@matildasue.bsky.social
Love animals, snakes and dogs in particular. Semi-retired early with my husband, travel a lot. I am a polyglot. Love cycling, cooking, reading and creating things (drawing, sculpting, batik, painting). Disgusted by the political state of the US.
Cuties!
04.07.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Details below about my polymer clay snake fundraiser in support of the 67 severely neglected snakes being rehabilitated at Spirit Keeper Animal Sanctuary.
03.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Athens Day 2.
Ancient Agora, and a beautiful evening spent with @suzybates.bsky.social and family up on a gorgeous hill overlooking all of Athens. I love meeting up with great friends in far away places!
Athens Day 1.
We arrived in Athens mid afternoon and got settled at our Air BnB, then went walking. Had dinner not far from our flat and apparently burgers here are just the meat 🤷🏼♀️. Lovely Greek salad though. Lots of street art too. Made it until 8 pm and basically died upon hitting the bed.
There is something insanely satisfying about power washing things. I’ve been working on my old dirty fence. What looks like “weathered wood” is often just… dirt.
03.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally caved and got some marshmallow slides. I can’t decide if I love them or hate them. They are comfy, I’ll give them that. A little chonky.
31.03.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My other most favorite memory was taking my mama on a girl’s trip just the two of us to Fredericksburg in this car. We went antiquing, got root beer floats, spent two nights and hauled home 7 pieces of wrought iron and a trunk full of antiques, singing the whole way home at the top of our lungs.
05.03.2025 03:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of our favorite memories was loading up this little car, top down, with a full trunk of camping supplies and food, two dogs, and two humans to meet D’s family at Buescher State Park. Good times!
05.03.2025 03:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today we sold our Miata. We have had her for 28 years, since 1997 when I bought her brand spanking new after grad school. She was such a fun car for all this time, but it financially makes little sense to keep two cars for us now (more in comments).
05.03.2025 03:53 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A few highlights from delicious French dinner last night. Menu included:
✨Oysters on the half shell (📸)
✨Rabbit rillette
✨Lobster bisque (📸)
✨ Endive salad (📸)
✨ Flatiron steak w/haricots verts
✨ Cheese plate
✨ Chocolate gateau
All paired intentionally with French wines by course.
Table also (📸)
Looking forward to spending a fantastic Valentine's Day (one day past) dinner with the love of my life (@DanielJudd) with dear friends. It's fit to be a French FEAST and will be chef's kiss perfect 🤌.
15.02.2025 23:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need more dogs and snakes!!
15.02.2025 03:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The bathroom. Looks so much better white and crisp. It is a small space but bright.
13.02.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The rest of the laundry room. I did not paint the nook where the machines are. Too hard to take down wire shelves and move machines. Separated the space with some white trim and left that blue. Genius. 🧠🤓
13.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My extra project this week was a long needed refresh on the paint in the laundry and back bathroom. It was formerly a pale sea glass blue but the paint can went by the wayside many moons ago and I lost the color. So I painted it “Fresh Popcorn”. Also drastically simplified it.
More pics in comments
This sweet girl got a clean bill of health at the vet this week. Bloodwork and fecal all normal, vaccines updated, weight is perfect. No signs of arthritis. We don’t know her age but we guess about 10-11. We have had her now 4 yrs, 3 months. Love our Chelli girl.
13.02.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taco Friday. That’s a thing, right? (From Can-Tina at ABW)
07.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s Yuki being photogenic on a Wednesday. She’s so nosey.
05.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Made Nigella Lawson’s Clementine cake yesterday. Tangerines, eggs, sugar, almond flour, and baking powder. That’s it. Moist and tasty.
29.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just spent three bills at Costco today and thanked them for not sucking.
29.01.2025 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You’re welcome K! You’ve sent me so many cute things from auction treasures (my cup and my little pill container) to little keychain doodads to amulets from Japan on your last trip, I absolutely had to shower you in goodies too! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and you deserve spoiling too!
24.01.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to seeing more of NZ from you, friend!
23.01.2025 04:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delicious Italian meal at Cuarta in Shinagawa on our last full night in Tokyo.
23.01.2025 04:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Daniel and I went up to Senso-ji in Tokyo. We had never been. What a beautiful campus area and grounds. We wandered through stalls and had a lovely afternoon while the kids played around in Harajuku.
23.01.2025 04:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roster Cafe in Yoyogi area. Another local coffee house we love. Had a una melt on bagel for lunch.
23.01.2025 04:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some of the really trippy and mesmerizing rooms at TeamLab Borderless exhibit. So hard to describe this place but it was wonderful.
23.01.2025 04:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delicious little Izakaya Star and Brooke found in Shinjuku and took us back to. I had tsukemen with some katsu chicken.
23.01.2025 04:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo is quite a bit better than a normal Starbucks. Had a delicious treat there, just Daniel and I.
23.01.2025 04:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We also visited Hebikubo Shrine, dedicated to snakes. The line to get in and write a prayer tablet and rub their heads for luck was quite long. Six blocks long. We were the only foreigners in the line. It was a cool place.
23.01.2025 04:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A visit to Sarutahiko in Ebisu. Our favorite coffee shop.
23.01.2025 04:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
