Honoria 🦃 Valemon

Cookies

Eariy snow, sniffly kid, and a Friendsgiving coming up, so I got out my trusty cookie press and made some extremely derpy #Thanksgiving cookies.

#baking

Admittedly, that poster might very well find an attractive confident woman hard to live with, but that’s really on them.

I had a student who was friends with the “mean” girls and they ensured that her social transition was smooth. They were very protective and supportive, which was great to see.

A jack-o’-lantern pumpkin that has dried out and started to mold that now looks as if it needs dentures

The final stage of a pumpkin’s life: being dropped from a cherry picker into a dumpster by gleeful public works guys at SCARCE Pumpkin Smash event.

Sunrise, sunset.

🎃🎃🎃

A jack-o’-lantern pumpkin that has dried out and started to mold that now looks as if it needs dentures

The final stage of a pumpkin’s life: being dropped from a cherry picker into a dumpster by gleeful public works guys at SCARCE Pumpkin Smash event.

Sunrise, sunset.

🎃🎃🎃

Celebrating the cold front with a new furnace filter.

Freezing, not sneezing! *finger guns*

Explains why I’m in my Crispin Glover era

a fire is burning in front of a store that says vet shop ALT: a fire is burning in front of a store that says vet shop

Me finally switching the summer and winter sump pump discharge hoses after doing everything I could to avoid it.

The Olsen twins look like one of them knows how you die and the other knows when you die caption with a picture of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, staring owlishly at the camera

good of her to bring back this meme of her sisters

I pulled up the old list and the new list and the differences are pretty notable. In particular, it goes from 2 turkeys and 2 pies to one of each.

Sometimes you gotta put on your gnome apron, load it with tools, and disconnect the rain barrels and reconnect the downspout.

If it exploded as they say, surely we’ll have turkey shrapnel as evidence. Incendiary pickles, combustive provolone, etc.

I was horrified to learn from an ex-LDS YouTuber that they’re typically made of polyester and/or nylon. And they’re supposed to be 24/7.

Ofrenda with a shut the fuck up about Chicago sticker, referencing a local brand

My beloved friend brought me THE BEST @harebrained.bsky.social sticker. I put it on my ofrenda

This reminds me of the time Gwyneth nobly tried to buy $25 worth of groceries for the week and it was mostly highly perishable greens.

it’s a nice juxtaposition to W who wore boots and jeans to disguise his aristocratic background.

Marigolds in a skellramics vase on a dia de Los muertos ofrenda

8 months ago I planted the seeds for these marigolds specifically so I could put them on the ofrenda today and tomorrow. I’m surprisingly emotional about it.

#DayOfTheDead #BloomScrolling #Flowers #GardenJournal2025

Marigolds in a skellramics vase on a dia de Los muertos ofrenda

8 months ago I planted the seeds for these marigolds specifically so I could put them on the ofrenda today and tomorrow. I’m surprisingly emotional about it.

#DayOfTheDead #BloomScrolling #Flowers #GardenJournal2025

Wow! A nice big one!! Gourdgeous. 🎃

Three carved jack-o’-lanterns with candles inside

I cannot believe I’ve seen the whole journey from pumpkin seed to jack-o’-lantern! 🎃

We carved these three out of 12, and I think they would probably be good eating pumpkins too. Nice firm, evenly colored flesh and lots of seeds.

Happy Halloween!

#Gardening #GardenJournal2025 #Pumpkin

Three carved jack-o’-lanterns with candles inside

I cannot believe I’ve seen the whole journey from pumpkin seed to jack-o’-lantern! 🎃

We carved these three out of 12, and I think they would probably be good eating pumpkins too. Nice firm, evenly colored flesh and lots of seeds.

Happy Halloween!

#Gardening #GardenJournal2025 #Pumpkin

In his opinion, the most historically accurate version would be the kids going to the Derry newspaper office and asking to see a copy or someone having clipped the article.
Reading microfiche at the public library was more of a 70s-early 2000s thing.

I hope you found this nominally interesting!

He explained a famous case history of two newspapers in the 1980s who put their whole archives onto microfilm- except one picked a company with poor QA and destroyed the paper copies before they realized the scans were unreadable.

So scanning wasn’t necessarily done contemporaneously.

Microfilm/microfiche was fairly advanced technology at the time. Higher chances at a university library, though.

He also said that if you wanted the paper from a year earlier in the 1950s, you’d most likely have to go to the local newspaper office bc they would keep copies.

Coincidentally, I was hanging out with my gov doc librarian/archivist friend and he said the chances of a small town public library having microfilm at all in the 50s would be exceptionally low unless they had received a huge grant and someone really pushed for it.

interesting to see this now as I just finished watching Eraserhead

Was he building a mobile RFK lab? Was it just a van with a dead bear?

Watching Welcome to Derry and I’m all like “Really? It’s been one year since this kid’s disappearance and the small town Maine librarians have ALREADY transferred the newspaper to microfiche? UNLIKELY!”

I mean, I guess there’s also a clown-spider, but srsly.

#libraries #librarian

February feels many decades ago…

I really enjoyed The Monkey; it had a fun Tales from the Crypt sort of tone.