Stormoji for November 11, 2025 🧄 ⚡ 🐒 📎 Garlic roasted monkey tasted better than it sounded, and Mary really did need a break from all of that paperwork. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for November 10, 2025 🍅 🕵️‍♂️ 📜 ✈️ Dr. Langdon savored his Bloody Mary on the red eye to Rome. He couldn't wait to start investigating a new scroll in the Vatican Library. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for November 6, 2025 🎲 🌊 🐇 🤫 The die was cast. There was nothing else to say by the river rapids: "Sshh, be vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbit." #shortfiction #microfiction

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I think she's comfortable. #bulldogmom

Stormoji for November 5, 2025 🍾 🦈 🪑 📛 Tim enjoyed watching all the sharks wheeling and dealing at the Furniture Expo's banquet. He sat back, sipped his champagne and enjoyed the show. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for November 3, 2025 📙 🥁 🚅 💓 Josie loved writing to U2's Bullet the Blue Sky. It had just the right beat to keep her Muse dancing. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for November 2, 2025 ⛅ 🙊 👨‍🔧 🍱 Speak no evil was easier said than done on a day when a not so bright person thought the cloud was literally in his computer. Lunch was on an indefinite hold. #shortfiction #microfiction

Happy All Saints' Day!

We are ready for the trick or treaters!

Happy All Hallow's Eve!

Stormoji for October 28, 2025 👩‍🌾 😌 🍓 🪂 Susan was so happy to see all the pollinators gliding through her strawberry patch. She worked hard to attract them. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for October 27, 2025 🚑 🦐 🏇 👩‍⚖️ Jeff's defense that no one could predict racing shrimp down Michigan Avenue would cause so many accidents didn't fly with the judge. #microfiction #shortfiction

Stormoji for October 26, 2025 👨‍✈️ 🛡️ 🪕 😬 Bill wasn't sure how a flight that was half medieval re-enactors and half bluegrass musicians was going to go. The sing-alongs were... interesting.... #shortfiction #microfiction

Started putting the beds down for winter. Last tomato harvest. My San Marzano and one of my cherry tomato plants turned into monsters! And bees are still visiting! #backyardgarden #fallgarden #harvest

One week I will get my #bakeoffbakealong done before a new episode drops, but this week is not that week. For Meringue Week I made ghostly meringues. Tis Spooky Season after all. Now onto the new episode! #gbbo #bakeoff

Stormoji for October 24, 2025 🎠 🏷️ 🏆 ✔️ After riding The Carousel at The House on the Rock, Louise bought herself a prize for completing her Rides of the U.S. Bucket List. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for October 22, 2025 🪒 🤒 💗 🥩 Tony loved the fact that his mom thought nothing fed a cold like shaved beef sandwiches. #shortfiction #microfiction

Stormoji for October 20, 2025 👨‍🎤 📙 🫕 😋 David didn't care what anyone else thought: nothing got the songwriting inspiration going like delicious fondue. #shortfiction #microfiction

In this #bakeoffbakealong post, I am playing catch-up. For Chocolate Week I made a Chocolate Gingerbread Cake because it FINALLY feels like fall in the U. S. Midwest. For Pastry Week I made my first Apple Tarte Tatin. Now what to do for Meringue Week? #gbbo #bakeoff #fallbaking

It's a rainy morning with thunder, and I have a lapful of bulldog and coffee. Life is good. #bulldogmom #fallmorning

Rest in peace Sister Jean. May light perpetual shine upon you.

Whoo-hoo-hooooooo!

Go Cubs go!

We have leeks, butterflies, and bees, oh my! #backyardgarden #pollinatorsgarden #gardentotable

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Let us pray. This is the Urban Monastic Collect for the twenty-seventh week of Ordinary time.

Repost to showe thyne appreciacioun for the social media folks at Merriam Webster, the best arounde!

Wow. Honestly, I didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime.

Go Cubs go! Whoo-hoo-hooooooo!

We went apple picking Sunday. This is how much apple pulp five pounds of apples makes. It will simmer away with sugar and spices until it transforms into apple butter. #kitchenalchemy #canning

In this week's #bakeoffbakealong I got a little carried away. For bread week I baked banana bread, pizza, and sesame sourdough loaves. #gbbo #bakeoff

🕯️ Blessings of Hildegard of Bingen on her day.

Hey DNC, this is what it looks like to have a spine and walk your talk. @schumer.senate.gov you taking notes?

Actually it's not that shocking. This happened in the 1890s to early 1930s when The Great Depression and FDR finally put a stop to the robber barons. It's not the first time the U.S. government has been in kahoots with the ultra-wealthy to the detriment of the rest of us.

Pollinators are flying around my backyard! Bumblebees, butterflies, and our first monarch butterfly feasting on one of my zinnias! I was too awestruck to take a picture. I'm so happy! And here's today's harvest.🌱 #midwestgardeners #GardenSky #backyardgarden

This week was biscuit week on #gbbo, and the last week of the Summer Term. I baked Soft Molasses Cookies for my classes. We always have a party on the last day of the term to celebrate how hard they work. #bakeoffbakealong #bakeoff

Sometimes a bulldog just needs a cuddle. Happy timeline cleanse.

The Great British Bake Off started a new season, and I'm going to bake along this year. For Cake Week I discovered an awesome recipe for Root Beer Cake on King Arthur's website (recipe in first link). I made it with The Hubby's favorite root beer. #gbbo #bakeoffbakealong #BakeOff

I had to pull out a jacket to enjoy my backyard tonight. #backyardlife #falsefall

Me and my girl. #bulldogmom

Food mills are awesome! And we have more carrots. 🌱 #midwestgardeners #GardenSky #canning #tomatoes

First carrot 🌱. #midwestgardeners #GardenSky #backyardgatden

I put up tomatoes yesterday. Today was all about fermenting: yogurt, creme fraiche, sour cream, and vanilla extract. #fermentation #savemoney

Part of my pondering this week is about Sabbath, and how hard it is to to practice in a society obsessed with productivity. #sabbath #christian #episcopalian substack.com/home/post/p-...

There's a reason so many men through history had time to write. It's the same reason so many women didn't.

A cold front blew through last night and took the heat and humidity with it. Luna and I are enjoying this glorious morning in the 60s. #bulldogmom #midwestsummer

Stormoji for August 22, 2025 🚝 😊 💋 🥭 On The Mango Express they rock and rolled all night and partied everyday, and that was fine with Gene. #tinystory