Husband: “If I hold open the Rottweiler’s mouth, think you could stick your hand in there with the iPhone and take a picture?" Me: "Sure thing. And later when I’m in ER, please explain to doc why we thought this was a good idea."

Just downloaded this Earth view from ArtemisII. NASA provides this & other “crew view” wallpaper backgrounds on its website: www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m...

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Nobody talks about how satisfying it is to unsubscribe from an email you’ve been deleting for four years. This is what victory tastes like.

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Red-yellow tulips coming up. First thing I look at every morning, gives me a boost. #Spring #Flowers

Son (L) sent photo of him & grandson at grandson’s first movie theater experience! Can only imagine how awesome that must’ve been for the little guy 🎥🍿 #Family #Movies

Yesterday, we were outside when young man approached, said he's running for state senate in our jurisdiction & could we talk? He’s son of immigrants, working against Project 2025, working to protect healthcare & more. Afterward hub said, “Democracy is on the streets.” www.carreraforcolorado.com

“But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.” —Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch

Peaceful walk to end the day. #Denver #Creek #CityPark

You really want to self-improve? Then try Booksmaxxing! Fact: Avid readers are often more successful. No brain, no gain! 📚📖📕👀💙 Kicking off Indie #Booksmaxxing week. Apr 6 - 10 my Kindle books are free! My Kindle Landing Page mybook.to/RLPastoreBooks

The bookshop at 3am

Every Easter morning, hub gets up early & goes to Walgreens where he buys discounted Easter candy for my Easter basket. This year he added a Mexican cola (I love Mexican colas). Then he comes home, gives me the basket & tells me stories of other people buying 1/2-off Easter candy😂👍 #EasterBasket 🐰

Smelled light smoke earlier, thought someone was barbequing nearby, learned it’s a fire near Douglas County (U.S. Forest Service property) From Douglas County Sheriff: Those in Douglas County can sign up for DougCo Alert at dougcoalert.com to be notified of any evacuation warnings/orders. #Colorado

New look at crescent Earth 🌎 📷 Artemis II

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

A favorite pic of Bootsy, peeking out from a bag I was trying to pack. #Caturday #TuxedoCat #CatsOfBluesky

@kellywellread.bsky.social Did you see this? Made me think of you 🦦

This is a candy bar (really), gifted to yours truly for doing a good job at work today. Part of it is now missing 👍 Hammond’s is one of the oldest candy companies in Denver (started in 1920). They also have a wedding chapel 💒 #Chocolate

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Got my new gardening t-shirt 😲😂

Girlfriend once made this PI license for our Rottie Traveller. Note pawprint signature 🐾 That’s our girl, Canine Investigator Traveller. Have Dog, Will Travel (some of you will get that reference :) #Rottweiler #DogsOfBluesky #CanineInvestigator

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

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Tonight, at sundown, Passover begins. Every year I make Almendrados (Almond-Lemon Macaroons), a recipe that goes back to the 15th century (who knew?). Easy, delicious. #Passover #Macaroons cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016...

Got flu shot yesterday. Today I have muscle aches, chills, etc. I know it’s temporary & I’ll be fine tomorrow. Meanwhile, someone send chocolate :) Pic: Daffodils in our front yard this morning 🌼

Let's go!

Good news. Just heard from Flint Animal Cancer Care - NO cancer's spread from Traveller’s tumors (1 big, 2 small) into lymph nodes. Next, discussing options to shrink tumors. We caught it in time 🎉 We’re not naive, but are grateful our girl has more happy days ahead ❤️🐾 #Rottweiler #DogsOfBlueky

Trying to use up veggies in fridge, have one head of cabbage left so making this for dinner, adding “faux” (plant-based) chicken strips. P.S. They say regular cabbage (instead of Napa) works fine. (Gift article) #Vegetarian #Cabbage #Salad cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

Name an obscure television program that most people missed entirely. Sugar Time! One producer was Marty Cohen, previously produced Bob Newhart Show. If you click on below credits & scroll way down, you’ll see yours truly’s name (Colleen Collins) on production staff: www.imdb.com/title/tt0075...

Sunday Exception: Swan Perfect Landing

Went to Grateful Gnome for lunch. When you walk in, there’s a pair of hanging denim shorts w/ “Thank you Bobby” written on them (Bobby Weir from Grateful Dead, who recently passed on). Hub’s a lifelong Deadhead (first show Nov 20 1973 Denver Coliseum). Writing on wall “Love Life” and “Be Grateful”

52 years ago? I feel old 😆 Loved this show. #RockfordFiles #JamesGarner

The moment Traveller walked into the Flint Animal Cancer Center this morning, she was Loved Up by staff & vets. This place is special. Long drive, but worth it. (Met people who’d driven farther than us, one a farmer from Nebraska with his Brittany Spaniel). #Rottweiler #DogsOfBluesky

We’re driving Traveller back up to Flint Animal Cancer Center tomorrow for small test. In nutshell, we caught cancer early, which is good news. Pic: as pup at training school. Once she wandered out of class…after frantic search, found her hanging out at a pet food store 😆 #Rottweiler #DogsOfBluesky

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

He would have been 95 today 🌹

My first homegrown daffodils. You’d never know it was 89° (F) today - they look so fresh & perky!

Hub saw at gas station today (CO): ICE vehicle parks in handicap spot, 2 ICE agents, no masks, get out & walk into store. Inside, Latino family freezes. Father puts arms around kids & moves them toward exit. As they pass ICE agents buying snacks, one says to the Father, “Not today. We’re busy." 😡

Remembering Aretha Franklin on her birthday. 💜 🙏🏼 🎵 🎹🎤

#Mystery #Thriller #Writers Great online resource by Alice de Sturler, former lawyer, cold case researcher & crime writer. Topics: unsolved homicides, missing/unidentified people, wrongful convictions, and more. She also does book reviews (see her site for more info). defrostingcoldcases.com

Grandsons laughing on this fine spring day, pic taken at their home in France 👶🌷 #Family #Baby #Joy

17 years ago today, we eloped to Las Vegas 🎉 A couple of PIs in love ❤️ As we left hotel to get a taxi to take us to the chapel, Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s “Carry On” started playing over the speakers. It’s now our song. A new day, a new way And new eyes to see the dawn youtu.be/Fd068ZantBk

I’m not a dietitian, but if you eat pizza right at midnight your body doesn’t know if the calories go towards yesterday or today so they don’t count.

My Monday good news. After bouts of sepsis 2 yrs ago & going bald (sigh) hair grew back a lovely blonde w/ soft curls. Husband loves it. Hub: “Most beautiful hair you’ve ever had. Sorry you had to almost die for it." 😂 I take no offense, just glad to be here! #HappyMonday #FindingGoodInMidstOfBad

Communal nests of Cormorants & Great Blue Herons at Tabor Lake today. Didn’t hear chirping, don’t think (most?) eggs have hatched yet. #Birds #Rookery #Colorado

Love this artist’s work (William Haskell). Once gifted hub a western tie with painting by Haskell ("Desert Overlook”). #SouthwestArt #Landscape #Painting

My mom’s ashes are scattered in the Organ mountains (per her wishes). She grew up with a view of the mountains (from Las Cruces), used to hike there when she was young. Beautiful region. #NewMexico

Fodder for crime stories. In some jails we frequent, the only outside books allowed are those shipped from Amazon. However, some dealers, posing as 3rd-party booksellers on Amazon, are shipping drug-soaked pages (in books) to inmates. Gift article #Mystery #Writers www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/w...