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alytheteafiend.bsky.social
@alytheteafiend.bsky.social
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Geek, Gamer, Sewist, Artist & Crafter, Medical & Biology Background, Gardener, Pet Servant, Lifelong Learner, and Educator.

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Back into the house for some warm drinkies, as the snow has arrived this weekend -- garden ready or not!

I'm here, celebrating how much we got done this weekend prior to the flurries. Teen and I cut and painted all the invasives next to the house. Then they did all the downspouts' maintenance! 🌱
Our super awesome and super full rain barrel drains into a red 1 gallon bucket. A landscaping rock covers the intake hole on top, where we removed the hose from the downspout. I managed to transfer about half this barrel's worth of water into a plastic tub for use on houseplants. The rest, sadly, had to get drained. That's what happens when you get heavy late season rains, I guess. The teenager proudly holds up the 12 foot tall, 3 inch diameter maple sapling they removed. It volunteered itself and was growing about 2 feet next to our house. Teen prefers that I block their face off with smiley faces rather than blurry spots, so that's why I sloppily drew one one. They also love giving thumbs up for a job well done. I support that. It's their choice, y'know.
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Aura asked us to help her wish you all a Happy Halloween. But when we went looking for her, all we could find was this ghost!
Is very spoopy ghost. Friendly, too. Seems to love pup cups.
#dogsofbluesky #dogs #halloween
If this were a dog instead of a ghost, it would be a large white dog with adorable brown eyes and black nose. Her floppy ears would resemble flour tortillas. And she'd be wearing a black bandana with tiny white spooky eyes printed on it, as well as large, glow in the dark letters that spell "BOO". However, it is not a dog in the picture. It is a dog-shaped ghost. She told me so. Happy Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#caturday I swear, the cat was sleeping when I sneaked this shot! Yet her eyes are open, catching me in the act. Dangit!
I regret nothing!
#catsofbluesky
A black cat laying on a blue heating pad looks at the camera. You can see her fluffy tummy and her black toe beans. In the background, a stained glass witch hat hangs in a window, through which tall green grass is visible.
July 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Caption reads "Glitter", but does absolutely zero justice to the incredibly beautiful drag queen spraying pink glitter out of a hose in each hand. The background, appropriately, is pink mylar. So very much pink glitter! Yay!
June 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I see.
Well, that laundry *was* clean. Now, it's extra fuzzy.
No, Char, it's all good. I chose poorly when I set it there. By all means, continue napping.
#cats #catsofbluesky
An orange cat is curled up and passed out asleep upon a pile of laundry. A reasonable misunderstanding on her part, she'd argue if she could, as the laundry is piled up on a large easy chair. As everyone knows, easy chairs are the province of cats, not of laundry! Therefore, the Foolish Human put the laundry in the incorrect spot and the cat merely made do with what she had to work with.
May 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Lilac season, hooray!
My mother and her mother both loved lilacs. Since lilac plants bloom best when pruned after blooming, we'd accomplish the task via making massive bouquets and sharing bundles of these perfumed beauties. My house smells incredible right now, though, um, allergies, haha. Oops.🌱
A foot pic! Or, well, my foot is in the pic - whoops! You likely clicked on this to see... A large pile of lilacs, cut to make bouquets. They're on the grass, waiting to be tidied up, have their leaves removed, and put into bunches.
May 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Got to play outside in the garden this weekend! Built a bug hotel and cleared the covering from the peonies. 🌱
A "bug hotel" built with a frame of balanced fallen branches filled with layers of yard debris. It's currently about half full, with a surrounding circle of fallen oak leaves. About 8-10 inches high already, peony shoots with pink stems and pale green leaves. This particular peony blooms large white double blooms.
April 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Char is cranky this #caturday for whatever reason. Maybe her tea is too hot. Maybe the view isn't to her liking. Maybe her food is the wrong temperature.
Probably she's just orange. We love her, regardless of mood.
#catsofbluesky
An orange cat sits on a heating pad on a large window sill. She is facing away from the camera. Her head is over a steel bowl of cat food. A green cast iron teapot sits next to the bowl; perhaps she's enjoying a nice cup of oolong with her meal? Even if that were the case, she's grumpy about something, as her fur along her spine is raised up in a kitty mohawk.
April 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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#caturday Means that these two divas don't have to pretend to humor us like they do the rest of the week.
#cats #catsofbluesky
An orange loaf looks at the camera with her pretty green eyes. The black hole shows off her soft, fluffy tummy. If you say sweet things to her, she'll even let you pet it!
April 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Gardening is so good for mental health! Take these sunflowers, for example: as Svetlina said, "Take these seeds, put them in your pockets, so at least sunflowers will grow when your body lies on Ukrainian soil." 🇺🇦
Notice how lovely that feels?
F Oligarchs. I'm growing some herbs! 🌱 Relaxing, yes?
Four "winter sowing" style repurposed jugs sit on a table. They're open so that the bare soil shows. Each has a craft stick label sticking out of the dirt. Two of the jugs are labeled "sunflowers", and have a mix of sunflower seed types in them. I'm looking forward to seeing all the heights and colors they'll produce! The critters will love them, I'm sure. The other two are labeled "chives" and "basil". The basil is specifically Genovese basil, which I see the most around my area of the US. I love it, although I equally love most basil, TBH! Doesn't basil just add a great note to whatever food it's added to? Anyway, good on you for enjoying the Alt text! I particularly love it. Sure wish more folks used it -- it would make my life easier! Happy gardening!
April 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Doggo dopamine for a Monday morning! Aura is happy. She wants you to be happy, too.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky
Have I shown you what is effectively this same picture of Aura before? Yes. Will I show you many times, because it's cute every time she does this? Yes. A large white dog with brown freckles rolls happily on her back. This time, she's wearing a bandana with spring flowers on it.
April 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Getting my Monday morning purr therapy in. Thought maybe you'd like some dopamine, too.
#cats #catsofbluesky
Sophie's void fur shines red in the sun as she looks up at me from my lap. Little does she know I have sneaked a pic.
April 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The snowdrops are blooming! Hooray!
Which means it's time for me to plant peas. Hence, the picture of the planter with dirt. There are peas in there, I promise.
🌱 #zone5a
A snowdrop's two blooms nod above a bed covered in dry, brown oak leaves. Each bloom is mostly white, with little green hearts shading the tips of the inner petals. This type of snowdrop is called the "Magnet Snowdrop" and dates back to 1889. A pale blue window box sits on a brown deck. It appears to have nothing but potting soil in it.
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I told my trans partner this morning that they shouldn't try to be sneaky today, since it's the whole Trans Day of Visibility and all. I was rewarded with smooches! Yay!

Our humor rolls like that here.

We're with you, folx. 🩵🤍🩷
A Klingon with one missing eye leans on a table top. Text reads, "You better be respecting trans people or your pronouns will he was/were." I do so love all the good mental health Klingon memes!
March 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Oh no. It's Monday!

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
#cats #catsofbluesky
By "this", I mean this post of this adorable Void kitty transforming from loaf to hekkin attack mode. I love how I caught her with the eyes dilated and the front feet just starting to peek out! Her sister never saw the pounce coming. 10/10
March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Aura wants to make sure you have a good morning, so she's giving you some pure dopamine. Also, some dog hair glitter.
Also also: she wuffs you.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky #puredopamine
The very large doggo/small pony rolls cutely around in the blue carpet. She's twisted in a pose that shouldn't be comfortable, but she'll fall asleep like this, she's so happy. Her belly is available for rubs, and her lips droop just enough that she has goofy semi-vampiric teeth showing. It's disgustingly cute. I love her so much!
March 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I got to snuggle the Sophie for a nice long session!
Until I dared to photograph the Void. Rude of me, I know.
I just wanted something to remind me of the glorious purrs and cuddles, Sophie! Please come back! I'm sorry!
#cats #catsofbluesky
A void kitty with green eyes realizes she's been had and her human is taking a picture of her. Noooo! Close-up of kitty's face and one front leg, as she's held snugly -- and snuggly, haha, sorry but not as that was a good pun. Her human is wearing a light grey sweater and has blurred the corner of their face that shows in the picture. After all, you're not here to see them. You're here for the cats!
March 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Charmain is so very orange.
*Playful*! I meant to say she's so very playful! Yes. Ahem.
🧡
#cats #catsofbluesky
A wild-eyed orange striped cat looks up at the camera from where she's rolling around on the carpet. She looks like she's been enjoying catnip. She hasn't. She's just got a certain joie de vivre that's typical of orange girls. Y'know. She's a little bit crazy. We like that, here.
March 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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BONK.

Consider yourself blessed.

#cats #catsofbluesky

(I love Alt text!)
Is that a furred slug? What am I looking at? Oh! It's a black shorthair cat head butting their human. It's such an emphatic bonk that it probably qualifies as a full-on "head desk" moment. Certainly, the human is furniture. So the human could easily be a desk in this moment. The picture, right, sorry! We can empathize with Sophie in this picture. We want to just put our head down on someone we love and trust, too.
March 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Aura doesn't think you should go to work. You should stay here and adore her, instead. She's a pretty, pretty princess, she says; princesses come in all sizes and shapes.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky
(Have I mentioned I love Alt text? So awesome.)
A small pony -- no, wait, that's my dog, sorry. A large white dog lounges across the entryway, blocking access to the door. Big brown eyes look right at the camera, as if to say, "I'm cuter than anything out there, anyway." Which is accurate. The doormats are clearly left from the Holiday season, while the dog has an adorable St Patrick's Day themed bandana on. Perhaps an indication of the household's priorities?
March 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Aura would like to wish you a Happy St Patrick's Day, in honor of her Irish-American family. She also hopes we all have a kind week.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky
A somewhat surprised dog wearing a green and white striped bandana looks at the camera. The bandana has shamrocks printed on it. The dog is quite large and shorthaired, with white fur and brown freckles. She has folded over ears and soulful brown eyes.
March 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Charmain is annoyed that her humans keep taking her couch. In retaliation, she claims this chair for catkind.
#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky
An orange striped cat lays on a large easy chair. She's resting her cheek on the edge of the seat like a pillow.
March 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Mondays are hard enough without all this other BS going on.
You have been blessed by the toe beans of cuteness!
There, go forth refortified.
#cats
A close up of a black DSH cleaning her rear paw. Or: Adorable Void uses mlems for washing her peets with her cute pink tongue!
March 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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"What do you mean there's a whole Cat themed day of the week, but not a dog one? Can't you just... Rename a day or something? You're all-powerful, aren't you?"

Nobody tell Aura we're not, pretty please? It'll break her little pony-doggo heart.
#dogs
A white dog with a black nose gives the camera a Look. The Look is judgemental. It questions you and your motivations. It throws some serious shade. It might even say something like, "Remember when you told me I was adopted and wasn't a cat? This news better not be that bad, or I'm not gonna let you give me scritchins." Oh, and the dog is very large. Possibly small pony sized. She's super cute in her green and white with shamrocks bandana.
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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"Hello. I am here to announce that it is Caturday. Time to adore me."
A black DSH cat leans into the frame. Her eyes are green, and she has long black whiskers. The expression on her face is half expectant, half demanding.
March 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM