Longfellow: live music at Urban Forage till 9pm if you need something to do. Vibes are relaxed, come hang out! I’m knitting! urbanforagewinery.com

Making bad art today (it’s not art, obv, but I’ve been wanting patio lights for QUITE some time and I am… Unskilled)

A really wise thread about middle-grade readers. I’d argue there’s a similar problem for younger teens, too!

K.A. Doore@kadoore.com · 3d ago

As a parent of a Kid Who Reads and a Kid Who Is Starting to Read, I 100% believe that publishing could put even a little more effort into MG and be rewarded for it. Kids *are* reading. I see it among 9yo's schoolmates, I see it among 5yo's. They love the school library. They love being read to.

Food Face Guy x Yip Yips

About Me: I am a grownup who only really likes one flavor of coffee, and I do have to keep track of my kitchen because my house is 75 years old. I actually feel like I am doing an okay job of confounding Amazon!

I am at the Fitz for Labyrinth and it’s a good time but it is effing FREEZING in here

Nearly hit a deer on my way to Spanish class this evening. Spanish class is community ed at WASHBURN and the deer was crossing LYNDALE AVENUE. I will grant you the habitat of the creek right there, but it was quite a surprise and truly a near miss.

Oh yeah yeah yeah! Creepshow! There was an episode with a kajillion bugs!

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 7d ago

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

This might be my fifth TMBG show? IDK, husband saw them for the 11th time Friday. ❤️ Our first proper date was a show on the John Henry tour.

Awesome things in my day: 1) frolicking little kids in the library 2) delicious, creamy Bulgarian feta 3) last-minute TMBG tix for tomorrow so I can take 16 to their FIRST SHOW 4) 16 is ✨ Very Excited ✨

Surprising approximately no one. (This is great news to read!)

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · last wk.

Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

A success: called LOCAL appliance shop’s repair dept to find a LOCAL source to pick up a fridge door handle (which is a real point of failure for this fridge and not the only one!). Spoke with two nice guys in town and a nice national rep who would ship the part. Love talking on the phone. :)

Not as many opportunities for Amy to do this kind of thing as governor, unfortunately.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

Second dose of Shingrix this morning. Am hydrated and Tylenol’d up; have taken a walk and set two Gatorades to chill. Going to work later! Hoping this will be easier than the first time! (do not tell me otherwise, I can be a sweet summer child for a few more hours)

I cried at my son’s first trombone lesson (he was 11 and not quite big enough to throw the slide out to the furthest pitch), in which he played Hot Cross Buns for his new teacher. I am also a proponent of giving a kid a (decent-quality) harmonica for Christmas :)

JC (baseball season type)@conductress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Iam a professional musician. I adore beginning orchestra and band concerts. Love them. My kid's first orchestra concert, one of the pieces was literally just them playing a Dmajor scale and I cried. That said: I could. not. handle. teaching. recorders.

Before, during, after. (Apple Bundt Cake from Sally’s Baking Addiction.) I got this Bundt pan for Christmas (as a replacement for the much crummier one I’d had since my wedding) and this is actually my first time using it! That baking spray with flour in it is MAGICAL.

I’m not paying terribly close attention, but this does match the pattern I’ve seen for the entirety of my marriage. Eldest has adopted a fatalistic attitude about it, which I think makes her a true MN football fan.

Steve Quick@stevequick.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you're new to the Minnesota Vikings, they'll squeak out questionable wins until a 9-2 record, make you think they're for real, then finish 10-7, make the playoffs on a tiebreaker, then lose in a way that has never happened before.

We have not turned on the furnace yet (inexplicably yesterday it got WARMER inside my house), but I did bust out the first handknit wool socks of the season today! (Yarn is Malabrigo Sock, pattern is Yarn Harlot’s Plain Vanilla Sock with some added ribbing across the instep)

Highlights. Games. Omni. I didn’t have a Cricket subscription myself, but one of my siblings did and we had a crap ton of back issues in the house. Sassy! Writer’s Digest in HS. My parents had BH&G, Woman’s Day, PopMech, Reader’s Digest, and two daily papers. I read them all.

NateMing on Elm Street@nateming.bsky.social · 2w ago

if any, what kind of magazine subscriptions--specifically subscriptions--did you have as a kid?

Who here has experience with the Riverview from a limited-mobility/accessibility perspective? I want to take my FIL (a larger, creaky-at-best 73yo) to Coyote Vs Acme, but I’m wondering if I should pick a theater with the fancier seating to ensure he’s comfortable.

In case you have cilantro or parsley still hanging out in your fridge (or your garden), I present you a chimichurri recipe. This one is all cilantro; most are half parsley and I imagine you could do all parsley if you don’t care for cilantro. I love it. braziliankitchenabroad.com/cilantro-chi...

Cilantro Chimichurri Sauce Recipe

This cilantro chimichurri sauce recipe has a ton of uses, especially topping grilled meats. This simple recipe will add a major boost of flavor to any dish.

braziliankitchenabroad.com

I live in NE Kansas and feel pretty helpless at the news coming out of SW Kansas and I will try to list organizations on the ground that could probably use help.

I am down here on the floor with the big books that no one ever touches. They are hard to use (though great in some ways for a Storytime setting), and they are going to continue to stay here in the workroom, but there are some GREAT stories here.

Today’s letter of the day for Storytime was E (for egg, eyes, elephant, emu, and exit). Last night I dreamed about trying to explain “Exhausted” to preschoolers and now my Energy is Eliminated. Time to Eat, probably.

Very important case for immigration enforcement. 3 policies central to numerous ICE abductions are stayed. Decision by Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock, Southern District of Alabama.

Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: Leo Garcia Venegas, detained three times by DHS, just won a major victory in his case. The court stayed three DHS policies: Immigration agents can no longer raid construction sites without a warrant, round up workers based on how they look, and refuse to let them go after they show a REAL ID.

When your farm share starts giving you butternut squash (mine already did), you can use that in any recipe for pumpkin bread, muffins, or even pie. Cut in half, remove seeds, coat with oil and lightly salt. Roast with cut side up at 425 for 45 minutes to an hour or until soft; let cool and mash.

Polarazing?? What the HELL, @startribune.com? A high-school paper would have caught this before sending the issue to print.

You know what? The time for outside pants is over. We are done for the day.

If anyone’s looking for fall gifts or just to rifle through pretty things… I’ll be at Bachmans on 60th and Lyndale tomorrow and Sunday from 10-3. Come through?

The sink is empty. Full disclosure, I have two things soaking, but it’s been DAYS. Please clap.