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Melissa
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🌴Gardening in the Caribbean 🌴
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Sunrise over the sea❣️
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Happy, happy birthday Sophie from these two spoiled rescues. Lolly and Nala send all the doggy loves❣️❣️❣️
A medium size golden brown American Cur dog and a small golden brown sausage mutt staring at something intently in the distance…it was monkeys…the background is a gravel walkway in a tropical garden with palms and ginger
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The morning moon in the 🌱garden❣️
A blue sky with light wispy white clouds and a moon. The moon is between the fronds of a large Royal palm tree Peeking through the palms in the garden at the perfectly blue sky. The blue is the same shade as the cornflower blue in a box of 64 crayons. More perfect blue sky in the garden with palms Two large Royal palms and a yellow African Tulip tree looking up a green hillside toward a beautiful sky with white/gray clouds
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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There’s not a single tool I’ve bought that I didn’t love. These are the two I started with.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Posted on Reditt for US service members stationed in Germany. Even when being paid it’s not uncommon for junior service members to qualify for WIC &/or reduced price school lunches. Germany is paying 12,000 civilian employees who work for the US military during the shutdown.
through its more than 970 local food banks. You can find your nearest food bank on their website. https://www.tafel.de/ • Foodsharing e.V.: A nationwide volunteer movement that shares surplus food. The organization is also a contact point for donations and support. https://foodsharing.de/ • Essen für Alle (Food for everyone): A non-profit association that volunteers in food rescue and distribution and sees itself as a point of contact for food aid. https://www.essen-fuer-alle.org/ • Too Good To Go-App - Nationwide "Too Good To Go bags" refer to the surprise bags sold via the Too Good To Go-App to reduce food waste. These bags contain unsellable but perfectly good food from shops, cafés, and restaurants, which can be picked up at a reduced price. To obtain one of these bags, it must be reserved in the app and picked up at the store during a specified time window, presenting the reservation receipt in the app. The app is free of charge. Too Good To Go-App | • Verbraucherlotse (Consumer Guide): Offers a free telephone hotline (0228 - 24 25 26 27) and other contact options (email, contact form) for questions about food and nutrition. https://www.bmleh.de/DE/service/ verbraucherlotse/verbraucherlotse.html
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Just finished this!! Came to Bluesky to see if the author was here and saw your post… from awhile ago! This one will stay with me as well.
Cover image of the book titled “Villa Triste”
November 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A hawk riding a thermal❣️ My hillside off the ghaut ( a deep ravine that comes down from the mountain peak allowing rain water to flow down the mountain) consistently has thermals and updrafts due to the topography. I LOVE the show all day as the birds rest their wings.
November 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Sunrise looking through the Rain tree with the top of a coconut palm and mango tree
November 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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#Caturday Olive on the garden and smelling the flowers
A fluffy black cat sitting with her back to the camera amidst palms and ferns on a gravel garden path A fluffy black cat on a patio table with her nose up to a pink flower in a white pot
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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From Reddit. NICU nurses dressed up one of the sleeping babies for Halloween ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Sleeping baby in a NICU dressed in a little knitted Halloween costume and holding a wrapped tootsie pop
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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From Reddit🥰:
Last year I made a post here about how my Mom used to always text me at 1:11 on 10/29 to wish me happy birthday, and that losing her 4 years ago meant I wouldn't get them anymore, which sucks... This morning I woke up to an inbox full of birthday wishes from folks who apparently set reminders.. /quests • > Request sent on Oct 29 at 929 AM| "Happy birthdayt i hope you have a wonderful day e" View Request from GeeorgeC Request sent on Oct 29 at $47 AM. "Happy buthday Juh ill I hooe today is a greet one." Ignore View Request a from groundzero Request sent on Ort 29 mr 1.34 AM Happy Birthday "Happy birthday. Your Mom Carol would be proud of you. Thinking of you mate all the way from Australia. " Ignore View Requent from LeonsTs Requent sent on Out 29 ar 1:20 AM Happy outhody Joint do fUhrk? Hope the year teot you we! Hoppy houdoys. Aise I boody on y munces loit Ignore View Requent om wireton Ignore View Requent 4,644 • Requests Additional requests from MisChievousOne Request sent on Oct 29 at 9:29 AM "Happy Birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day ®" from GeeorgeC Request sent on Oct 29 at 8:47 AM "Happy birthday Josh!!! I hope today is a great one." from groundzero Request sent on Oct 29 at 1:54 AM Happy Birthday "Happy birthday. Your Mom Carol would be proud of you. Thinking of you mate all the way from Au: from Leon978 Request sent on Oct 29 at 1120 AM "Happy birthday Josh! 46 I think? Hope the year treats you well! Happy holidays! Also I totally am 9 from MrPigeon70 Request sent on Oct 29 at 1:11 AM "HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH!"
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Morning clouds with Redonda and Montserrat in the distance. Antigua is covered in clouds.
Looking through the palms I. The garden toward the sea. Islands in the background Closeup of redonda and Montserrat
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Wait for it…my wild rooster up on the hillside 🐓🐔
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Nala surveying her queendom. This part of the garden is on top if a hill so she has a nice view of the garden below. When she sees a monkey run across the lawn she goes airborne from the rock in hot pursuit.
#CaribbeanQueen
A golden sausage dog mutt standing in a boulder surrounded by Fountain grass A close up
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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NYPL BOOK OF THE DAY
Looks really good.
Cover image of the book Book of the Day Christ in Concrete Pietro di Donato With a Preface by Studs Terkel Christ in Concrete Pietro di Donato An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of 1920s Italian immigrants, 'Christ in Concrete' follows a 12-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's sudden death. NYPL cardholders can check out this title or reserve a hold for pickup at an open location.
October 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Had a little shower this afternoon. The ghaut is getting a nice clean out.
A bright green bridge over a rock strewn waterway with rushing water The other side of the bridge
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I was on the hillside where I have been clearing. It’s the very edge where garden meets jungle. I saw the same crab that had been down by the pool last week…about half an acre away & on the other side of the ghaut which is about 8’ deep right there. Had no idea they traveled so far. 🦀
A hermit crab partially extended from a white glass cold cream jar.
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#Caturday Olive in the garden. I love that she uses the whole garden for adventuring.
A fluffy black cat on a rock in a tropical garden A fluffy black cat on a rock in a garden A fluffy black cat viewed from behind as she sits on a gravel garden area pondering life…there are palms and ferns around her A fluffy black cat sitting in a boulder with Fountain grass and Bougainvilleas in the background
October 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Still binging Jane Green. Read 4 of her books this past rainy week. Just finished Family Pictures & have started The Other Woman. Started these bcs I thought they’d be light & fun…they’re fun, but wow-wee they have some dark subject matter at times. Gonna need a break soon for some nonfiction.
An image of two book covers. One for Jane Green’s Family Pictures and one for The Other Woman
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I find this so absolutely absurd and infuriating. The fact that US colleges have a need for food pantries is nuts. Also, only 177 people gave out of a large enrollment. It’s as absurd as our military bases having food pantries either on base or just off. But hey, trump is getting a new ballroom🙄🤬🤬🤬🤬
An email screenshot from LSU: Thank You Tigers Thank you for supporting the LSU Food Pantry during our "Food Fight" against the University of South Carolina. Together, 177 Tigers gave $10,485 to support the LSU Food Pantry! Your generosity equips students to focus on their education without the added stress of wondering where their next meal will come from. We're grateful for your generosity that empowers our students to win. Geaux Tigers! LSU Food Pantry 目
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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A gorgeous sunrise after a gray and gloomy week of rain, wind & clouds. Didn’t have a chance to capture the pink sky over the sea..busy w work planning for the gardener since we’ve had so much rain. So. Much. Rain. Love how the sunrise lights up the living room shelves.
The green rain forest covered mountain peak behind the house partially shrouded by a low cloud. Indian Almond tree and palms blocking part of the view A yellow and orange sunrise peaking through the trunk of a massive Rain tree and palms Another view of the sun coming up in a blaze of orange and yellow as you look through a massive Rain tree and a coconut palm A light blue bookcase with a rolling ladder. A sliver of books is lit up with the light from the sunrise. The low shelf is full of glassware and miscellaneous mess…Disregard all the glasses and clutter on the low shelf..I’ve been organizing & I’m in the “it gets worse before it gets better phase”
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Even if you aren’t into perfume, this is ABSOLUTELY riveting!! AND, there’s an online presentation Oct 18. I’ve decided I would like to smell of “the air above a fig tree” for my remaining days👃💖
A blurb from the interview discussing the use of fig in perfume and some perfumes that have fig as a scent. The perfume created by the interviewee is meant to recall “a kind of air above the branches of fig trees paired with a jasmine tea and warm sandalwood”. Getty Dab a Little 3,000-Year-Old ... y Nordstrand: Fig is one of those notes that is perennially revisited, so I wouldn't say it ever really goes out of style. The true task for a perfumer is to do something completely new in the face of two amazing benchmarks, a term we use to refer to references of popular perfumes in the market: Premier Figuier, from L'Artisan Parfumeur, and Philosykos, from Diptyque, both by Olivia Giacobetti. I recently created a fragrance called Isleta that imagines a kind of air above the branches of fig trees paired with a ric' jasmine tea and warm sandalwood.
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Lolly enjoying the chill in the air after the wind and showers. Pasta Fagiole on the stove.
A golden brown and white dog looking at the camera from her perch on a chair A pot of soup cooking on the stove in an old yellow Dansk pot
October 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Pics from the garden today while I was wrapping up storm prep. Just waiting for the wind and rain now. Have snacks, books, battery lanterns and battery powered fan.
A green tropical garden looking toward the sun over a lush green hillside A tropical garden Looking through the garden toward the Peak with gray clouds around it.
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Picked all my Silk bananas today❣️The monkeys only got to about 3 hands of them. I have 5 bunches…well over 100 bananas!
October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM