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Hobgoblin, garden seer, wistful novelist. She who must be obeyed/Herself.
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The tree frogs are out! It sounds like a rainforest out there.

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Pretty Good Kale Salad Kale, broccoli, red cabbage, pecans, dried cranberries. Dressing is honey, mustard, mayo, acv, salt, proper.

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Newcomers might not know that I'm a gardener, but I am & it's going to dominate this feed for several months. I wrote NOTES to myself last year. For your #gardening edification, here they are: 🧵 🌱

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March 1 is my traditional first day to sow seeds, and erk, it is coming up fast. Two big things are changing this year re. that: 1. I've quit using cheap walk-in greenhouses and will use a row cover (or two) on the raised beds, and 2) I've conceded that aside from brassicas & ...

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Yay silence!

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A tiny, intensely illuminated Italian book of hours, newly acquired at the Boston Public Library. Copied in or around Brescia at the end of the 15th century, this book has never been in an institutional collection and will soon be digitized. Now BPL MS q Med.303 bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S7...

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Another big milestone for our tiny tapir! Ume has her very first tooth coming in and has started mouthing at food and hay. It won’t be long before she’s munching away like mom Yuna! For now, we’re soaking up every adorable moment of her wiggly little nose exploring new items behind the scenes.

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Waster 1650-1670 Excavated at Delft near the site of one of the 17thC factories. This consists of 34 plates which fused in the kiln and collapsed into each other. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)

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Legendary hater Charles Darwin

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I've ordered my garden seeds, I'll be trying a few new things. Gardening and growing food will help me not be so mad all the time with all this ignorant disgusting buffoonery going on 🌱

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

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At just 17 days old, baby Ume has already doubled in size, now weighing an impressive 47 pounds! Our adorable Malayan tapir calf is growing fast and will soon outgrow her stripes and spots, which will fade around six months of age.

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I had fun. Five guesses.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Always surprised by which posts take off.

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We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!

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A comic about the good stuff

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Uh so that whole "roast veg at high temp with salt and olive oil" thing that the rich ladies have been pushing for thirty years They're on to something.

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There are many ways to improve your life. Growing antlers, festooning them with wildflowers, and strutting down the street protected in style & grace is one such way.

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My high school car was a 1986 Toyota Camry LE with the dIgItAl InStRuMeNt ClUsTeR! So fancy! It reminds me of this.

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OH NO I started an excellent book late last night. The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries by Andrew Hui. Basically my perfect falling-asleep fever dream.

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Reddit user u/onestonewithlichen 's Mum has brought some of the Luttrell Psalters' marginalia monsters to life via the medium of wool-felt.

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Scarborough Harbour by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Oil on Card Laid on Panel (For Sale with Whyte's)

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I didn't do a saint's MS today, but while looking for other things I happened upon what I think is an exceptionally beautiful Carolingian hand. I was looking at MSS of texts in the De orthographia genre, to see what scribes did with rules about spelling ae, æ, e, ȩ. That's a topic for later, but 🧵

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