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Another video of the crazy flooding here today. Where I'm walking the water was up past my knees and you can tell it had been even higher. Normally this area is a little trail through a patch of woods that opens up into a big flat field that the creek runs along on the far side. It's been years since it flooded like this.

#video #flood #nature #creek #yes i took a shower as soon as I got back to the house #floodwaters are very icky

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We had a little rain here last night.

Got the creek up a bit.

#video #flood #nature #creek #this is the first time its gotten out of the bank and gone all the way across that field in a few years #it was knee-deep where i was standing #for reference its only supposed to be over by that far hill of darker green trees

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This beautiful and humongous gray ratsnake found themselves a lovely perch on a bunch of antler racks I have hanging up in my shed.

#snake #snakes #wildlife #reptiles #gray ratsnake #Pantherophis spiloides

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I didn't want the first weird Fallout horse I sketched to be lonely so I made him a buddy.

Special thanks to my dear little Bo boy for once again being a fabulous model.

#art #sketches #monsters #horse #fallout horse #this one probably isn't janky enough for the fallout-verse #but I didn't want the other one to be all by his lonesome lol #may have to do more...

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we got some colorful cryptid feesh now!!!

Featuring new Rainbow Fur-Bearing Trout, Coelacanths, and Beebe's Abyssal Rainbow Gar.

Still gotta paint a few Beebe's Five-Lined Constellation Fish then they'll be ready to go in my Etsy shop <3

painting a few more fur-bearing trout plaques. they'll be in my etsy shop soon <3

#fish plaques #fur bearing trout #coelacanth #gar #fish #art #painting #cryptids #cryptid fish

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Time for a lil shop update! Mostly just bones this time—lots of horse coffin bones, a neat pathological deer jawbone, squirrel jawbones, and some more odds and ends. I knocked a few bucks off some older pieces too.

It's all HERE in my Etsy shop!

#rebagel for the today peeps

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Time for a lil shop update! Mostly just bones this time—lots of horse coffin bones, a neat pathological deer jawbone, squirrel jawbones, and some more odds and ends. I knocked a few bucks off some older pieces too.

It's all HERE in my Etsy shop!

#animal bones #coffin bones #pathology #vulture culture #oddities

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if they don't give that janky old noseless cowboy a janky old noseless horse in the next season of fallout i will be sad

#sketches #art #monsters #fallout horse #fallout #i know that there aren't horses in the games #but i think the show should remedy that #just 'cause it'd be neat lol #man ive missed doing messy scribbly beastie sketches #need to do more of that #its good for my soul lol

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Basket of Coffin Bones

#bones #animal bones #vulture culture #oddities #horse bones #coffin bones #hoof bones #most of them will be in my shop later this week <3

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i know there are much, much worse places it could be but

having a bunch of poison ivy blisters in your belly button really sucks

#don't ask me how #because i have no freaking clue lol #its all over my arms face and torso too ughhhh #i know i got it weed-eating the other day even though i made sure my skin was totally covered #only thing i can figure is i wasn't careful enough when changing clothes to shower right after #and some of the oils rubbed off on my skin then #but there must have been a LOT of it cause my skin is an itchy blistery wreck lol ugh #words

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Here are a few recent creek finds!

A hand from an old bisque porcelain doll, a gorgeous crinoid calyx (that flower-like fossil with a hole in the middle towards the lower left), a nice chunky cow tooth, a big old Boy Howdy fishing lure that lost its head and hooks, lots of lovely hag stones, some really nice fossils, and loads of pretty bits of tumbled glass and pottery.

I thought this little pottery sherd had a lion on it when I first found it but after looking at it a bit closer I realized it was a unicorn!

I did a little research and tracked down what it most likely came from. It looks like a good match for a piece of James Edwards & Son stone china from the mid 1800s. They had very similar maker's marks on them — here's one of the examples I found. Super neat little find! I wish he still had his head but headless unicorns are still cool too <3

#mudlarking #creeklarking #trinkets #curiosities #fossils #pottery #vintage #creek treasures #creek finds #history

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always love seeing the sun hit these toothy smiles in the morning

#skulls #animal skulls #bones #teeth #vulture culture

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Lots more weird and wonderful things from some local antique stores. That first buck with the extra third little antler was so neat!

#antique stores #taxidermy #vulture culture #oddities #thrifting #antiquing #antiques

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Most of the trees around here don't have many leaves on them yet but this old pear tree in my yard had just enough so I got to see those magical eclipse leaf shadow crescents again!

#eclipse #2024 eclipse #solar eclipse #solar eclipse shadows #leaf shadows #crescent shadows

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Eclipse! We didn't have totality here like back in 2017 but we still got about 95% of the way there. Such a surreal, amazing experience. So grateful the clouds cleared off just in time ☀️🌑🌕

#eclipse #2024 eclipse #solar eclipse

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That. Was. AMAZING! I just stood in my front yard with my sweet mom in absolute awe as day turned to night for over two and a half minutes.

It was so dark! An owl even started hooting in the woods near my house, haha.

Love those little crescent leaf shadows!

Really a remarkable, eerie, beautiful, and magical experience.

#tomorrow we're gonna do it again!!! #no totality here this time but should still be pretty dang close #eclipse #sure wish my mom was here to see this one with me too <3

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...need a hand?

#mudlarking #creeklarking #doll parts #doll hand #creek treasures #trinkets #i thought it was plastic when i first saw it but it's bisque porcelain