It feels like a good curl up on the couch with a big blanket and a book day 🌨️💙 #booksky

Dragging myself out of the house today for a stupid little walk for my stupid mental health. The winter blues are hitting EARLY this year.

Disappointed by the lack of Huntrix trick-or-treaters in my neighbourhood last night!

October reads part 1: 📕 The Carbon Tax Question - Thomas F. Pedersen 🎧 Razorblade Tears - S.A. Cosby 📕 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 📕 An Ember in Ashes - Sabaa Tahir 📕 Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships - Shalene Wuttunee Jobin 📕 Home Vol. 2 - Michaud Brothers #booksky

Everyone says overuse of em-dashes is an AI red flag but another annoying one is using emojis as bullets or in front of a new paragraph in social media posts 😩

Well I guess it’s winter 😩

Sleepytime tea and catching up on my besties’ adventures. #booksky

Academic book rec! I was lucky to win a book of my choice from @ubcpress.bsky.social from a conference I attended, and this was my selection. Super insightful study of Cree economic relationships, demonstrated through interviews, language, history, and stories. Highly recommend! #booksky

Can someone explain how the Libby suspend hold function works? I’m confused b/c it says if you suspend your hold you keep moving up in the line. I suspended and then unsuspended a couple of days later, then I was #1 in line with a 2 wk wait. Now I’m 4th in line with an 8 wk wait? #booksky #libby

I’m in Vancouver for a couple of days for work, and fortunately was able to attend this evening’s conversation with Martha Wells and Nalo Hopkinson. Lots of laughs and insights! #booksky

This is tonight, Wednesday October 15! Me and Nalo Hopkinson!

Another visit from our neighbourhood leucistic magpie 🩶

Late fall walk through the woods, came across this gnarly old birch tree, straight out of a creepy movie.

It was a good day - I found an Indigo gift card I’d forgotten about! #booksky

My September reads: 🎧 Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame - Neon Yang 📕 An Honored Vow - Melissa Blair 🎧 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson 📕 Home, Vol. 1 - Marc and Daniel Michaud 📕 Fevered Star - Rebecca Roanhorse 🎧 The Butcher’s Masquerade- Matt Dinniman 🎧 Cultish - Amanda Montell #booksky

I know starlings are an introduced species but c’mon, you have to love the sound of hundreds of them chirping away. This was moments before a merlin came swooping in and sent them all off into a noisy murmuration. #fortstjohn #birds

I’m in the middle of way too many series, going back to re-read this one before Mirrored Heavens so I can finish the series off! One of my fave series 💕 #booksky

Terrible photo of our resident leucistic/ghost black-billed magpie ❤️ #magpies #fortstjohn

Mid September and the zucchini are still going strong 😱 #fortstjohn #canadiangardening

A neighbourhood cat came to visit our yard today (there’s lots of birds), one of my kids says “It’s Princess Donut!” 👑🐱 #dungeoncrawlercarl #booktok

Giant bumblebee (B. nevadensis?) on the last of the larkspur flowers 🥰

A white+grey variant of black-billed magpie came by my garden today! #birds

Another beautiful camping day started off with coffee and a couple of chapters, just me and the birds 🥰 #booksky

So much zucchini at this time of year, my fave way to enjoy them is dehydrated with some “all-dressed” seasoning (loosely following recipe from Oh She Glows all-dressed kale chips). I’ve probably had 2 zucchinis today 🫣

Unplanned colour-coordinated book haul from Books and Company in Prince George, BC 💚💙🖤 4 of the several series I haven’t finished yet 🫣 #booksky

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “So I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.” #booksky

Ok bird experts out there, I think this is a pellet that a bird expelled, is there any way to tell what kind of bird? It’s pretty large and filled with seeds (sour cherry pits I can tell for sure), crow or magpie maybe? #birds #birdidentification

A monochromatic yellow bouquet this week with day lilies, lady’s mantle, and Rudbeckia 💛💛💛 #gardensky #flowerarrangement #bloomscroll #fortstjohn

Family visitors always leave with a garden haul, those are the rules here 🤷🏻‍♀️ #backyardgarden #gardensky

Nothing much better than camping+reading 😌 #booksky

Most days I’m sitting at a desk, but once in a while I get to go for a helicopter flight. It’s pretty flat up in the boreal forest so getting some height gives a good perspective on the land. Here is a creek whose flow is impacted by a road, and many linear features that negatively impact caribou.

Found out you can get the game MYST on PS5 and now I’m going down a nostalgic rabbit hole. My kids asked if it was a horror game and I’m like no that’s just how games looked in the early 90’s. But then I got to the torture chamber in the mechanical age and now I’m wondering the same 🤔

Book (audio) 58/90 (2025 goal) - Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb. Honestly I’m not fan of a few things here, namely the pacing going from dead-slow to wicked-fast, several “what just happened there?” moments where I had to reread, and that every woman (save Nettle) has the hots for Fitz. #booksky

Heading to the garden for dinner 😋 Nearly the last of the broccoli, zucchini a going strong, and potatoes just starting to get picked. Definitely the season of abundance! #gardensky #vegetablegarden #zone3garden

Book 57/90 (2025 goal) - The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s garden abundance season so what better time to read about the gift economy. #booksky

Dill and cilantro going o seed in my herb patch, with the parsley being shaded and still going strong. #gardensky #vegetablegarden

Book 56/90 (2025 goal) - Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi. I really liked the characters and the themes here but I struggled with the non-linear format. #booksky

Micro ecosystem on a decaying aspen log 😍

July reads: 🎧 Night of the Mannequins - Stephen Graham Jones 🎧 Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone 2) - Laini Taylor 📕 The Tusks of Extinction - Ray Nayler 📕 The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman 📕 Midnight Sweatlodge - Waubgeshig Rice 📕 And Then She Fell - Alicia Elliot #booksky

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Book 55/90 (2025 goal) - And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott. This is the best book I have read in a long time. It had me questioning reality and I couldn’t put it down for wanting to know what happened next. #booksky

Today is Emancipation Day in Canada, across the Caribbean, and other regions - marking the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire. My book, The Book of Possibilities, has been featured on a few Emancipation Day reading lists, and I'm grateful! Lemme tell y'all a bit about the day:

Book 54/90 (2025 goal) - Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice. Short but packs a punch! #booksky

Another day, another 700g of raspberries for the freezer 😋 #gardensky #zone3 #zone3garden #canadiangardening

One of my favourite things about the Peace region is the dramatic skies. A thunderstorm rolled in this morning and I had to snap a pic of the sky when I got to work. Looking south, thunderstorm was coming from the south/west. ⛈️ #fortstjohn #doigriverfirstnation #doigriver

Book 53/90 (2025 goal) - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. I love this series, it’s so accessible and witty and the characters are lovely. Can’t wait for the next one! #booksky

Off to the garden for part of dinner, broccoli and dill for a yogurt dip. #backyardvegetablegarden #zone3 #zone3garden #canadiangardening

Sunshine after rain is the best time to get some weeding done in the garden - before and after in the onion patch. #vegetablegarden #backyardvegetablegarden #zone3 #zone3garden

This week’s backyard flower arrangement 💜🤍💛 #flowerarrangement #backyardflowergarden #backyardflowergrowing

First raspberry harvest of the season - we’re going to need a bigger bowl. #zone3gardening #zone3garden #backyardveggiegarden #growyourownfruit #canadiangardening