Last week I finished part 1 of the hungry caterpillar pattern. I will make the cocoon/butterfly next. This was a lot and I had to pause for a bit before deciding it was time to finish it up. Initially I was going to gift this to my niece, and now I have 2 nieces 😅

There are dozens of good people who are devoted Islanders fans from Garden City, then there's this fuckhead.

2 mins left in the day to pop in and say HBD to Wendy, she's 8 today. 🥳 She got to streak in the snow tonight (she loves the snow) and open some presents. Also a little 2026 v 2018 🥹

cops did an uvalde again. they’re real brave when it’s unarmed protesters and workers and just the biggest pussies in the world the second there might be some actual danger.

Wendy got a bath today

This is jarring, ha ha, but really, why did they do this to us

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic. Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

why am i not surprised he doesn’t understand that no means no

US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )

LGM!

Yeah it's really something to see a U.S. senator being hit with the same impossible compliance demands that the cops scream at people before shooting them during a stop

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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Wendy being Wendy

New friend from our walk this morning, Wendy was not pleased

9:30pm on Memorial Day, the start of fireworks season. This is why we especially can't travel during the summer and leave Wendy with dog care because night walks become difficult and unpredictable yay

We only had the patience for one heat of the duck race today

🧵 As hurricane season approaches, I want to tell you why I spent the past 4 months reporting this new story about Hurricane Helene. In 1999, I spent 13 hours in a car on a gridlocked interstate with my 3-week-old baby during the disastrous mass evacuation from Hurricane Floyd.

As our Lyft driver took us on whatever highway that is (sorry I'll admit here for the first & last time I'm from LI) past Newark Broad about 10 mins past midnight, you could see a train stopped in the station, all dark, and about a dozen people standing on the tracks not realizing what was going on

If you don't know @ilovelucius.bsky.social you're missing out

Of course we have a Manhattan concert the evening of the impending NJT strike so here I am blue skying this amazing band while we adventure home back to NJ 👯

Wow do long Island bagels keep getting worse or were they always this bad

The Mets are hitting home runs for me for my birthday 🎂

Last year a pair of mourning doves took over one of the hanging baskets I had at my front door, and they had two chicks. About a month later they came back again, laid another two eggs but only one hatched.

Listening non stop all day 👯

Wendy earlier today doing her favorite things - playing with her favorite ball which isn't a ball anymore (and the only toy she knows by name, which is "ball") and ripping grass out of the ground

Good job @finallysock.bsky.social 🎉

It's officially "Wendy laying in the backyard looking like she's dead" season

It's been a while so here's the random tulip in a spot of the garden where nothing else grows that bloomed today

She should be president, tbh

About a year ago I made an unbelievable amount of chickens. After the temperature blanket and completing a cat couch for my mom (my third cat couch) I'm having project block so I decided to crank out more chickens, and they just kept getting bigger somehow 🤷🏻‍♀️

My niece loves her blanket, and during our little photo shoot, Wendy saw what was happening and immediately understood the assignment!

And it's done!! It's so heavy. It's been my life for the past two months and tomorrow I will gift it! 🌸 As I was working on the border I thought, shoot I should have made them hexagons and gotten more creative with the shape but too late, this was complicated enough!

Tomorrow it will be done! I have one border row left, and it's a long side, and it's past my bedtime 😴

A plant I got from a greenhouse in Nov 2020 for $5 as a "COVID office rescue" really loves its spot under the kitchen skylight ☀️

Today is a 'open the $50 bottle of wine from the hotel mini bar' kind of day

Wondering if/when I'll start to regret my decision to make my niece a granny square temperature blanket for her first birthday. So far I'm still enjoying it, it will be 378 squares total (leap year + a square for each month), double sided (9x21 squares each side)

This moment (yesterday) will always be known as the day Wendy was "the cutest she's ever been" @finallysock.bsky.social

Facebook and Instagram deactivated, tiktok account deleted. I'm here now 👋🏻

Has it really been over a year since I last tried to use this app ?

Took NJT to Manhattan this evening for a work thing (meeting teammates who traveled here for a conference, mostly from the West Coast) and when I said oh yeah I hopped on a train, took 35 minutes from Jersey, I got two identical "omg TRAINS right they have those here!!"

Yesterday was Wendyday 🐾

Yesterday was Wendyday

We finished watching six feet under this week and I miss the Fishers

Need to figure out how to use this app besides posting pictures of my dog on Wednesdays

It's Wendyday

It's Wendyday

It's Wendyday!