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Love books, people who read them, people who write them. Messy gardener. Quiet life. Dogs.

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So many days of rain and napping. This little bozo takes the big dog’s bed. 🐶 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#Puppy
#DogNap
A white Maltese in a red harness lays curled into himself to nap. He is on a very large dog pillow that is a grey just a shade or two darker than he is. He is in front of a patio door with white curtains hanging to the floor. Light glows in very bright. A very large Hoya Carnosa Variegata plant is beyond him in the background.
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Wishing you peace and slow things. Happy Saturday. 🌱 🧶 📚
#BookSky
#KnitSky
#Coffee
An impromptu vignette in a regular morning. This is a photo taken up close of a cup of coffee, a tablet reader, and a bowl of yarn on a round topped night table next to white gauzy curtains. The table top is warm brown. The tablet reader has a pink and white foral pattern on its cover. The yarn is a pink and plum color variegated yarn wound into a center pull ball. It sits atop a partially finished plum and pink patterned hat in a ceramic bowl that is glazed in soft pink. Closest to us is coffee swirled with cream in a hand crafted ceramic mug. The mug is white with brown, leafless tree leaning in breeze on its front and and group of birds flying against the wind just under the rim on the inside edge opposite. Twinkle lights hang in the soft curtains behind because you are just never too grown up for twinkle lights.
February 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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8lbs of helpful if you just move the keyboard out of the way for her chin. Not pictured: the 8lb snores. 🐶 🐕 💜
#Puppy
#Doodle
#DogsOfInstagram
A tiny, tan mini doodle lays on my lap at a work station. She lays on my navy blue dress with her chin resting on the desk in front of us. A keyboard sits at an angle before her, pushed out of her way. Shot is from directly above.
January 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This is titled Canines Cosplay Cats: A Still Life 🐱 🐶 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#CatsOfBluesky
#Rescue
#Sunshine
A long column of sunshine stretches toward camera from a glass storm door. Lined up in its beam are four dogs. 3 lap dogs and a very large Bluetick hound. They are very different in their body language. Closest to the windowed door is a 10 pound tan poodle. She lounges with her head up watching the outdoors. Behind her and taking up much space is an 83 pound hound with black head and ears, an orange reflective vest still on, and white, dappled paws reaching out into the sun. He lays on his side like someone tipped him over. Behind him nearer to the camera is an 8 pound creamy tan poodle. She lays in a perfect “sploot” with her back legs sticking out behind her and hips spread wide. She looks over her shoulder at the camera, unbothered. Last in line is a 12 pound white Maltese with black eyes and a moon face. He’s just chilling in the back of the line but he is not chill. He has positioned himself to supervise. They stayed right here, languid and lounging and shifting with the line of the sun until, it was gone. Then they proceeded to a more west-facing window to resume their cat imitations.
January 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Some love today. Stories in alt text. 🐶 ❤️ 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#Rescue
#DogNap
A rescued Maltese lies by a white headboard on a cream coverlet. He deserves every good thing. Two tiny golden poochon sisters lay head to head on a cream bed in winter sunshine. One looks up with her eyes at the camera. They opened this house to a flood of happiness. A very good pup looks up from his very special new car seat. He is black with a white but dappled face and belly. Gorgeous amber eyes and a big black nose that he lets you kiss. He was found a few days before my 40th birthday as an emaciated stray. A short time later, he was with us recovering from infections, worms, and starvation. The 60lb dog we rescued turned out to be 85 and just a puppy and the most patient, loving, scaredy cat snuggle I’ve ever met and my favorite birthday present ever.
January 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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8 pounds of dog in my face does not appreciate a camera in hers… 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🐶 🐕
#WinnieTheBish
#DogsOfBluesky
#MiniDoodle
A very close up photo of a mini Poochon which is a mini poodle crossed with Bichon. Screen is pretty full with warm gold poodle fur, black almond eyes that wonder why I woke her, a black button of a nose near camera that is winter faded to brown in the center. The front “arm” she was laying on has a paw sticking out showing an up close of the bottom of a puppy foot. Little black toe beans in a bed of gold curls. A red holiday blanket makes up the rest of the foreground.
January 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Image of a dog overlooking a large view of valley and hills. Meme text says “ If I pee here, all this will be mine.”
January 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I don’t know how he found me, but I’m so glad he did. 🐕 🐶 ❤️
#Rescue
#DogsOfBluesky
#Maltese
A white Maltese sits looking up at the camera. He has a partially grown out groomer cut so his face is very round, body very floofy, and his just a bit too long “bangs” are tied up in a little fountain with a red bow at top of his head. He is wearing his red harness and his usually black nose is faded a bit to tan today. This little guy will let me lower my face nose to nose with him and not flinch away. He will sit nose to nose and gaze into your eyes as long as you let him, I believe that shows in his very open expression in this photo.
December 31, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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The last few days have been so rich with reading. 📚 📕
#Booksky
#BookRecommendations
#ReadingList
#JamesBaldwin #ArundhatiRoy
#ZoraNealeHurston
I snapped a photo of a paperback book moments after finishing it. Left hand holds the book by its bottom spine corner above a rumpled, sage bedsheet and pink waffle weave blanket. The cover of the book is a black and white photo of James Baldwin looking up and to our right. His hand is wearing two large rings and lightly touching a decorative scarf knotted below his chin. The book is banded with black and then has an orange fiery texture at bottom. The title is “The Fire Next Time.” A screenshot of a book cover in the Libby borrowing app. This book cover is a photo of a rectangular white stone grave marker with some indication of age in a crack on the left side and mossy growth. There is the detritus of trees as well as a purposefully placed red flower on the marker. The title of book and name of author is written in the open space on the stone. They are “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Novel” by Arundhati Roy. Another screenshot of a Libby book listing. It is a blue book cover that looks like pieces of newspaper and other print writing decoupaged and painted. Centered is a bust of a Black woman depicted royally and in profile looking to our right. Her face, ear, and neck are made of a pieced together black and white photo. Behind her face and framing it is a mustard yellow orb. She wears a crown and dress of bright patterns pieced together again like decoupage but without paste. Very vibrant and joyful patterns. The woman’s facial expression could be many things -regal, determined, thoughtful- her chin is tilted up, lips closed, eyes open and looking off and up. The book is “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston.
December 31, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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No tree space cuz dogs. Put it on the kennel. Perk: they can’t pee on the gifts. 🎄 🎅
#Holidays
#Dogs
#Tree
A holiday tree made from just the top section of a prelit tree sits atop a large dog kennel. It glows with white lights in gifts all around it in the kennel and has stocking hanging on it that are shaped like paws. Living room furniture sits on either side and a lit candle glows on a coffee table in the foreground.
December 27, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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Perfect little gentleman thinking thoughtful considerations.
#Rescue
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#VeryDemure
A freshly brushed and fluffy Maltese lays on a grey blanket with black pup prints. He looks to camera with his front paws placed before him and paws folded atop one another. He’s giving away that his brush up has him feeling regal. A freshly brushed and fluffy Maltese lays on a grey blanket with black pup prints. He looks off camera into the distance with his front paws placed before him and paws folded atop one another. This would be a very poignant shot if we didn’t know how little is really going on behind those eyes.
December 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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Whew! Amazing. Made me afraid to turn the light off for a night. 📚 📕
#Booksky
#BookRecommendation
#PercivalEverett
#ReadingList
Screenshot of a book thumbnail in the Libby library app for digital book borrowing. Book pictured has a navy background with columns of names running top to bottom. Title of the book “The Trees” is in yellow on front center. Author is Percival Everett. Quickly becoming a favorite writer of mine.
December 23, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Must we, Monday? A collection of Winnie in “sploot” position captures the vibe. 🐶 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#Monday
A very small tan Doodle lays facing away from camera on a deck looking out at very big sky and a fun glamping tent. She is wearing a tan AC/DC shirt and is stretched out on her belly with her head on her hands and her back legs and tail stretched open and out behind her for full belly contact on the ground. This position is referred to as a “sploot.” Another picture of Winnie, a very small, tan Doodle laying on the deck in a full relaxation sploot position. A wide angle shot of a very large deck in the sunshine with nothing on it but three very small dogs all warming themselves on the surface. They are spread very far apart across the space. Closest is Winnie, the tiny tan Doodle, in a full sploot and with her face silhouetted by sun. She’s looking back to camera as if to say about the other reclining pups, “Look what I started.” A last picture of the tiny tan Doodle in a full sploot position on the grass but with her head up and alert to something going on in front of her. In this photo she was “helping” me garden.
December 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Oo, I enjoyed this read today.
📚 📖 📕
#Booksky
#BookRecommendations
#BookClub
Screenshot of the Libby book borrowing app. Image is the thumbnail of a book cover. Background is deep blue sky with stars. Centered is a statue of a Pan type figure on a tall column that rises up the center over a sea drawn in abstract swirls very reminiscent of motifs from architecture. Book is “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke.
December 20, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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85lbs of pout this morning when I left the house without him. How dare dad make him stay? 😂 🐶 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#GermanShortHair
A screenshot of a text message shows a picture of a large black and white dog turned away from camera and away from the human holding the camera and into a corner of kitchen cabinet. That human has an arm reaching out touching the dogs back gently. The photo is dim as it’s taken before the sun’s come up while the house is still waking. Big feelings for so early in the day. The text is time stamped 7:19am and says, “Robby not wanting to look at me hahaha”
December 20, 2024 at 3:57 AM
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Catching up on my finished reads that I used to record on the gram. I’d only read her nonfiction till now which is incredible. I’ll be reading another of her novels soon. 📚 📖
#Booksky
#BookRec
#Fiction
Screenshot of a book listing on the Libby app for borrowing library books to reader devices. The book art shown is “The God of Small Things” by Arundhati Roy. It shows what look to be tropical water plants without water on a burnt sienna background.
December 20, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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Holy shit this was good. 📚 📖 Also, his book “James” is fantastic.
#Booksky
#ILikeToRead
#BookRecommendations
Screen shot of a red book cover on the Libby book borrowing app. Book is “Erasure” by Percival Everett and has a badge that says, “Now the major motion picture, ‘American Fiction.’”
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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Mother, I believe you owe me a messaround. 🐶 🐕 🎾
#NewGirl
#WinnieTheBish
#DogsOfBluesky
#Doodle
A very tiny tan BichPoo (or Doodle) sits on a pale pink waffle weave blanket on an unmade bed in evening lamplight. A ball sits in the foreground and to the left corner of the shot while she does a very nice sit with her head tipped a bit toward the ball. She looks directly at the camera waiting patiently for me to remember it is my turn to make the ball go. Her name is Winnie, aka Winnie the BichPoo aka 8lbs of Tan Lightning.
December 16, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Take us back to the weekend now, pleaseandthankyou. 🐶 🐕
#Monday
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#RescuePup
A white Maltese with black nose lays on a purple blanket on the back of a couch, eye level and to camera. His face is smooshed into the fabric with front paws on either side and his back end stretched away. Totally zonked out asleep.
December 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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When the best cocktail bar in town goes all in for their festive menu… you have a Nick Miller Monday. Shuffling round in slippers grumbling about he the weekend “got on top of ya.” 🍹 🎄
#SidebarCoctails
#HappyHolidays
#NewGirl
Photo of 4 drinks on a black marble bar. Christmas lights in the background behind the bar. One cocktail is a gorgeous fizzy, pink in a stemmed glass with sugared cranberries across the rim. 2 are shots that look like chocolate milk but are most definitely not. Another is a ceramic gingerbread man standing upright with a straw, and mint leaves sticking out the top that are sprinkled with a snow looking sugar/crushed peppermint candy combo. Delightful.
December 16, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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I fell off the 20 days of books habit but not the reading habit. Kindle for home and one for my purse and coffee. ☕️ 📖
#Kindle
#Coffee
#BookSky
#ReadersOfBluesky
Photographed from above on a white countertop are two eReaders and a cup of coffee. The readers are covered in colorful stickers including a couple of my favorites, a mermaid in sunglasses waving and holding a wine glass with text that reads “Row Row Row Your Boat… The Fuck Away From Me” and another that has a silhouette of Sophia from the Golden Girls and script that says, “Picture it, Sicily…” The coffee cup is a beautiful, hand made piece in a retro style, white speckled glaze with and orange and yellow stripe running round it and plenty of cream in the coffee.
December 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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A play in three faces. 🐶🐕
#CaughtInTheAct
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#TGIF
#AltTextTales
A photo from across a room of three dogs. Top to bottom there is a tiny poodle in a blue dinosaur suit laying atop the back of a couch. On the floor below, a tiny, white Maltese with a moon face looks at camera. Only his face is seen popped up behind the closest dog, a very large, very “over it” looking black and white hound whose head is resting on the floor, body on a large donut bed, and eyes are looking up at camera. From top to bottom, this script reads: “Uh oh… mom moved. Is she gonna notice me on the back of the couch where I’m not supposed to be?” “Is she gonna notice me bothering Robby to get out of his donut and let me have it?” “Is she gonna notice Parker bugging me while I’m trying to nap?” A play in three faces. 🐶🐕 #CaughtInTheAct #DogsOfBluesky #DogPics #TGIF
December 13, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Def a real Linda Belcher vibe. “Alright!”
Winston Bishop from New Girl saying of himself, “it’s me! Winnie the Bish, the Bish with the wish! And my wish is to have fun!”
December 12, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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No #SundayScaries with this boy and his blepp keeping watch. 🐶 🐕
#DogsOfBluesky
#DogPics
#Rescue
Close up of an older Maltese looking out past camera in a sunny bedroom. Pup has big, black marbles of eyes, a perky black nose that’s a bit crooked, and an oddly shaped pink tongue that hangs out of his mouth opposite his nose. He is all white, in a red collar, and has an expression that says his whole focus is on what he’s watching and also that his whole focus amounts to maybe 5 brain cells bouncing around. No #SundayScaries with this boy and his blepp keeping watch. 🐶 🐕 #DogsOfBluesky #DogPics #Rescue
December 8, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Saturday=Caturday=Lapdog Napday
🐶 🐕 🐱
#DogsOfBluesky
#Caturday
#DogPics
Photo of a man sleeping on a couch with feet propped up toward camera. His face is obscured by an emoji. Three lap dogs sleep on him. Two sleep curled up on his lap. The smallest, a tan poodle mix, is wearing a royal blue hoodie with a line of green Dino spikes down the back. She is stretched across the man’s chest under his chin with her feet and tail above her body trailing down the couch and her nose tucked up and around his ear. Just a ridiculous position. I’ve drawn arrows on the photo to point out the toe beans pointing straight to the ceiling. Saturday=Caturday=Lapdog Napday 🐶 🐕 🐱 #DogsOfBluesky #Caturday #DogPics Photo taken looking down a pair of human legs on a couch. From foreground to furthest away are three bundles of fuzzy sleeping lapdog. A white Maltese curled up close, a tan Doodle in a green Beatles shirt next, and on the person’s shins, a tiny Doodle in a royal blue fleece with green dinosaur spikes. Saturday=Caturday=Lapdog Napday 🐶 🐕 🐱 #DogsOfBluesky #Caturday #DogPics
December 7, 2024 at 8:37 PM