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ericheupel.bsky.social
Father, oceanographer, science illustrator, artist, photographer, brewer, owned by 3 cats and 2 dogs. Profile pic is me (grey beard) with my son at concert Banner is a hand carved stencil I made inspired by Japanese textiles. Linktree: http://lt.heupel.us
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Community sing time - considering about ⅓ are either shantymen or regulars at The Griz, a great selection of songs and singers.

All my time in Essex I have never been in this nice little restaurant - love the details… having done smaller pieces - this is nice work and blister forming to get it nice and right.

Watching my so. Teach young visitors to the festival how to tie a bowline - flashback to me teaching him when he was 4…. It’s these “little” things that make life worth it for me. While more money in my wallet would be nice, I do recognize I am a very rich man in the best way possible.

Threat of rain _was_ real, but it’s turned into a great day for good live music. The Bards of Gungywamp have my toes tapping, my voice raised in cheer and my eyes leaking.

In Essex for the CT Sea Music Festival watching the Johnson Girls (love them!!) while waiting for Johann to perform. If you’re in CT you really should check it out. Runs rest of today and tomorrow. One of premiere US annual sea music festivals, first full weekend of June every year.

Grace enjoying her bedtime snack…

Seriously you two???? Grrrrrrr…. 2.5inch SSD about to go into server EXCEPT while I was installing AC in office, Jasper knocked it off the desk and Mac took it away to tear open the packaging. Damn that dog has string jaws! Maybe it will still work and be installable???

Luna in the original Catio…

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I guess there is no putting it off anymore. Windows already open with decent air movement through house, but temps still too hot for comfortable and making Computers work harder to cool. Time to reinstall Air conditioners....

Went to bed with @brennadip.bsky.social woke up with this one taken her place.

PLEASE SIGN!!!! IT TAKES LESS THAN A MINUTE!!!!!!!

Jasper once again showing a complete and total disregard for personal space - in the bathroom no less!!!

Oreo living his best life….

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Bedtime snack time!!!! All treats are low fat, beloved by them and they have to work at it to get them. Part of our bedtime routine.

I want a four-hour 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea film adaptation by a director whose primary interest is the oceanography and marine biology chapters.

While global mean sea level rise over recent decades has been driven mainly by greenhouse gases, the regional pattern in the Pacific has likely resulted from sulfate aerosol emissions - with important implications for the coming decades... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I love westerly and the house we are in, but this is too regular a happening at our intersection. This time a pair or late high school teens. Both cars totaled but no obvious serious injuries (last time was serious injury)

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Wonderful words from @pgirguis.bsky.social - if you wear a seat belt, you’ve benefitted from federally-funded research.

Luna loves the bird feeders being right at edge of catio. The birds interestingly enough don’t seem to mind the location either.

While it may seem a touch odd, tomato basil challah was excellent side to Fredericksburg Chili - just a bare hint of sweet with tomato/basil so helped offset the amazing chili spiciness

Mmmmmmmmmmmm… nnnammmm sooo gooood!!!! Upper rock in over clearly a bit hotter… (bottom loaf) but damn that’s sinfully good!

Tomato basil challa? Sure why not!!! Just got new cookbook (recommended by @drandrewthaler.bsky.social ) said - “gonna open to random page and (if I have ingredients) make that!” Opened to tomato basil challah (pg 59)

Mac LOVES bunnies. there is an eastern cottontail at the far right side of the image, (about halfway between top and bottom) he just stared at it and hopped up and down for 5 minutes.

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

Brenna just got back from 2 weeks in Europe late Thursday night… the animals have been keeping her in their sight since.

Jasper has no clue whatsoever about “personal space”

Believe it or not, all three of these fish are the same species… the bluehead wrasse. Wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites, meaning they transition from female to male over the course of their lives. Each phase can look radically different from each other as evidenced here #coralcitycamera

It got a little chilly last night - lows were around 40F. Oreo has the right idea.

2 totally different approaches to same problem. I give pups treats in puzzle toys - mixed in with themed small stuffed animals are beggin strips, milk bones, and pigs ears. One dog pulls out each toy and then eats any snacks freed up. The other jams their snout in and snuffles around for the goodies

The GOP/MAGA faction is evil. Don’t give up friends. A better society is possible.

MUST WATCH: They didn’t just burn Tulsa — they burned proof. Black wealth. Black futures. Gone. And now they’re banning books so you never learn it happened. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they’re scared of. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

Excellent, concise article by @joanwestenberg.com about the importance of friction and learning. Should appeal to all of the creative people I know resisting the tide of gen AI.

Oreo and Mac this morning

"Springsteen didn’t pull any punches — no references to 'our national divide' or 'both sides' or 'polarization.' He was direct, angry and precise in his language." - @guitarwatson.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/no-n...

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

Fuhhh… Perry is a wonderful guy and big supporter of NSA. This is going to be a hard hit to him and especially his summer restaurant staff. A favorite place for us to have nice sit down seafood out. patch.com/rhode-island...

Great News! Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Environmental Grant Funding | Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1905202...

Deep Sea Mollusc Pulsation! Bathydevius! youtu.be/8xHIF_yC5dA?...

Oreo catching a some zzz’s in the sun.

I love Avery Point campus of UConn, a lot of history and - for me - good times. Just before and during WWII it was a coast guard training station. On the western side of the point along the Thames River mouth is a a small burial site for Duffy "BM 1/c USCG" the stray bulldog adopted as mascot.

Luna in her favorite spot to while away a lazy afternoon.

Whole reason I was on campus today was to take the dogs … it’s easily one of Grace’s favorite places (she grew up going there at least weekly) and to get Mac down there again (it’s been 9months for him) Grace is the smaller border collie and Mac is the taller black lab.