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Dr. Rebecca Weber, Ph.D. (she/her)
@rebeck82.bsky.social
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Mama to 4 (5 with new DIL!), overrun with cats, dogs, chickens. I teach chemistry and research the teaching and learning of chemistry with CER. I scroll and read/learn a lot.

Any posts/reposts reflect my own opinion, no one else's.
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Turkeys are done! Left is Cajun seasoned and oven roasted, right is smoked (and not burned; the picture is misleading!)
Golden brown turkey from the oven Very dark turkey right off the smoker. It's not burned! It was my first attempt at spatchcocking.
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The dogs are on alert. For what, they aren't quite sure.
3 black dogs and 1 brown and white dog are alertly staring out open windows.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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My husband is just fantastic at pictures. The monarchs haven't left yet. I need to print these pictures and hang them in my walls for peace. 🥰 🌱 #gardening #NTexas
A monarch butterfly on a zinnia flower
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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The monarchs are very happy with my flowers right now. I probably have 30+ enjoying my mystic spires salvia, mistflower, and agastache! #NTexas #gardening 🌱
3 monarch butterflies on anise hyssop (agastache)
October 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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September 1 - fall is here! 😂 (Ignore the fact that in North Texas, temps are in the upper 80s and lower 90s.)
An orange cat sitting in a window, starting at small pumpkins, with out of focus green trees behind her.
September 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I think some pruning is in order, but isn't September the wrong time to do that? It gets full sun, we've had a bunch of rain recently, but I used a watering bag every other week(ish) during the dry summer. Fungal issues, maybe?
A close up of a Gala apple tree, two years old, with curled up leaves. It's not a happy tree.
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Cucumbers and okra, it never fails. I swear I checked all the okra plants yesterday, where was this one hiding?!
Two okra pods next to a hand, one pod ready to pick, the other one probably 6-7 inches long and way too woody to eat
August 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I have a Great Pyrenees-hound mix. How do we fancy that up? Great Pyrehund? 😁
A white dog with brown face and ears, faint dark spots under his white coat. His name is Lucky and he knows he's a good boy.
August 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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🌱 It's too hot to plant anything now, and we are in the "let's just survive the summer" part of the year. Fall veggies are in and covered with shade cloth, native plants are doing their thing, so what do I do? Start planning for more beds. Cardboard and mulch time! #gardening #NTexas
A mess of weed grass (Johnson grass), a white pot, and a wire fence with green t-posts. In front of the fence there is a pile of hardwood mulch, put down to kill the grass so a flower bed can be built there. The flower bed will eventually extend the length of the fence, which is about 20 feet. A backyard with half brown grass. Two outdoor couches are in the middle of the picture, with two green lids for a septic tank towards the foreground. The main space is mostly grass, which will be covered with cardboard and hardwood mulch, to kill the grass. A native/adapted plant pollinator garden will eventually take up a lot of this space.
July 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Zoomed in from the end of my deck... It's beautiful to watch, in any weather. It's inaccessible at the moment because our bridge got knocked cattywampus in the storms we had last month.
A wooden deck in the extreme foreground, with green grass, then tall trees in the background.
July 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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It's rare that I can get all five of them in one picture, but I'm definitely a dog person. 😁
A living room with five sleeping dogs scattered throughout: a white Great Pyrenees mix and a black pitt/lab mix on the floor; the top of the head of a black lab mix in a white armchair in the background; a black border collie/Rott mix wearing a bright pink thunder shirt at the feet of a white woman in the foreground; a black Yorkie/Shih Tzu mix in between the woman's leg and the arm of a chair in the extreme foreground.
July 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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🌱 Cucumbers are hiding from me. 🤦‍♀️ Apple for scale. #gardening #NTexas
4 large cucumbers next to a Gala apple for scale. The cucumber on the left is the largest and almost white. It has a very large girth, which leads to a lot of jokes. The other three cucumbers are all dark green, but longer or rounder than normal.
June 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Question for #gardening feed, specifically those that attempt pumpkin vines in a raised bed: how big is your raised bed, does it contain the vines, and what do you do to keep them contained, if not?

Context: raised bed that is 3'x6', wrapped in chicken wire to keep chickens and dogs out. 🌱 #NTexas
Raised bed with healthy pumpkin vines extending out of the bed to the ground.
June 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Today's chore was beginning to move two giant piles of wood chips out of the drainage ditch they had to be dropped off in 😬 to the spots where the mulch will do the most good. I'm about 1/8 through the piles. 😐
Two giant piles of wood chips in a drainage ditch, with a green and brown yard taking up most of the picture.
June 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Besides the mosquitos 🙄, it's the time of year for the best evenings in North Texas right now.
A foot extended in a hammock, with a sky that is getting darker as we move into the evening. A foot extended in a hammock, with a nighttime sky, and string lights in the bottom half of the picture. Most of the picture is a nighttime sky.
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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🌱 The front garden bed, which I spend hours watching due to the hummingbirds, regular birds, butterflies, bees, and other flying things. It brings me peace.
Coreopsis Dusty Miller to the top left, white and red coneflowers in the middle, bachelor's buttons to the lower left, coreopsis to the mid right right, and dianthus in the extreme upper right. Vitex (chaste tree) in the back, covered with purple flowers; a large planter with purple calibrachoa, yellow marigolds, and tall lemon grass A flower bed surrounded by red landscape stones, a green bird bath in the middle, all different types of flowers in bloom (counter clockwise from left corner of bed: zinnias, Gregg's mist flower, coneflowers, coreopsis, gomphrena that are struggling, sage, giant hyssop, bachelor's buttons, more coreopsis, Dusty Miller). A rusted smoker is in the background.
May 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Okay 🌱, onion question. This is only my second year growing onions. I know I'm supposed to wait until the leaves flop over and begin to yellow before pulling. One or two of the onions have done so, but these aren't ready to harvest yet, right? #gardening #NTexas
A raised bed surrounded by chicken wire, filled with onion leaves. Many onion bulbs are visible at the top of the soil.
May 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🌱 I think it's time to thin the cucumbers, but I really don't wanna. 😭 #gardening #NTexas
Two rows of small cucumber plants in a raised bed, about three inches apart.
April 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Look, I grew stuff! 🌱 Sugar snap peas. Should I leave them on a little longer before harvesting? My hand for scale. #gardening #NTexas
6 sugar snap peas on a counter with a white, adult human hand for scale. The peas range from the size of my thumb (barely) to half the length of my index finger.
April 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Baby chicks on a field trip to the great outdoors! 🌱🐥
A large wire dog kennel with six baby chickens on green grass. A young adult sits cross legged in the background.
March 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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For the first time, I'm growing bush beans (Blue Lake 274) and sugar snap peas. If you zoom in, you can see the bush beans that have broken the surface! I'm excited about these, and fingers crossed it goes well! 🌱 #gardening #NTexas
A raised garden bed with two marigolds, but closer inspection in the bottom of the bed shows 5-7 bush bean plants. A milk jug cut in half has two much taller bush bean plants, in the left side of the picture. A raised garden bed with a dozen small pea plants, with a red triangle trellis stuck in the dirt over them. Only about half of the pea plants are close enough to the trellis to actually find it. Two marigolds are at the top of the picture in the bed.
March 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I jumped the gun a teeny bit, but went ahead and put my 'maters and peppers in the ground.
Raised garden bed surrounded by chicken wire, with six pepper plants (bell and jalapeno) and two marigolds (yellow and red-orange) in the middle. There are four milk jugs with faint numbers on them, preparing other seeds (that I have nowhere to put). Raised garden bed surrounded by chicken wire, with small tomato plants (Celebrity type) alternated with yellow and red-orange marigolds. One tomato plant has a semi-broken tomato cage around it. A raised garden bed with tomato plants (Roma variety) alternating with yellow and red-orange marigolds. The tomato plants all have tomato cages around them.
March 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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It's the time of year that I can have a fire outside. It's chilly enough that the fire feels good, but I'm not melting or freezing. ☺️ These nights are good nights. I'm listening to music from when I was in high school, reading a book on my phone, ignoring the disaster of the world around me.
A small fire, flames leaping up, surrounded by cinder blocks to keep the fire contained.
March 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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In the words of my husband's grandmother, "if you want perfection, go next door." Two of the six beds are moved and assembled, waiting to be filled! 🌱
Two raised garden beds, built from cedar fence slats, with 12 one inch posts sticking up for support. It's a little wonky, but it will work to grow things in it. In the background, there's a beautiful blue sky with thin white clouds, and a forest of leafless trees.
February 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Come on babies, just hang on until Saturday.
A pot of Gerbera daisies with forks sticking tines out and other assorted trash spread in the pot, to keep the dang cats from laying on them.
February 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM