Good morning star shine! Not bad sunrise on unlucky Saturday the 13th.

My newspaper reporter Santa is now part of my decorations. A few years ago I added a Worcester Telegram & Gazette to the display to annoy some of my more conservative relatives.

This guy would make a great president if there was a third term option.

Living at a town center at 1,000 feet it stays nice and toasty. Fortunately there was no wind to speak of this morning.

Perfect 😆

This time of year for all of us even if it wasn't in the middle of this awfulAmerican nightmare.

I just started following an account called @in-otter-news.bsky.social. If you want to be amused then check it out. Just don't give Steve the Otter any money because he will use it to drink in the pub.

www.royensoc.co.uk/understandin... In the spring when it gets warm, spend some time with these little guys/ladies. Dragonflies and damselflies are delightful and fascinating up close. The Athol Bird and Nature Club in Central Massachusetts got me hooked on these and now I can't get enough of them.

whowhatwhy.org/video/the-pa... This is a really good explanation of how arctic changes are affecting all of us.

This could have been a disaster for Ukraine.

Tree House Brewing in Deerfield has really good pizza. Oh, the beer is as good as it gets.

Just fyi everybody - mosquito risk is low today 🙄. I guess the 8 or so inches of snow helps :)

Just another blue sky.

Just about 8.5 inches here in yesterday's storm. It was our first plowable storm but pretty easy on the shovel to clean up.

Still snowing. I'll measure in the morning.

Sleepy Dumpy

A few more.

It's that lovely, freezing, delightful, exhausting time of the year. Finished shoveling ( first round) and went out past the swamp to photograph the house.

Let’s Go #TN07

The snow just started here in my little corner of New England. We could get between 6 and 100 inches 😱 Please "thoughts and prayers" us.

Ah New England, how I love you sweet winter misery. All you nice sunny people with blue skies please enjoy your day. ;)

For those not from New England, #TreeHouseBrewing makes really great beer. "Shifty" a gift from a friend not only has a name that is kind of cool, but has a really great taste. Oh and the glass is from my friend Dave's brewery in Michigan.

I love this :)

Maybe I am obsessing about this too much but I can't get over Vance saying he hates turkey and telling soldiers they are full of shit if they like it. What did he have for Thanksgiving? Squirrel and turnip? Possibly a mince pie? Has there ever been a stranger vice president?

thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/unhappy-en... This is a pretty good story.

Vance not liking turkey is like Trump hating pets. These people are absolute weirdos.

This has become such an obvious and shocking statement. I never jump to conclusions about politicians and political leaders, but since the beginning of the first Trump administration the corruption has been unmistakable.

#Pinks #ProudBlue People should’ve listened to this man more. #ReleaseAlltheEpsteinFiles

This is wonderful!

We have the big ugly school blocking our sunrises these days but occasionally the prettiness rises above it.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1ARh... Happy Thanksgiving people I wish would join the resistance even ghough the organization kind of creeps me out.

youtu.be/m57gzA2JCcM Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I love clouds almost as much as complaining about America's bent and broken federal government.

www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi... Army 1st Lt. Madison Faust set a world record this month when she ran the fastest mile by a woman wearing a full explosive ordnance disposal bomb suit. Pete Hegseth is wrong again!

I had trouble getting the whole story but friends who live in Northern Illinois should know that ICE created a situation where FEMA could not do storm surveys because it was harassing immigrants. FEMA thought there was an agreement but ICE showed anyway.

Kegstuff is a bully but also undisciplined in his posts. I hope he doesn't make mistakes like this when planning his boutique battles for his "war 🙄 fighters."

In the week of Thanksgiving I am trying to focus on what I should be thankful for. It has been a difficult year many watching the nation we love upended in a bad way. But I am still hopeful and thankful for new friends, old friends and family, good health and good people who have not lost faith.

Just one more. They seem pretty comfortable having snacks with neighbors.

Good morning from my goofy bird feeder camera. It's fun to watch but I had to clean out 200 10 second videos.

I'm wondering if my resident hawk has lost his girl friend. He has been showing up every morning as the sun hits the tops of the trees, but she has not been joining him for the past few days.

It set up to be a good vibe this morning. It has since faded some but it looks like a nice day before the coming of the polar vortex 😊

It's rare that you meet someone and immediately realize you like them but it happened this past week. I think it is more common on Bluesky which has restored a little of my faith in "social" media.

This is pretty funny!

You know you're getting old when you have a two funeral Saturday and you don't find it unusual.

Today was a gray, chilly, blah November day, a reminder of things to come, but a warm hot chocolate and nice conversation made it all worthwhile. And I got some yard work done ;)

Good morning everyone. I just saw this. What a nice thing to wake up to!

I normally have one shouldered hawk keeping watch over my swamp, but today he/she found a friend.

It is hard to imagine that we have a piggy president who calls others piggy just because they are doing their jobs. Heis a lout, a jerk and a wanna be king.