Ramsey Hootman

@ramseyhootman

Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com

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Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jul 12

I survived another week at camp with my 15 scouts!! Please accept this grainy photo in lieu of anything with a kid's face in it. The guy crouching is my 16-year-old, who is working all summer as a counselor.

A big flat rock on the other side of the water. There are pine trees and three kids in nothing but shorts stand around a campfire.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jul 1

Actually!! I just found this pile of notecards with major plot points. I thought I was working off some other master doc but apparently not. I almost threw them away when I cleaned off my desk!

A pile of 3x5 notecards in various colors

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jun 25

This is from when I first got it, couple years ago now. It's a little less crisp now but I still love it. Also hoping to add to it... someday.

Forearm with a tattoo of a quill/feather against a background of leafy green

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jun 13

I'm 90% sure this was said in jest, but this has been going on about 4 blocks from my house and my husband and I run down every morning to watch like a couple of 5-year-olds.

A huge-ass crane lifting a shipping-container-sized prefab unit onto a cement foundation surrounded by a bunch of scaffolding. Part of the scaffolding is like this big switchback ramp like the one in the opening sequence of Prince of Egypt.

Six stories of prefab units all stacked up like a bunch of Legos and surrounded by a huge network of scaffolding

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· May 30

Initially I was just gonna log off social media for Lent but I was so productive I decided to stay off until I finished my book. So anyway... I'm back.

A white woman with short graying hair and big sunglasses holds up the title page of a completed manuscript, reading "Secondary Bodies - Ramsey Hootman."

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Feb 6

He is risen!

Bruce, a small russian tortoise covered in dirt, squints blearily at the greenery surrounding him. He has just emerged from hibernation.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Feb 1

When we got home from church today this guy was butt-scooting down our neighbor's fake grass lawn.

A scraggly coyote trots down the middle of an urban street lined with yellow sourgrass flowers

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jan 31

She used to be afraid of the beanbag, but now...

A tri-color corgi curled up on a blue beanbag with a yellow blanket. She has her front paws all tucked up like a rabbit.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jan 22

It does not matter how much I prep in advance or test-fit. Every single glue-up inevitably comes to me rushing around, desperately trying to find one more clamp or piece of wood before my glue sets.

Picture of a cabinet with a bunch of clamps and other pieces of wood attached

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jan 20

I got this little guy just to play around before I go in any deeper but I flashed it to Meshcore first because it sounds more reliable... nobody near enough to message, though! Looks like there's 1 meshtastic node near me so I'll give that a try I guess.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jan 7

WITNESS MEEEEEE (I made Master)

Screencap of the game Wild Rift from just after winning the match that promoted me to Master Rank. It shows the Master emblem in pink/purpled on the left and Battle Academia Caitlyn on the right with her gun thingie propped on her shoulder

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Jan 2

Before ---> during ---> still during Progress! Next up: new flooring and then lower cabinet and sink.

A somewhat cluttered laundry room with open cabinets above a standard washer and dryer. The washer is turned sideways because that's the only way it fits in the space.

Same room but with all the cabinets gone. The back wall is just plain unpainted drywall, and there is now a new stacking washer and dryer.

Same room; walls have been painted and an upper cabinet has been installed.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 28

Probably a year ago, my husband decided he needed to have a picnic with all nine kinds of pies. I tried to hold him off for as long as I could, but he informed me that this Christmas, IT WAS HAPPENING. He has spent the last 4 days doing almost nothing but prepping and baking. For... this:

A white guy with a moustache and beard in a blue button up shirt opens his hands to gesture towards a table of nine pies. It's a LOT of pie. SO MUCH PIE.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 28

But he can't eat it all, and he feels bad letting all that delicious pie go to waste, so he leaves a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine to finish it up.

A page from Harold and the Purple Crayon. A hungry moose and a happy porcupine are looking eagerly at a bunch of 3/4 pies.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 28

IT'S TIME. Remember Harold and the Purple Crayon? During his adventure, Harold gets peckish, so he lays out a "nice simple picnic lunch" composed of "all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best."

A page from Harold and the Purple Crayon. Harold is just finishing drawing a picnic blanket covered in nine purple pies.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 27

This is happening. Tomorrow.

The page from Harold and the Purple Crayon which reads "But there were all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best." Harold, a small child with a purple crayon, is drawing a "picnic" composed of nothing but pie.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 24

My husband has apparently been acquainted with me for quite some time

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 22

it's rainy and cold

A tri-color corgi all curled up in her green dog bed

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 21

Who wants a happy pup?

A happy tri-color corgi on a red leash is looking at the camera. She is "smiling" with her bottom teeth showing and her ears are perked up.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 6

Did not realize becoming a regular blood donor would also keep me supplied with clothing. Last time it was a t-shirt, this time socks. Maybe next time I get pants?

A pair of grey socks printed with pac-man characters and the American Cross symbol. It's laying on green camo pants.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Dec 3

Years ago I joked that when my grandmother finally died, her descendants would descend into chaos and bloodshed over my beloved grandfather's crystal knife rest. Well--I got to it first. MUAHAHAHAHA

A crystal butter knife rest. It looks like a glass barbell. It sits atop a wood-turned tray made by my father.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Nov 29

I would be extremely surprised if you did! I might see if I can like do a gradual fade from all 7 colors to the three I've got left. (I can still get that bright pink, light mint green, and the steel blue.)

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Nov 26

Just, uh, laying here in a high-traffic area. No reason in particular.

A tri-color corgi laying on her back with all four feet in the air, looking at the camera with her little lower teethies showing. She is clearly waiting for belly rubs.

Ramsey Hootman@ramseyhootman· Nov 25

I'm a substitute. I saw this recently and nabbed it to put in my kit. Gonna whip it out next time a middle schooler pulls 6-7 on me and let hilarity ensue. I love it when the kid memes AREN'T something foul or inappropriate for a change!