Ellis Bergst

@antleredrabbit.bsky.social

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A jackalope living in New England. Former lots of things, future lots of other things. Mostly still the same.

I took this photo of the Northern lights and it is mostly dark with a glowing green blob in the middle-ish.
A 9-year-old dressed for Halloween as the MCU’s Loki circa the first Avengers movie. He has a gold helmet with tall horns and holds a scepter with a blue (glowing) “stone.” He’s standing on a hay bale painted pumpkin orange in front of a large grassy green with woods in the distance.
88 RED HOT NOODLE CASSEROLE Serves 4 8 oz pkg broad noodles 1 t salt 1 t ground cinnamon 2 T sugar 4 tart apples, pared 2 oz red hots-cinnamon cake decors 1/8 lb butter Boil noodles in salted water until tender. Drain in colander. Slice pared apples as for pie. Mix cinnamon and sugar. Coat apple slices liberally. Place a layer of noodles on bottom of buttered casserole. Place layer of apples, dot with butter and sprinkle with red hots. Repeat layers, topping with noodles.
A young woman with pink hair is in a diner, consulting Magic 8 Balls, pulling petals off of flowers, and generally behaving chaotically.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND? WHAT DOTH RUMBLE What Doth Life DIY Music Fest @ The Main Street Museum 58 Bridge Street White River Junction, Vermont 34 bands in 2 days on 3 stages! THIS IS FREE! Saturday, Sept. 13th Big Stage: Cousin Greg Eloco TIME LIFE Magazines Derek & The Demons The Pilgrims BUNNIES McAsh Phrogs Solo Stage: Lilly Golden Psychic Hood GRAHZZY RAINN Lockwood BB Dozer Inside Stage: Wojicki TINKER BULLET GIRLSPIT Rummager Coffin Flop Magic User The Y Lie Faux in Love Sunday, Sept. 14th Big Stage Rat Milk Shy Huskey Carton DutchExperts Western Terrestrials Solo Stage Nate Goyette Modist Rotter Ali T. Inside Stage Dead Street Dreamers Slob Drop Burly Girliest Chodus NONE of this happens without without these rockers!
A bead board is a sort of organizer thing with little compartments to store beads and then three semi-circular groves where you can line up the beads and see how they will look as a long strand/necklace. There is not a lot of apparent organization visible on this board, but there is one long length of black pearls and small black bicones that have been wrapped into a chain. Also a lot of amethyst and turquoise. It’s a mess.
A memory FB reminded me of a while back, from May 31, 2017. The most important transferable skills a student can learn are: 1. Recognizing bullshit; 2. Sarcasm; 3. Finding the joy in simple things; and 4. Not letting the bastards grind you down.
A poster advertising a show at Radio Bean. The text says: MOM DAD Featuring Lilly Golden Radio Bean 8/19 @ 7pm Vermont Premier The image under the text is five people standing in front of a brick wall, three of whom are holding instruments (two guitars and a cello). These five are the band MomDad.
Cucumber salad with Korean pepper flakes. Mmmmm.
A kid with a messy mop of blond curls sits with an anteater statue. He’s got one hand on the anteater’s head, kinda petting it. He’s wearing a blue jacket, a grey shirt, and green pants. The statue is in a small, circular plaza at the DC Smithsonian Zoo. There are some people with a stroller sitting on a low wall in the background.
This is me in 1995 at archaeology field school. I’m wearing a red ball cap that says “Stanford Rowing” (it was my brother’s), and an amazing plaid flannel in shades of green, yellow, and blue (I wish I still had it, along with every other Gap plaid shirt I owned back then), and a fishing vest (helpful in archaeological surveys), and some jeans and hiking boots. I’m holding some sort of collapsible shovel (I think?). My hair is long, blonde, and wavy. I’ll looking far off to the left (or maybe rolling my eyes) and smiling.
A picture of the outside wrapper of a Ritter Sport brand Weisse Lakritz candy bar. It’s white chocolate with little chocolate/licorice lozenges (which seems potentially controversial in some circle). The text on the package is in German, but says essentially that it’s new, and for a short time, and made with 100% certified nachhaltiger kakapbezug. I had to look up nachhaltiger, and basically it’s sustainable chocolate.
The view of my garden from my back step. Close in there are some terraces with steps built in, and a mix of flowers and veggies. The thyme and queen Anne’s lace are appropriating the steps. Beyond, there is a small strip of lawn, then a terraced hillside with fruit trees, daylillies, hollyhocks, and bee balm (being the most obvious). Beyond, at the top of the hill, there are pines.None of the garden was here when we bought the place. I built this. I wish I had someone to get excited about it with.
A photo of a quote in the Dallas Morning News from Thursday March 19th, 1987. The quote is, “We are lobbying as hard as we can to make sure that Texas does not denote itself from 49th to 50th in the human services area.” -Rebecca Bergstresser
A very chonky black cat is laying on his back on a striped rug. He is looking at the camera, and has his little front paws tucked against his chest.
This is a package of Selena Gomez Oreos. The packaging is sort of maroon with gold writing and has done headphones imagery.
A close-up of a bearded iris with peachy-pink standards, rose-to-maroon falls and orange beards.
A really chonky black cat is lying on his back in front of my keyboard. His giant belly is blocking my ability to type or use my mouse. He’s totally zonked out. No work will occur while his floofy belly is in my way.
A black and white illustration of two characters from Bloom County: Binkley is on the left and Opus is on the right. Binkley has a towering poof of blond hair, and is looking at Opus with a flat, unamused expression. Opus is wearing a bow tie, a small umbrella hat, and is saying, “what?”
The Green at Bennington College with the Commons building in the background and a clothes rack with a selection of multicolored boas in the foreground. The Commons building is of an architectural style that says “Serious New England College Architecture” (I’m sure this style has an actual name, but I don’t know it). The boss in the foreground have shed multicolored feathers on to the well-trimmed grass of the Green.
A stage is being set up for a music performance. There are a couple of risers, and a backdrop of shiny pink tinsel. In the front center, a sheep with creamy wool and black feet and nose stares at the photographer. I screenshot this off my daughter’s Instagram story so her handle “lillygolden” and her avatar (a young woman with pink hair) are in the upper left corner.
A black cat is cuddled into the crook of my arm. His eyes are a little squinty, because he’s sleepy.
A single pink tulip grows on a forested floor. There are a few large pines in the background, and then thicker trees even farther back.
Best vocalist nominees Ali T Beth Monroe Kat Wright Lilly Golden Noah Kahan
A dark purple iris with lighter purple/blue beards, and horns of yellow/orange at its heart is in the middle of some iris leaves. The iris has a few raindrops on its petals. Another furled blossom of the same type is further back. Behind the iris patch are some logs.
Julie Andrews singing to kids in the Alps from The Sound of Music.
A young whippet is in the arms of a young girl. The whippet - Whitney the Whippet - is looking at the camera with her head tilted in that curious/attentive way dogs have. She is mostly white with some patches of brindle around one eye and shoulder. The girl (me) is smiling and looking at the dog in a way that implies deep satisfaction and pride at the dog’s accomplishments. I’m wearing a lavender tank top and some denim shorts. We are standing in the kitchen of our childhood home, which involves a lot of wood cabinets.
A box that contains a number of seedlings, primarily tomatoes and tomatillos, but also some basil and zinnias.
The usual view from my back step into my garden. Close in, there are some wooden steps and small terraces; then a stretch of lawn; then the upper terraces. Yellow daffodils are blooming in little bunches spread out across the garden beds. At the crest of the hill, there is a tree with the beginnings of white blooms in the sunlight. Beyond that, at the top of the hill, there is a stand of pine trees and the blue sky behind.
A few tiny morel mushrooms in a patch of moss and grass.
What my yard used to be. Lots of enormous pines, a small strip of fairly shaded out grass, and a lot of low, bushy vegetation (poison I’ve, bittersweet) on the hillside.
A view of a garden. There are straight-ish rows in the foreground, boardered by logs and boards, an informal greenhouse made of cattle panels in the middle distance and a hillside with terraced beds beyond that. In the farther background, at the top of the hill, there are many pine trees.
A view of an early-spring hillside garden in the morning sun. Terraces and beds are defined by branches and stumps. There are daffodils, and other plants are growing but haven’t bloomed yet.
A tabby cat with a white tummy, chin, and leg is laying on her back on a living room rug. She is still and sleeping, but her eyes are open, staring unseeing into the distance. Eventually she stretches slightly, shifts position, and closes her eyes.
A garden on a hillside. Close in, there is grass. In the mid-ground, there are wooden terraces, but from this angle it mostly looks like piles of wood (because the terraces are made of logs). A few daffodils are visible in places. At the top of the hillside, there are trees in the distance.
A large black cat sits on a rug in front of a pile of clothing. The cat is rotund, despite our efforts. His sister, who was once also getting a little bit big (and is not in this photo) has returned to a healthy weight on their current food plan. But not this guy. He is lovingly curating every calorie.
A “funky white lemon” Ritter Sport. Ritter Sport is (in my opinion) about the best brand of chocolate bar, but I’ve never had this flavor.
A closeup of the bud of a serviceberry. It’s sort of a red-green surrounded by a hazy white.
An extreme close up of the bud of an Asian pear. Little bits of bright spring green are breaking through the brown of the winter bud.
A grouping of daffodils in which a few are on the absolute verge of blooming. The earliest (non-miniature) daffodils in my yard.
A view of my back garden from my back door. Close in, there is a set of wood stairs (flanked on either side by garden boxes) that lead to a stretch of grass. Beyond that is more steps leading up through a terraced hillside that - from this perspective - mostly just looks like stacks of the logs the terraces are built from. Above that is a thin stand of trees against the blue sky and highlighted by the evening sunlight.
A little pond feature in a garden. It’s got a little bubbler aerating the water, and one of the bubbler tubes has a frog above it, laying eggs on the tubing. It’s very early spring, so the trees reflecting on the water don’t have any leaves, and there aren’t any green plants growing around the pond yet.
Tiny deep blue bulb irises among brown leaves and a bit of green grass.
A rotund black cat is on his back on a striped rug, staring at the camera with green eyes. His back legs are extended and his back toes are splayed out. Although not visible, the single thought in his head is likely “food.”
The Teletubbies are standing in a row with Tinky Winky central and Dispy left of him and LaLa and Po on the right. All are staring at TW’s tummy screen with wonder as a message from the children of Earth begins its transmission.
Screenshot of the Duolingo’s congratulations on a 921-day streak.
Lilly is on stage playing a guitar. Her hair is pink, her guitar is black, the curtains are green.
A collection of hot sauces from the Hot Ones season 25(?) lineup sitting on a table. There is a Pepper North Jerk & Scotch Bonnet, the Hot Ones Los Calientes Verde, Fuego Sauce Arbol Scorpion, the Hot Ones Xxxperience, and the Pepper Ninja’s Ninja Napalm are the labels that can be seen.
A school portrait of me in the third grade (‘83/‘84). It’s the type of portrait that has two images, one looking into the camera and one profile. I have wavy brown/blond hair and a white blouse with a ruffled collar.
It’s an eMac. It’s older than my children. We bought it when we lived on the other side of the country, and it has made many moves with us. I should find a cord to plug it in and wipe it and get rid of it, but that’s a lot of steps. Like I said: issues.
The album corner of Duran Duran’s ‘Seven and the Ragged Tiger’ album. It has the band’s name in fancy text, a picture of the band, a tiger’s eye in the center of a blue and red compass rose over a sort of old-timey map looking background.
A view from my back door of the view behind my house. The sky is blue, there is a stand of woods at the top of the hill, and the hillside down is covered in snow. The hill faces south, so it is bright white. I have terraced some of the hillside, and these show up faintly in shadow, and have winter plants sticking up.
A jackalope sticker. The jackalope is standing upright on its hind legs looking at you.
A DC metro card with a picture of Barack Obama on it. It says “Celebrating the Inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States.”
An email from the social security administration, which has a blue banner at the top with the SSA seal on the left-hand side. Visible text is as follows: National Slam the Scam Day March 6, 2025 On National Slam the Scam Day and throughout the year, we give you the tools to recognize Social Security-related scams and stop scammers from stealing your money and personal information.  Help protect your loved ones and people in your community this Slam the Scam Day by:  Learning about the latest scams. Information can empower you to quickly recognize a scam. Signs of a scam include: An unexpected problem or offer of a prize or benefit increase, Pressure to act immediately, and A request for an unusual payment like cryptocurrency, gift cards, gold bars, and wire transfers, even with the promise of keeping your money “safe.”
A black cat sleeps in a sunbeam on a striped rug. The sunlights highlights on his black fur look bluish around his face.
This is an image of a poster/calendar for the year 1990 that includes the months and a list of the top 500 “cutting edge” songs of the ‘90s. It says “Welcome to the 90’s” at the top. The background is yellow at the top fading to orange at the bottom. It says it was sponsored by 94.5 The Edge and Sound Future Compact Disc Center. The names of the songs on the list are too small to see, but you can listen to all of them in order here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UHKqqjgUe4G7KTaPXa64R?si=m376OijPTSmpClypBzn-3g&pi=3ZPfACS0RbC6B
A grey-brown tabby cat with green eyes and a white bib and toes stares intently at an out-of-frame bowl of popcorn. The background is the interior of a cluttered, colorful home and includes a cat tower.