*superhero pose*
Ever had to stop traffic because a gaggle of goslings is running wild in the road after Mama Goose got clipped by a car?
Several drivers plus my son and I were eventually able to round them up and reunite with mom (she's okay!), thanks to a nice lady with a cardboard box.
Ever had to stop traffic because a gaggle of goslings is running wild in the road after Mama Goose got clipped by a car?
Several drivers plus my son and I were eventually able to round them up and reunite with mom (she's okay!), thanks to a nice lady with a cardboard box.
05:22 PM - May 10, 2024
When it's a rainy Friday, your morning Zooms were canceled, and you have four orders for wands and intro packets for the International Council of Magic and Magical Beings (two of which you're being paid for!)...
09:42 AM - May 10, 2024
Made a major change!
Surprisingly (perhaps), the cut reduced the amount of visible gray, making my hair look more brown.
Photos courtesy of my amazing stylist (who is also my daughter's bestie).
Surprisingly (perhaps), the cut reduced the amount of visible gray, making my hair look more brown.
Photos courtesy of my amazing stylist (who is also my daughter's bestie).
12:31 PM - May 09, 2024
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Baby robin update video!
Beaker, Squeaker, Shrieker, and Tweaker* are growing fast.
*R named them all and we're not telling him. 🤣
Beaker, Squeaker, Shrieker, and Tweaker* are growing fast.
*R named them all and we're not telling him. 🤣
11:20 AM - May 08, 2024
Happy birthday, Prof!
Wishing you a great day and safe travels!
GIF ID: Elmo in a party hat saying happy birthday.
Wishing you a great day and safe travels!
GIF ID: Elmo in a party hat saying happy birthday.
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Professor Kyle @blackcatproseIt's birthday eve! Also road trip eve. Got to get off the couch and pack/clean/etc...but that would involve waking up Melissa & Grigio, both asleep on my lap...08:33 PM - May 07, 2024
06:57 AM - May 08, 2024
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Sharing with alt-text included.
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R H @AtreyuBastian04:59 PM - May 07, 2024![Picture]()
05:47 PM - May 07, 2024
My niece received her package today!! Her parents say she is over the moon excited and already planning her first magic workings!
(Photo via parents, with permission).
(Photo via parents, with permission).
04:55 PM - May 07, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
My section of the Endless Mountains were looking quite lovely this morning. The green leaves really popped over the weekend, and with the rain and fog made me think of the Scottish Highlands to which they were once connected (in the days of Pangaea).
09:49 PM - May 06, 2024
Minnesota?!
Oh fer silly....
Oh fer silly....
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Angelique Yaich @angeliqueyaichEt Tu? high money donors,03:55 PM - May 06, 2024
are you really falling for any bogus number presentation from Trump campaign?
"Trump’s campaign gave a presentation to donors and presented a case for Trump’s electoral path that suggested he could compete VA/ MN" from cnn live feed 2:50
04:07 PM - May 06, 2024
Baby robin update! They're growing nicely and getting less dinosaur-looking.
Sorry for the less than stellar photo quality, but I was trying to get a quick snap before Mama Robin lost her mind completely
Sorry for the less than stellar photo quality, but I was trying to get a quick snap before Mama Robin lost her mind completely
07:33 AM - May 06, 2024
Egg Number 3 hatched!! Or possibly 4. I may have miscounted earlier.
06:18 PM - May 02, 2024
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GIF: A blonde female-presenting person with a microphone saying, "ME!"
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin
10:33 AM - May 02, 2024
WE HAZ BABIEZ!
Two of the three eggs in the nest in our front porch light have just hatched. Hopefully number three isn't a dud.
Two of the three eggs in the nest in our front porch light have just hatched. Hopefully number three isn't a dud.
08:31 AM - May 02, 2024
If you get a monthly Bark Box (possibly others as well), this is the message on the squeakers in their toys:
"GAME OVER. YOUR DOG WON. DISCARD THIS SQUEAKER."
My grandpupper Fiona LOVES destroying the soft squeaky toys within minutes, but my son never noticed the message until last month.
"GAME OVER. YOUR DOG WON. DISCARD THIS SQUEAKER."
My grandpupper Fiona LOVES destroying the soft squeaky toys within minutes, but my son never noticed the message until last month.
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Jeramy Neugin @LostCityMagicWeird Fact: dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey. There's a theory that they rip the squeaker out of the toy because as long as it squeaks, the dog still thinks it's alive.02:53 AM - May 02, 2024
05:41 AM - May 02, 2024
Photo 1 is my 16yo maternal grandmother in early 1929 with my great-grandmother, age 39.
Photo 2 is her in Sept 1946 shown with the living 5 of her 7 children (two died, in 1934 and 1936). She was pregnant with my 3rd uncle (in Dec) and would have 3 more daughters, in 1948, 1950 (my mom), and 1952.
Photo 2 is her in Sept 1946 shown with the living 5 of her 7 children (two died, in 1934 and 1936). She was pregnant with my 3rd uncle (in Dec) and would have 3 more daughters, in 1948, 1950 (my mom), and 1952.
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Marcie @feb2772My paternal grandfather with his older brother. Probably early 1908. 🥰08:27 PM - Apr 30, 2024![Photo of a baby in a buggy and an older child standing beside the buggy.]()
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2 Threaded Spouts
This is a map showing the routes by which mail in my county is transported to the USPS Lehigh Valley distro center, where it is sorted and returned to the area for delivery.
If I mail a 1st class letter to my next-door neighbor, it takes between 4 and 8 days to arrive.
If I mail a 1st class letter to my next-door neighbor, it takes between 4 and 8 days to arrive.
01:35 PM - Apr 30, 2024
The final packaging of my niece's packet from the International Council of Magic and Magical Beings, ready to be shipped tomorrow.
06:21 PM - Apr 28, 2024
Yay for a new Spoutible milestone!
Congratulations (if you want them) to @Curiosa2 for being my 666th follow!
Congratulations (if you want them) to @Curiosa2 for being my 666th follow!
05:07 PM - Apr 28, 2024
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I found the first line of that quote interesting (repro'd in full below).
I just recently learned that women diagnosed with cancer are warned by health care providers not to rely solely or largely on a male partner for support and care because they're 6x more likely to leave after the diagnosis.
I just recently learned that women diagnosed with cancer are warned by health care providers not to rely solely or largely on a male partner for support and care because they're 6x more likely to leave after the diagnosis.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandezOne thing it doesn't do is discuss differences by gender. This quote suggests the answer to happiness is not marriage but getting a wife.
/207:17 AM - Apr 28, 2024![“But then what we discovered was that marriage provides all these benefits that are quite mundane, like somebody who gets you to remember to eat, somebody who gets you to remember to go to the doctor, to take your medication. It sounds trivial, except it turns out to really matter for whether you’re happy and whether you stay healthy.”]()
09:11 AM - Apr 28, 2024
Terry Pratchett
April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away [...] The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence.” -- "Reaper Man"
Photo credit: Rob Wilkins/Doubleday
April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015
No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away [...] The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence.” -- "Reaper Man"
Photo credit: Rob Wilkins/Doubleday
07:23 AM - Apr 28, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
So, here's the final product that will be sent to my niece from the International Council of Magic and Magical Beings.
I'm sorry the alt-text will mostly only have descriptions of each item as it's impossible to include the full text of everything except for the shorter bits.
I'm sorry the alt-text will mostly only have descriptions of each item as it's impossible to include the full text of everything except for the shorter bits.
11:11 PM - Apr 26, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
If you been following my adventure of answering my 7yo niece's request (of the fairies) to know if she had magical blood and could get a wand:
We have a wand!
We have a wand!
![A "magic wand" is shown with a product card that reads:
"This wand was handcrafted by the master fairies of the Wand Makers Guild of the North American Council specifically for [Redacted].
To represent her strength and persistance, it is made from a branch of a red maple sapling which grew in the state of her birth. It is wrapped in silver wire to represent her courage and grace and is topped with a small bit of ancient gold salvaged from the necklace of a faery wise woman of Ireland.
May it assist you well."](https://media.spoutible.com/upload/images/2024/04/pB4AKNodsTQVSLWggDVK_25_94161d92ad89845a8e7fb633c42dfcbe_image_original.jpg)
01:05 PM - Apr 25, 2024
Interesting problem we have: USPS has informed us they can't deliver our mail currently, due to "animal issues."
Seems our mail carrier is terrified of the very protective robin who's built her nest on our front porch light and flies around the porch in desperate circles whenever anyone comes near.
Seems our mail carrier is terrified of the very protective robin who's built her nest on our front porch light and flies around the porch in desperate circles whenever anyone comes near.
12:20 PM - Apr 19, 2024
I voted! Dropped my mail-in ballot at the election office on the way back from our trip to Scranton* and got the email saying it was received before I even made it out of the building.
*R's dentist appt went great.
*R's dentist appt went great.
05:46 PM - Apr 17, 2024
3 Threaded Spouts
Okay, no. Nope. Absolutely not. While I understand and approve of Spoutible having ads, this shit needs to stop.
ADS DO NOT BELONG IN THE MIDDLE OF A SPOUT.
It took me way too long to realize Jacquelyn's spout was not in fact a comment on the stupid fasting diet thing which was actually an ad.
ADS DO NOT BELONG IN THE MIDDLE OF A SPOUT.
It took me way too long to realize Jacquelyn's spout was not in fact a comment on the stupid fasting diet thing which was actually an ad.
12:27 PM - Apr 15, 2024
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This was shared on the "Of Course They're from Pennsylvania" FB page and...it gets stranger the longer I look at it.
What in the ever-lovin' hell?!
What in the ever-lovin' hell?!
04:48 PM - Apr 10, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme #Pain
I don't often participate because I don't have many pictures that fit the themes very well, but today I have two.
1. Xray of my son's foot 3 weeks after his car accident
2. Wearing spinal and leg braces with his dog-niece providing comfort, one week after he was discharged
I don't often participate because I don't have many pictures that fit the themes very well, but today I have two.
1. Xray of my son's foot 3 weeks after his car accident
2. Wearing spinal and leg braces with his dog-niece providing comfort, one week after he was discharged
09:06 AM - Apr 10, 2024
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We at least got to appreciate how the sky darkened as we reached maximum at 3:22 pm (EDT).
03:31 PM - Apr 08, 2024
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