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peacefulbean
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hiding out in a moss-covered log until it's safe to come out || nature nerd || cemeteries || gardening || thinking about crafting more than actually crafting || she/her || can i pet your dog
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Book: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Cemetery #caturday
A white stone cat resting on the base of a gravestone in a foggy cemetery. The cat is sprinkled delicately with lichen.
November 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I guess it was silly to assume the one in Boscobel WI was the only one.
A large cow with condiment udders in a fast food restaurant. The udders contain ranch, mustard, BBQ sauce, and ketchup.
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I think about this stone OFTEN.

#31DaysOfGraves - Day 11 - Military.
The back of a mahogany gravestone where an engraved panel reads, "If you love your freedom, thank a vet. If you have lost your freedom, blame the stupidity of the American voters." Next to it is an American flag in a Word War 2 veterans flag holder.
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I struggled to find something in my photos for Day 10 - Urns - for #31DaysOfGraves
Old, large, arched monuments in a misty cemetery.
October 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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#31DaysOfGraves Day 9 - Hand.
An angel statue at the base of a black granite gravestone. The angel is holding a bird in her hand.
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I am late getting to this, but am going to jump right in starting with yesterday's prompt, because I love this stone so much.

#31DaysOfGraves
A large black polished granite gravestone with a brightly colored oval stained glass piece in the middle.
October 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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One of these days I'm going to finally cave and buy the Haunted Mozzarella Sticks Cat Toy on Chewy. One of these days.
A listing photo of plush cat toys in the shapes of mozzarella sticks, a bowl, and dipping sauce. They have spiders on them so are spooky.
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Trying a new-to-me canning recipe this year - Minnesota Mix. Easy way to use up about 7 lbs of tomatoes. Has peppers, onions, and celery in it. Easy starter for a little mid-winter hotdish.

extension.umn.edu/preserving-a...
Pint jars canned with tomatoes, green, peppers, onions, and celery sitting on a folded dish towel on a kitchen counter.
September 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We are stumbling quickly back to this. It's so unnecessary.
A large grey headstone in a cemetery for the Hafner family from pre-vaccine times that has names and dates of the children engraved. Joseph 1893-1894, Anton 1896-1897, Leo 1901-1904, Walter 1904-1904, Frances 1905-1905. There is a flower pot in a stand next to it with bright pink fake flowers.
September 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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hey, budddddy.

*looks closer*

buddies. plural.
A photo from below a light pink 'Ballerina' Zinnia flower showing a fuzzy caterpillar and tiny spider hanging out on the underside. There are other flowers, trees, a roofline, and blue skies beyond it.
August 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Ope! I guess we're finally past the Just A Few Cherries stage of tomato harvesting. Bring it on.

Sungolds and Pink Princess cherries came first. Now, a nice Black Sea Man and half a dozen Rumi Banjans.
A mix of purple, yellow, gold, and pink tomatoes of various sizes held inside the bottom of a grey t-shirt with an angry possum on it.
July 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Enamored with this cemetery tree I met today.
A photo of an odd shaped pine tree in a cemetery. The tree has a weird branch and clump protruding out and it's trunk looks like a shouting face. There are a handful of gravestones nearby, hills and valleys in the distance, and hazy clouds.
June 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Today I found the most glorious cat loaf in a cemetery. Happy #Caturday
An orange concrete cat lies in a perfect loaf next to a mahogany slant headstone in a cemetery with green grass. The cat has blue eyes and a slight satisfied grin. The top view of a ginger orange concrete cat loaf sculpture in green cemetery grass. A real chonker.
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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bookshop.org got @secase.bsky.social's Rigsby WI to me early? Am I allowed to have this yet? Not complaining! YAY!
Book cover of Rigsby WI by S.E. Case which features two illustrated characters lying in leaves on the ground.
February 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I, and all the residents of [your state here], are victims of the largest data breach in US history. Unidentified and unauthorized operatives associated with Elon Musk have breached government systems and have illegal access to, and may have stolen, our personal data. Mr. Musk has acknowledged that he has unfettered access to Treasury Department data, including that of every citizen of the United States. This unprecedented breach of government information systems, and the complete lack of oversight or transparency, imperils the privacy and financial well-being of every resident of [your state here], and every citizen of the United States. Since, tragically, the U.S. Department of Justice will no longer pursue or prosecute any crimes committed by allies of Donald Trump, the State Attorneys General are ou last and only recourse - the citizens of [your state here] need you to bring charges against Elon Musk and all other perpetrators of this crime. Please take action Immediately.
February 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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I somehow still have a stupid number of these saved on my computer.
MEME: An orange cat wearing a wristwatch around their neck and looking pretty smug about it. The meme text says, "I haz a flava flav." MEME: A plush looking gray cat with gold eyes and bigger cheeks than you ever thought possible is being held up by two human hands. Circling the cat's chubby face is a white ring of milk. Meme text: "Someone steelz da milk? Sry, I noes nuffing about dat." MEME: An orange and white cat is hovering a couple feet off the floor riding an invisible bike. Their reflection can be seen in a mirror showing off perfect form of perhaps popping a wheelie. Meme text: "Invisible bike." MEME: A black and white cat is a few inches off the floor in an upright position putting on invisible pants one leg at a time. Meme text: "Invizible Putting pants on."
January 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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KFF is going to be an important resource during this administration.
A screenshot from the article that reads, "The Trump administration has intervened in the release of important studies on the bird flu, as an outbreak escalates across the United States. One of the studies would reveal whether veterinarians who treat cattle have been unknowingly infected by the bird flu virus. Another report documents cases in which people carrying the virus might have infected their pet cats."
January 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I definitely thought I was the only nerd with a Rancho Gordo bean spreadsheet.
A screenshot of a Google spreadsheet of various bean types, uses, and recipe links.
January 27, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Going to their pins, there's nothing like that there. But typing that url in, I definitely see the pin of your dress. Very strange.
A screenshot of Google's Pinterest page of pins.
December 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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A screenshot from the article with text: Virologists around the world said they were flabbergasted by how poorly the United States was tracking the situation. “You are surrounded by highly pathogenic viruses in the wild and in farm animals,” said Marion Koopmans, head of virology at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. “If three months from now we are at the start of the pandemic, it is nobody’s surprise.”
December 23, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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From Wired:
A screenshot from an article with text: "Farmworker advocates say the number of cases in humans is likely underreported, largely because the immigrant and non-English speaking workforce on farms could be reluctant to seek help or may not be informed about taking precautions. “What we’re dealing with is the lack of information from the top to the workers,” said Ana Schultz, a director with Project Protect Food Systems Workers. In northern Colorado, home to dozens of large dairies, Schultz started to ask dairy workers in May if they were getting protective gear and whether anyone was falling ill. Many workers told her they were feeling fluish, but didn’t go to the doctor for fear of losing a day of work or getting fired."
December 15, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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I came across a fella that has mapped out institutional cemeteries (prisons, hospitals, asylums, poor farms). So I try to check them out when I'm in the area. Too often the individual graves are gone and there's just a simple cemetery sign and mowed lot. Sometimes not even that much.

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A very small section of mowed grass with a single tree and a wooden sign that reads "Pine Valley Cemetery." The mowed section is along a road and has cornfields surrounding it and woods beyond that. Across the road used to be a county asylum.
December 2, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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@hahnscratch.bsky.social posted this on twitter awhile back and it stuck with me. I visited a prison cemetery in Iowa this past spring. No prison numbers, but plenty of Unknowns, which breaks my heart. Still in use and being maintained by local prisoners.

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A black arched iron cemetery entry sign that reads Anamosa State Penitentiary Cemetery. There is a white wooden fence and some simple gravestones visible on a hill with trees beyond the fence. The sky is light blue with faint wispy clouds. A cemetery with plain upright markers in rows, some of them slanted from settling over time. The grass is tidy and mowed and the cemetery is bordered by a simple white wooden fence. An old upright maker engraved with "UNKNOWN" is in the foreground, with other upright stone markers of various shapes beyond. All are bordered with a simple white wooden fence in this cemetery.
December 2, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Just staring into the middle distance after reading this astrologer's take from 2006. Written during George W's second term, about our present.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/12...
"Uranus in Aries is going to be the 1960s all over again. The greatest time of upheaval will be between 2015 and 2019, when the square of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn will create the seeds of revolution everywhere. Forces of repression are going to clamp down even harder on those who want to speak their minds. Then, in the years 2023–25, the final stages of the Pluto return and the Capricorn effect will reach a climax. Some astrologers believe that an empire lasts no longer than one Pluto cycle, and by 2025 this cycle will be played out. And no matter how you look at it, the U.S.A. is an empire."
November 12, 2024 at 9:39 PM