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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝

@fishsqueezer.bsky.social

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Biologist in Idaho, lover of nature, taking pictures, books, family, art. Politically active & outraged, but that's not why I'm on Bluesky. Views my own. Profile photos ALT text: pfp: 4-frame collage with spouse, horse, Monstera, fish banner: beaver pond

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, the humane society thought they would be older but when they got the transfer they realized they're probably only around 5 weeks! So little.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3h

I've never fostered anything before so I'm simultaneously excited and nervous. It's fascinating how different the personalities are between these three tiny visually almost indistinguishable twerps, haha. One is just so energetic and personable!

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3h

Oh. Oh no. I am smitten. I am in deep smit.

I picked up three tiny kitties today to foster them until they can be adopted, and I forgot about kitty purring. They are so warm and soft! I am excited to love my furry children for a few weeks.

Three small brown tabby kittens snuggling on a plush pet bed.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 7h

Wonderful, thank you! I think you have my address from your store, but let me know what to do now about payment and shipping.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 7h

Hahaha...that's a rookie mistake, but thanks for sharing.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, I'm glad you like them. They lift my spirits, too!

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 13h

Braiding Sweetgrass?

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, notoriously poor layers, they were originally bred for fighting and later for ornamentation.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 14h

murderous forest demons hate this one weird trick

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 14h

There's no free lunch, and Idaho probably has the highest per capita sycophant population in the country.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 15h

Not stupid - nobody ever knows anything until the first time they learn about it. The inside of all corn pops to white, but the little bits of the kernel that stay stuck to the popcorn retain the original color. So it will be mostly white, but instead of yellow bits, they will be multicolored.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 15h

I think my sauce is probably St. Ives lotion.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 15h

You could try standard or bantam Old English Game chickens. They're terrible layers and would much rather stop laying after just a handful and incubate them instead. Plus they are adorable!

Two bantam chickens in my hand. The hen is dark brown with a light brown head while the rooster is black with a bright red hackle. His comb has been trimmed to conform to show guidelines for his breed.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 17h

That's cool! That would be a fun quilt.

Also, it's a bit funny how many venues are named "Orpheum", I wonder what it means.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 18h

Just LOOK at this little bugger under a camera flash, it's stunning to me that this is food.

Although it is apparently not an ancient variety, one must appreciate the generations of Cherokee and Pawnee breeding that created its ancestors. It's just 💅

🌱 bsky.app/profile/fish...

An ear of corn sits in my hand. It is very brightly colored, with kernels ranging from white to black and including yellow, orange, blue, purple, green, red, and I'm sure some others.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 18h

We harvested the glass gem corn before the weather turns too soggy. Look how lovely it is! Can't wait to make popcorn once it fully dries! 🌱

Eleven ears of corn in a row in shades of pink, purple, blue, gray, cream, and multicolored.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 19h

I'm picking up three foster kittens today, so we might have some serious houseplant reckoning to do...

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 19h

We just had the driest summer in history (144 years of climate data at Spokane airport with 6.6 mm or .26 inches of rain in June, July, and August COMBINED), so there are very few mushrooms around. Rain is forecast this weekend, but so is frost, so it seems like mushroom season is probably over :(

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 19h

I usually give a couple dozen eggs a week to my neighbors. One of them lets my flock free range in a fenced part of their yard so it's mutually beneficial.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you but oops, my pockets were also full of eggs.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

Being a chicken tender is seriously one of the most fulfilling hobbies, they just keep right on trucking even though I'm barely keeping it together. I'm feeling extremely melancholy and irritable this evening and want to either fight someone or cry, but at least I have a bucket of butt nuggets. 🌱🪶

A bucket with some chick starter in the bottom and 15-20 eggs of various shades in it. Some chickens are out of focus in the background.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I was in Salmon for a habitat restoration tour last month and we did an evening float on water too warm for trout, and talked about smallmouth moving upstream. I remember hearing that they were around North Fork only about 20 miles downstream. With climate warming it seems inevitable.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

A sunroom sounds lovely, honestly.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty easy to not notice how much they've grown when their display space is planet earth. Then they come inside and it's like...damn. This isn't gonna work in this spot anymore.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 1d

I...lost track of how big my Hoya bella got over the summer. I'm worried that my plant hook is going to break, haha. 🌱🪴

Me holding up a large hanging houseplant on chains that completely obscures the lower half of my body.

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