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Wowza, 2.1 inches of rain last night by my rain gauge.

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@gauthamrao.bsky.social the opposition ads write themselves

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@jlepler.bsky.social Wow! I’m jealous, the birds and everything else seems to clear our blackberry bushes every year.

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Moved everybody to fresh pasture.

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Happy 250th, America.

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@manton Luckily the thunderstorms that went though last night cut some of the humidity and heat and a service crew is out here now fixing things. Whew! Otherwise, we’re on our way to mid-to-high 80s today so thankfully it seems it was an easy fix this time.

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Ringing in the Fourth with a dead A/C unit!

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@isaacgreene Looks great!

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Light haul from Bluestem Books today. Always happy to pick up a Lopez book I don’t have yet.

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@adamrothman.bsky.social Heh. I had an undergrad history professor who always insisted the real Independence Day was today.

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This was the same professor who would only ever refer to John F. Kennedy as “he who shall not be named.”

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@isaacgreene It was my first time and, holy moly, what a tremendous read.

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(Her Housekeeping is on my summer to-read list, too).

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@jtr I’ve had a couple things hit HN before, too, and it’s always wild to get a sudden influx of hits! Congrats!

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Finished reading: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚

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Stopped by Carhenge on our trip in western Nebraska.

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@annakornbluh.bsky.social on the plus side those veggies look great!

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@annakornbluh.bsky.social it is so hot here in nebraska ugh

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@rauchway.bsky.social (I actually like THE MAKING OF but it got overused!)

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@rauchway.bsky.social can we also sneak in “and the making of” in there too?

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We visited Toadstool Geologic Park on the Oglala National Grasslands in western Nebraska over the weekend. Really incredible place.

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@ablerism Thank you!

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@JimRain Just a favorite of mine.

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Horizontal yellow.

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@jasonheppler.org Really good so far!

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Currently reading: The Crazies: The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West by Amy Gamerman 📚

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@katecarp.bsky.social By the way! At my writer’s retreat in Montana two weeks ago, there was lots and lots of praise and recommendations for Drafting the Past from my fellow writers! :)

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@katecarp.bsky.social The ag history conference met in Stavanger a few years back and I was so bummed I couldn’t make it.

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@katecarp.bsky.social I’ve been learning Norwegian for fun for the last few years (det er et morsomt språk!), in part because my ancestors came to America from western Norway. So, I get the feeling!

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@jabel I’ve spent the last couple days learning about prescribed grass fires and the problem of eastern red cedars on the grasslands. We have a lot of these cedars (they were once recommended as wind breaks) I could take down, so I have a lot of potential wood available :D

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@jabel Nice! I really need to get a wood stove installed at our place, too. We looked into it a couple years ago, and now the household debate has been wood vs. gas (I’m in favor of wood, but I understand my partner’s argument about the ease of gas).

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Today’s book (and magazine) haul.

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@adamrothman.bsky.social algeafa, like antifa, is this anything?

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Vulture pose.

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Currently reading: Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart 📚

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@davoh I legitimately don’t think I’ve had focused time like this since graduate school.

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@wcaleb Tiya and Will told us they plan to run at least two more, so watch for it to come back around! tiyamiles.com/events/un…

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Really grateful for the time I’ve gotten to spend in Montana for our writers retreat. Thankful for Will Thomas and Tiya Miles in organizing the event, and excited to have created a new community of fellow writers.

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Thrilled to be at the B Bar Ranch for a few days on a writer’s retreat.

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Very much looking forward to the writer’s retreat I’ll be at this weekend, on a ranch in Montana. Great opportunity to get some focused work done, meet fellow writers, and get a break from the Nebraska heat.

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Currently reading: Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right by David Austin Walsh 📚

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@scottbot.net Is this a Voight-Kampff test?!

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@jasonheppler.org This was, maybe, still my first year in grad school. I’d gotten a handle on the heavy reading load. Less so, apparently, on targeted questions.

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It was an embarrassing (and maybe a bit unfair) moment, but I took away from that the importance of close reading.

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@jasonheppler.org Folks, I’d read the book. I was prepared to discuss.

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I had no idea what John was referencing at first and, at the time, didn’t have an answer either.

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Bots are seemingly now the majority of internet traffic, outnumbering human traffic for the first time.

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Finished reading: Where The Sky Began by John Madson 📚

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Finished reading: When Democrats Won the Heartland by Cory Haala 📚

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Currently reading: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚

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Visited Fort Sumter yesterday.

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First proper southern meal on this vacation, complete with boiled peanuts, sweet tea, blackened sheepshead, and cobbler.

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Reading about the Heartlands while in I’m the Lowcountry.

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Hi, Tennessee.

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