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A glass bowl filled with lots of tomatoes

A pan full of slices of said tomatoes and a few green peppers from the garden along with chunks of onion and a bulb’s worth of garlic cloves, all drizzled with olive oil and some balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with salt and pepper

All those ingredients after having roasted in the oven for an hour

Last batch of tomato sauce for the season (I forgot to get the final product, just imagine a jar of sauce)

My husband and I kissing at our wedding.

My husband and I giddily smiling at the camera after our wedding.

My husband taking a selfie of us on a rock cliff yesterday, orange hills in the background

Me and my husband sitting at the table at our anniversary dinner last night

Six years 💕

He’s just the best.

We had this steak a year ago on our anniversary. It’s been haunting my dreams ever since so we did it again

A 40oz porterhouse steak

Now that’s a damn steak

😭😭

At the overlook. A rock is in the foreground with some puddles reflecting the sky. Some mountains in the background and the sun behind some thin clouds to the right

My husband and me with sky and trees in the background

Some rock at the overlook with some pine trees to the right and some autumn-colored trees off the cliff to the left

Some hills covered in orange and red trees

Finally made it back out into the woods for a bit today. It’s been far too long. God, I needed this

Two that I loved this year were The Correspondent and Why Fish Don’t Exist (one of each 🙂)

I should! I actually read it for the first time this year 🙃

This is cool!!

St John Center in Louisville is hiring Overnight Shelter Monitors for white flag nights this winter. There will be an open interview session at the shelter on November 12th 4pm-6pm. Please re-post / pass along to your networks!

Team meetings can also go out of control v quickly. I spend a lot of time with my head in my hands trying to figure out how we got here 😅

One of the guys who works for me with a big spoonful of potato chips getting shoveled into his mouth. The expression on his face is… intense. After he ate his broccoli cheddar soup he spooned every potato chip into the bowl with his spoon and then ate them like cereal. I just. Why.

Every time I go to lunch w my team, I wish I could convey just how unhinged the experience is. I get that Gen Z humor is different but it’s far beyond that…. Every conversation goes completely off the rails within 30 seconds. Anyway this is one of my guys eating chips out of a soup bowl with a spoon

Yep. Amazon quickly became a logistics company that happened to sell stuff - people bought the convenience as much as the products.

I have this hanging at my desk at work. I need the regular reminder. “Still, life has some possibility left.” In spite of it all.

This brought me much joy.

Donate to Help Rob Rebuild After Plane Crash, organized by Sam Aubrey My name is Sam. My mom's boyfriend, Rob, has lost everything today in the UPS plane cras… Sam Aubrey needs your support for Help Rob Rebuild After Plane Crash

if we had a functioning society we wouldn’t need this patchwork of aid but here is a GoFundMe for a man who lived in a (now destroyed) RV on the property of one of the businesses the UPS plane struck. he also worked there so he is out of a job and a home (in addition to losing friends in the crash)

YouTube video by TylerChildersVEVO Tyler Childers - Bitin' List (Audio)

NYers to Cuomo

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🔥🔥🔥

Uhhhh that would be a weird call for a volunteer to take, too. This is why I don’t sign up for phones 🤣

I still need to read this one! I’ve read Starling House and our book club just picked her newest one. But this one is still on my list!

It’s beautiful!! 🤩

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A stack of 6 books by Kentucky / Appalachian writers: The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife by upfromsumdirt Dead Man Blues by S.D. House The Nature of Pain by Mandi Fugate Sheffel Toward Just Transitions: Visions for Regenerative Communities in Appalachia, edited by Shaunna Scott and Kathryn Engle Allegiance by Gurney Norman We Were Promised: How an Appalachian Grandmother Fought a Corporate Giant by Julia Flint

As always, we had a wonderful time at the Kentucky Book Festival!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

A green road sign that says MARTHA LAYNE COLLINS BRIDGE 1986

Anyway the original sign was much cooler, but it kept getting shot up and replaced and according to google this is what is there now

I have no idea why she was campaigning anywhere near where we lived; we were 7 miles from the closest town and it seems insane that she would be driving that far out in the hills. She was everywhere!

I met her when I was 4. While campaigning for governor she had driven across the low-water bridge a half mile from my house and promised constituents that if she became governor, she’d have it replaced. I met her when she flew in on a helicopter for the dedication after it was built.

Whaaaattt that’s insane!

I’m so very sorry. These decisions are so, so hard. Thinking of you and your family 💛💛

This is lovely. 🧵