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Rhonda Cates
@rhondacates.bsky.social
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My happy place: interior design, social justice, cooking, dogs and travel. Striving to keep plants alive.
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Vancouver Canucks fan
Living on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueum, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations
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Or if someone hurts his feelings…
A picture of Trump with the headline “Trump threatens “severe” tariffs on Canadian fertilizer “if we have to”.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Dinner tonight watching #canucks Melissa Clark’s anchovy chicken with lemon caper sauce, mashed potatoes and salad. Delish.
#Foodsky #Canucks 🍽️
A white Kate with chicken in an anchovy lemon caper sauce, mashed potatoes and green salad.
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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I will supply the blonde wig and cross!
A meme of Karoline Leavett captioned “I only answer questions that I know the answer to. So I cannot answer any questions”
December 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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“A real one, not a FIFA ass-kissing one” - Pete Souza
#PeacePrize for #Obama
#ParticipationTrophy for #Trump
A picture of President Obama holding his Nobel Peace Prize, taken by WH photographer Pete Souza and captioned “A real one, not a FIFA ass-kissing one”.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Loki’s reaction to the current state of affairs.
#Caturday
A grey and white cat, with his tongue out, laying on a blue plaid blanket tucked inside a box that once held tomatoes.
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Fig popping up to say Hi!
#Caturday
A brown with black stripe kitten named Fig.
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Well, that is only self proclaimed. Some of us in other countries think our country is the greatest country in the history of the world 🤷‍♀️.
While the "best" country depends on the criteria used, recent reports from organizations like U.S. News & World Report and Forbes consistently rank countries like Switzerland, Japan, and Canada highly for a combination of factors including quality of life, economy, and international reputation.
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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While watching the #Canucks game - How it started, How it ended.
#TikkaMasala #Foodsky 🍽️
9 containers, holding salt, tomatoes, smoked paprika, cumin, turmeric, ginger, cayenne, garam masala and coconut milk. A white plate holding a green salad with Caesar dressing and chicken tikka masala along with a lime chutney. All sitting on a brown and black round placemat.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
A book cover “Love in the Time of Cholera” written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Winner of the Nobel Prize. A Parrot appears upside down at the top of the cover and an eye appears in the bottom right side.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly…

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow…
Loved and were loved and now we lie,
In Flanders Field

#LestWeForget
A field of red poppies
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Go Canucks!
#Canucks
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Had some leftover teriyaki sauce that I made last night so teriyaki chicken in the air fryer and ginger, mushroom, bok choy fried rice, for the win. Unlike the Blue Jays 😏
🍽️ #foodsky
A white plate on a black and brown placemat with a teriyaki chicken breast and ginger, mushroom, bok choy fried rice.
October 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Dinner tonight. Teriyaki salmon rice bowls.
How it started, How it’s going.
🍽️ #foodsky
A white bowl containing sections of rice, teriyaki salmon, cucumbers, edamame, radishes, pickled ginger and cilantro. A white bowl containing a mash up of rice, teriyaki salmon, cucumbers, edamame, radishes, pickled ginger and cilantro.
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Enchiladas and salad make for a perfect dinner on this rainy night in North Vancouver. 🫔 🍽️ #foodsky
Chicken enchiladas with sour cream and cilantro on the left and a green salad with cucumbers, snap pea pods, cherry tomatoes, radishes, blueberries and Caesar dressing on the right on a white plate sitting on a black and brown round placemat.
October 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Forever grateful for the lessons of Dr Goodall. May she rest in the power of the primates that showed us how we should evolve as a species. #RIPDrGoodall
Dr Jane Goodall quotes. “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us”. “From the moment I grasped the connection between animal cruelty and the modern human, I never reconsidered”.
October 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Words matter, especially when an important one is omitted. Seen @uhn.ca Toronto General Hospital. Big difference between a successful heart failure program and a successful heart failure “preventative”program…😳
A sign at Toronto General hospital that says “we’ve developed one of the world’s largest and most successful heart failure programs”
September 4, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Sunday morning mood
#FuckCancer
A coffee mug with writing saying “Karma and it’s pronounced haha, fuck you”
August 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Showing off his hat collection just like any other person with the emotional development of a 6 year old.
A picture of Trump showing President Macron and President Zelenskyy his hat collection.
August 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Pizza night! Just waiting for a drizzle of honey and chili flakes.
🍽️ #foodsky
Four pepperoni pizzas sitting on cooling racks on a white countertop.
August 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Looks like a new housing development went up in the last few days in our yard….not sure this was the in the North Vancouver District Official Plan…
#waspnest dnv.org
A deciduous tree with a wasp nest
August 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Oops
😂😂😂
A joke: “My wife texted me a picture of herself in a new dress. She asked if it made her look fat. I texted back Noo… My phone autocorrected it to Moo. I now don’t know what to do”
August 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Hydrangeas in the garden. 🥰 🌱
#plantsky #gardening
Purple hydrangeas Pink and purple hydrangeas Blue and purple hydrangeas
August 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Dinner tonight - dumpling tomato salad with basil, crispy fried shallots and chili crisp vinaigrette. So good!
Hetty Lui McKinnon, NY Time Cooking
#foodsky 🍽️
A white plate on a white countertop with a dumpling, tomato, basil, crispy fried shallots salad and a chili crisp vinaigrette.
August 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Dinner tonight. Fresh BC sockeye salmon with garlic, dill and lemon. Air fried fingerling potatoes and chili crisp green beans, all local. Love summer spoils. #foodsky #BuyLocal 🍽️
Two sockeye salmon fillets with garlic, dill and lemon slices. A white plate on a brown and black round placemat with sockeye salmon (with lemon, dill and garlic), air fryer fingerling potatoes and chili crisp green beans.
July 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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The first of the season Chilliwack corn 🌽. Vacuum sealed in 2 C portions - to be used in “Creamy Corn Pasta with Basil” and “Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs with Spicy Corn”. Recipe links in comments. Both from Melissa Clark, NY Times Cooking. So good!
🍽️ #foodsky #harvestsky
#ChilliwackBCcorn
A black plastic crate sitting on a grey fire pit on an outside patio holding 14 cobs of corn. Seven bags of corn kernels vacuum sealed in 2 cup portions sitting on a white countertop.
July 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM