Granny Thompson
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I’m a not so wise granny with a love of forest wanderings, waterfalls and streams, moss, mushrooms, lichen, fantasy lit, and my huge orange cat. Breast cancer survivor.
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I am not going to dive into the back and forth on piracy. I have a side, you can guess what it is.
But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.
But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am not going to dive into the back and forth on piracy. I have a side, you can guess what it is.
But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.
But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.
Just came from my pulmonologist’s office for sleep study results. In a huge medical office building, I was the only person masking.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Just came from my pulmonologist’s office for sleep study results. In a huge medical office building, I was the only person masking.
I have a cornbread dressing recipe that’s well over a 100 years old. A cornbread recipe from old family friends. A tradition in my home, but laborious and too large for two people.
Okay friends, important question: who has a stuffing recipe they really love?
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have a cornbread dressing recipe that’s well over a 100 years old. A cornbread recipe from old family friends. A tradition in my home, but laborious and too large for two people.
New Orleans had approximately 6 Carnegie libraries, including the crown jewel main library.
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New Orleans had approximately 6 Carnegie libraries, including the crown jewel main library.
I can’t stress this enough. The alcoholics in my life don’t want to drink alone. Too bad.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I can’t stress this enough. The alcoholics in my life don’t want to drink alone. Too bad.
Decorated with marmalade cat fur and toast crumbs.
Your daily fortune:
Like a napkin, you will start your day neat and clean, but end it crumpled and stained.
Like a napkin, you will start your day neat and clean, but end it crumpled and stained.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Decorated with marmalade cat fur and toast crumbs.
To those resellers and normal thrift shop aficionados: the people donating nice things are not idiots. Some of us are drowning in things from our late or grandparents’ parents’ dragon hoard. Others are downsizing and don’t need multiple casserole dishes or lamps. Enjoy the bounty you find.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
To those resellers and normal thrift shop aficionados: the people donating nice things are not idiots. Some of us are drowning in things from our late or grandparents’ parents’ dragon hoard. Others are downsizing and don’t need multiple casserole dishes or lamps. Enjoy the bounty you find.
My abandoned #SwedishDeathCleaning is renewed, with multiple donations to my local pet rescue thrift shop scheduled.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
My abandoned #SwedishDeathCleaning is renewed, with multiple donations to my local pet rescue thrift shop scheduled.
This is the annual Expired Ingredients Week in my house. If you’ve never found anything that expired in your pantry four years ago, you wouldn’t understand. My kids made a standup comedy routine with it. Poor geriatric ground sage! I knew you little.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is the annual Expired Ingredients Week in my house. If you’ve never found anything that expired in your pantry four years ago, you wouldn’t understand. My kids made a standup comedy routine with it. Poor geriatric ground sage! I knew you little.
People, please be kind to each other this Thanksgiving.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
People, please be kind to each other this Thanksgiving.
Truly a goddess.
Beautiful pregnant goddess figurine, created about 24,000 years ago at Kostenki - Borshevo region on the Don River, north of the Black Sea.
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 🇷🇺
#archaeohistories
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 🇷🇺
#archaeohistories
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Truly a goddess.
This sent me down a rabbit hole about Divisionism vs Pointillism.
In February 1887, Georges Seurat exhibited his 'Après-midi à la Grande Jatte,' in Brussels - it caused a sensation. The painting made its mark on Alfred Finch, who turned to divisionism in the winter of 1887. His 'The Road to Nieuport,' was made the following year.
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This sent me down a rabbit hole about Divisionism vs Pointillism.
Glorious detail.
Born OTD in 1654, in Antwerp, Jan van Kessel the Younger. Like his father, a painter of bugs, beasts, & other naturalia. Occasionally humans too. Here, butterflies, shells, etc in 1680.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Glorious detail.
Goodnight, Bluesky. Time for my cozy bed and books with crazy vampire lovers.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Goodnight, Bluesky. Time for my cozy bed and books with crazy vampire lovers.
My vivid dream last night involved me being trained as a deep water rescue volunteer. (Shudder.) Despite my thalassophobia, I was happy as an otter. Maybe caused by the vampire fantasy I read at bedtime. Or my enchilada supper.
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
My vivid dream last night involved me being trained as a deep water rescue volunteer. (Shudder.) Despite my thalassophobia, I was happy as an otter. Maybe caused by the vampire fantasy I read at bedtime. Or my enchilada supper.
Looking through my hometown’s UMCA ladies’ cookbooks for a recipe. Got distracted by familiar names, then checked the ingredients. Gelatin, paraffin, jello. Post WWII food sometimes had weird ingredients.
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Looking through my hometown’s UMCA ladies’ cookbooks for a recipe. Got distracted by familiar names, then checked the ingredients. Gelatin, paraffin, jello. Post WWII food sometimes had weird ingredients.
I was this way, an Episcopalian who was taught old school that the tree went up as late as possible. Now? Skippy’s ready to decorate.
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I was this way, an Episcopalian who was taught old school that the tree went up as late as possible. Now? Skippy’s ready to decorate.
I was walking about my garden yesterday and scheming new native plants. IDK what made me look behind me, but a rather large rat snake lay a couple of feet away. He looked as shocked as me.
There’s a scarcity of his natural prey locally.
There’s a scarcity of his natural prey locally.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I was walking about my garden yesterday and scheming new native plants. IDK what made me look behind me, but a rather large rat snake lay a couple of feet away. He looked as shocked as me.
There’s a scarcity of his natural prey locally.
There’s a scarcity of his natural prey locally.
I’m in.
If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by candlelight whilst sharing dark chocolate and a vintage bottle of Château Margaux in an abandoned castle on the Irish coast during a full moon, then please don’t tell me you’re “down for a good time.”
November 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’m in.
Sign me up!
I saw this and I propose an idea —
Hear me out StokerCon … Coffee with Krampus AT StokerCon?
@horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Hear me out StokerCon … Coffee with Krampus AT StokerCon?
@horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
Discuss amongst yourselves.
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sign me up!
I worry about the elderly patients caught in the brouhaha between a huge Medicare Advantage provider and #BaylorScottWhite. Imagine getting a large paper notice letting you know your PCP is now out of network. That urgent care with them is out of network.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I worry about the elderly patients caught in the brouhaha between a huge Medicare Advantage provider and #BaylorScottWhite. Imagine getting a large paper notice letting you know your PCP is now out of network. That urgent care with them is out of network.
This is how interstellar Moss Men sci-fi is born. #moss
A human will die in the harsh vacuum in space within minutes, but moss can survive 9 months
hope future astronauts like eating moss
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
hope future astronauts like eating moss
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
This moss survived 9 months directly exposed to the elements of space
Mosses thrive in the most extreme environments on Earth, from the peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of Death Valley, the Antarctic tundra to the lava fields of active volcanoes. Inspired by moss&rsq...
www.eurekalert.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is how interstellar Moss Men sci-fi is born. #moss
Hmmm. Possum Pie, an Arkansas specialty. www.southernliving.com/possum-pie-7...
Possum Pie: A Funny Name For A Favorite Southern Dessert
Possum pie, popular in Arkansas, features cream cheese and chocolate layers hiding underneath a pile of fluffy whipped cream—hiding just like real possums do.
www.southernliving.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hmmm. Possum Pie, an Arkansas specialty. www.southernliving.com/possum-pie-7...
Going digital with both families holiday recipes. Putting them in MyList recipes has been fun, and brings back good memories. Saving the “funeral casserole” for another time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Going digital with both families holiday recipes. Putting them in MyList recipes has been fun, and brings back good memories. Saving the “funeral casserole” for another time.
Since moving quite a bit in college, I still covet good boxes. My mother was a hoarder, so accumulating saving stupid things alarms me.
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Since moving quite a bit in college, I still covet good boxes. My mother was a hoarder, so accumulating saving stupid things alarms me.