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Mikayla
@mikaylamic.bsky.social
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Automation and aerospace engineer
Asexual, aromantic and nonbinary.
They/them

Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
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@amalelmohtar.com The River Has Roots is on the Staff Picks shelf at my local library!
A bookshelf with a sign on the top saying “Staff Picks: Hand picked favourites from your Margaret Hennigar Library team!” On the first shelf below the sign is a copy of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Sharing the cat tree
There’s an adult tabby cat sleeping at the top of the cat tree in a round bed, and a tabby and white kitten just below, inside a box with an open front. The kitten is peaking out the entrance at me taking the photo
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Kitten coexisting with knitting is going well!
A kitten sleeping on his side beside me on the couch, next to a yarn bowl with a ball of blue yarn inside it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Stitch is now ambushing Purl from under the rug
An adult tabby cat looking suspiciously at a lump in an area rug in the living room. The lump is hiding a kitten
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I'm trying to carve a pumpkin here
A grey tabby kitten standing on the table next to a pumpkin that has the top half cut off. The pumpkin knife is still in the house pumpkin (with the blade fully inside) and the kitten is trying to bite the knife’s orange handle
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Stitch is contemplating bad life choices. (Don't worry, the stove is cold.)
A tabby kitten standing on top of a pile of firewood and with a paw extended towards the wood stove like he’s going to jump on it
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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A tabby kitten sleeping in a giant fleece blanket. He’s lying on the blanket, and it’s also covering him so that only one ear, his face, and one paw are visible
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Although my supervisor is sleeping on the job
A grey tabby kitten curled up at the end of the couch, asleep
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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I'm on my fourth attempt at what should be a fairly simple cast on. Stitch has decided to help
A metal double pointed needle with a handful of stitches cast ok to it. There is a kitten lying in my lap, who has trapped the yarn between his paws and is intently staring at the needle. (He tried to bite the needle after I took the photo.) You can tell from the yarn that this isn’t my first attempt at the cast on
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Apparently my tablet is actually a cat bed
I’m sitting on the couch with my iPad resting on my knee. A grey tabby kitten is sleeping in my lap and resting his head and shoulder on the screen, completely blocking my ability to use it
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Current status: trapped under sleeping kitten
I’m sitting on the couch with my legs stretched out and a fleece blanket on my lap, and a grey tabby kitten with white legs is stretch out on my lap, as long as he can be, asleep
October 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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And ending with apple crisp and vanilla ice cream
A portion of apple crisp on a plate beside a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The apple crisp is a golden brown colour, with the baked apples mostly hidden by the oat topping
October 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I declare this successful pastry!
Side view of a cut piece of the galette. The pastry is crispy and you can see layers, and the squash and onion filling is staying in the cut piece and not spilling out the sides
October 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It survived!
The galette out of the oven after baking. It looks remarkably intact, although it did lose a lot of butter during the baking process. It’s nicely browned and looks good!
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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There are definitely some pastry structural integrity issues on the left side, so we’ll see what happens
A galette made by rolling out the pastry, dumping the filling in the middle, and then folding the pastry over the filling and leaving the centre open. On the left side of the galette the pastry is not in good shape
October 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Filling for my pastry
A dinner plate overflowing with a combination of roasted cubed butternut squash, caramelized onions, grated cheese, and chopped fresh sage leaves
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Butternut squash for roasting

(The squash is from a local organic farm!)
A foil-lined half sheet baking sheet with diced butternut squash. The baking sheet is full but not crowded
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Baked and brushed with melted butter
The rolls, still on the baking sheet. They picked up a bit of colour in the oven, although not as much as I expected. The tops look a bit shiny from the brushed on melted butter
October 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Second rise done, time to bake!
The sheet pan of bun dough balls after rising. They’re much bigger and some are touching each other. They kind of failed at being the same size, and some are definitely not round, but I think they’ll still be good!
October 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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And back to the rolls. The first rise might have been a bit too long, because I was busy peeling apples when the timer went off.

Time for the second rise
A plastic bowl very full of risen bread dough The dough has been shaped into twenty rolls, and the rolls have been dipped in melted butter and placed on a baking sheet to rise
October 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Apple crisp! Which I realized partway through making is much more apple crisp than I expected.

Which is not a terrible problem to have.

It’s in the fridge now to bake later
A glass 9x13 baking dish filled with unbaked apple crisp. It doesn’t look particularly appetizing before it’s baked. More like a sandy oat mixture in a baking dish
October 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Pastry!
A rectangle of pastry dough on parchment paper
October 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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First up is dinner rolls! The recipe really wasn’t kidding that the dough would be soft and sticky
A roughly-ball shaped bread dough rising in a plastic mixing bowl covered by a glass pot lid. The ball is very craggy because it was so sticky and I had to scrape it off my hands
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Stitch the ferocious hunter
A grey tabby kitten that has captured a rainbow coloured toy on a string and is biting its head. I’m sitting stretched out on the couch with a fleece blanket over me, and he’s playing on my legs
October 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Purl is like, I'm trying to give you a bath here
September 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM