Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦
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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦
@rebeccablood.bsky.social
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Smallholder in the North, Rebel Among Hipsters, former Goth Babe of the Week. Somewhat original.
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These are pretty, too.
Orange mums with yellow centers on a bare to weedy patch of ground.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The game is: save as many flowers as possible before the freeze, and folks, I’m simply out of vases.
Three cases of varying sized containing yellow and bronze football mums, pink and white dahlias, and several stalks of German iris buds.
November 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Wasn’t sure my mums would make it through the cold night, so I brought some in.
Two vases of football mums on a wooden table with two fall-themed placemats.
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Late season bouquet
A green glass vase filled with yellow and bronze football mums, and two red and white dahlias. Stems and leaves are scattered on the counter.
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Me, every morning when I open this website and see the latest.
Sal Frelick standing with hands out, his face purely dumbfounded.
October 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Mums and dahlias.
Red dahlias and golden mums of various types in a green glass vase on a counter.
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Mums and a dahlia.
A vase of golden football mums and one deep red and white dahlia. It stands on a quilted jack-o-lantern mat next to an autumn-themed placemat with a red napkin held by a silver napkin holder. There is a barrister bookcase in the background.
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Volunteer.
In the foreground, a cluster of small white flowers growing in a garden--calico asters. In the background, some larger purple asters, a bit of red cardinal flower, and a metal trellis.
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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All set for tomorrow.
An empty crockpot with an upside-down lid sits on a counter next to a quart jar half-filled with brining garbanzos and a quart jar 1/3 way full of leaven.
September 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Caprese weather.
A red plate with five slices of sourdough bread beneath a larger white plate covered with red tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil leaves scattered on top. Next to the plates are white placemats with a pattern of cheerful autumn leaves.
September 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Isn’t he beautiful?
A close up of a grasshopper sitting on a cement stoop. His front two legs hang over the edge. His back leg is reddish on the top with a yellow and black chevron pattern running up the side.
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The turtlehead is just starting to bloom.
Four bright pink, flat, closed flowers surrounded by green leaves and green buds. Two flowers are a bit opened and have a pink appendage protruding.
August 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Fledged
An empty nest surrounded by fern fronds.
August 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Ye olde bloggers will be thrilled to see this, Maki’s years-in-the-making Big Book, released today and now in my hands. @makiwi.bsky.social was one of the first food bloggers, and I still refer to her online recipes all the time. Go buy it!
A photo of the book “Real Japanese Cooking” by Makiko Itoh
August 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Numerous spikes of cardinal flower in front of a large rock. Behind it are the leaves of an iris, the tall branches of an aster, a sidewalk, a lawn, and a street. A black-eyed Susan is in the foreground on the right.
August 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Bsky serendipity
A screenshot of Bluesky Coldchef: The woman I'm burying outlived 2 husbands and 15 siblings. She pre-planned her funeral in 1986. She's been waiting for this day for a long time. Her first husband was nicknamed "bud." When she remarried, she started calling her new husband "bud." She said "I'm too old to learn a new nickname. Coldchef: She worked at Sam's Club, giving out free samples until she was 80. The only reason she retired is so she could devote herself full time to prison ministry, reading to inmates and helping them learn vocations. William Shakespeare: Fly, fly, fly!
August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I hang ferns in the summer, and every year I’m rewarded with this little miracle on my own front porch. It’s hard to see, but I think they’re about 2 weeks old now.
Gray baby bird heads surrounded by brown and green fern fronds.
August 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The day she rescued him.
3-day old kitten, wrapped in a washcloth, held by a hand.
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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My sister rescued this little fella when he was 3 days old. She’s been bottle feeding him every few hours since she got him, and in the last two days he’s started enthusiastically eating wet food. Today he turned 1 month old. We call him Alpine Joe.
An incredibly cute 3-week old brown tabby kitten, left front leg casually thrown over the side of a box, looking intently into the room.
August 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Picking up my parents’ AARP magazine and
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Big scandals usually first come into view as black holes do. You can’t see them directly. But they exert a mammoth gravitational pull on the things around them. People start doing inexplicable things, acting in what seem like weird and self-destructive ways; people run for the hills for no clear reason or any logical explanation. Like a black hole, the gravity of the scandal has this distorting effect on people and things around it and you can infer the scope and scale by those effects even though you can’t see it directly. This is one of those cases. I don’t know what “it” is. But its force is staggering. It looks like Trump’s actions are self-destructive and inexplicable. But the most straightforward explanation is that these actions are the only option he has. He’s trapped and he’s desperate and doesn’t have any better options.
July 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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...is the same as this:
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. ALl your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
July 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A stalk of light pink and a one of white delphinium buds next to a bamboo stake. Behind them, the edge of a wall, a pot of red and orange celosia, and the back of a bench looking over a hill. There are trees in the far background.
July 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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A tragedy.
The body and half a Black Swallowtail wing lies on a log. The other half of the wing is nearby. Out of focus, the pieces of the other wing lie on the ground.
July 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Four tiny white eggs, a few of them with black speckles, nestle in a little nest surrounded by fern leaves. The house finches have set up housekeeping in one of my hanging baskets. Yesterday there were skirmishes among a number of birds for space in the other one.
July 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM