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Amy Bradstreet
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Lover of home & ritual. Square peg from the wrong side of town. Disabled Covid Resistor. Gardener. Antifascist. Married to a beekeeper. Three cats and a geriatric flock of ducks and chickens. She/Her. Midcoast Maine. 🌲
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My grandmother’s sugar plum house was made in Czechoslovakia. She was born in 1917. This is one my treasures.
The bottom of a cardboard glitter dusted house Christmas ornament that was made in Czechoslovakia.
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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My healthcare center really knows how to put everyone at ease.
A painted wood star at a healthcare center with the words “you are a shinning star” written in crayon on it.
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Our Norwegian Forest cat, Henry, that we adopted at the shelter. We had him for 17 years. He was such a great cat and I wish I had better photos of him on my phone.
An eight-week old gray Norwegian Forest cat ball of fluff sitting on the shoulder of a 20-year old white man who is wearing glasses. A white 21-year old woman cuddling a fluffy Norwegian Forest cat on a sofa. Our Norwegian Forest cat named Henry on one of his creative escapes to the snow covered garden. A senior Norwegian Forest cat named Henry sitting in the kitchen door looking out at the deck. His coat is long and thick and gray.
December 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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It’s going to get down to -9°F tonight so Alex is putting poly over the chicken coop windows. He wasn’t able to get to it before our last two elderly hens put themselves to bed so now they’re scolding him, some. He’s also put a string of mini colored lights up for them. Stay warm, ladies!
Two 7-year old Speckled Sussex hens, each in their preferred nesting box, on a frigid December evening in Maine. They are in bed for the night. The interior of a chicken coop and a man wearing a winter parka is applying heavy duty poly to the windows for insulation. Two 7-year old Speckled Sussex hens, each in their preferred nesting box, on a frigid December evening in Maine. They are in bed for the night.
December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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I have no room in my kitchen but I’m still asking Alex to dig our wedding dishes out of the garage because I miss them.
Green Ivy ironstone dishes from England. Our wedding set from 1994. An ivory ironstone plated decorated in green ivy.
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Yes! A little something Gen X and Millennials will love!
A hunter green dish rack and drain board from around 1994. A set of hunter green dishes from around 1994.
December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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December will be magic again.
A nighttime view of our large balsam tree decorated in white lights in the snow under a not quite full moon.
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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We’re two empty nesters in our 50s who and our house is a Yuletide snow globe. We make the magic.
A Maine farmhouse decorated for the Yuletide season. A Maine farmhouse Yuletide kitchen window. A Maine farmhouse kitchen on Winter Solstice evening. A Maine farmhouse kitchen decorated for the Yuletide season. A man is rolling out dough for a gingerbread house.
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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This is what I mean!
Three large tom turkeys crossing the dooryard of the farmhouse after a day of snow, as seen from the garage camera.
December 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Hey, turkey, good morning!
A single wild turkey in the snowy dooryard as seen from the kitchen window that is decorated with paper snowflakes.
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Thank you so much! We only do this one balsam (until it gets too tall) and the light does look like the birches are lit, too. We have lights on the garage and on our stoop and we put lights in the garland at the front, too. Oh, and the mailbox gets lights.
A gambrel roofed garage in the snow at night decorated with Charlie Brown lights and a blow mold Santa. A cream farmhouse in the snow at Yuletide with single white candles in the windows, a wreath on the side of the house lit by a spotlight and white lights on the stoop rail. A Maine farmhouse on a December night in the snow. The house and garage are lit with festive lighting and a large balsam fir is also decorated with lights. December 2024’s Yuletide kitchen door in the evening. The orange door is decorated with hand cut paper snowflakes. There is a wreath with a bow to the right.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Turkeys in the snow. #Maine #mewx
Wild turkeys under bird feeders in a woodland setting in Maine after a snowstorm.
December 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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We filled all the vintage pottery, and other vessels with paperwhites. This has been our annual tradition for 26 years.
Vintage American pottery in pastel greens, aquas, white, and citron, are filled with crushed marble and paperwhite bulbs for the Yuletide season.
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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We have about 7-inches of snow here so far. #Maine #mewx
First significant snowfall on December 2 in Maine. The big balsam fir in the woodland garden is covered in snow and white lights. It is nighttime, snow is falling, and the river birches are lacy against the dark.
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Jeezum crow, bub. He’s out with the snowblower. #Maine #mewx
A security camera screenshot of a snowy Maine dooryard in the evening. There’s a man with a snowblower at the end of the driveway to the farmhouse that is lit up for the Yuletide season.
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I just ate an antacid that tasted exactly like one of these smell.
A box of vintage Mr. Sketch Water Color Markers
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvan... • 1h Still think some weeks about how Shirley Jackson's bone ash was being gifted to select writers at a convention back in the day. Amy Bradstreet @onbrad... • 9m Imagine my husband's surprise when he was asked to find his 81-year old father's medication and also found his mother's ashes divided into takeout soup containers along with plastic spoons.
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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More examples.
A British home decorated for Christmas with too much dry flammable material near an open fire in the fireplace. A British home decorated for Christmas with too much dry flammable material near an open fire in the fireplace. A British home decorated for Christmas with too much dry flammable material near an open fire in the fireplace. A British home decorated for Christmas with too much dry flammable material near an open fire in the fireplace.
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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It’s definitely not. I do know what I’m talking about, here.
Amanda Cutter Brook’s British home decorated for Christmas with greens and sticks hung in front of an open fire.
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I’ve seen countless British homes decorated for Christmas with so much flammable stuff hanging off the mantle and here’s my question-does fire operate differently there?
A House and Garden UK Instagram photo titled Joyful Christmas Decoration Ideas For 2025 featuring the home of Amanda Cutter Brooks. The sitting room is loaded with books and textiles and lit candles and the fireplace mantle is layered with real garland and large quilted stockings hang in front of open flames in the fireplace.
December 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I should stop cutting at some point.
The inside of a kitchen door with a window covered in handmade paper snowflakes and there’s new snow outside.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Eleven years ago when cut trees were $42.
My photo I took eleven years ago in 2014 at a choose and cut Christmas tree farm. A blow mold Santa and reindeer are next to a white building with red trim and there’s a sign that says “choose and cut trees $42.”
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Alex grows shorter each year. #Maine
A man is dressed in orange and is outside trying to string white lights on an ever taller balsam fir in the woodland garden in rural Maine on the last day of November.
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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We found our trees!
A middle aged white couple in a minivan with their two balsam fir trees for Yule in the back. Both have silver hair, are smiling, and wearing black puffer coats.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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An excerpt from Graham Platner’s Wikipedia page about his career. In 2018, Platner returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, for about six months as a State Department security contractor with Constellis, the private military company formerly known as Blackwater, where he provided diplomatic security to the US ambassador to Afghanistan. (171(101/181 119] He returned to Maine the same year, saying he had quickly grown more disillusioned with the military and what he called fraudulent funneling of taxpayer money to private defense companies. (12][9]
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM