one is a little braver than the other and is not bothered by me being on the porch at all.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Hi Flo! I have been using this recipe for 30+ years and it never fails. See alt text for tips
Banana Nut Bread Recipe 1/2 cup shortening (I use unsalted butter) 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup mashed, ripe bananas 1/4 cup chopped nuts (optional) 2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt Cream shortening & sugar together until light & fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Stir in mashed bananas and mix well. Add nuts if using. Sift dry ingredients together and stir in (to wet ingredients). Pour into a greased (8 or 9 inch) loaf pan and bake at 350° F for 40 minutes (usually takes between 40-50 minutes. Bread is done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Two brown bears hugging in a body of water. Maybe a river or a lake?
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It's Pia's world and we're all just living in it
A calico and white cats sits on top of a cream colored scratching post. Her back is to the camera, showing off her pretty black and orange markings, and she is looking over her shoulder at the camera. There is a bookshelf, stuffed with books in the background, and you can see part of a window with a small bench below it. There are a couple of cat toys scattered on the floor.
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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My beautiful Saturn ❤️ 2003-2020
My darling Saturn, a silver tabby cat, who died in 2020. In the photo just her head and part of her body is visible. She is gazing away from the camera. The planet Saturn is visible in her pupil. She was THE MOST beautiful girl, and she loved me something fierce (if she thought you were upsetting me she would bite you.) My son edited this photo for me after she died.
November 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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November 9, 1975, the #EdmundFitzgerald has arrived at the docks in Superior Wisconsin. She is picking up a load of taconite pellets.

I picked these pellets up near some railroad tracks in Marquette, MI
Two blueish gray taconite pellets on a brown wooden table. They are small and round, about the size of a blueberry.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Here is Pia daring me to try to put the skeleton away
A calico and white cat sitting on the arm of a brown leather chair. There is a plastic skeleton sitting in the chair.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Pia's new bestie
A calico and white cat is sitting on the overstuffed arm of a brown leather chair. There is a skeleton sitting in the chair. The cat has been sitting with the skeleton since we brought it in from outside.
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Slinking into my velvet era
A white woman with brown and grey hair, wearing a gorgeous dark green velvet coat with gold buttons. I am outside and my grey cat is visible behind me.
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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What's the scent 😮
A photo of the bottom of a box of taper candles. The writing on the box says "Spiral Long Rod Scented Candle"
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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See, the stuff I bake tastes great, but it looks...we'll, it looks like this 😂 I was finally getting the hang of it on the last three
A tray of chocolate covered cookies with white chocolate feathering on top. The feathering starts out pretty badly at the top of the photo, which are the first ones I did. By the bottom of the photo it looks much better.
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Me, ignoring all reviews about it sticking out weird at the hips and ordering the skirt anyway
The third part of an Arrested Development meme about something not working out for anyone else. It shows a blonde woman and a bald man with glasses and a mustache sitting beside each other. The man is looking at the woman. In bold typeface it reads "But it might work for us."
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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My husband has bought himself his very first skeleton and I feel like it is only a matter of time before we have one of those 12 ft tall skeletons in our yard year-round 😭
A photo of a skeleton, wearing a Detroit Tigers ball cap, sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch. Part of a round blue table is visible. The skeleton has glowing red eyes. The photo was taken in the dark and it looks eerie.
October 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Happy Gotcha Day, Pia!
(she likes fires)
The back and side profile of a calico and white cat, sitting in front of the red brick hearth of a fireplace. She is gazing at a fire burning in the fireplace.
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan, Flint, MI
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Angus is the Handsomest Fella. He's been awarded this title for life
A very handsome black cat, sitting on beige carpeting in front of a red brick hearth. There is a green ceramic owl and cast iron cricket on the hearth behind him. You can also see part of the grey fireplace mantle and the firebox in the photo. He is gazing pensively to his right, perhaps contemplating the weight of being named Handsomest Fella for Life.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 Baby Squirrel Update 🚨🚨🚨
A photo of two baby squirrels in a Cottonwood tree. One is sitting on a branch with their tails curled over their back, and the other is hanging upside down from the same branch.
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Also, here is a pretty waterfall we stopped at just south of Munising
October 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It is so beautiful here I don't even know what pics to share
A view from Top of the World in Marquette, MI. We're looking towards the Keweenaw Peninsula. The trees are nearly at peak color and the sky is brilliant blue
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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We are ready to Stroll for Epilepsy Awareness! (I am certainly going to need a nap this afternoon)
A man and a woman pose in front of a banner for the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan. We are wearing purple t-shirts and black pants.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Hung out with my brother and SIL tonight and he took us to see some ships being unloaded. Not sure if we were supposed to be where we were but nobody yelled at us so 🤷‍♀️
A photo of a Great Lakes freighter at a dock. It's dark outside and there are lots of lights causing lens flare because my camera lens was dirty. A photo of a different Great Lakes freighter at a different dock. A farther away photo through trees of a Great Lakes freighter at a dock
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Not gonna lie, I hate driving over this but here I am
The South tower of the Mackinac Bridge against a partly cloudy sky
October 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Antifa at the rest stop

Almost to The Bridge!
A black sign that says "The American Legion Memorial Highway A Tribute to One-Hundred Years of Dedication to The Principals of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy 1919-2019."
October 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Fiona is hiding in her emotional support shopping bag
A dim picture of a silver tabby, barely visible inside a brown paper shopping bag with handles. There is a white purse and two pairs of slippers also visible in the photo.
October 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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The last flowers in my garden to bloom
A close up photo of a cluster of medium purple Monkshood flowers. The lawn in the background is green and blurred. These are always the last flowers in my garden to bloom.
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM