elvestinkle

@elvestinkle

Dad, teacher, writer, dreamer. Probably a hobbit. Posting images of the natural world, thoughts about food & gaming, reflections on parenthood, and the ravings of the seedship colony stranded on an alien world in my mind to relieve the stress.

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elvestinkle@elvestinkle· 5d

I did get some excellent camping in this weekend, the line of storms passed just north of me to the point where I felt the wind and heard the thunder and saw the leading edge but got no rain. #hammockcamping

A bowl of ramen and taco beef perched atop an external frame backpack, with a hammock and tarp setup in the background amidst trees and mountains

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· 5d

How about instead we talk about how Chuck Grassley literally plotted to overturn the election by forcing Mike Pence out of the picture, thereby throwing certification of the electoral votes to the house. Nobody gives a fuck about his vacuum cleaner, The Hill @thehill.com

A headline detailing Chuck Grassley retiring his vacuum cleaner

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· 13d

I made this! Cherry pie with a little bit of peach added. It felt good to make a crust, I still got it y'all

A slightly dark brown lattice crust pie on top of a black glass oven

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· 17d

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you are using without explanation.

A plush Bidoof on a parked car's dashboard

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 11

It doesn't have to be this way. People shouldn't have to die over traffic stops. Judges shouldn't have to lose their careers for doing the right God damn thing. What the fuck is wrong with these people

Four headlines with pictures, detailing among other things, Hannah Dugan's fine for helping a defendant escape immigration agents and manslaughter of an innocent person by ICE side by side

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 3

I'm sitting at one of my very favorite places to sit during the summer of the pandemic, and in the heat wave & historic drought it's still a pretty great spot

A stony creek with dappled sunlight and abundant canopy

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 2

Heat dome crayon science for preschoolers! Guess which one had water, oil, or nothing (control)!

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· May 22

Unsolicited deck pic of my finished product. Paint the deck itself a couple years ago & let the vertical panels weather; fairly pleased overall.

A rich blue vertical panel of planks on the edge of a light grey-blue deck, and a rich blue handrail descending down the right side.

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Mar 3

Self portrait

A hand drawn face on beige paper with triangular red and brown eyes, blue half rim glasses, and a brown beard, with mouth open revealing a tongue

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Feb 28

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A yellow sun low in a blue sky amidst a snowy white treescape bare of leaves

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Dec 14

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Dan Simmons' Hyperion

The cover of Dan Simmons Hyperion featuring a spiky metallic figure in the left foreground, a ship sailing across a sea of grass in the background, with a pink and orange cloudy sunset

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Nov 16

The shiny haul is pretty low for this event for me, but high quality. Three out of four new shiny dex entries! #WildArea #pokemongo

A pokémon GO search screen for Chinese aged between 0 and 2 days old, featuring shiny hatenna, shadow shiny Darkrai, shiny mawile, and shiny golurk

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Nov 4

Full moon, and only three candidates for the three seats on both school board and town council. Fortunately all of them are endorsed by my local pape. We're just going to keep on keeping on it looks like here in the Paris of the Piedmont.

a repeverse I voted sticker on a field of blue

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Nov 3

I'm just sitting in my car, with the seat buckle still on, listening to the pattering rain on the roof. I have returned from getting my meds refilled, which had run out last week. And I'm just trying to hold on to my last shreds of sanity. And I miss my goddamn dad #whatkindofadayhasitbeen

A memorial poem inscribed with Edward Lawrence "Larry" Killen called Live Your Dash

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Sep 15

Spent my Saturday evening with a dear friend, camping at Jordan Lake. It took the edge off the last few weeks, and buoyed me for a stretch. I tried hammock camping and... LOVED IT! Slept like an absolute baby.

A gravel campsite nestled amongst green leafed trees, with a picnic bench in the foreground on which are resting various storage tubs and camping gear. A fire burns just beyond, and at the far edge swings a blue hammock suspended between two stout tree trunks.

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Aug 22

When your almost 10 year old son asks you to get him a copy of the Odyssey for his birthday, you go all out. Absolutely rocking the friendly local bookstore swag because #fuckjeffbezos and also @flyleafbooks.bsky.social is AMAZING

The cover of Gareth Hinds' The Odyssey graphic novel adaptation, featuring a man afloat in an ancient skiff on a vast blue ocean. With a green -tinted giant Poseidon emerging from the waves up to his torso bearing a trident

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Aug 17

#spiders #youhavebeenwarned

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Aug 17

Last night, after a dinner of ramen and lentils, I was relaxing on my stool in front of the shelter when I caught a substantial shadow drop down out of the corner of my eye. I got out of the way just in time to see an orb weaver (the size of my THUMB) attach another anchor point to my stool!

Dark and shadowy brush with a twilit orange and blue sky behind, framed by the entrance of a camp shelter. The black speck above the brush (center) is an orb weaver busily making its web to catch dinner.

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Aug 16

Just vibing. The breeze is nice up here but boy, it's cooking

A view of Blue sky with a little fluffy clouds atop a green & rocky knoll

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Aug 5

Can you guess the Halloween costumes for me and my son? #stoked

A long thin cardboard taped together in the middle with duct tape next to a wide, angular cardboard with a handle duct tape to it, the basis for two iconic prop swords, laid out on a red floral patterned rug with duct tape and wooden chopsticks and scrap materials to the side.

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 14

Amidst the chaos of the weekend, we did successfully implement a new screentime-earning paradigm for the boy, I helped him design his Ravenfolk (kenku) bard in @titancraft.com , and we saw Superman at the Lumina. Folks, I am wrung the fuck out #parenting

A Ravenfolk 3D model wearing a top hat, holding a dagger, and bearing twin rapiers sheathed on her back with a beach and town in the background

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 12

Carolina summer means pop-up evening thunderstorms. On Wednesday I drove home to see the leading edge of that evening's blow-through, just wild in terms of sculpted cloudscape fluid dynamics.

A view of a sculpted cloud, the leading edge of a storm front, overlooking a construction site with an excavator in the foreground.

A radar image of a line of storm cells over central north carolina

A forested community of houses, with grey skies backlit by the westering sun, revealing a rainbow behind the trees

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jul 8

Demodex mites:

A monkey puppet looking to the side and then nervously back to front

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jun 30

A project nearly 3 years in the making is finally complete. Behold, my goodest boi. #pokemongo

A fully powered-up, best buddied, lucky Crowned Form Zacian nicknamed GoodestBoi. Blanche appraises its IVs as 15 attack, 15 defense, and 14 HP.

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jun 22

Last night I made shin ramen black for dinner at the campsite, but I added some sloppy jane (ground turkey) from Fridays lunch at work and it turned into a thick and hearty stew. This morning it was oatmeal with the remnant of a bag of trail mix, resulting in a delicious sludgy chocolatey paste.

A campsite with a flyless one person tent and a bunch of camping and cooking gear on a bench next to it, with the green woods all around and a river glimpsed between the trees beyond

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Jun 10

We started our self-portraits for the year end in our preschool class today. I feel like I did okay

The crayon drawing of a man with short brown hair, blue half rim glasses, a brown mustache and stubble

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· May 16

A series of concrete colonnades extending to the horizon, blending from a sandy beach in shade to a sunny blue ocean and blue sky above

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· May 10

A photo of the sun just coming up above the horizon of a beach above a pokemon go screenshot of the in-game sunrise

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Apr 6

Pollen levels are literally at an all time high in central NC. So I guess this shouldn't be a surprising sight. But the phenomenon still astounded me, driving north yesterday, engulfed for multiple hours in a vast, pulsing cloud of yellow.

A highway with trees on either side as seen from a moving vehicle's dashboard, and far off in the distance an overpass almost completely obscured by a cloud of yellow pollen

elvestinkle@elvestinkle· Mar 13

My pepper had a fully formed pepper inside of it