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Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie

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Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 7h

Can’t stop thinking about these boots

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 9h

Paris rules

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 14h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 12h

Homemade salsa and pickled onions from earlier this week means Sunday morning breakfast tostadas for @devingaffney.com and I

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13h

Haters said it shouldn’t be done

A nightstand with a yellow lamp on it

A nightstand with a yellow lamp on it

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

Unreasonably excited about this

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

🕯️time to light the seasonal candles🕯️

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

#1 wife guy

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got a lampshade for this lamp I stole from my dad. Now the question is, do I dye it an orange-y mustard color or leave it as is?

A bed with two bedside tables flanking it

A bedside table with a lamp, watch holder, and glasses holder on it.

A swatch of “Colina Strada yellow” from the RIT website.

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact, the gate-shaped brooch she is wearing is called a "Holloway Brooch". They were made to commemorate the Suffragists’ Incarceration at Holloway Prison. The center design is a broad prisoner's arrow and is rendered in green, violet, and white (GWV = "give women votes").

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 1d

Woke up to some distant loud booms in the middle of the night. Turned out to be fireworks but kind of scary considering the climate, NGL

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 2d

Just found out I have a three day weekend and husband is making me nachos for dinner 🙌

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 4d

Another day at the office with bestie

A ten pound grey dog sitting on a bench in a jewelry store

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite pieces in my personal collection—a Georgian era miniature painting of horseback riders. c. 1790

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 7d

Made some broth today

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 9d

The difference between January vs. October. So rewarding to see this little guy thrive.

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 10d

Holding my ear to the ground to listen for the sound of the UPS truck

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 10d

Do you regularly receive human teeth in the mail or do you have a normal job

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 11d

I’m him

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 11d

Brilliant work

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13d

Bernard and his favorite toy. He carries it all around the house.

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13d

Last look at my summer jewel line up. Switching to some fall favorites tomorrow

A woman’s left hand with antique rings on it

A woman’s right hand with antique rings on it

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13d

My closet clean out assistant

Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13d

Why did you cut out our amazing candle sconces

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Cousin “Champagne” Ronnie @cousinronnie.bsky.social · 13d

It looks sooooo good!