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I am the best seat/petes warming spot for watching cat tv. Aka "being nosy and watching the neighborhood"

What to do on a day off - clean up and get the bar prepped for fall cocktails ! #Bar #Cocktails #Spirits 🍸🍹 I am very much over represented by Key West Legal Distilling and Isolation Proof Gin and I regret NOTHING

#cat 🐈 In what may be the most prototypical photo of a cat with thumbs ever

One of my personal garden challenges this year was to try dahlias - mixed results, but the ones that did well came out gorgeous!

🐈 #cat In todays edition of "Where is Chili?"

🌶️🍳 #cooking #peppers #HotSauce Turned the first big harvest of the habs this year into a mango/habanero hot sauce. Came out fantastic!

🌱 #gardening My Black Cohosh that i started from bare root 3 years ago is FINALLY flowering

Some times the seeds are just duds 🌶️

No blossoms or just no growth?

🌱 End of summer processing, turning all the remaining basil into pesto for the freezer!

🌶️ 🌱 #gardening Been a bang up year for peppers here in 7B, and I have at least as many still waiting to come in off the habanero. Either they'll ripen up or we'll get a frost warning and I'll pull them in green, but we've stayed warm so late up til almost TG some years, I figure they'll do.

🐈 #cat Behold - the legendary Stinkx of New Jersey - a nosey creature if ever there was one.

I kid you not, Chili demands I pick her up to hold her to the window so she can snoop on the nabe with a better vantage point.

🐈 #cat Thats some mighty low effort there Chili

YouTube video by APirateCooksAt404 Chili - 1 year old and breakfast thief

1 year of Chili - I wasn't expecting a new animal in my life last August, let alone having to care for a sick baby but I regret none of it. She makes @misc-mercury.bsky.social and myself laugh every day with her shenanigans. Even if she is a menace to food.

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Vibe Check - I will maintained forever that this is the best photo of establishing both mine and @misc-mercury.bsky.social 's preferred gender representations both individually and within the context of our marriage.

🍳 #Food My overnight ropa vieja is now ready for the olives and capers, gets a few more hours in the slow cooker then she is ready.

#Helpdesk #Rant Separating the actual problem from how a user FEELS about the problem is such a fucking process. The amount of people who never learn it (including on themselves) is staggering and frustrating.

The garden is producing well - gonna turn some of this into some ropa vieja

People with ADHD for the entire day when they have an appointment at 3 pm

#cat 🐈 It is officially one year since Chili came into our lives, what a change from the sick little screaming potato we started with

Its awful hard getting anything done around here

Going live this morning with some Core Keeper to kickoff the makeup stream - in theory the Vintage Story server will be back this afternoon around 2pm EST but we'll see if all the mod issues were resolved or not, guess we'll find out!

Just a heads up, work tasked me an emergency so while I am getting that sweet overtime i will be late to start by an hour or two at best. If i dont get on tonight ill do a makeup stream Saturday morning

Twitch Twitch is the world

Remember - no matter what the game is - Snipers are NEETs who dont cap points. Be a contributing member of your team and society, play support and assault! www.twitch.tv/apiratecooks...

Time to make a pot of borracho beans overnight

I feel similarly about the friends I made playing Everquest

Painted during Larsson’s stay in the artists’ colony at Grez-sur-Loing, October (The Pumpkins) exemplifies his shift toward the intimate, naturalistic watercolours that would define much of his mature style. The composition presents Mère Morot, a local resident, in a modest garden at the height of the autumn harvest. Clad in a simple work dress and headscarf, she carries a wicker basket past ripening pumpkins and other seasonal produce. The subdued palette, careful modulation of light, and quiet dignity of the figure convey an unembellished authenticity, elevating the ordinariness of rural labour into a scene of poetic stillness. The painting is rooted in Larsson’s broader interest in genre subjects that honour the rhythms of domestic and agricultural life, and its naturalistic rendering aligns with late-19th-century Scandinavian realism while also resonating with the ideals of the emerging Art Nouveau movement. Of particular note, Larsson’s fiancée at the time, Karin Bergöö—later Karin Larsson—also painted a version of the same motif in 1882. This pairing of works marks one of the couple’s earliest artistic collaborations, underscoring their shared vision and mutual influence during the formative Grez-sur-Loing years.

And now for something completely different…

Carl Larsson, Swedish, 1853–1919
October (The Pumpkins), 1882–1883
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 53 × 73 cm
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Friday Night at 6pm ESt - The Vintage Story RP server will be undergoing a complete reset, but what will this mean for our favorite common man EaNasir, pioneer, farmer, miner and purveyor of fine metals when Swampe Towne is no more?!? Twitch.tv/Apiratecooksat404

#MentalHealth Some days, emptying the dishwasher, reloading the same and then bleaching the sink is just the mightiest of victories against the brain weasels.