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Jess W-G

@frogsandgrubs

Middle school science teacher, entomologist, snow lover in NC. Parent to a tween and a toddler. Beyoncé lover in my soul. I’d rather be ice skating on a lake in the north woods.

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Just ignored one from the solar company. They were great! I expressed my appreciation with big checks and words out of my mouth.

11.03.2026 15:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Osprey are back!!! Just saw one dive and catch a fish in a retention pond

10.03.2026 20:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Give. Me. A. Backyard. Armadillo. Please.

10.03.2026 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The toddler is still awake. It is 10:02 pm. Wpuvjsnwpeonxmvmgkgiwkqpalsbdznzmmtgnfbfbxnsjajrtmgmdmxmxmxndnddn

10.03.2026 02:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whatever awful consequence I can think of, I want worse to happen to them. No.’worse. More suffering. In public.

08.03.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A live edge bench in the back of a very messy family station wagon

A live edge bench in the back of a very messy family station wagon

Doing my part to keep the local art gallery open and the local woodworking scene alive

08.03.2026 20:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Inside Out is one of our absolute favorite movies of all time at my house

08.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fox and the Hound lurking around the corner

08.03.2026 14:32 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is not a brag. I live in Chapel Hill but have no tie to UNC or Duke so the Duke UNC game is a complete surprise to me every year. It explains why Franklin St was so busy last night.

07.03.2026 23:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can confirm that it was certainly not

07.03.2026 21:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The people who owned my parents’ new house planted English Ivy. Recently. Whyyyyyy

07.03.2026 21:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a magnificent gift to leave behind

07.03.2026 13:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Grandpa I was in the Battle of the Bulge, landed in Normandy a few days after DDay, and liberated concentration camps.

05.03.2026 13:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Immigrant family tenant farmer who left school after eighth grade to support his family, lied about his age to join the Army in WWII, then gear smith

WWII Navy and electrical engineer

05.03.2026 13:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh my god

04.03.2026 03:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I can afford to teach in NC because my husband makes 2.5x my salary and we are in the 40 year old range, not just starting out.

03.03.2026 23:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Election Day!!!

03.03.2026 23:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sign me up for the zombie band!

03.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

28.02.2026 18:53 👍 23611 🔁 5974 💬 141 📌 66

But, yeah. I bet his pronounced midwestern values include folks who wish they were part of the veiled prophet nonsense.

28.02.2026 14:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone should know about the veiled prophet. St. Louis honed its racism in such wild ways.

28.02.2026 14:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Then he got racist about Chicago AND needled and asked if that crossdressing teacher still works at my workplace. Just wow.

I had to directly tell him to stop talking and to leave the house.

28.02.2026 14:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I recommended that he read The Broken Heart of America and referenced the Delmar Divide and policies that forcibly removed people from their homes and then subjected them to violence and poverty and then he finally got to it. “So The Blacks live there.”

Wow

28.02.2026 14:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Small potatoes but I’m helping my parents get bids from contractors a la @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and, yesterday, a painter found out I’d lived in St. Louis and spent five minutes trying to get me to give him a racist reason to explain why St. Louis is so violent (his take).

28.02.2026 14:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Saw it at 3 am when the toddler woke up. Guillotines now

28.02.2026 12:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The CEILING FAN I bought last year has its own wifi. The ceiling fan.

27.02.2026 14:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same

24.02.2026 22:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is A+ local content. Currently eating the dregs of my toddler’s Wegmans slice. Putting it on the list.

24.02.2026 22:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Who is sending out native plant catalogs in NC? I’d love to get on that list

22.02.2026 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You’re a bot?

22.02.2026 00:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0