Rudie V. 🏳️‍🌈

My friend got me completely hooked on this Renaissance Faire thing and now I've gone down a rabbit hole of cooking up costume ideas every time I'm at the thrift store!. We're going back to the Virginia one in two weeks, and this time I'm going as Frodo from Lord of the Rings! 😄

My mom just got a letter from Social Security saying they made a mistake and now she needs to pay back her SS benefits dating back to 2022.

Meanwhile billionaires like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerturd pay nothing in taxes without consequences, and worse, with the Orange Blob's full blessing. #FuckTrump

The barred owls have arrived for the summer! Just heard two of them hoot-hooting back and forth for 10 minutes. 🦉

Had an absolute blast today at the #Virginia Renaissance Faire in Spotsylvania County, my first time at such an event! I can see why people get really into it! So much creativity and talent between the costumes and the wares people were selling. Definitely going to be an annual event for me.

My aunt in coastal Georgia just texted me a video clip of a painted bunting at her bird feeder and I could not be more jealous!

I saw an indigo bunting once, a few summers ago at my nursery's production farm. It really is an amazing world we live in. We should take better care of it. #Birds #Wildlife

I love how international my feed is here in the #Fediverse. It's nice to get perspectives from other places and learn about things beyond my own borders, that you would never encounter on centralized social media.

A narrow path between the trees
Beckons with its mystery
Tangled mess of shrubs obscure
The view of where the trail leads

Branches weeping touch the water
As birds above me sing and fly
The river's flow takes its time
Critters sun themselves on rocks nearby

Puffy clouds drift aimless aloft
From rivers edge jut piles of logs
Geese swim by with their young in tow
River rats laugh as they paddle and row

#poetry #poems #writing

Karaoke tonight with my best friends! Exactly the boost I needed! 🎤

Scientists create biodegradable packaging material that matches the performance of plastic https://happyeconews.com/scientists-create-biodegradable-packaging-film/

I've had the good fortune this far in my life to not personally witness violence but that ended this afternoon coming home from the Maymont Herbs Galore event here in Richmond. I’m stopped at an intersection near Chesterfield Town Center, about to turn left onto Midlothian Turnpike. I suddenly hear screaming coming from the parking lot next to the road I’m on, and I look over and a dude is screaming at his wife or girlfriend, trying to pull her out of his car by her hair and hitting her. Unfortunately (or fortunately for him) I had nowhere to pull over, else I was going to be on him in seconds and throwing hands. So I make the turn, then do a U-turn over the median so I can at least get the license plate and call the cops, which I did as I followed this guy for 20 minutes to where I presume he lived. The dispatcher told me units would be on the way; I hope they found the guy and put him away. People who treat their partners like that usually have a long history of it.

Update: karaoke night was mostly fun, enjoyed catching up with old friends (and meeting some new) but alas the place we went to turned out to be a MAGA toxic male hangout spot. Eww. Lots of big burly guys making creepy passes at any woman who walked in there.

So…back to the gay bar next time!

New poems up on my blog! https://poemsbyrudie.substack.com/p/by-the-river?r=8ge5wg

Going to my first #RenaissanceFaire next weekend in northern Virginia with friends from work, need to figure out my costume this weekend! Hoping I can find some stuff that’s pirate-y enough that’s not on Amazon.

Soothing ambient #music to calm your frazzled nerves https://youtu.be/gDGSXt1KSYM?si=x8gVfTGsYZQUzaHJ

Today is definitely a go-to-bed-early day because I absolutely need to shut my mind off.

I can take a lot of abuse from strangers, online or in person. But wounds from a friend are a special kind of painful....

Anyone here using MyNoise.net for background sound while you work? And if so, what's your favorite noise to put on? I'm fond of boiling mudpots and cafe restaurant. https://mynoise.net

The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift.
The road is forlorn all day,
Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift,
And the hoof-prints vanish away.
The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee,
Expend their bloom in vain.
Come over the hills and far with me,
And be my love in the rain.

The birds have less to say for themselves
In the wood-world's torn despair
Than now these numberless years the elves,
Although they are no less there:
All song of the woods is crushed like some
Wild, earily shattered rose.
Come, be my love in the wet woods, come,
Where the boughs rain when it blows.

There is the gale to urge behind
And bruit our singing down,
And the shallow waters aflutter with wind
From which to gather your gown.
What matter if we go clear to the west,
And come not through dry-shod?
For wilding brooch shall wet your breast
The rain-fresh goldenrod.

Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the sea's return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern;
And it seems like the time when after doubt
Our love came back amain.
Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.

(Robert Frost) #poetry

Ok, who the hell would voluntarily have their dinner conversations recorded??? And sent to Campbell’s Soup??? This reads like an Onion article, honestly. https://www.pcmag.com/news/pass-the-prego-and-the-device-recording-your-conversations-at-the-dinner

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