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Patricia Swarbrick 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦
@swarpat.bsky.social
The difference between declaring and being honest and up front is in what you do.

People make up stuff all the time about who people are. Just remember it’s their choice to think that way. If they’re wrong, they’ll either figure it out or not.
The Grey #Jackrabbitis in the wallow this afternoon. Yes, it snowed.

#rabbits #bunnies #wildlife
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The brown-eared #Jackrabbit is back in the wallow. More of their fur has changed to white.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Call me weird, but having a bunch of recognizably white hair in my very dark hair is actually very appealing to me.

Why? I like the age streaks, and my dark hair is thin and not suited to bleaching so dying my hair just doesn’t work out.
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#caturday From the archive, begging for treats
#cats

BTW they were both micro-chipped and licensed with the city and never went outside without an escort, so no collars required. The black and white was agoraphobic anyway. She was afraid of the sky, always had to have something over her head.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Casual doodles. Haven’t done these since High School

#Dooodle
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I made enough of these spiky balls to probably be characterized as this one.

(Yeah they are Christmas ornaments, made from 30 folded squares of paper)
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Old Photo, just Tesla🌈 and Murphy🌈 wrestling with each other.

#Cats
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Just trying out making clip compilations. Still haven't gotten around to learning sound edits. The subject of this compilation is Tesla🌈

#cats
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
More snow video, this time a light snow at a train platform, looking at the LED light show art installation
#Art #LED #Transit
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Old video, just a reminder of #winter
#SnowStorm
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tesla (2005-2024) and Murphy (2005-2017)

Murphy saved me from a suicide attempt - she would not leave me alone.

Tesla was an incredibly clever girl who converted my spouse into a cat lover, and figured out all sorts of different ways to communicate including getting huffy when we were not prompt.
November 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Had an old video I made of ducks flocking from many years ago, just after harvest.
#ducks
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The local Jackrabbits seem to really like loafing in our yard. The one from yesterday seems to have gotten his little wallow usurped by a more grey and white rabbit which is a little better camouflaged.
#Rabbit #jackrabbit
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The resident jackrabbit has switched over to their winter coat. There is only a small bit of brown/orange hair on the top of the head.
#Jackrabbit #Rabbit
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yeah… I just went out to a little bit, and yet I still get a Raynaud’s reaction. It’s not even below 0c here!

And this is the second time today.

Typically it’s in the ring fingers first, this time it’s the thumb.
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I have video of this little prank I made for a friend and coworker who had gone on a much needed vacation. I'll post it later.

The light frames actually had a lighting control and cycled through the colour spectrum. Our boss thought it was hilarious.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
And you gave me the motivation to make this for lunch. Ty!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have a preliminary recipe for the #GlutenFree ginger #cookies. I think the next batch I’m going to use 4 egg whites instead of 5.

Use the alt text description for the #recipe details

Have to check if the spices cancan get cross contaminated with gluten during processing. Maybe not?
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I dug up a very nice sequence of couch snuggling I forgot I had. #Cats

Was looking to do something else, but I have to do some sort of facial blur stuff and I have nearly zero video editing training. I never learned how to in high school or college
October 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Well, put too much batter down per cookie for the first batch. Ended up with one big cookie.

Did better portion control on the second batch.

They are nice and chewy. A little bit sweeter than I expected but very tasty.
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’m experimenting with making a gluten-free ginger cookie today out of blended pecans. Might have a bit too many liquids in it because I wasn’t sure about the substitution ratio of icing sugar to molasses plus liquid reduction.

Hopefully it turns out!
#baking
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Second attempt at making coffee without a coffee machine turned out way better. I used a metal filter to hold the grounds and slowly poured boiling water through it.

Added a bit of ice to the brew to cool it down.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Something one of my nieces drew. She said it was a fish! So I'm going to call it a #fish
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Here is another #ThrowbackThursday post. Its just a #rooster at large wandering in someone's back yard.

It took 3 police officers, 2 animal control officers and myself to catch it.

They may not fly, but they can jump!
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM