Aside from everything else, RAIN INCOMING! That’s an event to celebrate here in usually-parched California.
It was a lovely day to be out cloudwatching. It was even nicer to get home, crack a beer, and check out election returns.
Good job, American voters. Sanity incoming!
It was a lovely day to be out cloudwatching. It was even nicer to get home, crack a beer, and check out election returns.
Good job, American voters. Sanity incoming!
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Aside from everything else, RAIN INCOMING! That’s an event to celebrate here in usually-parched California.
It was a lovely day to be out cloudwatching. It was even nicer to get home, crack a beer, and check out election returns.
Good job, American voters. Sanity incoming!
It was a lovely day to be out cloudwatching. It was even nicer to get home, crack a beer, and check out election returns.
Good job, American voters. Sanity incoming!
I just want to spend the rest of my life with Lois McMaster Bujold narrated by Grover Gardner. Gardner is the greatest. He’s surpassed the great, great Frank Muller, IMO.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I just want to spend the rest of my life with Lois McMaster Bujold narrated by Grover Gardner. Gardner is the greatest. He’s surpassed the great, great Frank Muller, IMO.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
My library has a “banned books“ section. I like this one: 7th-grader does dumb things and smart things; just a normal decent kid trying to figure stuff out. Not even a cuss word in the book. Why banned? Well, the kid is Black? wtf
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My library has a “banned books“ section. I like this one: 7th-grader does dumb things and smart things; just a normal decent kid trying to figure stuff out. Not even a cuss word in the book. Why banned? Well, the kid is Black? wtf
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
Going through an 1800s mining town cemetery my little niece, about 6 yo, started crying. “Why so many dead babies?”
September 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Going through an 1800s mining town cemetery my little niece, about 6 yo, started crying. “Why so many dead babies?”
Kinda cute babies
September 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Kinda cute babies
And here’s Hilo, still rattling boats in the marina
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
And here’s Hilo, still rattling boats in the marina
I’ll make this a thread for audiobooks. I’m getting over Covid (AGAIN, and fuck all you deniers this was BAD) so after weeks of only managing dumb cozy mysteries and endlessly losing my crochet stitch count, I’m back with a new shawl (cotton/silk) and this excellent book: funny, smart, good narrator
July 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I’ll make this a thread for audiobooks. I’m getting over Covid (AGAIN, and fuck all you deniers this was BAD) so after weeks of only managing dumb cozy mysteries and endlessly losing my crochet stitch count, I’m back with a new shawl (cotton/silk) and this excellent book: funny, smart, good narrator
This was pretty great too:
June 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This was pretty great too:
Everything’s terrible but I’m listening to the great Paulette Jiles narrated by the great Grover Gardner while I crochet silk/cotton chemo turbans to donate.
It’s not much but it’s something.
It’s not *all* terrible: Jiles, Gardner, and the folks in Turkey who make this lovely yarn are good’uns.
It’s not much but it’s something.
It’s not *all* terrible: Jiles, Gardner, and the folks in Turkey who make this lovely yarn are good’uns.
June 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Everything’s terrible but I’m listening to the great Paulette Jiles narrated by the great Grover Gardner while I crochet silk/cotton chemo turbans to donate.
It’s not much but it’s something.
It’s not *all* terrible: Jiles, Gardner, and the folks in Turkey who make this lovely yarn are good’uns.
It’s not much but it’s something.
It’s not *all* terrible: Jiles, Gardner, and the folks in Turkey who make this lovely yarn are good’uns.
I’m cleaning my stuff, putting together a box for my nieces and nephews to inherit and say “oh cool, she was SO OLD”
Here’s the newspaper that was *delivered* the next morning; impressive work, Chronicle.
Also my Fuji film canister of Mt St Helens ash.
(We didn’t get the bumper sticker, sadly)
Here’s the newspaper that was *delivered* the next morning; impressive work, Chronicle.
Also my Fuji film canister of Mt St Helens ash.
(We didn’t get the bumper sticker, sadly)
March 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’m cleaning my stuff, putting together a box for my nieces and nephews to inherit and say “oh cool, she was SO OLD”
Here’s the newspaper that was *delivered* the next morning; impressive work, Chronicle.
Also my Fuji film canister of Mt St Helens ash.
(We didn’t get the bumper sticker, sadly)
Here’s the newspaper that was *delivered* the next morning; impressive work, Chronicle.
Also my Fuji film canister of Mt St Helens ash.
(We didn’t get the bumper sticker, sadly)
Hiding from the world and making some pretty cotton/silk blend scarves while I listen to audiobooks.
I like the pretty tools, too. A wood-handled hook is a nice luxury. And a ball of yarn in a shallow bowl unspools without a hitch.
#crochet
I like the pretty tools, too. A wood-handled hook is a nice luxury. And a ball of yarn in a shallow bowl unspools without a hitch.
#crochet
March 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Hiding from the world and making some pretty cotton/silk blend scarves while I listen to audiobooks.
I like the pretty tools, too. A wood-handled hook is a nice luxury. And a ball of yarn in a shallow bowl unspools without a hitch.
#crochet
I like the pretty tools, too. A wood-handled hook is a nice luxury. And a ball of yarn in a shallow bowl unspools without a hitch.
#crochet
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Old bridge over Crooked River, OR
(I wish I were a better photographer; neither of these photos do this fantastic bridge & scenery justice)
(I wish I were a better photographer; neither of these photos do this fantastic bridge & scenery justice)
January 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Old bridge over Crooked River, OR
(I wish I were a better photographer; neither of these photos do this fantastic bridge & scenery justice)
(I wish I were a better photographer; neither of these photos do this fantastic bridge & scenery justice)
The current view of Bourbon Street on
@earthcam.bsky.social
@earthcam.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The current view of Bourbon Street on
@earthcam.bsky.social
@earthcam.bsky.social
Nice quilt idea!
I like to prowl satellite photos looking at farmland, the different patterns. America is fun bc every family farm has a vehicle graveyard. China is amazing bc millennia of terracing. Bolivia has a big variety.
Photos: Paraguay, China, Bolivia
I like to prowl satellite photos looking at farmland, the different patterns. America is fun bc every family farm has a vehicle graveyard. China is amazing bc millennia of terracing. Bolivia has a big variety.
Photos: Paraguay, China, Bolivia
January 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Nice quilt idea!
I like to prowl satellite photos looking at farmland, the different patterns. America is fun bc every family farm has a vehicle graveyard. China is amazing bc millennia of terracing. Bolivia has a big variety.
Photos: Paraguay, China, Bolivia
I like to prowl satellite photos looking at farmland, the different patterns. America is fun bc every family farm has a vehicle graveyard. China is amazing bc millennia of terracing. Bolivia has a big variety.
Photos: Paraguay, China, Bolivia
Hello from California!
Before Covid I used 3M valved Cool Flow. Ugly but comfortable; I’ve even slept in them. Now that I always wear masks around people I use the less ugly Aura or near-Aura-quality black Laianzhi.
Before Covid I used 3M valved Cool Flow. Ugly but comfortable; I’ve even slept in them. Now that I always wear masks around people I use the less ugly Aura or near-Aura-quality black Laianzhi.
January 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hello from California!
Before Covid I used 3M valved Cool Flow. Ugly but comfortable; I’ve even slept in them. Now that I always wear masks around people I use the less ugly Aura or near-Aura-quality black Laianzhi.
Before Covid I used 3M valved Cool Flow. Ugly but comfortable; I’ve even slept in them. Now that I always wear masks around people I use the less ugly Aura or near-Aura-quality black Laianzhi.
Brought to mind one of my favorite paintings
La Blanchisseuse, Toulouse-Lautrec
La Blanchisseuse, Toulouse-Lautrec
January 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Brought to mind one of my favorite paintings
La Blanchisseuse, Toulouse-Lautrec
La Blanchisseuse, Toulouse-Lautrec
Lively again! I didn’t feel either one; too far north then too far west. Plus I now live in a new building up to modern code. The only eq I’ve felt here was vibration rather than jolt or sway, which felt really weird.
But I appreciate the alerts. I think “whew, not the Hayward Fault… yet”
But I appreciate the alerts. I think “whew, not the Hayward Fault… yet”
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Lively again! I didn’t feel either one; too far north then too far west. Plus I now live in a new building up to modern code. The only eq I’ve felt here was vibration rather than jolt or sway, which felt really weird.
But I appreciate the alerts. I think “whew, not the Hayward Fault… yet”
But I appreciate the alerts. I think “whew, not the Hayward Fault… yet”
Lively morning on the west coast
December 5, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Lively morning on the west coast
Some pretty trees from my walk today.
November 18, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Some pretty trees from my walk today.
Hello Bluesky! Here’s an old photo of a California fire lookout tower.
My parents stuffed five little kids in that shell camper and drove us all over on long road trips. Lucky kids! When we weren’t brawling… but mostly we read books or just gazed out the window thinking our kid thoughts.
My parents stuffed five little kids in that shell camper and drove us all over on long road trips. Lucky kids! When we weren’t brawling… but mostly we read books or just gazed out the window thinking our kid thoughts.
October 22, 2023 at 4:41 AM
Hello Bluesky! Here’s an old photo of a California fire lookout tower.
My parents stuffed five little kids in that shell camper and drove us all over on long road trips. Lucky kids! When we weren’t brawling… but mostly we read books or just gazed out the window thinking our kid thoughts.
My parents stuffed five little kids in that shell camper and drove us all over on long road trips. Lucky kids! When we weren’t brawling… but mostly we read books or just gazed out the window thinking our kid thoughts.