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Jeanne Lakso
@jeannelakso.bsky.social
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Food, books, my front porch and the view from elsewhere. Transit user (never had a car). Music lover. Able to vividly recall pastries consumed five years ago. Seeker of the ultimate biscuits and gravy.
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More research…the sparkling kind.
Champagne flute next to a bottle of Salinger Dry Wit sparkling nonalcoholic beverage.
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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On the topic of pie, my guys Steve and Alan at Stockholm Pie’s national awards are no b.s. the sour cream raisin, the coconut cream, whatever fruit is their seasonal special. But really, the only bad pie is no pie at all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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My kind of research.
Scrambled eggs with cheese, onions, tortillas, avocado, orage slices, and a bottle of local Pity Party hot sauce (roasted red peppers, tomatoes, habaneros, plus carrots and peaches)!
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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My dear nephew @revnaps.bsky.social sent us a Thanksgiving turkey. What a lovely surprise. And unusual too! Anybody have a great recipe for turkey necks?
Photo of a 3D printed resin turkey, light tan in color, which has five heads for some reason.
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Post you from a different era (circa 1980)
Young woman, curly hair, vintage bkack satin shirt dress, more makeup than I have worn cumulatively in the past three years. Posed with a smile in front of a very 1970s fabric curtain.
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Thank you, Solveig Tofte and Sunstreet Bakery, for this Downtowner and all the cardamom twists and pizza nights too!
An enormous, glorious sugar-dredged cinnamon bun on a plate.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Consequences of a trip to Finland: just used a data breach settlement debit card to purchase $50 of licorice.
An array of colorful bulk candy bins; just part of one aisle of the average Finnish grocery store’s licorice section.
October 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Our sign from the Minneapolis #NoKings rally. Art by the spouse, concept mine. Pretty proud I was able to distill this into one word
A sign with a pair of cutout crowns above two day-glo cutout clown heads. A bright red “NO!” Is in the middle of the sign. “No crowns; no clowns!”
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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We don’t usually do crafts but today’s the day.
Bright paper collages of two clown heads.
October 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I left this behind at the Edina Turn Styles. And I will forever wonder why an Edinan would surrender it to the resale shop. Ethics? Bad investments? Case of gout?
A box containing a marble cutting board made especially for slicing one’s daily ration of foie gras (as one does). Description on the box is entirely in French. Priced at a mere $11.50.
September 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Anyone need some Oktoberfest gear?
A shop window displaying a plethora of beer-themed hats, shirts, and pants.
September 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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This is how La Crosse does a Brandy Alexander.
Large martini glass filled to overflowing with brandy infused vanilla ice cream topped with toasted hazelnuts. Approximately six scoops of creamy frozen boozy goodness.
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Met the Tipsy Pie Mascot at the Fair today. Pie got attitude.
A smiling wooden(?) pie with googly eyes and green sneakers, smiling and holding a wee wine glass.
August 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A whole lot of Finland looks like this. There’s a Finnish word for blue-and-white: sinivalkoinen.
Expanse of blue lake with water lilies in the foreground, a forested shoreline in the distance, and a blue sky full of fluffy white clouds above.
July 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Pareidolia in Helsinki. With cool art nouveau elevator logo.
July 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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What is going on here? “Haute end crafted”? “The taste of Paris, France” is Le Purp. Apparently.
July 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I’m such a proponent of big cheap annuals. Zinnias, cosmos, sunflowers.
Reddish brown sunflower with greenish undertones Same sunflower from the back, showing its sculptural green head and hairy stem.
July 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Today in the garden.
July 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Look what popped today, right next to the back door!
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Window of a tattoo/piercings shoppe in Rhinelander WI. Where winters are long.
Large assortment of colorful crocheted octopuses in a shop window. The largest is violet and the smallest eerily octopus colored. More crocheted animals. Mostly amigurumi style. Kitties, elephants, bears, mushrooms. It’s a tattoo shop.
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Me and my dad. He died when I was ten, but not before he let me know how loved I was.
Little girl and her father sitting on the end of a dock in Minnesota. A vintage photo from the 1969s.
June 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Update.
Same peony later in the day, now fully open!
May 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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And so it begins.
Bright pink peony about to bloom.
May 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This pork sandwich is my new bestie.
Pulled pork sandwich with banana bbq glaze, cilantro lime sauce, and shredded cabbage.
May 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Gin martini, a great rollicking read, and The Brothers Gutierrez. Saturday evening shaping up pretty well!
The cover of “Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” next to a frosty martini with a twist of lemon.
May 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM