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It was bathboozle & brushing day here. Mateo may not like it but he sure looks handsome 🥰

Mateo the blond cocker spaniel standing on a beige, gold, red, and sage floral rug in front of a red chair and gray tv cabinet with a red toy ball in front of him. His head is turned to his left and his tail is slightly turned up. He is very clean and fluffy after a bath and brushing out today.

Two hours of yardwork completed at “feels like 103-109” depending on which weather app you believe. All cleaned up & going to veggmaxx 😂 with my Hoopla Hallmark+ binge pass & check out Lacey Chabert’s series Paris Is Always a Good Idea.

#FlashbackFriday Lake Ontario appreciation post. My aunt grew up in a tiny village near the lake & still has a cottage by Fair Haven Beach State Park. So much serenity there & memories of so many good family summer visits. The orange turd can take the L on this.

Sunset under the boughs of a tree on a deck at a cottage along a small bay inlet off Lake Ontario. A few wispy clouds glow pink and orange in the fading light and a large glass decorative ball on a shepherds hook catches the light.

I’m the only person on my block outside looking at the lunar eclipse- surprising. Cool to see a total solar eclipse and lunar in the same month 🌘🌞

Grainy iPhone pic of the lunar eclipse about 75%

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 2w ago

Can some Canadians translate on a scale of 1-10 how angry a Premier has to be to call someone “buddy” on main?

“We’re into some real foolishness now,” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston wrote on social media. “It’s Lake Ontario, buddy.”

Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Floridians deserve a Senator who fights for their survival instead of one who robs sick children to pay for political favors. If Moody refuses to step down, the people of Florida will fire her on November 3rd.”

May everyone today have the confidence of the old white dude passenger in a Benz SUV who rolled down his window at the left turn lane🚦to tell me 🚴🏻‍♀️ aren’t allowed in the car lanes only bike lanes. My dude, under FL law 🚴🏻‍♀️ ARE motor vehicles & moreover are explicitly NOT limited to bike lanes.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3w ago

#ParkChat I know there are some teachers in the gang, so spread the word

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a praying mantis is on the telephone and excited to hear someone on the phone say "Skype a Scientist has a new referral program"

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3w ago

A little payoff for such a stormy, street-flooded stuck at home day. Whoa—

A double rainbow in a cloudy sky. A few power lines cut thru the right side of the pic and trees frame each corner.

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Katie@katiestp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Guys I volunteered to donate skymiles to get folks home after they’re released from detention. My first person got home last night and I am just over here like 🥹😭 One way flights are often under 50k miles. They don’t need to be skymiles either. Please consider. www.standwithminnesota.com/skymiles

Poor Mateo, I’ve done nothing but get caught up on work since getting home from vacay Saturday. He’s so bored. (I am taking the weekend off tho!) Also I don’t think he quite gets the cooling mat concept.

Mateo the blond cocker lying on his right side on a leopard print fleece pad and a blue cooling pad, partly under a beige upholstered chair.

Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3w ago

Dear construction dudes 2 doors down- don’t do this. Clocked out of work this PM to rush out to take my mom to doc appt, had to go down & holler to move right f’ing now. Was like this again when I got home. Everytime they say “Parking in this ‘hood is hard”. I say “I know but that’s a ‘you’ problem”

A truck trailer with a Bobcat on it, parked on a brick street, blocking a third of my driveway

If you have anything less than a green card, do not use US air travel, period. Don’t come on a tourist visa, you are not safe. Students, dreamers, TPS, CAT protections or withholding from removal, asylum seeker, undocumented, do not travel in the US by air.

@baileyandbrawny.bsky.social The West Elm Christmas preview came out today & I daresay they have an #asstomato ornament 😊

A red glass Christmas ornament shaped like a tomato sitting on green moss in a wood box. A green butterfly decoration is behind it.

I showed Mateo why I left him at the pet resort & I think he forgives me 🙏🏼☀️ #eclipse #Mallorca

Plunged into darkness on the Mallorcan cliffside of Punta de el Toro as the eclipse reaches totality. Slight glow of sunset clouds is to the northwest. People’s cell phones taking pictures show in the foreground.

Totality has passed and the partial eclipse is still in process as the sun sets into the Mediterranean Sea. Clouds and the sun are Shia sea of orange. Many boats in the water watching nature’s show.

Jail break! Mateo is home and so excited! Me too but I’m trying to calm him down 😂

Blond cocker spaniel Mateo in the backseat of a car in his harness and dog hammock looking forward between the black front seats.