Katharine Tree
@treesandwords.bsky.social
Hobgoblin, garden seer, wistful novelist. She who must be obeyed/Herself.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your roast walnut!
The wet food was a big hit, and both began to eat while I was still on the patio! Progress!
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The wet food was a big hit, and both began to eat while I was still on the patio! Progress!
Happy Thanksgiving.
And now for some deep breathing exercises.
And now for some deep breathing exercises.
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Happy Thanksgiving.
And now for some deep breathing exercises.
And now for some deep breathing exercises.
Act the Final: Apple Pie
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Omfg I hate peeling apples even with the twirly gizmo fmlllllllll
This pie, as you see, uses my family's pie crust recipe, passed down to me from my mother.
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Omfg I hate peeling apples even with the twirly gizmo fmlllllllll
This pie, as you see, uses my family's pie crust recipe, passed down to me from my mother.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Act the Final: Apple Pie
-or-
Omfg I hate peeling apples even with the twirly gizmo fmlllllllll
This pie, as you see, uses my family's pie crust recipe, passed down to me from my mother.
-or-
Omfg I hate peeling apples even with the twirly gizmo fmlllllllll
This pie, as you see, uses my family's pie crust recipe, passed down to me from my mother.
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Finally got around to setting up my new phone yesterday evening, an iPhone16 Plus. Took this whilst out with the dog on this frosty Shropshire morning, not a bad picture for the first one on this new device #thegardenjungle #Shropshire #Landscape #Sunrise
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Finally got around to setting up my new phone yesterday evening, an iPhone16 Plus. Took this whilst out with the dog on this frosty Shropshire morning, not a bad picture for the first one on this new device #thegardenjungle #Shropshire #Landscape #Sunrise
I'm enjoying Thanksgiving so much because it's the only buffer between me and my yearly struggle: Fighting The Christmas Tree.
It's an artificial, 9' tall, wide-bodied tree. We bought it twelve years ago. Some day we will fight and it will win.
It's an artificial, 9' tall, wide-bodied tree. We bought it twelve years ago. Some day we will fight and it will win.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm enjoying Thanksgiving so much because it's the only buffer between me and my yearly struggle: Fighting The Christmas Tree.
It's an artificial, 9' tall, wide-bodied tree. We bought it twelve years ago. Some day we will fight and it will win.
It's an artificial, 9' tall, wide-bodied tree. We bought it twelve years ago. Some day we will fight and it will win.
I'm a Hoosier so I have an abiding love for James Whitcomb Riley.
When the Frost is on the Punkin
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock, And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens, And the r...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I'm a Hoosier so I have an abiding love for James Whitcomb Riley.
Look at this absolute unit. Makes me proud.
Why do we call these birds "turkeys"?
Add this to the list of "European explorers are bad at naming things". EVERYTHING new was "turkish" because of rising cultural influence of the Turkish (Ottoman) Empire.
Corn: "Turkish wheat"
Pumpkins: "Turkish cucumbers"
And that's how you get Turkey-cock.
Add this to the list of "European explorers are bad at naming things". EVERYTHING new was "turkish" because of rising cultural influence of the Turkish (Ottoman) Empire.
Corn: "Turkish wheat"
Pumpkins: "Turkish cucumbers"
And that's how you get Turkey-cock.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Look at this absolute unit. Makes me proud.
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Leaves on Lake with rain drops.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Leaves on Lake with rain drops.
Pie Round 1 just went into the oven: a pair of pecan pies from my MIL's recipe, for whatever reason the best recipe I've ever found (I think it has more salt than others, to balance the gooey sweetness). Yes, boughten crusts. Modified from an old recipe called USDA Pecan Pie!
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pie Round 1 just went into the oven: a pair of pecan pies from my MIL's recipe, for whatever reason the best recipe I've ever found (I think it has more salt than others, to balance the gooey sweetness). Yes, boughten crusts. Modified from an old recipe called USDA Pecan Pie!
Little feral kitties will peek around the corner of the garage while I fill the bowls. Hoping that one day the braver one will approach me. In the meantime, I have wet food left over from our cat. Going to give some to them for Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Little feral kitties will peek around the corner of the garage while I fill the bowls. Hoping that one day the braver one will approach me. In the meantime, I have wet food left over from our cat. Going to give some to them for Thanksgiving.
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November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
November To-Do List 🐗📆
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
- Thrash acorns
- Fatten pigs
- Book the new online short course from IMEMS: imemsdurhamlearn.com/books-of-dev...
Learn about Books of Hours, the labour of the months and the history and manuscripts of the Medieval Latin Bible in our flexible 1-week online course!
Wednesday. Day 2 of Thanksgiving prep: Pie Day! I'm doing an apple pie and a pair of pecan pies (because my MIL says the recipe makes two?)
When I get around to it. Which I will. Eventually.
When I get around to it. Which I will. Eventually.
November 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Wednesday. Day 2 of Thanksgiving prep: Pie Day! I'm doing an apple pie and a pair of pecan pies (because my MIL says the recipe makes two?)
When I get around to it. Which I will. Eventually.
When I get around to it. Which I will. Eventually.
Last item for today: a cheese ball! This falls firmly into the "because I want to" camp, and I haven't mentioned it to anyone because I don't care. Never made one before. Just feeling nostalgic for '80s Midwestern Thanksgivings, I guess.
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Last item for today: a cheese ball! This falls firmly into the "because I want to" camp, and I haven't mentioned it to anyone because I don't care. Never made one before. Just feeling nostalgic for '80s Midwestern Thanksgivings, I guess.
I spent forever canning this stuff last year, and I'm the only person who eats cranberry sauce anyway, so no guilt about taking the easy way out this year.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I spent forever canning this stuff last year, and I'm the only person who eats cranberry sauce anyway, so no guilt about taking the easy way out this year.
Mac & cheese the hard way. It's my adaptation of Martha Stewart's recipe, and it's what everyone wants me to make for family gatherings, always. Recipe in reply.
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Mac & cheese the hard way. It's my adaptation of Martha Stewart's recipe, and it's what everyone wants me to make for family gatherings, always. Recipe in reply.
My mother never made this. My aunt did, and she used canned green beans. I think we used canned green beans to make it in home ec in 1992, too. Am I wrong that it used to call for Worcestershire sauce instead of soy sauce?
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My mother never made this. My aunt did, and she used canned green beans. I think we used canned green beans to make it in home ec in 1992, too. Am I wrong that it used to call for Worcestershire sauce instead of soy sauce?
One Thanksgiving as we were eating with my aunt & uncles & cousins about three fire engines booked it down the street. People were frying a turkey and had caught their house on fire, of course. We walked down to watch, then went home for pie.
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I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One Thanksgiving as we were eating with my aunt & uncles & cousins about three fire engines booked it down the street. People were frying a turkey and had caught their house on fire, of course. We walked down to watch, then went home for pie.
A Thanksgiving Carol
When I was at Oxford, the other American medievalist in our college and I decided to put on Thanksgiving for whoever wanted to come. We correctly ordered a turkey from the butcher in the Covered Market and when we picked it up we carried it down the street to the housewares shop...
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A Thanksgiving Carol
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The opening of a Worcester monastic register at the time of Prior John Weddesbury or Wednesbury. He was prior of Worcester in 1507-1518.
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The opening of a Worcester monastic register at the time of Prior John Weddesbury or Wednesbury. He was prior of Worcester in 1507-1518.
Okay, dearies. Two days to Thanksgiving and today I'm making mac & cheese and green bean casserole.
Just as soon as I'm good and ready.
Just as soon as I'm good and ready.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Okay, dearies. Two days to Thanksgiving and today I'm making mac & cheese and green bean casserole.
Just as soon as I'm good and ready.
Just as soon as I'm good and ready.
Yet again Xfinity has an hours long outage, yet again they apparently aren't aware of it until customers complain, and yet again they are lying through their teeth about it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yet again Xfinity has an hours long outage, yet again they apparently aren't aware of it until customers complain, and yet again they are lying through their teeth about it.