but I'm not sure how to entice one without inadvertently inviting rats

❤️

I have always wanted a backyard possum

oh, I do hope so!

miniature cowboy hats sound adorable! ❤️

@realfollowers.bsky.social I would like to give this a go, please

I have no knowledge of this practice !!!

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truly frightening

and icky to the max

sharing for @katiebenderbooks.bsky.social and
@abenderrd.bsky.social

dense brains, yo

Can't. The forecast calls for pain.

go Hawks !!!

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where do I lodge my complaint about the new "sleep score" function of the apple watch?

and how do I get that supremely annoying morning message away from my actually helpful sleep information?

thank you for making me aware of this account 😊😄

Drying wells and dying wetlands: The growing water crisis beneath the Waterloo Moraine The water supply crisis in Waterloo Region that led to a development freeze is a warning, say residents of Wilmot Township. The water table and aquifers that supply 80 per cent of the region’s water s...

"Martha and David say they never had issues until last November. Simply put, there is less water in the well and it runs out about once a week now. 'If I do a couple of loads of laundry and then put the dishwasher on, then we run out of water.'" #onpoli

I ... I ...
I've been suspecting as such

there's only so much of "man's inhumanity to man" discourse that I can take

I work for an Episcopal church. The Wednesday service homily always relates the story of the saint from Holy Women, Holy Men. The Rector knows I will not be there on red martyr days. I grew up with Martyrs Mirror and sang in the Martyrs Mirror Oratorio as a kid.

yup

our version had "MRN ducks" for the second line but only "CM wings?" as part of the third line ... I really like "CDEDBD wangs?" !!

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Shirley MacLaine, Honorable Mention

Come to think of it, it's because of the same brother that I got stung on my face by wasps (possibly hornets?) several years later.

Eye all swollen up like a bullfrog's throat the entire week we were at Gramma's house.

I was bit by a dead bee.

No, really. One of my brothers caught a bee in a jar & buried the jar in the sandbox. (Why? Who can say?) I fell into the sandbox, landed on & broke the jar, smashing my hand on the dead bee. Got stung.

Imagine my surprise the first time I saw "To Have and Have Not".

plus, I have a niece whose career has been involved with intentional migration in various ways

I am not scholarly by any means but I have very much enjoyed reading about your progress

(and also your food posts!)

and tagging @abenderrd.bsky.social in case you think that Emily would be interested

posting to my own timeline as a reminder for me

basic maintenance ...
thank you for this reminder!

maybe that will be my resolution for 2026

okay, it took me three tries, but I eventually got one that I can embrace for the year

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The wren, the wren,
the king of all birds!
On St Stephen's Day
it got caught in the furze.
So it's up with the kettle
and down with the pan.
Won't you give us a penny
to bury the wren?

"fog's as thick as peanut butter"

"You eat what you like and I'll eat what I like!"