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Joe 🏊🍺✨
@j2woolums.xyz
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gen x midwest kid in the south
nature, family, kindness & love

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The grill stayed hot for a while Sunday afternoon/evening - smoked chicken and apples for dinner tonight 🐓🍎🧀🫘🍺 and smoked sirloin tip roast (beef) to use later this week 🥩 are What's Cooking 🍽️ here.

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
upper left: chicken breasts and honeycrisp apples smoking on a charcoal grill. apples are seasoned with brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter. upper right: apple, baked beans, chicken, and cheese (cheddar and colby-jack) on a red plate. a glass of homebrew pumpkin ale is next to the plate. lower left: sirloin tip roast (beef) smoking on a charcoal grill. lower right: smoked sirloin tip roast sliced on a cutting board.
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Flavors of fall are What's Cooking 🍽️ here for a different twist on my usual breakfast - half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on top 🍂

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Half a toasted bagel with spiced pumpkin goat cheese, dried figs, and smoked salmon on a small blue plate. A coffee cup is next to the plate on a wooden table.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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With cool autumn weather in mind 🍂 chili and cornbread are What's Cooking 🍽️ here tonight, accompanied by pumpkin ale homebrew 🍅🫘🌶️🫑🧅🧀🌽🎃🍺

#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
Homemade chili in a green bowl with melted cheese on top. Cornbread on a small blue plate, a bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce, and a glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer are next to the bowl on a wooden table.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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In celebration of autumn 🍂 Pumpkin Ale is What's Cooking (Brewing) here 🍽️🍺 This amber ale began by steeping pumpkin puree with malt to convert pumpkin starches into fermentable sugars 🎃🫧, and finished with a bit of pumpkin pie spices 🥧😋

Cheers! 🍻
#beer #homebrew #BskyBeer
A glass of homebrewed pumpkin ale beer sitting on a wooden porch railing. The ale is amber in color and has a frothy head. Three small pumpkins sit on the railing next to the glass. A forested ridge is visible in the distant background.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Another rainy lunchtime lap swim here 🏊🌧️

Not a problem, though. This outdoor pool is heated (look close and you might see steam rising from the water). And the feeling and sound of raindrops keeps it interesting 😁

#swimming #fitness
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool on a rainy day. Ripples from raindrops are visible on the surface of the water in the foreground, and steam can be seen rising from the water due to the cool air temperature. The black lane marker line is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, wall of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I enjoyed reading Hit The Floor by @dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social 😊

Mystery and drama, along with some humor and relatable characters, plus a feel-good ending ☺️

⚡📚💙
#BookSky
cover of Hit The Floor by dawnruhnaybrown
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I feel like I can relate to this avatar - watching all the vibrant creativity going on here, and even being inspired a bit myself 👀✨

Thanks @graze.social for helping folks do cool stuff!
Image clipped from Graze Social's new brand artwork. Clipped image shows a little white character with a pointy nose sitting on something that looks like a leaf, watching all the thriving creativity going on at the top of the scene.
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Some of my favorite moments while swimming are the few seconds each time I push off the wall for backstroke. Looking to the sky from underwater, light bending and dancing through the moving surface - it always seems magical 🏊🌤️🌊✨☺️

#swimming
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Rejected by the harshest critics 😭 My kids did NOT appreciate the pumpkin spice pancakes I made this morning 🎃🥞🍂🍽️

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pumpkin spice pancakes cooking on a stovetop griddle, with finished pancakes stacked on a plate in the background
October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Being able to swim outdoors year-round is really cool 😎

The pool where I swim has a vestibule with stairs to allow entry into the pool without being fully exposed to cold or rainy weather on the deck.
View of interior stairs providing access to outdoor swimming pool from a glass-enclosed vestibule. The outdoor pool deck and swimming lanes are visible through the windows of the vestibule.
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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commitments in the office kept me from my usual lunchtime lap swim today 😮‍💨

but I made it to the fitness club after work and had the entire pool to myself 😁🏊

#swimming #fitness
View just above the surface of an outdoor swimming pool under a cloudy evening sky. The water is still with slight ripples on the surface in the foreground. The black lane marker line is visible on the bottom of the pool, and lane lines are at the surface on both sides of the lane. The pool deck, lounge chairs, wall of the fitness club building, trees, and nextdoor office building are visible in the background.
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Cedar plank salmon is one of my favorite things to cook on the grill 🐟♨️☺️ and grilling seems to intensify the flavor of these lemon slices too 🍋😋

This is What's Cooking 🍽️ here tonight. Wishing a wonderful Sunday evening to all you Bluesky friends 💙🫶

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
top: salmon fillet with lemon slices on top, cooking on a cedar plank on a Big Green Egg charcoal grill bottom: grilled salmon fillet with lemon slice, salad, and pasta on a green plate sitting on a granite countertop; a glass of SweetWater India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed in Atlanta, GA (USA) is next to the plate
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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got a bit messy with the glaze on the second loaf 😁🎃🍞🍂🍽️
one and a half loaves of pumpkin bread on a wire rack, with sugar glaze drizzled on top
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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made some pumpkin bread about it ... better now 🎃🍞🍂😋😉

(need to work on my technique for drizzling the glaze, though 😆)

🍽️
#WhatsCooking #FoodSky
loaf of pumpkin bread, still warm and cooling on a wire rack, with sugar glaze drizzled on top and a few slices cut
October 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Bees are busy with the goldenrod here 🌱🐝

#WildflowerWednesday
#BloomScrolling
bees visiting some goldenrod at our place in northwest Georgia (USA) zone 8a
October 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Nothing fancy here tonight - just hamburgers on the grill 🍽️🍔🍺

Wishing you all a happy Sunday evening 😉

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
top: smoke rolling out of a Big Green Egg charcoal grill while hamburgers cook on Sunday evening; a plate is on the shelf to the right of the grill, a SweetWater Brewing glass and University of Illinois spatula are on the shelf to the left of the grill. bottom: grilled hamburger topped with a slice of cheddar cheese on one half of a bun, tomato slice and spring mix greens on the other half of a bun, baked beans, and French fries on a plate; a glass of SweetWater Tropical High Hazy India Pale Ale is next to the plate.
September 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Good morning from the great outdoors 🏕️
Sunrise through the trees at Cloudland Canyon State Park (northwest Georgia, USA)
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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I had the pool all to myself for my lunchtime lap swim on this cloudy day 🌥️🏊😊

#swimming
Peaceful midday scene of an outdoor swimming pool under a cloudy sky.
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Is it chili 🌶️ season yet? Because chili and cornbread are What's Cooking 🍽️ here this evening 🍅🫘🥩🫑🧅🧄🌶️🍺

Steak grilled ♨️ Saturday night (while listening to the Farm Aid broadcast 🎶🎵) went into the Crock-Pot with the rest of the ingredients on Sunday.

#WhatsCooking #BBQmunity #FoodSky
top: chili in a green bowl and cornbread on a blue plate, with a glass of Sweetwater Daytrip IPA next to the bowl. chili ingredients include grilled steak, tomatoes, beans, yellow and orange bell peppers, Vidalia onion, garlic, and various spices. bottom left: Big Green Egg charcoal grill cooking steak for chili. bottom right: finished chili in a Crock-Pot slow cooker.
September 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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You can find Saved posts using the menu on the left side of the screen.
Screenshots with mark-ups for the Save button at the bottom of a post, and Saved posts in the menu on the left side of the screen. Screenshots are from the Bluesky app for Android.
September 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Belgian Tripel is What's Cooking (Brewing) here 🍽️🍺 - a light but strong ale 🪶💪🫧 thanks to a double helping of light malt and extra sugar. Perle and Saaz hops give fruity & spicy touches.

Proost! / Santé! 🍻
#beer #homebrew #BskyBeer
Belgian Tripel homebrew beer. This beer combines a double portion of Golden Light malt extract plus corn sugar (in lieu of candi sugar 🤷) with German Perle and Czech Saaz hops, and ale yeast Top picture: a finished brew in a glass on a porch railing. An empty twelve ounce bottle and bottle cap opener are next to the glass. In the background is a late afternoon view looking west towards a ridge in northwest Georgia. Bottom left picture: boiling wort in a pot on the stove. Bottom right picture: wort in a one gallon fermentation jug ready to begin primary fermentation.
September 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I enjoyed reading The Flow by @amyjanebeer.bsky.social 😊 Descriptions of flora, fauna, and geography let me imagine being among landscapes and waterways of Britain. Cultural context, social commentary, and personal experiences underscore connections between people and nature 🏞️

💡📚💙
#BookSky
cover of The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer
September 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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🤣 I sent this text message while I was at Costco last night
text message that reads "They have pumpkin cheesecake 🤤🤤🤤 I'm not getting it, but I just had to tell someone about it 😋"
September 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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What's that you say - without pictures it didn't happen (again)? Okay, okay - here ya' go 😁
top: getting ready to cook on a Big Green Egg charcoal grill - peppers, onions, and steak on the right shelf (foreground), and cooking utensils, olive oil, and beer on the left shelf (background). A cast iron skillet is heating on the grill (center). bottom left: cast iron skillet with orange and red bell peppers, and Vidalia onion cooking on a charcoal grill. bottom right: dark blue plate with finished Philly cheesesteak egg rolls, herb seasoned rice, and salad. a glass of Sweetwater Blue blueberry wheat ale is next to the plate.
September 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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jealous in GA 😮‍💨

did you have to get a prescription to receive your vaccine?
screenshot of Costco app showing a list of states where a prescription from a medical provider is required before Costco will administer a COVID-19 vaccine
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM