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Finished the steps to the backyard
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A photo of a set of five small brown stairs leading down from a gray retaining wall. At the top of the stairs is a small, black chicken.
Last year we had a new deck, driveway, and patio built. It kind of changed the pathways into our backyard, necessitating these steps. Over the course of a couple days my wife and I built them. I’m sore and tired, but I think they turned out pretty well (and mostly level and square😅).
ufez
Wise move to let the chicken test them first.
excellent work!
(that said, we all know i'm here for the bonus yard guardian strut)
(that said, we all know i'm here for the bonus yard guardian strut)
Yes to home improvement.
ice cream sweat
Unexpectedly cool morning
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A photo of a man wearing a mlkshk shirt and drinking coffee, the mug obscuring some of his face. In the background are trees with green leaves.
The temperature has dipped in Denver for the last few days and the back deck has been the best place for morning coffee.
Nice shirt
85 days til halloween halloween halloween
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large jack-o-lantern in traffic
walgreens already has their halloween stuff out.
I saw a place setting up their *Christmas* displays already.
WRONGTAPEWRONGTAPEWRONGTAPE
sausage dog
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Cookout at Jeff Koons'!
These "Corgi butt, or loaf of bread?" quizzes are getting tough...
Our neighbour
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Barred owl perched on a tree branch.
Barred Owl has been hanging around the cottage this week. Let us get quite close today.
25 years!
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We sent this as our invitation... in a tube. It's 3 feet tall. We have it in a frame in our living room and everything :). My friend, Brodsky, who is the bravest graphic artist I have yet to meet helped me crush the design. A friend of ours, Elke was a CD at an agency where she had these printed for us. We stuck them in tubes and USPSed them out for a couple of bucks each.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
It was a wonderful wedding. We had $0 to spend on it. Most of the money wound up going to the New Leaf Cafe. They were in Fort Tryon Park in way north NYC. They hadn't opened yet, so we cut a deal with them using us as a practice event with a buffet with a pay-bar. We put goldfish in take home bowls on the tables instead of flowers. Heather found a gorgeous thrift store gown. We used the venues speakers with a random playlist and that was that.
A friend of ours who was a freelance philosopher and now teaches at Oxford, gave a dissertation on marriage that I cannot remember a word of because I was holding my new wife's hand and sweating in my suit jacket in the usual sweaty August of the city. Fuck it was hot. But that just led to people giving up the usual wedding stuffiness. A lot of clothes went missing almost immediately.
We gave everyone point and shoot cameras, called in a favor for some portraits and table shots. The photographer completely failed, saying "I've never been at an event where I couldn't get people to stop laughing long enough to take a group photo". He was pretty drunk when he said it.
We had a cake with Wonder Woman and The Tick on top that we brought. We had totally forgotten about it, but saw it when we started happily saying goodbye to everyone.
A billion congratulations, my friend. What a glorious artifact.
Yes much love, forever!!!!
That's just so lovely. Thank you for sharing!
“so anyway the guitar goes like ‘meedly-meedly-meedly-meedly-meeeeeeeee’”
Horizontal rainbow, Skógafoss, Iceland
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Rainbow colours seen in mist rising from black rocky ground
Gorgeous!
👏👏👏
Big Basil Bed
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A three-panel image of my basil garden. The bottom panel is a distant shot encompassing all of the large leafy basil plants and the lemon balm plants on the right.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
The top left is just a top-down shot of their bushy leaves, and the top-right photo is from the side, with a tape measure sticking out above the basil leaves to show that the plants are about 30 or 31 inches tall at the highest.
Another bumper crop of basil this year!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
I let the front two plants flower and flower without nipping any of it off until today because I felt bad about taking flowers from pollinators (we have other flowers, so I didn’t need to feel guilty), and although those ripped taller than the rest at first, they didn’t really feel like keeping up the pace since I let them bloom.
Since we were out of town for two weeks (and had a lot of rain) I only just now finished trimming all the flowers off all of them, and they’re beautiful. As you can see, at their tallest they’re about 30”-31” high now.
At the far side, past the anemic looking basil, are my thriving lemon balm plants, that are lower than the basil. Watering and mowing over here is great. Lemon & basil all the way!
This is impressive. I only have one basil plant on the deck but this was the first year I figured out proper cultivating and now have a nice bush.
@homerj Three cheers! 🍃🍃🍃
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
The firat year we had a basil jungle like this we made enough pesto (froze it into cubes) that we still have a few bits left these five years later. I recommend it. 😂
Big Basil is trying to control you and doesn't want you to know.
Halloween Nears
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Looking through old Halloween decor I cam across these skull cutouts from Beistle. They are remakes from at least 50 years ago: https://www.beistle.com/vintage-...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
In fact, there's tons of vintage Halloween stuffs going back 100 years here. Most of it is on Amazon too: https://www.beistle.com/holiday...
Halloween Nears is a term that can be applied from the day after Halloween. Every dam year.
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
That does not mean that we must start a deep dive focusing in on bloody Halloween IN EARLY AUGUST!!!!! ffs
Ooohhh look Christmas is coming!
bah humbug
bah humbug
@roonie a Spirit Halloween just opened near us. It is end times
linkedin bio
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back of a woman's shirt reads "pabst powered fuck machine"
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Out walking my friend's chihuahua a couple weeks ago! This is Goomba 🩷
This is a cool photo
oh no the chihuahua has The Dots 😍
Looking forward to your and Goomba's album.
Mushroom 🍄
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Looks like a bolete butterpilsen.
That looks like something you could spend the rest of your life eating.
bulbous
London Heatwave
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Current view of London after recent multiple heatwaves. London is the city I have spent the most time in outside of my own and I have never witnessed anything like this. I wonder if English grass is like Australian grass and can recover from this... but also trees instead of grass yeah.
source https://www.reddit.com/r...
source https://www.reddit.com/r...
It's really terrible. What is more sickening is that the Reform party who have gained quite a lot in popularity since the Tories imploded, led by Nigel Mirage, are all in denial about climate change, despite being presented with evidence and living through it.
As they are being funded by big oil, they are constantly banging on "Of course this happened it's Summer" etc.
However England generally has mild weather, I feel really bad for people in France and Spain who've lived in the same places for generations and are being displaced.
At least those governments are a bit quicker to respond action plans. France banned flights for private jets for a period of time.
As they are being funded by big oil, they are constantly banging on "Of course this happened it's Summer" etc.
However England generally has mild weather, I feel really bad for people in France and Spain who've lived in the same places for generations and are being displaced.
At least those governments are a bit quicker to respond action plans. France banned flights for private jets for a period of time.
Nigel Mirage 😂 France (and Austria) also banned short haul flights you could do by train in 2.5-3 hours and have reduced emissions.
Wow, this is Blackheath, I lived in one of those buildings on the left once. Amazing view, but of luscious green grass. I haven't seen anything remotely like this before. It's getting a bit parched in the North but nothing like this.
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source: https://mastodon.au/@wendypa...
Shaming your high rollers is certainly a business strategy of some kind.
It me. And this would drag my ass directly into a bookstore if I was walking past. It’s impossible to be laser targeted so pristinely and not feel drawn in.
I'd say "it me" but I've given up all pretense that I'll only buy books at the same pace that I'll read them.
conflicting directives
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A person wearing a rusty iron suit stands in a pale green space. The suit is haphazardly bolted together and looks vaguely like a minimalist metal sculpture of a rodent or fox: conical body, conical snout, pointed ears. Where its right arm would be is an open hole that looks like it was fitted with a robotic arm at one point. Its eye is also an open hole. Emerging from the armhole is a green tentacle with small white spots. The figure holds a red balloon in its left hand. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
I hope if I ever lose a limb it's far enough in the future that they can replace it with a tentacle.
Hey Dog, how's the family?
Folk art shark.
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A primitive rendering of a hammerhead shark in blue and pink on a circular black background. As much as a non-human creature can be said to express the emotion we call love, this work overflows with the emotion.
Today's favorite kid art in the 'to be framed' pile. I know it resembles an elephant, but it's a hammerhead shark. The tag says so.
The Hammerphant.
One of those duck/rabbit illusions
This broom, it vibrates?
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An oldy-timey newspaper illustration of a woman wearing a skirt, blouse, and large tam and holding a basket, wandering a landscape with some artfully illustrated rocks. She's holding a snake by its neck.
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER.
She Makes a Snug Little Income by Securing Reptiles for Traveling Shows.
SHE JUST GRABS THEM.
GIRL SNAKE CATCHER.
She Makes a Snug Little Income by Securing Reptiles for Traveling Shows.
SHE JUST GRABS THEM.
Floating wife, happy life
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My wife doing her favourite thing on a calm and sunny day on Georgia Bay, Lake Huron.
So calm!
That stretch of the bay is wondrous. Sunrises AND sunsets.
Doris
Fall Out Boy & Fall Out Girl
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Photograph by Max Scheler, titled "Contamination Suits for Nuclear Fallout" (1961), with a couple on a New York rooftop modeling early survival wear.
Day 9 is gonna suck tho.
No doubt prototype 1 only
Day 9 is gonna suck tho.
No doubt prototype 1 only
fit to be tied
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I realized fit was short for outfit very recently. Like, embarrassingly recently.
Well, I didn't know until just now, so that puts you ahead of me...
Me and my mural
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A good friend of mine dropped by and wanted to take my picture.
🔥
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My folks worked in academia all their lives. I feel this cartoon in my very bones.
Damn you, trustees of Miskatonic University!
I found a sheaf of Doonesbury strips depicting a literal Academic Marketplace, that my Mom cut out of the paper in the early 80's when she was finishing her Ph.D
I thought this belonged here.
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I canna remember where I came across this. Either green or orange.
FYI
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Instructions on how to build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box
Portland is 159 now. Nothing like the 500 a few years back, but it's enough to make me feel a bit off after walking the dog.
Stay safe out there.
Stay safe out there.
112 this morning in Seattle. Bleh.
159 in Portland, 112 in Seattle...that's some kind of heat!