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Good morning. Insomnia here. ✨

#Wisconsin
Slight blue green aurora borealis tinge to a starry night sky seen through windows in a triangle configuration with silhouettes of pine tree tops peeking in from the bottom edge. Starry night sky features the constellation Orion above an old a-frame house peak and silhouettes of pine tree tops. Starry night sky over silhouette pine tree tops with the bright moon in hazy rings and some wispy clouds or auroras. Some faint yellow green and pink aurora borealis color in a starry night sky between silhouettes of pine trees
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
calderajones.bsky.social
Just gotta happen upon them I guess! I saw your response to a post and stopped by because games. Hello! Random game moment last weekend: Horrified
A mummy, swamp monster, and a werewolf have a standoff on a game board. The game is called Horrified, and the monsters are plastic miniatures. Mummy is green, werewolf is black, swamp monster is purple. They all have their hands up as they face each other as if to attack.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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My companion for almost 18 years, until a few weeks ago. Bob, I love you so much and miss you more. 🕯️
Longhair striped brown and black cat naps curled up in a cozy yellow cushion
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Bob forever. 🐾
Pale beige, brown and gray striped medium-longhair cat with white whiskers and large pink nose stares at the camera with big green eyes, while sitting in a brown wooden chair.
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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His gun vs her pointy finger and cell phone (also a camera)
Unidentified masked person in protective gear aims a large black gun-type weapon at a woman less than 2 feet away who is holding a cell phone in her hand while pointing.
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Follow it... 🕳️
8 pictures on a white background depicting GOP math: Can afford: $40b bailout for Argentina, Trump's golden ballroom, Qatar jet upgrades, National Guard takeover. Can't afford: healthcare for Americans, children's cancer research, SNAP/WIC benefits, special education programs.
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Geena Davis in her role for the film "The Long Kiss Goodnight" holding and aiming a handgun
October 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Choose Your Fighter (White Woman w/ Gun Edition)
Geena Davis in her role for the movie "The Long Kiss Goodnight" aiming a handgun
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Receipt
Screenshot of the original post with label "dehumanizing rhetoric" visible. Shared with the context of asking how and why this post qualifies for that categorization as it discusses the history of people of color in sports contexts in Boston, and quotes another post which celebrates the 90th birthday of the first black player in the NHL, "legendary pioneer" Willie O'Ree.
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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13 of many...

Getting out into the yard today to water some flowers turned out to be harder than I wanted it to be so we're going to share some more yard time with Bob memories.
This is my cat Bob standing in some two tall grass a few weeks ago. We are both inspecting where we think a very big black bear sat down or took a nap in the yard. The grass is flattened and looks like a bear-butt shape to me. Bob looks small next to the flat grass but he wasn't a small cat. Everybody always said how big he was. You can see his long fur and black and brown stripes. He's looking at the ground like he's trying to figure it out. In this picture Bob's lower half is visible as he stands next to a pale purple wildflower and a tall grassy yard. The sun is shining in the grass. This picture is from earlier this summer when we were still mowing the yard. Bob was out there inspecting how I was doing with the new task of mowing. I am still figuring it out. Cut it to 4 inches because we like the wild look and decided to let it grow after this. Here you can see Bob's upper half and his big green eyes, white whiskers, and long stripey brown and black fur. There are pine trees in the distance.
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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12 of many...

Felt like it would be good to do another nap spot tribute.

I always felt some kind of joy boost when Bob picked one of *my* spots for a nap when I wasn't in it.

Not sure where that comes from, really...feeling like I made a safe and comfortable home--or close enough. Bob was easy.
Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is having a nap in an old vintage metal mesh chair made cozy with a pale yellow fur and a dark green pillow behind him. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is hanging out in an old vintage metal mesh chair made cozy with a pale yellow fur and a dark green pillow behind him. He looks at the camera with what appears to be a slight smile, and what I had come to consider an expression of pride in his eye squint. He was purring, and his outstretched front paws were inches from me as I sat on the floor next to him. He's in my seat. Now it is forever his seat. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is having a full faceplant and curled up nap in an old vintage metal mesh chair made cozy with a pale yellow fur and a dark green pillow behind him. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is hanging front and back paws off the edges of an old vintage metal mesh chair made cozy with a pale yellow fur and a dark green pillow behind him.
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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10 of many...

Posted everything so far from one of Bob's favorite nap spots. It's one of my places I can feel close to him.

Need a break to do some life stuff and charge the phone, back with more soon.

Thankful to any who are here witnessing my life with Bob as I revisit it. 🤍
A cozy sunlit couch nook in front of a window with pine tree and blue sky views. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is curled up on a furry rug with soft cushions supporting him. He is sleeping with one eye open recently in his favorite midday cozy spot. He wasn't feeling well, and this was one of his comforts. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is resting on a striped blanket earlier this summer in his couch spot. I call this his sleeping dragon pose, and you can see he is awake with his eye lazily open, as he rests his chin on a paw. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Earlier this spring, he was napping in this sunny spot on furry brown and cozy pink fuzzy blankets. His front paws cross over one of his hind feet stretched in front of him. He's adorable.
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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9 of many...

Story time: we have a chipmunk that lives somewhere near the front step and is often running in front of our sunroom over to the oak tree to get acorns as he stores up for winter. None of this was lost on Bob.

They had a cute relationship: Bob half-chased. Chipmunk allowed it. 🐿️
Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is walking down the asphalt driveway near a grassy yard, away from an old red wood-sided a-frame home with a sunroom porch attached. The oak tree is off to the right, near overgrown lilac which is next to the sunroom. He looks thoughtful. Bob didn't catch the chipmunk (again), so he is probably thinking about that.
October 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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8 of many...

Bob-approved yard dwellers.
Large thyme, small purple blooms on flowering stalks.small green leaves. Fragrant. Small purple wildflowers that look a little bit like wild daisies but I'm not sure what they are. Green grass surrounds. Tiny white wildflower clusters in green grass. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is looking over his left shoulder at something out of view. He stands in long grass in front of several tall pine trees. Afternoon sun filters through the trees, leaving some sunny patches glowing in the grass.
October 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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7 of many...

More of me trying to capture moments of Bob enjoying yard time. These are getting me through, lately.
October 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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6 of many...

Here, Bob recently on a lazy weekend day. He'd just finished eating so his bottom lip was still damp.

I confess to force-cuddling, calling him "so cute", and even kissing his temples. He always hated that part, sometimes even groaning out loud! 🤣

He was ancient, annoyed. Tolerant.
Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is loafing on a blue couch near a stack of fluffy blankets. One of his front paws hangs over the cushion edge. He might look slightly cranky. Hard to say.
October 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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5 of many...

For context and as an aside to the happy memories: I brought Bob the the vet to see if maybe his thyroid meds needed adjusting, or if there was something to lift his appetite. He was losing some hard-won weight. The chart there is how I learned his human 'age' was between 84-88.
Behind Bob's head and ear is a chart on the side of a cupboard at the veterinarian's office. It shows a matrix of human equivalent ages for cats and dogs by their age and weight. The charting ends at 20 pet age years, which is estimated to be equivalent to 96 human years for cats. I was hoping we would get there and further, as Bob was an exceptional companion.
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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4 of many...

Well, he *loved* time in the yard. Sorry, the typos will sneak in.

One of my favorite things to do was to get a bit of distance from him and then squat down and wait for him to come see what I had found.

Often some flower or long seeded grass--always though, Bob. Here, Thyme. 💜
October 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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3 of many...

Bob lived time in the yard! Supervised, only for short whiles. We'd go check the mail, and he'd check in on his grasses and wildflowers on the way back to the house.

We spent this summer letting the yard become overgrown so I could collect and scatter the clover seeds. He helped.
Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, you can see his short tail, which is due to his being an American Bobtail (a breed of domestic cat). In this photo from last week, he is checking the tall grass for flavor on a sunny day, pine trees in the distance behind him. He looks his age here: close to 18 years, which is apparently according to the veterinarian caring for him is equivalent to 84-88 human years of age.
October 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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2 of many...

He picked out some quality napping spots on our last day together. I see many of my cozy spots were his, too.

Standing in one room, I count 6 cozy cat beds or cushions around the living area for him. My desk chair should count as 7th for all the time I wasn't in it and he was.
Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is laying on a gray bed with his front paws crossed and hind feet curled in front of him, as he looks past the camera. The light is soft. Bob is a long haired brownish striped cat with green eyes, a salmon colored orange/pink nose, white chin, and long white whiskers. Here, he is laying on a yellow fur against a green tufted pillow in a yellow metal mesh chair with his nose and cheek buried slightly. His bushy gray tail is close to the camera, his longhair a bit of a mess, his large hind foot hangs over the chair's edge.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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1 of many...

I should start with recent and work my way back because I still haven't honestly found the trove of kitten pictures etc. but I will, hopefully.

So many cameras, burned photo CDs, hard drives, mobiles are involved in a dig like this. I'm not a very organized person.

But I love Bob.
Bob the cat, a roughly ~18 year old long haired striped tabby -- actually an American Bobtail by breed. My cat companion since 2008 when I adopted him from the Humane Society when he was a few months old. Photo taken a few days before I made a hard choice to reduce his suffering from very bad pancreas stuff. This photo features an extreme closeup of his face: soft white chin, dark whisker dots, white whiskers, salmon colored large and wide nose, and pale green eyes. He is calm here, and might look slightly annoyed or amused. There's a bit of a squint to his left eye. He would tolerate my taking his photo but as a noted interruption of our hangout.
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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My soulmate is a cat named Bob. 18 years and it wasn't enough.🩶

First night without him, 4am is too quiet.

Day 1 without him begins soon. Crushed.
Closeup picture of longhaired striped tabby cat named Bob curled up in his last napping spot on a yellow fur with a green pillow. His front paws are crossed and curled, and his pale beige belly fluff is peeking out. He looks so cozy.
October 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Caught near Lake Superior. Thanks to your post I turned the lights out to take a peek! ✨
Faint green and pink aurora borealis visible in northern Wisconsin through triangle windows and pine trees silhouettes, with some stars visible Faint pink and yellow green aurora borealis visible in northern Wisconsin through triangle windows and pine trees silhouettes, with some stars visible
September 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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What's going on with the upper gum line?
Closeup of DJT wearing a white cap and smiling so that all upper teeth are visibly set in a blue/black gumline.
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Post a random picture or everything will go bad in September:
A quartz crystal about the size and shape of a melting ice cube sits in an antique gold stand. The crystal has a hint of rainbows and some inclusions that look like clouded ice near the bottom. The crystal and stand sit atop a brown leather case in a room with a lot of windows and natural light. Blurry greenery and a sunny day can be seen through the windows.
September 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM