Ann Tifa
LightNews LightNews
banner
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Ann Tifa
@notangelashafer.bsky.social
81 followers 33 following 260 posts
My interests, and posts, are a hodgepodge. I’m a Democrat who enjoys baking, books, and candle making. I use my dog, Teddy, for likes and post about other dogs who need homes.
Posts Replies Media Videos
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Oh, so #TongueOutTuesday is a thing? Well, Teddy’s got ya covered.

#DogsofBlueSky
#MiniatureSchnauzer
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Wantagh, #NewYork, look at this sweet lady. She’s at Hempstead Animal Shelter and is waiting for her person/people to bring her home. She needs a patient, adult only home. Compassion can do wonders.

Contact info
(516) 785-5220

#DogsOfBlueSky
#animalshelter

More information about Melia👇🏼
Melia is a 3-year-old Terrier Mix. She’s been spayed. Her story isn’t an easy one. She first came to the shelter after being left, alone, in an apartment when her former family moved away. A relative took her in, but she was returned to the shelter. There was an incident in a foster home, and she was, again, returned to the shelter. She needs a stable home, with adults she can trust. She’s at Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh, New York.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Okay, #Pennsylvania, you have a great dog named Pluto just waiting for his people to bring him home.
Go to pspca.org to get more info.

Also, there’s an upcoming adoption event in #Philadelphia on 11/30. Location info for the Philadelphia, Lancaster, &
Danville locations are below.

#DogsofBlueSky
Here is information about an adoption event on November 30th at Pennsylvania SPCA, 350 E Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA It’ll be from 12noon-6:30pm This is the information for the Pennsylvania SPCA 350 E. Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. Phone number (215) 426-6300 Information for the Danville Pennsylvania SPCA office: 1467 Bloom Rd, Danville, PA. (570) 275-0340 The Lancaster, Pennsylvania SPCA office is located at 848 S. Prince St. Lancaster, PA (717) 917-6979
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Good morning, All Good People.

I unwrapped the Barmbrack Tea Bread I baked on Tuesday. Baked bread with lots of raisins in it, butter at the ready, w/a cup of Tea with honey, maple syrup, & vanilla syrup. With all the world’s falling into hell, right now, it’s the little luxuries, ya know?
#BakeSky
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Hello, #NYC Dog Lovers and Cat Lovers, just thought you’d like to know there are currently lots of dogs and cats available for adoption at the NYC Animal Care Center locations, including an upcoming adoption drive in #Brooklyn.

Location Info 👇🏼

#DogsofBlueSky
#CatsofBlueSky
#Dogs
#Cats
#Caturday
There will be a pop up adoption event this weekend at 232 Varet St in Brooklyn The Manhattan, NY Pet Adoption Center is at 323 E 109th St in Manhattan The Queens Animal Care Center is at 1906 E Flushing Ave in Ridgewood, NY The Staten Island, NY Animal Care Center is located at 3139 Veterans Road West The Bronx Animal Care Center is temporarily closed The Brooklyn Animal Care Center is closed, and will reopen in 2026 after renovations
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Exploring my ancestral roots through traditional bakes. I made Barmbrack Irish Tea Bread a couple of weeks ago. It was good, but this one looks better.
Hoping I find the coin for wealth, this time.

#BakeSky
This is a loaf of Irish Barmbrack Tea Bread, ready to go in the oven. It’s got the raisins, and the sultanas (golden raisins), and the currants, it’s got the dough soaked in Barry’s Irish Breakfast Tea. All it needs is a good baking.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Good Morning. Hope your day, and your week, is happy, happy, joy, joy.
And Happy New Moon in Scorpio Week.

I wanted a selfie of me and Teddy, yesterday. And I just have to share this. Look at how cute Teddy is.

#DogsofBlueSky
#MiniatureSchnauzer
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Just finished “We Live Here Now.”

I love a good haunted house story, but a haunted house story with a twist? I cannot recommend this novel, enough.
I first saw it as a recommendation by Stephen King. Turns out that guy knows what makes a great story. Who woulda thunk it? 😉😏

#BookSky
We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough. Very good haunted house story. Highly recommended.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
This morning, I ate a leftovers breakfast. Chicken noodle soup I made on Saturday and bread I baked on Sunday.

My dog, Teddy, watched me eat, after he’d had his own breakfast. When I finished the bread, he walked away. So I know what he wanted. I’ll take it as a complement.

#BakeSky
This is a slice of bread I baked on Sunday. After years of watching “Great British Baking Show,” I study my bakes like a girly Paul Hollywood.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Dogs are the absolute best. They are pure love, even when they’re spoiled rotten.
Ever since I brought my Teddy home, I’ve felt a drive for all dogs (and cats, horses, bunnies, gerbils, hamsters, etc etc) to be safe and well, with their people, because a Soul Dog is a Blessing.

#DogsofBlueSky
This is Teddy, my Miniature Schnauzer, the day I brought him home. This photo was taken maybe a couple of hours after I first held him. He looked so comfy, lying on his back in the grass. There was an immediate connection, and he acted like he knew his person had come to get him. I want all 4-leggeds to know this feeling.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Going through my photo library and found this one. I was in a park, and I saw this tree, with lots of interesting bark texture, so I took this photo, pointing the camera up the tree, against the bark.

If I can do surreal, I’ll do surreal.

#photography
#nature
#tree
I took this photo of a tree. I liked how that one bit of bark flipped out, creating more texture. I positioned the camera to aim from the lower part of the tree up to the leaves at the top. I love taking photos at odd angles to have a bit of disorientation.
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
I started reading “Nobody’s Girl,” Virginia Roberts Guiffre’s posthumous memoir, a couple of weeks ago.

It isn’t an easy read. And that’s before she meets Jeffrey Epstein.

I had to take breaks from it, because it is horrific. But, as hard as it is to read, it’s so much worse to….🧵

#BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Uh, yeah. Follow the link to find an event near you, marked by a dot on the map. Shouldn’t be a problem.

Stay safe, Brothers and Sisters. We have each others’ backs. I send Love to you all.
The map shows all the planned No Kings events in the lower 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Each dot is a planned event. It looks like one big dot. People are angry.
October 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Blue reminds me of my boy, Boo. This was him being greeted by my Golden Retriever, Gracie. Boo ended up being 110lbs of gentle giant.
Boo, my solid black Golden Doodle, as a puppy, when he met my Golden Retriever, Gracie. They’ve both crossed the Rainbow Bridge, and I miss them, but, even more, I’m so happy to have been lucky enough to have them.
October 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Happy Schnauzer Day to all the Minis, Standards, and Giants. My Teddy says hello to all the Schnauzer pet humans.
September 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
#Home isn’t always where you’ve ever lived, but it’s the place where you feel like your heart is all around you. For me, that place is Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
It’s a town for the Artists, the Hippies, the Spiritual, the outcasts, where Beauty is never ending and all are welcome.

#BlueSkyArtShow
At Lake Leatherwood, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Big Foot sits on a bench, breaking it under his massive booty. But we love him. In Eureka Springs, Arkansas, there are many places to hike. This was when Autumn was just starting to turn the colors to mustard and sage. The trees are thick on the hills. So peaceful and beautiful. At Lake Leatherwood, there are lots of trees on the hills in the Ozarks, but it was the plants growing out of the water that made me take this photo. At Lake Leatherwood, I saw a huge leaf, at the water’s edge. Water pooled in the leaf’s crevices moved with the ripples.
September 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
I’m originally from Dallas, so my roots grow from big city concrete and traffic jams. The first time I saw a deer, I thought I’d been transported to another universe (to be fair, it was in Kansas, so it was kinda another universe).
Never really got over that feeling.
#photography
#nature
While out and about, I saw three deer come out of some trees. They were probably a family. They went up a nearby hill, to the road. Thankfully, they had the good sense to not risk it. I’m originally from Dallas, a city girl. I used to think deer were just in the movie “Bambi,” so any time, anywhere, I see deer, it fascinates me.
September 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
I’d tried, for days, to find the angle, the positioning the objects, the filter to capture how I wanted this still life to look.
I’d assembled things that are symbolic of me: my Native purse I carried at pow wows as a kid, a neo hippie lamp, a Victorian tea kettle, for a #stilllife #photo titled…
This is a black and white photo still life I took, months ago. I titled it “Selfie,” because it’s things that represent me: the beaded purse my mom made for me to carry at Native American pow wows when I danced as a kid, a hippie-style lamp, and a Victorian era tea kettle where the kettle is over a candle holder so the flame warms the tea.
September 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Found a baby #bird, this morning, on the ground, lying in its back in the direct baking Sun. I made a makeshift nest out of a planter and hung it in the tree the bird fell out of.

I checked on it and saw a white shiny something I got video of. Anybody know what that is?

#wildbird
#baby
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Funny trick to the eyeballs, this morning, while out to get #photos and video. Out in the country, I passed something that strangely looked like a child in a white shirt bent over. I turned around to check and, as I got closer, I saw it was hay sticking out of a white sack. 😆😅

#photography
#nature
June 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Didn’t think to look inside the envelope. This is more information about Puppies Behind Bars’ mission and how donations are spent.
This is further information about Puppies Behind Bars and how donations are spent, such as $10 buys toys for a new puppy, $100 can buy food for a dog for a month, $850 pays for veterinary care for a puppy for a year, $450 buys preventive flea and tick medication for a year. The program’s mission is to train incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs. The puppies enter the prison at 8 weeks and live with their raisers for about two years. The dogs are well-loved and are ready to help those in need. The incarcerated individuals give back to society. It’s a win for so many.
June 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Puppies Behind Bars is an amazing organization that trains incarcerated individuals to raise Service Dogs for Wounded War Veterans, First Responders, and law enforcement.

The incarcerated individuals benefit by giving back to society.

Dogs are the best.

puppiesbehindbars.com

#DogsofBlueSky
This photo is incarcerated people training dogs in the Puppies Behind Bars program. They train Service Dogs for Wounded War Veterans, First Responders, Police Dogs, and Explosive-Detection Dogs. I shared this because I support Puppies Behind Bars and wanted to spread the word. Also, dogs are the best. The Puppies Behind Bars website is puppiesbehindbars.com.
June 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
Happy Pride to All the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community.

From an Ally, it’s difficult to articulate my feelings about what I’ve learned from my 2SLGBTQIA+ friends & family, but what it boils down to is Truth, Courage, and Love.

On a side note, the best hugs I’ve ever had was at Pride.

#LoveIsLove
#LoveWins
This is a guide to Pride…flags. Each flag is named with a description above the flag image. This is the 2 Spirit flag. Two-Spirits are part of the traditional Native community who embody male and female energy.
June 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
I’ve been doing the Plant Mom thing for a while, over two decades. No matter where I’ve bought plants, I always expect them to be root bound.

But I have never seen one this bad.

Always repot your #plants, as soon as you can. You never know how trapped their source of nutrients are.
I bought this Spider Plant, and, when I repotted it, I saw the worst case of a root bound plant I’ve ever seen. The roots had not only wound around themselves, they had grown around an insert in the bottom of the pot. I had to carefully remove the roots, without cutting or breaking them, to remove the insert. After I removed the insert the roots had grown around. The roots were still tightly wound because they had no room, in the pot, to grow like they’re supposed to.
May 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
notangelashafer.bsky.social
From the Vault: I took this #photo during the Eclipse a year ago. ‘Twas quite an experience to be able to take a photo of the Sun. #photography #nature #eclipse #lightandshadow
I took this photograph of the Solar Eclipse a year ago. The sky had become an odd sort of gray. Everything had a sort of grayish filter and all became quiet. I would have loved to be where the total eclipse was, but this was an amazing experience, as well.
May 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM