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Patricia Swarbrick 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦
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The difference between declaring and being honest and up front is in what you do.

People make up stuff all the time about who people are. Just remember it’s their choice to think that way. If they’re wrong, they’ll either figure it out or not.
Yeah that is quite a difference.
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I’m messing around with cheap yarn. Not sure if this will become a hat or if it will just be a potholder. Depends on how fast I consume the yarn.

#Crochet #DoubleSpiral
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I understand the meltdown. I started working on this crochet granny square afghan more than 12 years ago. I’ve been adding squares every once in a while, and just picked it up again after multple years of not working on it.

It has cat hairs from both my cats worked into the stitches.
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A bit of historical photos for #Caturday
Top Left to Bottom Right
Mirax, Casey, Shadow and Charlie (the second) in Summer of 2001.

#cats
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Mmm, good stuff. Leftover tomato and onion from burritos the other night, a couple of mushrooms, some spinach, a bit of garlic chilli paste with the saved tops of garlic bulbs from topping garlic for roasting, and half a package of instant ramen with broth drained.

Yum! 😋
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
More video editing practice. Just a combo clip of #MonsterSnowCleaning at the place I used to live

Yeah, it's not that much, but it was very unusual for the area to have anything but plows. Actual snow removal is still unusual here.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Borrowed this from the library. 24 pages in and ROTFL seems appropriate.

#SorryNotSorry
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
More experiments with video editing. It's just a compilation of clips from my trip alone to visit #Niagra. I was in the area for work and had time to visit before returning home. I wanted to see the geologic wonder and check out the history.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Heh, i remembered some more snobbery from this city-turned-country cat named Shadow. He would not drink water from anywhere except a water glass, and had to be fresh every single day! Bowls? Nah! Not good enough for him!

This photo is from 2001, so an oldie!
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Yeah, the calico I had would not eat pate, not for any reason, and she strongly preferred fish over anything else.

Contrast that with the tuxedo, who would eat any cat food plus steal any celery she detected within her range.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Grey #Jackrabbitis in the wallow this afternoon. Yes, it snowed.

#rabbits #bunnies #wildlife
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The brown-eared #Jackrabbit is back in the wallow. More of their fur has changed to white.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Call me weird, but having a bunch of recognizably white hair in my very dark hair is actually very appealing to me.

Why? I like the age streaks, and my dark hair is thin and not suited to bleaching so dying my hair just doesn’t work out.
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#caturday From the archive, begging for treats
#cats

BTW they were both micro-chipped and licensed with the city and never went outside without an escort, so no collars required. The black and white was agoraphobic anyway. She was afraid of the sky, always had to have something over her head.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Casual doodles. Haven’t done these since High School

#Dooodle
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I made enough of these spiky balls to probably be characterized as this one.

(Yeah they are Christmas ornaments, made from 30 folded squares of paper)
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Old Photo, just Tesla🌈 and Murphy🌈 wrestling with each other.

#Cats
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Just trying out making clip compilations. Still haven't gotten around to learning sound edits. The subject of this compilation is Tesla🌈

#cats
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
More snow video, this time a light snow at a train platform, looking at the LED light show art installation
#Art #LED #Transit
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Old video, just a reminder of #winter
#SnowStorm
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tesla (2005-2024) and Murphy (2005-2017)

Murphy saved me from a suicide attempt - she would not leave me alone.

Tesla was an incredibly clever girl who converted my spouse into a cat lover, and figured out all sorts of different ways to communicate including getting huffy when we were not prompt.
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Had an old video I made of ducks flocking from many years ago, just after harvest.
#ducks
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The local Jackrabbits seem to really like loafing in our yard. The one from yesterday seems to have gotten his little wallow usurped by a more grey and white rabbit which is a little better camouflaged.
#Rabbit #jackrabbit
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The resident jackrabbit has switched over to their winter coat. There is only a small bit of brown/orange hair on the top of the head.
#Jackrabbit #Rabbit
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM