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Wendy the Good Little Witch
@wendybird13.bsky.social
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Engineer, foodie, servant of many cats
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My solstice tradition is to light a snowman against the darkness. He’ll stay in the window until the spring equinox.
A lit plastic figure of a snowman sits in a window over a dark stone planter.
December 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A tisket a tasket. I finished a basket. It’s a bit floppy. I have more of the yarn, and might try working it around small diameter rope to make a stiffer basket.

The yarn was my last purchase at Joann when I heard the bankruptcy was coming…
A floppy, pink crocheted basket sits on a teal bedspread with orange ginkgo leaf pattern.
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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If you see this post with your model of positive masculinity.
Bill Green from the cartoon Big City Greens. He has yellow skin, and wears a red hat, green t-shirt, blue jeans and boots. He is waving, so you can see the missing fingertip on the first finger of his right hand.
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Glitter glue should be left flat to dry…though it is a a nice effect.
White poster board with “Less Gilt more SNAP” painted in black. The word gilt is edged in glitter which has run, dripping down into the white space.
November 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I recently learned that poster paint (or the acrylic craft paint you bought to make Christmas ornaments) is much, much faster than markers.
White poster board painted with the Less Gilt more SNAP in black. The word gilt is edged in glitter glue.
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Is it at a height deer can reach? By the time I got my phone out, this guy had emptied the feeder, but he had his mouth over the bottom home and had tilted it to shade seed into his mouth.
A white-tail deer (buck) stands under a tree next to metal shepherd’s crooks holding bird feeders. The buck’s nose is pressed against an empty tube feeder. Houses and garages are visible in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Will no one rid me of these meddlesome deer?
A young bushy seven-sons plant, with only bare, half-eaten twigs at the top, surrounded by green plastic mesh tied to green garden stakes.
September 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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There were 3 adult cats in the household when Pixel was little, but she seems to have imprinted on bipeds.
A piebald cat wearing a collar sits on a chair with her shoulder leaning against the back.
September 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Are pool noodles available year round in warmer parts of the U.S.? They’re seasonal in Ohio and it took me 4 stores today to find one to pad this foot rest.
A pair of legs stretched out on a canvas chair with a metal frame. The ankles rest on a section of blue foam pool noodle which covers the metal bar at the bottom of the foot rest area. A dark wooden deck and wooden table can be seen in the background.
August 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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My friend took a selfie together last night after we’d had a cocktail. It makes me question the concept of “beer goggles”, because I think I *am* prettier when I’ve had a drink….
A women with white and blue hair pearl and black eyeglasses smiles in front of a stone wall painted black.
July 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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You have to understand, she was raised by bipeds and this is the way we sit to watch TV.
A piebald tabby sitting up with her rear legs and a striped tail out in front of her. One white front paw rests on her belly, and the other rests on the bed behind her rear legs.
July 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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It was definitely a rock.
A man in cargo shorts and shirt printed with images of brightly colored planets and comets leans on the counter in a museum, staring intently into a display case. Above the glass, the case is labeled “Moon Rock” on one side and “Lunar Sample” on the other.
June 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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A woman in a green dress stands in front of a tree trunk with a field of ripe wheat in the background. The tree is long dead, with the bark gone and the wood weathered gray. The top of the tree has been carved and painted to look like a ripe ear of maize. The sky is blue with white clouds.
June 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Inspired by @scalzi.com ‘s latest book, we took a road trip to the Neil Armstrong museum in Wapakoneta, OH.
A woman in a green desss and blue patterned sun hat sits next to a bronze statue of a young man on a stone bench. The statue holds a model airplane and looks off toward the horizon. The woman holds an open hardback book up for her bronze companion to see. A sidewalk to the right leads toward a building with a large white sphere in the center.
June 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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10 weeks post-adoption, Roman seems to be settling in and relaxing.
A pale orange tabby stretched out on his back, asleep in a brown leather recliner. His front paws are curled in the air and his head rests against one arm of the chair. A gray and black blanket is underneath the cat and a multi-colored afghan is stretched over the back of the chair.
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Stopped at a Clatsop County park for a picnic lunch on the way from Astoria to Portland.

It was eerily quiet…until the raptor circling overhead moved on….
A lawn scattered with white flowers runs down to a deep blue lake divided by a string of floats. The far side of the lake is a mixture of deciduous trees just starting to leaf out and pines. The sky is a hazy, lighter blue than the lake.
April 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The cat rescue we adopted from called this week to see how Roman is settling in to our house and if he is getting along with the other pets.
I left a message saying that they’re usually in the same room at least half of the day and sometimes play together.
A buff tabby lies in the round tube of a cat tree with his eyes closed and his front paws tucked under. A piebald black tabby stands on her hind legs on the platform below, her front paws a blur as she swats at the tube.. I think this game is called “status negotiation”.
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Things I have achieved in the past week:

Made personal flotation devices for 48 micro-ducks.
11 small yellow plastic ducks sit on top of 11 rectangles of black foam shelf liner, floating in a small amount of water in a black plastic container.
March 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Another wild & crazy Saturday night with this guy snoring in my ear.
Close up of a the face of a sleeping cat with a pink nose, white lower face and black ears. The white whiskers above his eyes stand out with the light from the flash.
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This little accessory was installed in the engine compartment of a 2021 Honda Insight. Security warned the owner the car was meowing, and a kitten chase commenced.
Piebald tabby cat wearing a purple name tags that reads Pixel sits on a table with cat grooming accessories lying around her.
February 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Good news : Burt’s medicine is making him feel better.
Bad news : Burt now feels well enough to run fast enough that I can’t catch him.
Silver lining: We are both getting more exercise.
Current status: still hasn’t had his medication.
Burt, a black and white cat, naps peacefully in a carpeted tube on a cat tree next to a window. It is dark outside the window.
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I do not have one…but I am an automotive engineer and can explain why your car’s fishbowl requires urgent attention.
Glowing orange logo on a black background, showing a figure with an open top, curved sides, and a flat base. There is an exclamation point inside the figure.
January 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Hey! Ohio has more notable landmarks like, um….

Well, we have concrete corn.
An expanse of short green grass with concrete sculptures of bare ears of corn. The sculptures are in rows similar to a military cemetery. The sky is bright blue with white clouds.
January 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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The youngest cat has decided that coasters are not to be tolerated on tables anymore, so I made a thing.
A coffee mug, with a pink crocheted sleeve wrapped around the base. A button holds the crocheted part in place.
January 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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When the temperature is going to dip below -10C repeatedly, this garden window makes the bathroom too cold, so I relocate the plants and apply plastic film. Then I hang the netting to let the cats know there is now plastic film, since they like to sleep in there when it’s sunny.
A wooden cabinet projecting out from the windowsill, with small openable windows on either side, a dirty glass pane over the top, and an empty shelf. Some tile samples are spread out on the bottom shelf. The same window as the previous picture, with white net scattered with small white asterisks.
January 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM