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Steff McKenney
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RJM. Pedestrian roadrage. Food motivated. Scrabble is bloodsport, wrestling is the rest. Not from here nor there, now US-based. Taller than your mom’s mom.
The Creation Of Adam

(Fresco, ca.1508-1512, Michelangelo)
November 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Bumming around downtown like a certified tourist. There are many, many worse places to live.
November 14, 2023 at 9:34 PM
This birder is pretty excited that Maine’s standard-issue license plates feature two of her favorite things:

pine trees and chickadees.

(Hey - it rhymes, to boot!)
November 6, 2023 at 5:52 PM
Two short weeks ago; but considering the now-established hard frost and bare trees, feels like it happened last year.
November 5, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Let me get right into a crawlspace beneath groundwater level and soak up all these glorious forever chemicals and other toxic hazards.
November 1, 2023 at 12:06 AM
I’m reading about EPA Superfund sites (large, hazardous areas being cleaned up through federal- & state efforts).

Knowing this whole place can ruin your health forever, tell me this small segment of one such site (Kittery/Portsmouth Naval Shipyard) isn’t straight out of a horror script:
November 1, 2023 at 12:03 AM
I’ve seen some weird eBay shit over the years, but finding fragile ornaments SHIPPED in just a Kirkland tissue box is a new one.

They… they really just jammed the ornaments through the slot, stuffed a supermarket flyer on top, taped it up and then affixed their CUSTOMIZED ADDRESS LABEL 😭
October 25, 2023 at 10:41 PM
Five days’ wild growth.
This year is way, way beyond nuts.
October 24, 2023 at 8:10 PM
The Disney movie Bedknobs & Broomsticks, as marketed in Germany:

DIE TOLLKÜHNE HEXE IN IHREM FLIEGENDEN BETT

(The foolhardy witch atop her flying bed)
October 24, 2023 at 6:40 PM
Savoring these final days of waning foliage with my morning coffee. It’ll be snow shoveling season soon enough.
October 24, 2023 at 3:42 PM
These dugs, every single second I do not spend loving on them:

._-~ THE SADNESS ~-_.
October 23, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Seven years ago:

Went on a RIDICULOUS 30h journey on a whim (three planes, four trains, six buses, two taxis, one lighting strike, one cow on the tracks), because life felt dead-ended.

I have since switched continents, lives, careers and gotten married to the reason for that journey.

Life: wild.
October 22, 2023 at 3:24 PM
No such thing as a bad autumn morning in Midcoast.
October 21, 2023 at 1:40 PM
Stroganoff, anyone?

(These grow in 3-5 lbs clusters on our property; my whole damn hand is SOMEWHERE underneath that fungus bouquet.)
October 20, 2023 at 7:09 PM
Got a stack of old basset hound magazines; those names are something else [chefskiss.gif]
October 20, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Never getting over THIS being my neighborhood view now.

We’ve come a long way from slag hills, chimney stack skylines and cabbage-fart tenement homes, honey.
October 19, 2023 at 5:39 PM
30+ years of having a visceral reaction of utter repulsion to these Todd Masters Oh Lantern! pumpkins.

There’s not much on this planet that disgusts me like these guys do.
October 18, 2023 at 6:46 PM
Hello.

I love them.
October 15, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Four* mile aftermath.

[*4 miles for Charlie, 2.5-ish for Poppy and her tiny wee legs. She gets carried intermittently, especially when we break through brush or bog. Small Dog Perks.]
October 14, 2023 at 6:02 PM
Come leaf-peeping with us.
October 14, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Being this majestic should be illegal.
October 14, 2023 at 2:02 PM
My first-ever American warbler!

That’s a yellow-rumped ♀

(This is how I learned there’s no video upload on bsky… oops.)
October 13, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Were you aware that pet groomers have an incredible new tool
to aid the ‘muzzling’ of
irate brachycephalic cats?

BECAUSE I WAS NOT.
October 10, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Family nap time after a night of shoring up culverts and sandbagging the brook (well, the dogs slept through the whole thing, but y’know…).
October 8, 2023 at 11:08 PM
After hurricane Lee recently, nobody really worried about last night’s tropical storm.

Holy shit.

Roads flooded, culverts overflowing, our midcoast lifeline Rt1 and its arteries washed out in places.

This is so much worse than the inches fallen would indicate.
October 8, 2023 at 3:51 PM