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Reader. Sometime artist. Knitter. Cook. Handspinner (Yarn, people, yarn from wool). Librarian Ret., Occasional Doomscroller. Disgusted citizen and voter 🙄.
New member of the household. 😃

#blueskydog #luckydawganimalrescue
September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I found both sections….
August 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The teenage #BlackVultures are all over the place now - on the table, on the roof, in the driveway, under the fir tree, in the tomato bed... still under what I suppose passes for adult supervision. Last bit of fuzz on their heads is slowly disappearing. #birds
July 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is a disgusting piece of ‘what about-ism’ @nytimes.com . Shame to Bret Stephen’s for carrying water for Netanyahu. Stephen’s is relying on an academic argument to recast what is happening in Gaza.
If you want to read it to judge for yourself-

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...
July 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The teenagers are almost done shedding their fluff. #BlackVultures out and about with both parents.

#birds
July 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today's (teenager) Black Vulture update. Out with an adult, hopping on every piece of garden furniture, pots, each other, you know, just like teenagers. Sunning themselves, too.
#birds #BlackVultures #gardenmayhem
July 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The babies are growing up! Note the brown head fuzz.
#birds #BlackVultures
July 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Alchemy, of sorts: spinning 18.3 micron NZ #Haunui into yarn.
Colorway: Fog, 70% Haunui hogget 30% Mulberry silk.
#handspun #fiber #craft
July 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Juvenile Black Vultures exploring under adult supervision. Definitely exercising their wings, too.
#birds #BlackVultures

(Apologies for the terrible photo.)
July 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today's Black Vulture fledgling update.
#birds #bird #blackvulture
July 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Finally! Proof!
Our resident Black Vulture pair is raising TWO juveniles.
I am over the moon!
#birds #BlackVultures
July 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Resident Black Vulture - got a few sips of water then headed under the canopy for a little shade before heading out.
#birds #BlackVulture
June 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Pages from my father’s diary for June 17, 1953, Berlin.
A totalitarian regime responding to a protest.

#17Juni #history
June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
These two front page headlines succinctly sum up the current administration. Thank you to the @inquirer.com

#trumpchaos
#republicanlies
May 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fascinating read, on several levels.

💙📚 #booksky #nobelprizeliterature
May 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Photo from earlier this year. We have a pair of Black Vultures frequenting our yard and hanging out in our shed/barn.

#addBird
#birding
#usbirds
May 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Else Graham's "Book and Dagger" is worth reading. Now.

#resist #booksky
👇
March 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
February 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
How can you not love a company that sends spicy encouragement along with your order? Not to mention the Mexican vanilla extract.

#PenseysSpices
February 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Yes!!!!! A bit of joy!
January 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In the 12-23-24 @newyorker.com Thank you Ian Frazier. Well said.

#Navalny
#Resist
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Piss off Putin. Read this.

Read it just to honor and remember a brave and remarkable human being.

#booksky
#read
#Russia
#Navalny
December 18, 2024 at 5:26 AM
Spied on a morning walk.
November 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM