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Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
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Popping in to say I'm gonna be AFK for a bit... managed to give myself a mild concussion and I'm staying off screens. (I walked face-first into the side of a door in the dark, I'm a genius.)

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Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Just started the audiobook of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, and it is delightful! The protagonist's "asides" to her chronicler are recorded in a way that sounds a bit muffled, so it sounds as if she's talking to someone off-mic, very cute.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Happy 103 birthday to my grandma! (Party's next weekend.)

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I think I would have been far happier with an actual bad movie than the milquetoast paint-by-numbers mediocrity that was Captain America: Brave New World.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Before/after. Been thinking about doing this myself for years, never been so happy to pay someone to do the work for me. Two dudes spent all week on this, and they did a fantastic job.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Kid was humming something that sounded like MMMBop so I played it for him and he hated it so much he wouldn't even let it play to the end. 😆

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What's all the fuss, it looks like it would be a nice birthday present for someone. And why couldn't that someone be me? It could have been mine; actually it SHOULD have been mine, my own, my Precious!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Yes, yes, YES! More of this!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My conversational style: singles tennis Husband's conversational style: duo juggling Me:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

ummm guilty your honor

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Day two of guys working in the yard. Dog has accepted that I will not let her out the back door ever again. Has been reduced to staring at me piteously, because I clearly do not care that her life is ruined.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of AI generated reddit posts lately, and it's getting harder to tell. Used to be a fun place to interact with strangers and give/seek help to people in similar situations, but getting emotionally invested and then realizing it's just fake feels like being ripped off.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Got up early today because I was having some guys do pavers in the back yard, only to have the boss--who WANTED to work Memorial Day--cancel because the storage unit where they keep all their tools is closed. Oops.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Mars Attacks! does not hold up well, lol. Actually I am not sure it was ever good, but I thought my kids would think it was funny. Alas. It's weird how many movies I remember as "action packed" are now REALLY SLOW by modern standards. Have movies really sped up that much???

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

It's my birthday! 🌿 As per tradition you can share my work to offer me ✨visibility✨ :) I wish you all a nice day!!

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

Petition to replace all instances of "throw up my hands" in worship songs with "put up my hands." God made some of us visual thinkers! 😭

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Today we had a scout swim day at the pool for everyone to get various requirements checked off. My 11 year old decided he wanted to try the swimming merit badge requirements - including diving, which he has literally never attempted. This normally fearful kid ran straight to the edge and--

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

i mean....

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Listen do you want to try writing the book or amputating a limb with the civil war bone saw? It's going to feel about the same.

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments