kurt took this pic as I nodded off on the couch. My back isn’t looking so bad these days!

trying my best to get my chest back. #gaymuscle #musclebeard #gymbear

Some gay couples can share clothes. I am not in a couple that can do this, as I wear a shirt from my husband.

Been a hot minute since I posted some progress pics, so here we go. still fluffier than I like, but the triceps, shoulders and back are showing decent progress. #gymbeard #gaybeard #gymprogress #liftingmos

Korean pastry shop beard. #beard #bskybeard #gaybeard

Dinner and a show beard

It’s official: I am now unemployed. I was let go by the paper. Sadly with declining readership and ad revenue the writing was on the wall. No idea what to do now.

My certificates are here!

I miss doing beard contests.

Twin Cities residents still have some opinions, vol. 7572

Probably one of the best and most amusing Patreon perks I have ever seen: random characters in videos being named after you.

i was informed that my stories for my newspaper earned 2nd and 3rd place with the Wisconsin Newspaper Association In their Better Newspaper 2025 competition. I am amazed!

My gym Results vary but hey, my pec deck is coming back.

Lately, more Minnesotans have been a bit more forward with their opinions.

I had to do something.

The current mood throughout most of my neighbourhood in Minneapolis

You know, I think I’m gonna make it after all. (Took me long enough to see Mary downtown!)

God bless living somewhere with a bathtub again. #beards #gaybeard

Happy new year!

Somehow Kurt found this for us to do.

I have not loaded anything with this TI-99/4A peripheral expansion unit in twenty years, and was unaware this disk — from 1983 at the latest — was still in the drive. And it still loads, over 40 years later! I am shocked. #ti994a #retrocomputing

Stay warn everyone!

Getting supplies before the snow gets really bad

Kurt and I make our TV debut on the most recent episode of “Crowd Control” on the Dropout streaming service

Let’s hear it for “What We Do in the Shadows” cosplay

Helping at a convention and crossed paths with this absolute unit.

Miss doing beard contests and it has been about five years. Yep, I still have the outfit.

I was told this needed more circulation so here. Years ago I did - print ad for a now-defunct cafe and their website had a whole page of “rules” (which is already weird). Damn, Lydia. What the hell did you do??

Gym progress, week 7, after killing arms. Also now hitting calves twice a week. #beard #gaybeard #gymbeard #gymbear #gymprogress

Having regular lifting regiment means that now I go to my husband and he digs his thumb into my biceps or pecs while I yell bloody murder. Oh what the neighbours must think!

Outside my apartment in #minneapolis

More progress, week 5 #beard #gayebard #gaygymprogress

Week 4 progress. Traps, triceps, calves, back showing some nice improvement. Chest is too but not as much. Still fluffier than I would like.

Kurt was using the TV in the apartment, so I took the 2600 to the community room.

suite game #7572 #beard #gaybeard #suitedbeard

Return of Immatury, vol. 001

I’m trying. Slowly but surely … #gaybeard #beard #gymprogress #gaygym #bearswholift

Workout progress: sigh, I miss having a large chest. #workoutprogress #beards #gaybeards

Other body parts may have deteriorated but my rump, on the other hand …

Met up with the ever-cute beardy Tetsuya for Uzbek. Thanks to Tetsuya for the photos! 本当にありがとうございました！

Accountability time: last year I ended up injuring my shoulder and I took time from the Gym. Lost a lot of strength, for fluffier than i would like. So, I will use Bsky for gym progress. Here: week 2, currently three times a week, just hit back and shoulders #gaygym #workoutprogress

Net bother beardo on World Beard Day

Happy World Beard Day. #beard #beardo #gaybeard

It has now been eleven years since being widowed, and my life is very different from when I lost Carl. Still I love him and think of him as his yartzeit passes once more.

“I can see the Jumbotron from the Twins stadium from my apartment. A shame I don’t care about baseball!” “I figured that part out when you referred to extra innings as ‘overtime.‘L

It has been a hot minute since I have lifted, but since I have moved I have been consistent. There is already some improvement showing up.

Kurt on the balcony of our new home in Minneapolis.

Just moved into my new apartment in Minneapolis. We have so much to unpack, and I am exhausted.

Will be moving to Minneapolis next week. Excited yet just wanting the move to be over.

So it looks like my time with the paper and in Eau Claire are coming to a close. The hubby has accepted a job out of state. Not sure what I will be doing for work — I pray that I find something far sooner than I did when I moved here to EC.