Passing Strange At Present
@chimaera.bsky.social
Reader, writer, painter (plein air watercolor). Gimme them Western skies. Servant of The Mighty Mustang. Elder. She/her. [email protected]
For my Christmas present, Daughter is fixing the rotting boards in the chariot of the Prince of Ponies, so we can take him to the park.
Raise you a Daughter with many competencies, such as wood assessment, ability to scrounge lumber, and use her power tools.
Raise you a Daughter with many competencies, such as wood assessment, ability to scrounge lumber, and use her power tools.
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
For my Christmas present, Daughter is fixing the rotting boards in the chariot of the Prince of Ponies, so we can take him to the park.
Raise you a Daughter with many competencies, such as wood assessment, ability to scrounge lumber, and use her power tools.
Raise you a Daughter with many competencies, such as wood assessment, ability to scrounge lumber, and use her power tools.
We're doing Harvest Home next Wednesday, and I have done my bit:
Ginger-pear pie. Pears baked in a custard of eggs, sour cream, lemon juice, eggs, and ginger.
Lost the recipe so I wing it & end up with a bowl of extra filling, baked & delicious as is.
Ginger-pear pie. Pears baked in a custard of eggs, sour cream, lemon juice, eggs, and ginger.
Lost the recipe so I wing it & end up with a bowl of extra filling, baked & delicious as is.
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 AM
We're doing Harvest Home next Wednesday, and I have done my bit:
Ginger-pear pie. Pears baked in a custard of eggs, sour cream, lemon juice, eggs, and ginger.
Lost the recipe so I wing it & end up with a bowl of extra filling, baked & delicious as is.
Ginger-pear pie. Pears baked in a custard of eggs, sour cream, lemon juice, eggs, and ginger.
Lost the recipe so I wing it & end up with a bowl of extra filling, baked & delicious as is.
Backup Daughter has settled in and brought family's two dogs. Queen Butterbean here is an excellent dog. The other is... not. He's just a jerk, always has been. Registered, & returned to breeder by first family. A friend is going to adopt him and everybody is very, very happy. Happy trails, G-Dog.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Backup Daughter has settled in and brought family's two dogs. Queen Butterbean here is an excellent dog. The other is... not. He's just a jerk, always has been. Registered, & returned to breeder by first family. A friend is going to adopt him and everybody is very, very happy. Happy trails, G-Dog.
Today OH & I toured KLCC, and got to put a lot of faces to names & voices. They are doing great work to fill the local news void, & collaborating with other providers. On air since 1967, a charter member of NPR. Good folks. @klccoregon.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today OH & I toured KLCC, and got to put a lot of faces to names & voices. They are doing great work to fill the local news void, & collaborating with other providers. On air since 1967, a charter member of NPR. Good folks. @klccoregon.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse: the Banana Brothers still like each other.
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Timeline cleanse: the Banana Brothers still like each other.
Proof of cat.
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Proof of cat.
Patent drawings document this to be true. How are you wise, O Shep? And you with cats.
October 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Patent drawings document this to be true. How are you wise, O Shep? And you with cats.
OH unearthed a pair of books Boy crafted in elementary school Spanish class.
I feel... unseen...
Meanwhile OH begins to understand how he might have developed shoulder problems.
I feel... unseen...
Meanwhile OH begins to understand how he might have developed shoulder problems.
October 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
OH unearthed a pair of books Boy crafted in elementary school Spanish class.
I feel... unseen...
Meanwhile OH begins to understand how he might have developed shoulder problems.
I feel... unseen...
Meanwhile OH begins to understand how he might have developed shoulder problems.
Neighbor gave us this lovely set of folding table & two chairs. Gonna remove rust & repaint. Then decide to keep it or give it away. Gorgeous. I'm thinking Victorian, anyone better at dating metal furniture?
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Neighbor gave us this lovely set of folding table & two chairs. Gonna remove rust & repaint. Then decide to keep it or give it away. Gorgeous. I'm thinking Victorian, anyone better at dating metal furniture?
Take care of yourself, Micah. Speedy recovery to you. Have some pretty apples.
October 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Take care of yourself, Micah. Speedy recovery to you. Have some pretty apples.
I started a good painting. It's coming along.
October 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I started a good painting. It's coming along.
I took my acrylic paints outside to try to get the lovely sweep of tiny cyclamen in our yard. Not finished, but I'm happy with it so far.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I took my acrylic paints outside to try to get the lovely sweep of tiny cyclamen in our yard. Not finished, but I'm happy with it so far.
Also Florida from 1513. And Louisiana et al was French from 1682.
Oregon was once bounded by Spain/Mexico/California to the south, France/Canada to the east, and Russia to the north.
Skipping lightly over ALL the Indigenous languages here forever.
Oregon was once bounded by Spain/Mexico/California to the south, France/Canada to the east, and Russia to the north.
Skipping lightly over ALL the Indigenous languages here forever.
October 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Also Florida from 1513. And Louisiana et al was French from 1682.
Oregon was once bounded by Spain/Mexico/California to the south, France/Canada to the east, and Russia to the north.
Skipping lightly over ALL the Indigenous languages here forever.
Oregon was once bounded by Spain/Mexico/California to the south, France/Canada to the east, and Russia to the north.
Skipping lightly over ALL the Indigenous languages here forever.
Youth Goes Down To The Sea
...and comes back with 30 crabs and 20 rockfish filets.
...and comes back with 30 crabs and 20 rockfish filets.
October 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Youth Goes Down To The Sea
...and comes back with 30 crabs and 20 rockfish filets.
...and comes back with 30 crabs and 20 rockfish filets.
Here is Thug Queen, deeply disapproving of house arrest. Meanwhile, one of the jaunty Banana Boys, who has never had outside privileges, brightens her day by his very existence.
October 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here is Thug Queen, deeply disapproving of house arrest. Meanwhile, one of the jaunty Banana Boys, who has never had outside privileges, brightens her day by his very existence.
Outside it's a pleasant misty fall day, and the little slope is covered with pink & lavender shooting stars. Original given to us by a friend who died shortly thereafter. So annual beauty among fading colors, and reminder of a lost friend. I should paint it but I might cry.
Anyway. Depressed.
Anyway. Depressed.
October 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Outside it's a pleasant misty fall day, and the little slope is covered with pink & lavender shooting stars. Original given to us by a friend who died shortly thereafter. So annual beauty among fading colors, and reminder of a lost friend. I should paint it but I might cry.
Anyway. Depressed.
Anyway. Depressed.
Finishing up our time on the prairie. Got a LOT done: paintings, poems, fencing, road repair, exclosure removals in prep for big stream conservation project, getting steelhead back up here.
September 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Finishing up our time on the prairie. Got a LOT done: paintings, poems, fencing, road repair, exclosure removals in prep for big stream conservation project, getting steelhead back up here.
Behold, yet another badger! This one put on a show, scuttling about busily, stopping to peer at us.
September 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Behold, yet another badger! This one put on a show, scuttling about busily, stopping to peer at us.
The swallows fledged & left the nest. Then there was a huge thunderstorm and guess who came home?
September 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The swallows fledged & left the nest. Then there was a huge thunderstorm and guess who came home?
I am extremely pleased to hear about the helmet. You have an excellent, if unusual, brain. Worth preserving. There are also nice vests to be worn by us people A Little Old To Be Falling.
I hope you do ground work to get him to move his hindquarters away from you easily.
I hope you do ground work to get him to move his hindquarters away from you easily.
September 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I am extremely pleased to hear about the helmet. You have an excellent, if unusual, brain. Worth preserving. There are also nice vests to be worn by us people A Little Old To Be Falling.
I hope you do ground work to get him to move his hindquarters away from you easily.
I hope you do ground work to get him to move his hindquarters away from you easily.
Yesterday we drove 20 miles north and spent a lovely day gazing down the Imnaha valley and enjoying canyon vistas.
September 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Yesterday we drove 20 miles north and spent a lovely day gazing down the Imnaha valley and enjoying canyon vistas.
Neighbor left yesterday, pack of work party volunteers starts arriving today for the weekend. Good weather, night thunderstorms, days perfect.
Then we get a week alone here on the prairie. I've been doing good art & writing poetry. And fixing fence.
Then we get a week alone here on the prairie. I've been doing good art & writing poetry. And fixing fence.
September 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Neighbor left yesterday, pack of work party volunteers starts arriving today for the weekend. Good weather, night thunderstorms, days perfect.
Then we get a week alone here on the prairie. I've been doing good art & writing poetry. And fixing fence.
Then we get a week alone here on the prairie. I've been doing good art & writing poetry. And fixing fence.
They are either brainless or brilliant, nothing in between. This one is Clever. His brother is Not.
September 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
They are either brainless or brilliant, nothing in between. This one is Clever. His brother is Not.
INTERNET ALERT
I SAW A BADGER
FINALLY
TOTALLY WORTH IT.
I SAW A BADGER
FINALLY
TOTALLY WORTH IT.
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
INTERNET ALERT
I SAW A BADGER
FINALLY
TOTALLY WORTH IT.
I SAW A BADGER
FINALLY
TOTALLY WORTH IT.
We went to the 44th Hells Canyon Mule Days, Always The First Weekend After Labor Day, and had a good time. Mule fans are a small but tough & fervent community. Lots of fun to watch. Plus, chocolate marionberry pie sold by the Grange.
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We went to the 44th Hells Canyon Mule Days, Always The First Weekend After Labor Day, and had a good time. Mule fans are a small but tough & fervent community. Lots of fun to watch. Plus, chocolate marionberry pie sold by the Grange.