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Lizardmobile
@lizardmobile.bsky.social
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I make quilts, read books, garden, drink coffee, watch birds, snuggle my cats, and bake/eat cake. I do my best to be kind. I don't put up with people who are awful. I drive a Lizardmobile. IRL I am Amy Wilson. Hoping my FB friends find me here.
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Lizardmobile @lizardmobile.bsky.social · Jan 20
A little bit about me: white, female, GenX, cis/het, married, with two adult sons (one cis, one trans, both adored) and one (nonbinary) kiddo-in-law. 4 cats and 1 gecko. Amateur naturalist, quilter, reader, native plant gardener, atheist, long-ago homebirther, homeschooler. Just a bit weird.
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My #crow buddies came caw-ing for their morning peanuts. Their wish is my caw-mand!
Two American Crows perching in a bare winter tree. The upper crow faces right and the lower one faces left. An American crow on a small white plastic table, shoving as many peanuts (in the shell) into its beak as it can. It has at least 2, maybe 3. In the background are tall river oats, brown in winter. An American crow collecting peanuts provided by an indulgent and well-trained human. The human has been taught to come on caw-mand and place the nuts on this small plastic table.
December 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Continuing my adventures in crow-related literature, this is the best book I have ever read! It's delightfully creative, tickelingly hilarious, and overflowing with love and delight in the natural world. I haven't yet read Hollow Kingdom, but will asap. Kira Jane Buxton, I love your mind! #booksky
A photo of the book Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton. The cover is a bright sky blue with black silhouettes of a crow, parrots, an owl, a musk ox, three tigers, a row of interlinked evergreen trees, and a tiny bee. There is a border of bees all around the edges.
December 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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My three kids with their Christmas quilts.
Three young adults sitting together on a sofa. Each one has a handmade quilt of different colors.
December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Cinnamon rolls!
Fancy twisted cinnamon layer pastry in a baking dish on the stove.
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Family Christmas portraits!
Five adults gathered for a photo. Three are sitting on the sofa and two on the floor in front of it. There is a large bay window behind them. Same people, silly "jazz hands" version of the photo
December 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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My son and I visited Goose Creek Bridge in Upperville, VA. today. This 200+ year-old bridge was the site of a Civil War battle. Today, it is a peaceful place to take photos and enjoy birds. We saw and/or heard a great blue heron, a bald eagle, turkeys, ravens, a red-headed woodpecker, and vultures.
A view of the stone bridge from the end. My son is visible as a small figure above the pylon. Goose Creek and trees are visible in the background. A view of Goose Creek from atop the bridge. The creek runs through the center of the photo, with the winter landscape of trees and shrubs on either side. A view of the bridge structure from the side (on the left of the image). There are stone pylons with wide bases that taper toward the top, where they connect to the main part of the bridge. Between the pylons are stone arches. In the background, there is a bright blue sky with puffy white clouds. On the right side of the photo dry brown winter grasses cover the ground. The long shadows of two people on the side of a stone bridge wall. One of the people is holding a tall pole with something on top (that's my son holding his camera and tall tripod).
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I'm making a little pot of espresso and Dilly #cat is napping on the warm stove.
The top of an induction stove with a gray and white cat sleeping on the back right burner (which is off and can't turn on with a non-ferrous cat on it). The front left burner has a small stainless steel coffee pot on it, and is turned on.
December 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Today is our family #cookie exchange day!
A tray of assorted cookies. Mint sugar cookies, midnight chocolate cookies, marshmallow white chocolate chip cookies, blackberry shortbread rollups, Nutella chocolate thumbprints, shortbread bars with toffee and chocolate, almond Christmas trees, and cranberry orange bars.
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I borrowed this book, "How to Know a Crow," by Candace Savage (illustrations by Rachel Hudson) from the library yesterday and it's really wonderful! It's for kids, but suitable for interested adults too. It's packed full of information and beautiful illustrations. I loved it!
A photo of a juvenile nonfiction book, "How to Know a Crow." The author is Candace Savage and the illustrator is Rachel Hudson. The cover shows an illustration of a crow on a tree branch, leaning down to steal the letter "r" from the word crow in the title. The crow and its branch are high above a peaceful-looking town with houses and streets
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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A Lord of the Rings cover band called "More Doors"? I'm picturing Gollum singing "Hello, I Love You" to the One Ring. Sauron looking out over Mordor singing "Light My Fire." Samwise Gamgee will sing "Orcs Are Strange."
patrickworld.bsky.social Patrickworld 👋🏾 🌎 🎸 @patrickworld.bsky.social · 14d
A Lord of the Rings cover band that only plays Beatles songs, but ONLY the ones Ringo sang, and yeah that’s right, I’m gonna say ‘Lord of the Ringos’, I was unprepared you guys and this the best I can do on such short notice 🥲
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A Lord of the Rings cover band called Peter Galadriel.
December 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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This morning Dilly #cat and I are learning about common Virginia frogs and their calls.
A gray and white cat is sitting on a desk gazing at a computer monitor, which is displaying a slideshow about frogs in Virginia.
December 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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This is how Dilly #cat likes to nap after breakfast. On my desk, between me and my keyboard and monitor. We call this "grandpa sleeping." To do my crossword I have to put one arm under her and one arm over her and crane my neck to see. And I have to give her kisses, of course.
A gray and white cat sitting up on a desk, with her head drooping sleepily down. A computer monitor and keyboard can be seen just behind her.
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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So many pidgies all lined up!
A plethora of pigeons lined up on the arm of a light pole over a road
December 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I got to go on a walk at a beautiful piece of land this evening looking for Short-Eared Owls! I was with a group from the Virginia Working Landscapes project, part of the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. And we saw two owls!
A photo of a rolling grassland in winter at sunset. Waist-high brown grasses in the foreground extend into the distance, where there are some graceful leafless trees, the tiniest visible sliver of a pond, and low mountains on the horizon, where the sun is setting. The sky is blue and cold, with the wind blowing scudding white clouds.
December 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Terrible blurry phone photo, but is this a white-throated sparrow? #birds
A zoomed-in photo of a bird on the ground. It has a warm brown back, with some gray on its upper back and the sides of its head. It's chest it mottled brown and cream, and it has some white at its throat. It is the size of a sparrow, and it's kicking vigorously in the leaves, looking for food.
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Today I pieced a sun for the raven's quilted sky. 47 pieces in this section!
Sections of a paper-pieced wall quilt pinned to a design sheet on the wall. The quilt features a raven made of various patterned black fabrics, a sun in the upper right corner pieced of yellow and orange fabrics, and a background of a wavy gray and white fabric. A closer look at the 47 pieces that make up the section with the sun in it.
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Trying my hand at freezer paper piecing this raven pattern from Saginaw St Quilts. I've never done this before! My brain has a hard time with the whole upside-down and backwards aspect of the process. So far ..
Sections of a wall quilt featuring a raven. The bird is pieced with a variety of black fabrics with printed designs. The background is pieced from a gray and white wavy fabric that I hope will look like a cloudy sky.
December 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I finished the top for the third (and final) lap quilt that I'm making for Christmas gifts for my kids. This one is made with a charm pack set featuring herons and water lilies. It's the "Watermarks" set by Holly Taylor for Moda.
A rectangular quilt top pinned to a sheet on the wall. The design is a "chandelier" quilt of squares oriented diagonally. The colors are blues, greens and pink with a cream colored background. There is a border of forest green with white herons.
December 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is Chico. He's very dignified.
A brown and white Chihuahua looks at the camera. His ears are standing up, his brown eyes are alert, and his pink tongue is hanging out the side of his mouth.
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Sometimes I feel like I'm married to Doc Brown...
A photo of my husband's project area in the garage. In the foreground is a card table with a cube-shaped electrical gadget. Connected to its wooden framework are lengths of twine, which go up to pulleys hanging from the ceiling. In the background is a workbench with tools, a table serving as an electronics workbench, and various bins of hardware and components mounted on the wall.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Missing my Wilbur cat!
A fluffy beige kitty cat looks up at the camera with his pink tongue sticking way out!
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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If you see this, quote post with a GIF of your favorite wild animal.
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I had to say goodbye to my sweet Wilbur cat today. He was 17.
A fluffy beige cat sleeps comfortably on a brown sofa. He's curled on one of the sofa cushions
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Wilbur #cat is napping in a precarious position! (I adjusted him to prevent a fall.)
A fluffy beige cat is napping, curled on his side on a colorful quilt. He is right at the edge of an armchair, about to fall off. A view of the same cat and chair from below. His cantilevered situation is clearly visible.
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Dilly #cat is snuggling the pizza on the warm oven.
A gray and white cat snuggles on top of a glass-topped stove. Next to her is a wooden pizza peel with 2 slices of pepperoni pizza and a large shaker of crushed red pepper.
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM