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(they/she) Average social science doer, DIYer, cat lady, and occasional poster of frustrated local politics comments. Some know me as a digital public archaeologist. Personal account. Very tired, as portrayed by Muffin the foster cat.
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precatlady.bsky.social
Yes it's dirt bike OBVIOUSLY
Picture of a stripey cat passed out with belly in the air and double chin prominently featured
July 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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I have so many cherries but they're so high up I need that bigger ladder asap
The top of a full-size Rainier cherry tree loaded with blushing white/red cherries up super high
June 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This has made everything better btw. Many plants thriving and seeds germinating! Also thriving for the first time after many tries: nasturtiums! Three varieties: Vanilla something, Phoenix climbing variety, and Empress of India
Close up of the corner of a wooden raised garden bed totally covered in different nasturtium leaves of greens and purples, with three distinct colors of flowers all in bloom, from beige with orange inner spots, to stringy looking bright orange, to deep red
June 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Have to get off here since my phones dying but here's another cute plant, it's a shade phacelia and it looks extremely fuzzy but it's actually more stiff and prickly if you touch it
A fuzzy quadrant of teardrop shaped leaves with deep crevices, almost like a cartoon they're so stereotypically leaf shaped, and fuzzy. At the center of the leaves at the talk of the (not visible) stalk is a round fuzzy ball of the exact same color.
May 28, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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This puffy cluster is the flower of a meadowrue... It is supposed to be a western meadowrue but it is not clear whether it actually is, will have to watch for seed pods
A cluster of little white puffy balls close up, floating above a background of blurry greenery and a rock and a fence
May 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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This is one of the native checkermallow plants for this area, it's called Cusick's checkermallow, and it is humongous
Tall green stalks stand erect with knobbly round things at the top and little skinny green leaves every few inches going up. A few of the stalks have pink papery flowers popping out the sides from the little knobbly bits, just a few at a time. A shot of the LARGE tall plant from afar showing the dozens of stalks and waist height
May 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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This is an alpine plant called Lewisia longipetala and it seems to love this rock crevice!
Little green tuft of spear-shaped leaves nestled between two rocks bursting with pink striped flowers with 8 petals each
May 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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IDK how to post on the garden feed but here's some cool flowers from this week, starting with PEONIES!!!
Side view of ethereal fluffy pink peony petals accented with bright white light reflecting off them A mostly open pink peony flower very ruffled and densely packed with petals A fully open pink peony flower with loose outer petals and a dense middle almost like a baseball made of little flaps
May 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Strudel fans, I expect you will be delighted to hear that she has begun prompting me to play with a fishing pole style toy almost daily by standing next to it politely, after which she does wild acrobatics. I have attached an action shot.
A mostly white cat jumping into the air creating a blur
May 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
The time has come for lichenposting
Yellowish green shaggy fern moss, flat dark colored cushion moss, and tiny blue green pixie cup lichen on a rock, surrounded by lots of brown crunchy leaves Another angle of lichen and moss spottily attached to the same rock
March 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Hey Nathaniel get on my level
Fresh new white power strip mounted with zip ties on the side of a bamboo storage rack, each outlet with a smart switch lit up next to it showing that it's a "smart" wifi enabled outlet, labeled 1 through 6, with a tidied jumble of cords all around. Two of the items plugged in are heat mats with thermostats, one facing the camera, showing 63.5 degrees F for one of the trays. Behind that is a thin, flat LED grow light hanging.
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I took a photo of my situation but left out the electrical panel (right next to this) and the other dangly bits and fan that aren't plugged in cuz ran outta places
A slatted bamboo multiple shelf unit with a grow light and heat mat plugged to a crappy three-prong, three-outlet extension cord resting on the top shelf, which is dark because its light isn't able to be plugged in
February 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
What a thrilling life /gen
A wood table top with a black plant starting tray covered with a plastic dome with lots of little label tags sticking up inside, a smaller wood box with patches of different colored wood veneer on top sitting next to it - the box I just described organizing my seeds in
February 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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The categories are arranged from front to back roughly by sowing time. Sources I've use multiple reference points for when to sow seeds, mainly either calendar date in relation to est. last frost or soil temperature minimum.
Individual card file made of wood, open to show a dozen or more dividers labeled with the timing and location of seed starting conditions ("early spring start indoors") with uneven, rumpled packets between them just out if sight
February 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
Who needs a juicy drumstick
A sleepy striped kitty with a slightly round belly laying on a squishy orange blanket on top of an office chair, extending a juicy little hind leg and clinging to the blanket with a front paw
February 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Doesn't seem to be worried about it tbh
White cat sleeping belly up in soft bed while human holds one of her front paws
January 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
precatlady.bsky.social
I am playing Mucinex chicken today it seems!!! Living dangerously!
A pale hand holds up a container with 1 remaining pill, while holding the only other remaining pill. Exactly 24 hours worth of expectorant medication left. There's a striped cat playing in the sink blurry in the background.
January 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
precatlady.bsky.social
Great news I forgot there's also DONKEY BABY PICS
Black and white blurry night vision camera footage shot from the floor of a bathroom, where a black kitten holds a spring toy in its mouth and stretches out a paw ahead of himself, while playing on a soft cotton blankie
January 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts. If you don't watch it with your own eyes, you rely on others to tell you what you saw. We must all bear witness to what's coming.
A blue snail with a purple skull as its shell, sitting on a cluttered antique store shelf, positioned so the snail looks like it's staring directly at the camera
January 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
Proof of repeat offense:
A white cat with a black tail (and a white tail tip) sits on a wood floor staring at a white plastic puzzle made up of various plastic protrusions meant to challenge cats to work for their treats. She has one paw in swift motion, blurry in the image, ready to poke at some delicious grass treats.
January 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
precatlady.bsky.social
Preparing for the January/February seed order and not missing the potato selection opportunity by tucking into this book I got myself for Xmas
Photo of a book cover resting on the arm of a fabric chair. Book has the following words on it: "growing vegetables west of the Cascades, 35th anniversary edition, the complete guide to organic gardening, Steve Solomon and Marina McShane, completely revised"
December 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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My friend of 20 years found a squishy hand warming muff that has my exact energy
A giant plush slice of toast with an angry little face on it, little rosy cheeks, tiny arms and dangly legs, and a hole all the way through it for your hands which is not visible
December 26, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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Oh, you are a soap enthusiast? I have great news for you! I do in fact have space under my bathroom cabinet four not one but two soap pumps and space for you to use your hand to pump them. How fortunate!
A white rectangular cabinet with a mirror mounted on a greenish wall above a white sink. The back of the sink has a variety of toiletry items on it and 6 inches of space above them.
December 25, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Good thing I tried this the day before instead of pushing to do it all in one morning... now the route part is tricky cuz I think I need to install a variety of python shit on my desktop when I previously didn't do that cuz l was using a different computer 🫠 why can't the plugin just go thru qgis
A map of the wide Portland Oregon region with color blocked geographic zones roughly chunking out the space and roughly 200 yellow points representing all the places I need to find a delivery person to bring toys to.
December 10, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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It's called a "sparkle girlz unicorn" and its hair needs some TLC. ALSO it retailed for 4 dollars at the local grocery store chain.
A little white pony with frosted lavender toes for whatever reason, and a tangled pink sparkly mane, laying on a battered wooden table after a long two days of being threatened with beheading by The (Wo)Man
December 7, 2024 at 7:19 AM