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Amanda Alvarez
@gecky.me
tacos 🌮
data 📊
bees 🐝
mountains 🏔️🏕️🧗🏽‍♀️
fiber arts 🪡🧵🧶
baking 🧁🍰🍪🥐🍞
helping my kids collect hobbies 📷⚾️💃🏽🎶🤸🏽‍♀️🪴🎮
trying to keep it all together 🙃🍷

she/her/ella
I wish some of the clouds would have stuck around a bit longer! There were some great ones when it first started.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
(Totally messed up the threading here, but oh well)
It wasn’t long before dogs wanted to go out again, since I’d cut their earlier walk short. The colors had waned a bit. Kids joined me for this walk, and the sky lit up again, featuring what my middle kid dubbed “the big pink.”
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I rushed back to the house to call the kids out, and the colors exploded. The clouds were moving quickly, so the scene changed dramatically in just a few minutes
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I first saw a pink glow while walking the dogs. I sought higher ground for a better view. From the street end of the driveway, it looked pretty spectacular with the clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The 1st grade teacher 2 of them had did the peanut butter sandwich thing as a class lesson! She also used to say things like, “that’s not a question, it’s a comment,” and I love her.
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Oh, this does remind me that I had to do this once, ages ago, and found a bunch of LEGO and some cash. Fortunately, no one in this household carries either in their pockets these days.
November 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
….changing the filter on the washing machine?

Looks like I need to make a bingo card for myself, too.
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ooof, yeah!
I’m thinking of a whole bunch of (mostly minor) plumbing stuff now….
Maybe this will have to be a “new card every month of 2026” thing….
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ironically, this is probably the only way they know how to make a paper check happen, since I no longer have a checkbook!
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ooo, shutting off the propane is a good one. And changing the furnace filters!
We’re on a well where we’re living now, and I’m not even sure I know if there’s an equivalent to shutting off the water to the whole house, aside from cutting power to the well pump. 🤔
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
About 10 years ago, I laughed when my sister sent her kids to handwriting camp.
I get it now.
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If I personally had 18 rushing yards going into the 4th quarter, it’d be a PR
October 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM