BarbChamberlain

@BarbChamberlain@toot.community
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#Caturday mood.

Potato blossoms are beautiful.

#garden #gardening #potatoes #plants #flowers

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Need a stress break? Maybe improv is just the thing. If you're in Olympia, WA, come to recruitment rehearsal 3/26 for new family-friendly troupe forming now! Is it Improv-OH-lee or im-PROV-uh-lee? Yes, yes it is! https://www.improvoly.com/recruitment-rehearsal

#OlyWA #improv #ImprovOly #OlympiaWA #comedy #laugh #WhoseLineIsItAnyway

RSVP 2 — Improv Oly

Improv Oly

A stump full of hen of the woods (or turkey tail?) with a mossy toupee that I visit on my walk in a park 5 minutes from our house. Found it last week and now I go visit it when I'm back in the park.

#mosstodon #fungi #mosses

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art--write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
--Neil Gaiman

#NewYear #NeilGaiman #live #life

Intercity Transit in Olympia WA is awesome for a number of reasons, including this sign on a seat when we got on this evening to go home after walking downtown for dinner. Transit and civil rights have traveled together a long time.

#BlackLivesMatter #MobilityJustice #OlyWa #Transit #MoveEquity #CivilRights #transportation #IntercityTransit

Mossy trees in Squaxin Park, Olympia, WA.

#mosstodon #moss #OlyWA

A day late for #Caturday but a poem well worth sharing: "The Cat's Song" by Marge Piercy https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/the-cats-song-marge-piercy/

Excerpt:

"Come I will teach you to dance as naturally
as falling asleep and waking and stretching long, long.
I speak greed with my paws and fear with my whiskers.
Envy lashes my tail. Love speaks me entire, a word

of fur."

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #poetry #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MargePiercy

the cat’s song :: marge piercy

Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness. My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says the cat making on your chest his gesture of drawing milk from his mother’s forgotten breasts. Let us…

poetry

First time trying out one piece canning lids! I've already had several very satisfying pings.

The Food in Jars post on this indicated it may take longer than with two-piece canning lids to get that ping. https://foodinjars.com/blog/canning-101-how-to-use-one-piece-lids/

#canning #FoodInJars #CanningSeason #food #recipes #cooking #FoodPreservation

Canning 101: How to Use One Piece Lids

I find myself functioning within the "better late than never principle" more often than I like to admit. My frequent delays bedevils many in my life (particularly my punctual husband), but as I built this

Food in Jars