Brenda
@operabrendaslp.bsky.social
Team Leader, Collins View Neighborhood Emergency Team (CVNET)
Loves: horses, hiking, gardening, cooking, music, reading, Portland Trail Blazers
Retired Speech Language Pathologist, voice specialty
Opera Stage Director
she/her
Loves: horses, hiking, gardening, cooking, music, reading, Portland Trail Blazers
Retired Speech Language Pathologist, voice specialty
Opera Stage Director
she/her
Oh, come on. I read The Travels of Monarch X when I was 7 years old! They tagged that butterfly and tracked it all the way from Canada to Mexico!
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Oh, come on. I read The Travels of Monarch X when I was 7 years old! They tagged that butterfly and tracked it all the way from Canada to Mexico!
OMG! Even the cats can't escape Pumpkin Spice Season:
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
OMG! Even the cats can't escape Pumpkin Spice Season:
For me it's always the wineglasses. Specifically, these Luminarc glasses that used to sell for about $4.75, and so were in every play and TV show you can think of that called for "nice" wineglasses. Saw them in both Star Trek TNG and in Northern Exposure, for example.
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For me it's always the wineglasses. Specifically, these Luminarc glasses that used to sell for about $4.75, and so were in every play and TV show you can think of that called for "nice" wineglasses. Saw them in both Star Trek TNG and in Northern Exposure, for example.
Your tariffs at work, making your morning coffee "great again":
I bought the coffee on the right in Ireland - 227 grams for $3.17 (1.5¢ per gram); the coffee on the right in the USA - 297 grams for $16.95 (6¢ per gram).
Somehow, not really making my life better....
I bought the coffee on the right in Ireland - 227 grams for $3.17 (1.5¢ per gram); the coffee on the right in the USA - 297 grams for $16.95 (6¢ per gram).
Somehow, not really making my life better....
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Your tariffs at work, making your morning coffee "great again":
I bought the coffee on the right in Ireland - 227 grams for $3.17 (1.5¢ per gram); the coffee on the right in the USA - 297 grams for $16.95 (6¢ per gram).
Somehow, not really making my life better....
I bought the coffee on the right in Ireland - 227 grams for $3.17 (1.5¢ per gram); the coffee on the right in the USA - 297 grams for $16.95 (6¢ per gram).
Somehow, not really making my life better....
If they’re giving it multiple times, they use different versions to reduce retake bias. Here’s an alternate version:
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If they’re giving it multiple times, they use different versions to reduce retake bias. Here’s an alternate version:
Putting my neighbors up for “best deployment of large skeleton in the environment”. They added this guy this year, and I love him.
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Putting my neighbors up for “best deployment of large skeleton in the environment”. They added this guy this year, and I love him.
Pear, raspberry, ginger pandowdy.
It was a great hit:
It was a great hit:
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Pear, raspberry, ginger pandowdy.
It was a great hit:
It was a great hit:
Always enjoy my neighbor's Blazer-centric Hallowe'en display:
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Always enjoy my neighbor's Blazer-centric Hallowe'en display:
What a beautiful lake! We just got back from a trip, mainly on the PCT through northern Yosemite and the Hoover Wilderness. Several stunning lakes (especially Svedberg) but this is my favorite shot from the trip (at Lower Kerrick Meadows):
August 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
What a beautiful lake! We just got back from a trip, mainly on the PCT through northern Yosemite and the Hoover Wilderness. Several stunning lakes (especially Svedberg) but this is my favorite shot from the trip (at Lower Kerrick Meadows):
Anyone else find the flashing highlighter on texts so irritating that you don't watch the video?
Please don't dictate that I read single words are your pace, if you want me to pay attention to what you're saying?
Please don't dictate that I read single words are your pace, if you want me to pay attention to what you're saying?
August 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anyone else find the flashing highlighter on texts so irritating that you don't watch the video?
Please don't dictate that I read single words are your pace, if you want me to pay attention to what you're saying?
Please don't dictate that I read single words are your pace, if you want me to pay attention to what you're saying?
Perhaps the most perfect bumpersticker I've ever seen:
August 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Perhaps the most perfect bumpersticker I've ever seen:
Hello, I am a member of a very rich old family, & these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I am a starship captain who also makes wine,& these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I'm a NASA astronaut who retired to Alaska, & these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I am a starship captain who also makes wine,& these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I'm a NASA astronaut who retired to Alaska, & these are my wine glasses.
July 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hello, I am a member of a very rich old family, & these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I am a starship captain who also makes wine,& these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I'm a NASA astronaut who retired to Alaska, & these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I am a starship captain who also makes wine,& these are my wine glasses.
Hello, I'm a NASA astronaut who retired to Alaska, & these are my wine glasses.
Just bought a used copy of The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (prepping for a production of Jodi Goble's lovely, haunting opera, The Eleanors), & found this inscription inside. What did Ray/Roy do that Sandi's mom scratched them out? How long after she received this gift? So many stories...
July 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just bought a used copy of The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (prepping for a production of Jodi Goble's lovely, haunting opera, The Eleanors), & found this inscription inside. What did Ray/Roy do that Sandi's mom scratched them out? How long after she received this gift? So many stories...
Wildflowers on Mt Hood today
July 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Wildflowers on Mt Hood today
If you don't want me to watch your video, just don't post it. You don't have to go to all the trouble of adding that heinous red cursor to the text (ditto text that changes font size every couple of words - will scroll right by, no matter how interested I was at the start):
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If you don't want me to watch your video, just don't post it. You don't have to go to all the trouble of adding that heinous red cursor to the text (ditto text that changes font size every couple of words - will scroll right by, no matter how interested I was at the start):
Him: We're out of dental floss
Me: Did you look in the Tooth Bin?
Him: Yes, there isn't any
Me (looking in the bin): Did you check inside this 4x6 inch Tupperware that is labelled "Floss & Picks"?
Him: Oh, I didn't see that.
(It is a bit hard to spot)
Me: Did you look in the Tooth Bin?
Him: Yes, there isn't any
Me (looking in the bin): Did you check inside this 4x6 inch Tupperware that is labelled "Floss & Picks"?
Him: Oh, I didn't see that.
(It is a bit hard to spot)
July 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Him: We're out of dental floss
Me: Did you look in the Tooth Bin?
Him: Yes, there isn't any
Me (looking in the bin): Did you check inside this 4x6 inch Tupperware that is labelled "Floss & Picks"?
Him: Oh, I didn't see that.
(It is a bit hard to spot)
Me: Did you look in the Tooth Bin?
Him: Yes, there isn't any
Me (looking in the bin): Did you check inside this 4x6 inch Tupperware that is labelled "Floss & Picks"?
Him: Oh, I didn't see that.
(It is a bit hard to spot)
Just another example for why you shouldn't rely on AI generated search results:
(Lillard and Montero were both on the Blazer's roster in 2015)
clutchpoints.com/nba/portland...
(Lillard and Montero were both on the Blazer's roster in 2015)
clutchpoints.com/nba/portland...
July 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Just another example for why you shouldn't rely on AI generated search results:
(Lillard and Montero were both on the Blazer's roster in 2015)
clutchpoints.com/nba/portland...
(Lillard and Montero were both on the Blazer's roster in 2015)
clutchpoints.com/nba/portland...
Behind the Waterfall
Lower South Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. July 2025
Lower South Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. July 2025
July 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Behind the Waterfall
Lower South Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. July 2025
Lower South Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. July 2025
Put on my Patriotic Regalia for the day:
July 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Put on my Patriotic Regalia for the day:
But this cover definitely gives no clue to the dark world lurking within the pages:
July 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
But this cover definitely gives no clue to the dark world lurking within the pages:
Portland, from Council Crest Park
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Portland, from Council Crest Park
Family of Canadian geese, Metolius River, Oregon Cascades. May 2025. Parents herded the goslings back from the rough water just beyond them.
June 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Family of Canadian geese, Metolius River, Oregon Cascades. May 2025. Parents herded the goslings back from the rough water just beyond them.
Pair of lilac-breasted rollers. Kenya 2009
June 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Pair of lilac-breasted rollers. Kenya 2009
For example, this post from the United Farm Workers. Even the hashtag "We feed You". Not ourselves too, just you.
June 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
For example, this post from the United Farm Workers. Even the hashtag "We feed You". Not ourselves too, just you.