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nitabird
@nitabird.bsky.social
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I consider Joe Biden a devil.

I like to garden, sew, cook, write, & play video games. Still masked up. Mom to grown children, and caregiver to my mom & sister.

Zone 5a Illinois.

Gardening is political. Hobbies are political.
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Blurry side eye from this trip. His name is Wilson.
Head and front paws if my great Pyrenees dog. White fur, turned down ears. Side eye.
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Just petting the plants bc I'm in such a foul mood. This is the shelf of audacious hope and small trust in my skills.
10 plants in various hydroponic jars on a very brightly lit shelf inside. Many pepper plants, some basil, and a sungold tomato I couldn't say goodbye to. They are in varying shapes of health, but very green with some fruiting.
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Possibly the last of this type of pepper grown outside this year. Orange Lesya, but I used them green all season. Not prolific, but one is all you need for flavor and moderate to medium spice dishes.
A green pepper in my hand, held over a wood bench. It is rounded on top, coming to a cute point on bottom.
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I want a free grocery store, but until then I finally did this.
Two wood crates stacked on my curbside containing brown bags filled with tomatoes and peppers that I grew. Also a pokemon card I found.
August 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Idk why they gave him this limp pitchfork and he's just crying about it.
Jordan Peterson is very red and with teary eyes in this photo so I drew on devil horns and mustache and pitchfork, but the pitchfork is small and limp.
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Agastache by the solar lights 🎶
A plant illuminated by a solar light. Poor quality photo. Peach-pink spire like flowers.
June 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#NotMyCat
A grey and white cat looking over a small half-barrel pond with plants. In the background are various green plants and some small pink geranium flowers. There is a sign that says "trespassers will be composted," but the cat looks comfortable and unafraid.
June 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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My tavern will be called The Spewing Turtle
Our container pond water pump is connected to a turtle statue. The water exits through its mouth into a container of water next to it. The turtle is placed on a bed of rocks and surrounded by tall grasses and some white and blue flowers.
June 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Gotta show off the failures with an awful snap.
Too tall and skinny brassica seedling. Defining leggy. I think it's kale, but could be Chinese broccoli. Small white flowers atop a spindly skinny stem with a smattering of tiny leaves in a way too small block of soil .
May 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Mine planted with spinach, lettuce, & pak choy. @shayllou.bsky.social is right, they're starting to bolt even in part shade. I do love this planter for greens in spring, but that pepper plan will work all summer.
3'x2' wooden planter box with 3 spinach, 2 pak choy, and 4 lettuce plants. All the shades of green, plus 2 burgundy red romaine.
May 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Needed to go to/from Madison today and took the back roads. No regrets. It was dreary, but the green just jumps out!
A very hilly and roughed up blacktop road surrounded by bare trees with bright green strips of grass to either side. The sky is overcast grey and cloudy.
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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It was a good event, and I'm glad we went. Gratitude to the organizers.
Close up of me- black hoodie, brown hair, black mask and glasses, sitting on pavilion steps with my kid to my left, also brown hair, glasses, and mask.
April 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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At Hands Off Rockford
Small cardboard cybertruck, on fire and self-running over Musk
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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My brassica flat. It's my 3rd year with them, so idk. Lol they look fairly happy.
A rectangular black plastic tray with roughly 40 plants in 18 pots. Deep green and all 3-5 inches high. All brassica family plants like broccoli, kale, and collards.
March 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I have 47 pepper plants now, and will give away about half, which is a little more than I'd planned. Very pleased!
Close up of a rectangular black plastic tray holding 18 square 4 inch pots. Each pot has one pepper plant, except one. 19 smallish bright green pepper plants of 8 varieties. Mild jalapeno, Hungarian yellow wax, sweet banana, shishito, hot Thai, Serrano, poblano, and pepperoncini.
March 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Sara Dady is giving a great know your rights training. Super grateful for this!
Sara Dady addressing a large audience about immigration and rights.
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I'm in Northern Winnebago County at the Stateline Indivisible meeting with a whole bunch of people. Just packed!
A large audience of people listening to Christina Valdez, Winnebago County Board member, speak.
March 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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My first brassica cage. I had hoops last year, and they worked alright. They'll cover something else this year. My son did a lot of the building, which is so lovely. (It is his 21st bday this weekend, holy cow )
A wood cube that is roughly 4x4x4 , less on one side by about 5 inches. It sits in a raised wood garden bed, on top of the soil. It is covered with butterfly netting and poultry wire for squirrels. My garden is in the background, mostly shades of brown, and dried plant matter. Stray plastic pots.
March 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Every year I try an app and wind up here.
My garden planning set-up. A square foot garden guide, my clipboard with graph paper and yellow pencil on top. My seed box is next to it. The graph paper has possible plans to expand my existing garden in front.
February 6, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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This is what I'm working with tonight. Got buy in from my son, so we're adding to the giving garden.
Seed packets displayed on the floor. Mache, tronchuda kale, dino kale, Georgia southern collards, green wave mustard, leek, calabrese sprouting broccoli, early golden acre cabbage. A mix of opened and new packets.
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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I've made five family dinners with veggies mostly provided by this thing since I started on 12/16 with *super* low expectations.

I can see how people wind up with dedicated indoor growing spaces. Not sure how far I'll go in that direction. (Lol)
An overcrowded tabletop hydroponics unit with a large (for me) bok choy growing in it. Other plants are shaded by its deep green leaves, like spinach, chard, and other bok choy.
February 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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This is my first go at this type of system. I planted these 12/16! My intention was to have greens/lettuce in winter and summer and yeah, this works. I'm still learning about the spacing for this, so it's crowded, with some light damage on the romaine in the center.
In center of photo is a black hydroponics unit, basically a rectangular bucket with a lid and plant holes. It has a bright attached light over it. It's filled with 6 inch ish lettuce, bok choy, and spinach. Behind the system is a reflective surface. Surrounded by clutter like hydroponic storage bin (yellow), a replica old timey radio with a small solar panel, and some vegetable cuttings in water for regrowth.
January 14, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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It's dreary, so check out my sexy hydroponic chard.
Very close up picture of a Swiss Chard seedling. She has a robust green leaf, with delicate lighter green and pink-red stems. The plant is in part of a hydroponic system, so sitting in a green topped cup device, inside/atop a matte black plastic rectangular bucket with a top and holes. Other blurry green seedlings can be seen in the background.
December 29, 2024 at 5:01 PM
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Deeper freeze than usual for December, so sad times in the hoop greenhouse. These are surviving plants from summer, so we'll see if they make it.
Inside a plastic greenhouse, with two large pots in focus, both reacting to a deep freeze. One holds droopy parsley that has started to die back to yellow, the other with an unlabeled green, possibly collards or kale, also droopy. They have enough deep green color for me to be hopeful they survive. There is a yellow sunflower solar light in the middle of this pot. Small pot with dead plant between these two large pots is dead lovage, a celery like plant.
December 14, 2024 at 3:21 AM
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I finished sewing up my damaged hoop house zipper 15 minutes before sundown, right before a temp drop. My hands are hurting, but I'm feeling pretty relieved. I chose fishing wire bc it's got to be able to withstand some pretty big winds.
Close up of my plastic hoop style greenhouse zipper. There's a needle threaded with fishing wire stuck into the zipper, so I could take a pic of my progress. The plastic sheeting is clear, with a white grid. The top half is sewn together, the bottom is open.
December 10, 2024 at 12:15 AM