Spent the morning with a dusty dissembled glorious jacquard loom… 🧶🪡
Andrea Cesari
@oldbluedoor.bsky.social
Living very quietly in a two loom garage with an attached house in the Cascadia bioregion. Mostly things related to textiles, and lots of photos of Victor Velluto, an elegant goofball Russian Blue cat. “Darling, these are my gardening pearls.”
Not really the color I expect of sunlight at 9:30 am. AQI is 57 at the moment, but forecast to reach the 150’s by this afternoon.
Yes, there are bumble bees in Alaska! And they're very interesting. This #BugBanterPodcast, Dr. Hollis Woodard is sharing her research on bees and monitoring their populations! 🏔️🐝 Audio & transcript 📻 xerces.org/bug-banter/a... Video w/ captions 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMNh...
Funny where a little insomnia can send you. I haven’t thought of this song since the ‘90s.
Wynken, Blynken and Nod (2006 Remastered) by The Doobie Brothers on Apple Music
Song · 1999 · Duration 3:20
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In another week or so I’ll start seeing long lines of barn swallows perched on power lines. They look like tiny receiving lines and I feel an urge to shake hands/feet with each one “So nice to see you this season, have a good trip,” “So long,” “Goodbye, don’t be a stranger “
Get To Know Nature@gettoknownature.bsky.social · 4d agoThe (Barn Swallow) gang’s all here #birds 🌿
Reminder to folks here in Washington state that your primary ballots are due Tuesday.
Tonight’s phone call with the home folks started with “Happy birthday, how far are you from the wildfires?”🤦♀️
Still thinking about this stoat down at Spirit Lake. Now you're thinking about it, too.
Fabulous gloves, thought to be French and dated to 1735. It’s interesting that the lace is on the palm side. This makes sense if you look at hand and arm movements used in court dances of the period. #DressHistory
The Met: Costume Institute@metcostume.bsky.social · 4d agoGloves https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/98788
Having my first garage sale. The two big wall tents went almost immediately. The pressure canner and the ice cream maker…I’m not even sure people know what these are anymore
Pretty sure I still have a container of Turtle Wax somewhere in the garage 😉
Maggie Rudy@maggiemice.bsky.social · 4d agoHave you waxed your turtle recently?
Not great. Some of the large fire icons represent hundreds of thousands of acres.
We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.
New crochet bags for the niblings. The butterfly and rocket designs are adapted from designs by Pacific Knit Co.; the fish is my own design.
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d agoA rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology
I think the private equity takeover is a cousin to this. Arrogant SOBs that we’ll never meet have decided to deprive us of good, reasonably priced goods and services just because we (The Little People) aren’t real to them.* *Yes, I’m still mad about Joanne closing!
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d agoit’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
Mark your calendars for this webinar by @xercessociety.bsky.social! Bring your questions related to save the stems, leave the leaves, and pollinator nesting/overwintering habitat. Sept. 17, 2026; Register here: xerces.org/events/ask-e...
Ask the Experts! How to Provide Nest Sites and Shelter | Xerces Society
This Ask the Experts live panel will focus on how to provide nest sites and shelter for pollinators. This includes overwintering habitat. Bring your questions related to save the stems, leave the leav...
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I've had to be creative with enrichment for this crane, who has to spend a lot of time prone while recovering from surgery. On top of more typical options, I let him watch Norwegian slow TV today which he seemed to enjoy. He can watch or not and chose to watch, so apparently its crane-approved. 📺
I OCR articles from 18th century newspapers and between the long s and the rather creative spelling of the time I get some wild results 😆
New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Jupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones - North Pole - NASA's Juno PJ65 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qjjjrc
