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sheetmulch.bsky.social
@sheetmulch.bsky.social
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Thornbush, sometimes has roses.

50ish, she/her

Currently sick of everything including myself
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Juno of blessed memory, my only cat who didn't mind dress-up.
A black cat wearing a long white draping of torn sheet like a ladies cloak sitting on a narrow wood staircase. She is a ghost lady on the stairs A black cat dressed as batman sitting with ears slightly back, looking sternly into the distance as a batcat should.
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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My favorite peaceful cat in flowers picture, a drink in the shade garden in low angle evening sun.
Cat drinking from a low birdbath in the shade garden
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Squirrels keep nibbling on the winter squash/pumpkiny guys so harvested most. Left a few that are near the house, fingers crossed they remain unchewed because they will be better with more time on the vine.
Prettt good crop considering I planted none of them, these are all the volunteers.
September 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Looking good, heard them all seal, now they sit for 24 hrs before the final check. Canner is the smallest one, only holds 4 of this size jars.
5th jar is a quick pickle (unsealed), will go in fridge to start using in a few days.
5 jars of pickled green beens and cucumbers cooling on a cupcake print dishtowel covered counter.
September 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Current sweater WIP, been calling this one the David Rose sweater. Another flax variation, widened neckline, eyelet band down shoulder/sleeves.
🧶 #knitting #knitsky
A partly knit raglan pullover swester in black and white tweed yard, at the hips it transitions with a few stripes to solid black. Lion simple stitch acrylic yarn.
August 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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More garden snapshots
-morning glory
-zinnia patch
-eggplants
A blue morning glory Patch of different colors of large zinnias in bloom A couple of purple eggplant. Haven't harvested any yet but will need to start soon.
August 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Garden snapshot.
-the front bed, almost no watering needed. Tasseled ones are a weed that pop up there, I just encourage them
-close up of the knotweed
-volunteer yard squash lawn takeover
-tons of mystery squash, pumpkin?
Low water flower bed in front of some shrubbery. Purple russian sage, large patch of curlytop knotweed, the edge of the coneflower patch Close up of the white tasseled hanging flower heads of the curlytop knotweed About 25 feet of squash with giant leaves growing out into the lawn A smallish mostly green pumpkin shaped mystery squash
August 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I'm pretty fucked but he'll stumble in once I'm dead to solve my murder like some body parts tangram puzzle or something.
David Mitchell from BBC Ludwig mystery series. He's an unassuming white bearded guy wearing a corduroy suit jacket with a bunch of pens in the pocket, which is how you know he's the kind of guy who does the crossword in ink.
August 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Today's garden haul includes a fun game of Peppers: hot or not?
I'm guessing. - no, somewhat, yes.
Small collander full of vegetables including cucumber, green beans, parsley, tomatoes, and 3 kinds of pepper: a long green one, long yellow one and short green one. I think 1st one's a sweet jimmy nardello pepper that hasn't turned red yet, 2nd one banana pepper, and 3rd is definitely a jalapeno.
August 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Garden today gave me cucumber 2 ways and the first tomatos! Going to have to go back through my seed packets to figure which tomato it is.
A very long strsight dark green cuke (the china jade) and a coiled light green one (induan snake cucumber), plus half a dozen tomatos. They're big for cherry tomato but smaller than campari, lovely.
August 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Getting some very advanced cat knitting assistance today 🧶
A black cat lying completely in the middle of a sweater knit in progress.
July 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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It is too damn hot for these lap cat shenanigans
Kitto, a black cat, is lying on my lap. I'm wearing shorts becase it's 83 degrees yet he persists.
July 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Garden haul today, lettuce, napa cabbage, green beans, china jade cucumber. All but the cucumber going into spicy green beans over rice tonight
July 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Important cat update: Kitto likes to nap upstairs but alas it's too hot today so he's asleep on the very bottom step.
A black cat streched out sleeping on the bottom step of a steep wood staircase.
July 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Garden snapshots
- a spectrum of bachelor's buttons along the driveway
- the first zinnia
- some volunteer squash I'm letting roam free into the lawn
-beautiful purple eggplant flower
A spectrum of bachelor's buttons along the edge of concrete driveway. Pale cornflower and deep cornflower blue blooms with green lemon balm and morning glory foliage behind. Closeup of a single orange zinnia, the first to bloom. Two different lush green squash plants growing out into the lawn. Not sure what they are, grew from a spot I toss small kitchen veg scraps. A light purple eggplant flower. The stem of the eggplant is a deep purple, and the green leaves wirh purple veins are striking too. Eggplants look very cool.
July 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Two kinds of cucumber, both alike in dignity
2 small cucumbers growing on vines. One is short and fat, the other long curved and spinier.
July 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Finally cool enough mostly for making a quickish soup. Chicken vegetable soup with gnocchi and sour cream.
🍽️🍜 #goodlunch
A bowl of chicken vegetable soup with gnocchi, sour cream, parmesan, dill on top.
July 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Garden snapshots
-some happy yellows: black eyed susan & dill flowers, bonus white cilantro flowers.
- butterfly on the coneflower
-container flowers, blue ensign morning glory, crown daisies
-peppers are blooming yay
A bunch of yellow flowers blooming in a rather chaotic part of the garden., blackeyed susan and dill, plus the yellow green foliage of bolting cilantro. A black and orange butterfly on a dark pink coneflower Porch container with crown daisies, with their concentric circles of white or red yellow and wide brown centers, and white and yellow centered blue ensign dwarf morning glories. A pepper plant with a single white bloom hanging. Can't wait for those peppers!
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Garden snapshots
Finally getting container blooms, sowed from seed directly this year.
-picotee morning glories
-a crown daisy
-the coneflower patch
Pot with picotee morning glories, an intense cobalt blue with white then yellow center eye. Another porch pot with a single crown daisy flower, white with a wide yellow and brown center eye Patch of mostly purple coneflowers, with a few white and red ones
July 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Getting pretty far along on the current sweater project. Another iteration of Flax, but in fingering weight & with panels of zigzag column eyelet down the sleeves.
#knitting #knitsky🧶
Partly knit raglan sweater with eyelet lace on the shoulders in gray and beige light neutral wide stripe. Pattern is modified frim Tin can knits Flax, yarn Lion mandala bonus bundle, color Chewy
July 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Recently discovered they made a movie of J. G. Ballard's Highrise a decade ago (in the normal way, by seeing a movie tie in paperback cover while browsing used books). It's on the free streamers so that's tonight's viewing
Movie tie cover of J.G. Ballard's novel High-risre with Tom Hiddleston looking ominous in front of, you guessed it, a high rise
June 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Is this normal cat stuff
Gordon, a mostly black cat putting both of his grabby paws on my face (for trying to go to bed too early? Who can say)
June 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Garden snapshots:
-the echinacea is about to go OFF
- cilantro is blooming, time to sow more
-yellow calendula, pink globe candytuft (I think from last year wildseed mix) and perennial black bugbane
A large echinacea plant with just one open pink bloom but tons of spiky buds. Lacy blooms and foliage of the cilantro bolting from the heatm yellow calendula, pink globe candytuft (I think from last year wildseed mix) and perennial black bugbane
June 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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3 skeins in on this & can see how it's shaping up. Like the fabric from this yarn, it's quite a smooth feel.
🧶 #knitting #knitsky
Top half of a light brown half-knit tank sweater. Pattern is Drops Caramel Dip, yarns Drops Belle in Forest brown, knitting with size 5s.
June 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Yard snapshots
- looming giant rosebush
- lots of white clover, smells amazing
- a daisy (weed) that grew in the shade but is gonna flower anyway
- Yarrow blossom
Looking up at the skies and tree above an overgrown thornbush covered in pink roses lawn full of white clover A single white daisy blossom poking above some ferns in the shade by a brick wall A single cluster of very pale pink tiny blossoms, a yarrow flower.
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM