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coffeesipper.bsky.social
@coffeesipper.bsky.social
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Airplane mechanic, geologist, dad, teacher, banjo player, motorcycle rider that loves having freedom of their schedule
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Dahlias!!
Still kicking out big blooms and omg, just warms my heart! 🥰❤️🤘🏼
Solid yellow Dahlia about 5" across on a tall shit glass, on a granite countertop.backgroubd is a blue blown glass bowl with shells to the left and a leaf styled incense burner behind it and random saints blankets behind the bar on the couch 3 magenta dahlias about 4-5" across in various shot glasses and cups on a granite bar. A rock sculpture thingy between them and background is a coffee table with a tablet and random shit on it and then a pseudo stone fireplace hearth in the back background
July 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Dahlias!! And a lily. Until someone says, dude that's a rose bloom. Lol
Magenta ish dahlia about 3" across with green foliage behind it A lily, red and with white on the edges of its petals and bright yellow pollen on its , um pistols or stamens, idk, geologist, here, not biologist lol Green foliage behind it Some weird bright orange daisy looking flower that has about 18 blooms and against a shitty green hedge against a faded wood chip/mulch background A bigger, maybe 4" dahlia bloom that's kinda fuachia and magenta color, all solid, and behind it is a yard and sadly, a red and white kayak in the background behind it, as I was riding it off after a camping trip and came home to these new blooms 🥰🤘🏼
July 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Full moon just rising over the tree line at the campsite 🥰🌕
The full moon just above the tree line, in a little hike of trees, with trees in either side and just even with the top of the tree line if that makes sense. Imagine a keyhole the moon fits in, in the tree lone and it's there but grainy and a typical moon shot 😆
July 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Evening at the campsite, trading songs around the fire.

Playing "DJ" with the kids, so I play one and they have to follow with a similar vibe, so the idk, person doesn't change stations and the next kid follows and I follow their song.

It's awesome hearing their music tastes and styles 🥰🤘🏼🎶❤️
Another sunset pic from the campsite. Looking across a dried mud pit of a shore lol, across a still lake to a treed shoreline and a mediocre sunset gradation above it. Some color but not much fading to a sorta blue ish sky. In the foreground is a tent hammock hanging to the bottom right of the pic on this side of the shore. A pic looking at a fire pit with a medium fire blazing and behind it is a tree and a shoreline all draped in dark blues as the sun has set finally. And across the still lake, is a treed shoreline
July 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Yes. 😂🥰🎣🏕️
Shot showing a tent mid ground and in the foreground is a fishing pole leaned against a tree with a canvas bag full of tackle and a blue soft tackle box, and a grey wide brim Ed hat beside them. The hat is sitting on 2 dog life vests that have shark fins, lol Behind the tent is the lake shore line, all mud until the shoreline and across the shore is a treed shoreline.
July 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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It is 🥰
Sunset from shore looking across a still lake to a tree shoreline in the distance. On the foreground a tent hammock is strung between trees View from shore looking at the lake. A fire in a fire pit is in the foreground the lake is still the sun has set, and just a glimpse of sunset sky above the treed shoreline across the lake
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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random shots from the kayak out for sunset paddling. 🥰
Picture from a kayak looking to shore, a lot of water in between, treeline t shore and blue sky minus a thunderhead in the distance A vote from a kayak, red kayak nose and looking to shore. A treeline I the distances and semi submerged logs between the kayak nose and shore A crappy pic looking into the sun, so it's streaky. Taken From a kayak, with water between me and the treed shoreline.
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Poor Ralph... Sorry bud, but it had to be done. Well, not really, HAD, but 🤷🏼‍♂️ like ol' Bob Barker used to say, spay and neuter your pets, even AKC ones lol
A brown and white French bulldog looking from behind by his tail and he has a cone of shame on after his neuter surgery A French bulldog looking towards his head. He's tan and white, and has a cone of shame on so he won't chew stitches. He's a very humble bumble today... A sign saying To the windows To the walls Snip snip No more balls FB@spayxperts
July 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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New piece after all that driving on the tour a couple weeks ago or whenever it was lol 🤘🏼😁❤️🪕🎶🏔️

It just looks crooked in this pic, it's not though 😅
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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My ignition got shipped today, so, I'm just waiting. And then dealing with a mangled torx security bolt that's also "loctit-ed" 🤦🏼‍♂️😭
Makes me feel like I'm at work 😂

Also, forgot how much fun the FJR is to ride, in the meantime. 🥰🤘🏼
Suzuki boulevard c50t motorcycle long from the back towards the front. A lot of exposed hoses and wires bc the seat is removed, the gas tank is removed and right after this pic, the air intake on the right was also removed.
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites is. Sitting on top of an old metal rail toboggan sled thing that is leaned against a tree A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites sitting in a pickaxe leaned against a birch tree with greenery behind it A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites surrounded by rocks on top of a picnic table with greenery behind it A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites and a rusted out bulldozer in the woods and pupa is sitting in the seat, trying to drive
June 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites found some friends at the bar 🤣 A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites is wearing some rat band and tucked in the seat back of a commercial airline bc it gets bright in here too A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites at the edge of a lake at Cooper Landing, checking out the lake
June 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites on an ice axe next to, idk, some old school ice climbing gear and a fur of something draped over them They're against a wood wall with 3 birch trees, separating every 2 wood panels, idk think old school lot cabin, homemade A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites with elk or caribou antlers, maybe reindeer, biologists? Anyone, anyone, anyone??? A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites next to some Greek greenery and an.open.pjnk flower with 4 petals and a round yellow center A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites in front of a boulder painted to look like a ladybug With 2 smaller, rocks, maybe 1-2' diameter, beside it also painted to look like lady bugs
June 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Last of the pupa pics sorta kinda
I forgot about Fairbanks 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️
A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites stuffed into a birdhouse that made from sticks with a moss roof and greenery and forest in the background with a driveway and the back of a Nissan Pathfinder on the top right of the pic A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites about 8" tucked into the side of a black, passed out, worn out, Newfoundland dog om.a red painted porch A wrecked hulk of an old airplane fuselage with ruddervators for the tail and spray painted to all white but also says Svens which is the hostel we stayed at and if you zoom into the back door, you'll see pupa wanting to leave back to Anchorage, bc heat advisory bc it got to l,.ahem, 78F A yellow pupa from Solar Opposites tucked underneath a routed out letter and letters painted sign that reads Gold Digger 😅
June 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Got mowing caught up, and showered and went to the pool to chill and cool off before the Thunder game tonight.
Let's close it out Thunder!!
Mostly back on OK time.

Le sigh...
Miss Alaska so much
These next few years are gonna be rough waiting on countdown to move there.

Wooooo, midnight Sun, baby!
A shirtless guy with a floppy wide brimmed hat on, and sunglasses maybe a 3-4" long beard with red and white mixed in. Behind him is a pool and the clubhouse.
June 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Finally, pupa helped me tune the banjo for tonight's show.
If you didn't know, about banjo tuning, here's pupa at brow bear in Indian Alaska reminding me...
June 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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More adventure of Pupa at Cooper's Landing Alaska ❤️
On a toboggan, chopping wood and trying to drink my beer, bad Pupa! By their old outhouse door, and in some lupins 🥰
June 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Adventures of Pupa, the stuffy my daughter sent with me. It had a blast! ❤️😅 More to follow
June 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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The cabin at Cooper Landing, midnight in the bog on the way to the lake, banjo case in grass, and Eddie, the dawg, by the lake 🥰
June 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Had a blast at Reilly's Pub in Anchorage tonight! 🥰🪕🤘🏼🎶
No pics of us playing yet, and also an obligatory ntn pic. ❤️😅🗻
June 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Midnight pics at Cooper Landing, Alaska last night.jack and Missy were the best, as were Eddie the dog in the lic and Frank the other non pictures dog 🥰🤘🏼
June 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Pics at almost 4am, 3;30am and 1am respectively, from Girdwood, Alaska ❤️
The song swap/dj follow the nest singled to, oh shit it's 3 am, pretty quickly 😵‍💫🫨❤️🎶
June 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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This morning off the deck, moose! 🤘🏼🥰
A view off a deck looking down and the backdrop is trees and greenery and in the foreground is the picture takers knee and a moose with smallish, Velvet antlers is about 10 ft away. Also, a guy, me, is leaning against the railing in an orange and grey sweater, jeans and a baseball cap A moose, with smallish, Velvet antlers, standing in knee deep greenery with trees behind it.
June 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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In Soldotna, Alaska, pupa tried to steal a 4 wheeler from a pickup truck 🤦🏼‍♂️, found a pack of OK playing cards, made friend with Sully, and sat in the rocking chair with a fish and listened to us play
A stuffed pupa from Solar Opposites plushy on a 4 wheeler in the back of a pickup truck A stuffed yellow pupa from the show solar opposites on a bookshelf showing me a pack of Oklahoma playing cards. Pupa traveled from Oklahoma with me to be here in Soldotna Alaska A Sully pillow stuffy from Monsters Inc and he's got his arm around pupa, which is A stuffed yellow pupa from the show solar opposites A stuffed yellow pupa from the show solar opposites sitting in a childs sized teal rocking chair leaning against a very detailed stuffed fish. I'd try to say what kind but idk. Looks like a sunfish, but bc Alaska, probably a failed attempt at a humpy salmon, but maybe I'm too mushy and it's just a bass. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤣
June 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Drove 7 hrs, 5 were in constant rain from Girdwood to Fairbanks and had an hr to decompress and then play a set at the Fairbanks Folk Festival and then go and play 2 hrs at a pub called the Big I.

Fucking loving it! 🤘🏼🪕❤️🎶
Also, got this badass sweater thingy! ❤️❤️
A music stage with people in camp chairs in the foreground. 3 ft high red stage, with 4 people on it and massive 10ft by 30 ft backdrop with a quilt and it says fairbanks folk festival and 4 musicians on stage and the stage is covered with a big hoop covering bc sun or rain or wind protection. It was chilly, rainy and windy lol My band mate and I standing backstage on an open stage, holding our instruments, I have a banjo with a black drum head vs tradition white and a garish, but cozy new alpaca hair woven sweater hoodie thingy, that's orange and has so much pattern, it would take days to describe. Sorry... Imagine lots of orange and pattern and moose patterns all over it. Literally ALL over it 😂 and my band mate has his guitar and a Canadian tuxedo, jeans jean jacket and well he's not for a jean shirt, but it was covered with another shirt bc chilly windy,and rain, and he lite has on an undershirt, a t shirts a pearl snaps denim shirt and another pearl snaps shirt over all that, I see a jean jacket with a brown, idk some sort of old man stetson hat or as my gf said, a flat fedora Looking at a building, 3 SUVs in the parking lot, gravel lot. Grey sky, a run down dumpy place that looks like a good abandoned spot to break into to go shoot up. On the right side of the building is a big (40x30) white tent like for weddings, and chain link in front and that's the Big I, the northernmost Irish pub. While they had Smith wicks, Harp, and Guinness on tap, not what I'd call an Irish pub but back in 1920 when they were established it probably was. A sidewalk with letters stamped into it and idk what the hell they put in the stamped part but it spells out BIG I EST 1920
June 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM