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rooie.bsky.social
@rooie.bsky.social
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Retired, sloppily attired, just plain tired...Reader, knitter, crossword enthusiast, and dabbler in watercolors. She/her.
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He’s so sweet. How can I kick him out of my chair?
A grey and white cat is curled neatly into a round ball in the chair I usually sit in…the rascal!
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Frog loves his new long-john’s.

Samesies, Frog, samesies.
Watercolor of a frog, proudly sporting somewhat baggy king-johns. He looks very smug. And warm.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Charlie has such a stressful life.
A grey and white cat is sound asleep with his head tucked up against one of his hind legs. His foreleg is curled around his nose and the hind leg, keeping him in a nice tucked position.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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For everybody...
Close-up of a grey and white cat sleeping. His head is tucked into one of his hind legs and a foreleg covers his nose. You can see a bit of his grey tail under the hind leg.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hustled to Trader Joe’s today as I was dying to try the Horseradish and Dill potato chips. And managed to snag one of the Mystery Bags bags. I got Texas, Minnesota, and, my fave, one praising George Washington Carver, with cookie recipe on the bottom of the bag.
Three Trader Joe’s shopping bags. One from Texas, decorated with boot, armadillo, peppers and a compass rose. One from Minnesota, saying L’Etoile du Nord on one side with a blue cow, and a boot and the seal of the state on the other. On one of the sides it says “Did you bring the hot pot?” The last bag commemorates George Washington Carver and has a recipe for peanut butter cookies on the bottom.
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I call this “Guess what recipe he just found.”
Amateur watercolor - A frog sits cross-legged on the grass, reading a book entitled French cooking. He has a horrified expression on his face.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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71, huh? Doesn’t feel much different than 70. At least I have some gorgeous earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social to celebrate in.
Old lady smiling at the camera. Her earrings are dangly with sparkly blue beads and freshwater pearls.
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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For my birthday, my daughter gave me the set of White Nights paints so I played with them last night. This morning I thought the splooshes looked like clouds a dragon might play in. So…
A page where puddles of granulating watercolors have dried in shades of purples, blues, greys, and pinks. Odd little dragons play among the clouds, painted in the CYS pink metallic watercolors, also gifted to me by my daughter.
November 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Today’s watercolor doodle inspired by my love of hearing Dulaney High School’s marching band practice!
Amateur watercolor of a frog marching and playing a big bass drum. The frog is green and wearing a fancy red hat with a plume. The drum is a matching red. There are small gold accents on the hat and the drum.
October 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I love your guys. These days I mostly feel like this one.
One of Nora’s little glass guys. It’s a moody, marbled gray-blue with applied glass eyes. The eyes here make the guy look stressed and boggled.
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Flowers! These started as just red, pink, and oranges splooshes.
Watercolor of a bunch of red, pink, and orange poppy-like flowers with touches of metallic paint.
October 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Don’t look
A grey and white cat is sleeping with his right forepaw wrapped over his face, covering his eyes.
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Morning, Womble! I’m about halfway through Peter May’s The Black Loch, his newest Lewis mystery. I’ve read at least one of the previous ones, but a long time ago, so the events from the past mentioned here just ring very faint bells.
Cover of The Black Loch. Rather bleak black and white photo of a beach with rocky cliff rising in the distance and a white house perched on that cliff. Birds are circling in the sky. The authors name (in white) and the title (in red) are large and fill the space. In small letter under the title it says “Murder returns to the Hebrides.”
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Aww…he’s got a nose smudge like our Charlie!
A grey and white cat, with asymmetrical face markings and a black spot on his nose stands at attention next to his favorite thing…a box of treats.
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Good morning! I’m reading two at once. The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead - a very Sherlockian locked-room mystery…a little dry.

And From Above by Martin Panchaud, a graphic novel told, well, from above. In symbols. Interesting.
Cover of From Above. Mostly light turquoise with a white edge on the right. Various colored circles with dots in the middle (which represent the people in the story) are scattered over the cover. Under the title it says “An (Info)graphic Novel.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Came to me in the shower this morning. I have no idea why.
Silly watercolor. A top half of a sparkly blue lizard-like alien is seen in the cockpit of his spaceship. Through the view screen, we see black sky, stars, and a planet. He has one hand raised, open and flat. On the hand sits a tiny human, wearing a red shirt and grey pants.
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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If it fits, I sits.
Grey and white cat comfortably curled up in an oval sink.
October 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Time to get this day going, I guess.
Text that reads “Look at you! Being kind of awake and stuff. You are reading words and probably aren’t even stabbing anyone right now! You deserve a coffee, you magnificent little sunbeam!”
October 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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By “flying” do you just mean running around fast? These are the daddy-long-legs I’m familiar with. No wings… though my brother chased me around our house with one once.
Daddy-long-legs, a spider with a small body and, you guessed it, very long legs.
October 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Good morning to you, Womble! I am currently enjoying Mia Tsai’s The Memory Hunters, a dystopian novel with some fascinating concepts and a compelling story.
Cover of The Memory Hunters. The background is the color of dried blood, a deep brownish red. In a diagonal across it is a spray of what looks, at first, like flowers…which you then realize are the bright red cups of mushrooms, nestled in ferns. The title is splashed the title in white, with the author’s name in yellow below it.
October 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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5 a.m. note: I think it’s safe to say that Charlie is feeling comfortable with us.
A grey and white cat is curled up and sleeping on pillows over my head. I, however, am awake and trying to find enough space for my noggin.
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Perfect fall day for my special order sweatshirt from @brat2381.bsky.social . Earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

Obviously I am concentrating too hard on pushing the shutter to possibly smile, too! (And lordie, did I ever inherit my father’s mouth.)
October 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Cartoon drawing of two brown, slightly goofy, rodents. The one on the left is labelled “woodchuck.” The one on the right is wearing a wimple and cross and is labelled “nunchucks.”
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Here is Charlie, next to his favorite thing in the whole wide world. Hint: It is not me.
A bright-eyed grey and white cat sits on a red blanket next to a box of Temptations cat treats. He somewhat impatiently let me trim 7 of his claws with lots of treat reinforcement. My poor punctured legs thank me.
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Finished The Fall of Koli this morning, and yes, I got teary.

Now on to @emilytesh.net ’s The Incandescent. Just read the first chapter. I think this is going to be fun.
Cover of The Incandescent. It’s black with the outline of a phoenix sort of bird in orange with a scattering of gold stars. Title and author’s name in white.
September 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM