Rantilla 🧀

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EM doc, politics junkie, bleeding heart liberal, and lover of words. She/her. RN➡️MD. Tweets not medical advice. Image: “Fuck You” by Marion Peck #gopackgo #gocubsgo #MedSky #embroidery #needlework #crossstitch

Side view of a sleeping greyhound’s head
A pair of stitch stoppers, green dumpsters with white, yellow, and orange flames shooting out, on bamboo circular knitting needles. Black Malabrigo Silky Merino yarn on the needles.
A palm-sized square of garter stitch knitting using light gray yarn with bright small flecks of color speckled throughout.
A very large board loaded with salmon sushi, nigiri, and sashimi pleasingly arranged in an elongated spiral. Customer also ordered salmon tatami, short ribs, and 20-30 grilled pineapple.
A whiskey sour with lots of Angostura in a Waterford crystal rocks glass resting on a ceramic Chicago Cubs coaster on a reclaimed wood table in front of a wood fireplace.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog standing up and looking straight on into the camera, ears up and out, with a slightly quizzical look on his face.
A greyhound dog looking reproachfully at his overly enthusiastic owner.
The cover of Anne McCaffrey’s book Crystal Singer, showing a young brunette woman standing in a peak in a crystalline mountain range, leaning backwards, right hand holding a sonic cutter and left hand upraised to the heavens, holding a block of black crystal, backlit by a brilliant sun.
A merry wood fire crackling in a fireplace.
A GBP Parsons throwback 2025 jersey.
A greyhound dog in his bed, looking down at the floor.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog on a brown leather sofa, sleeping on his side with his long legs tangled up together.
A Packers 2025 blue and copper throwback Micah Parsons #1 jersey.
A greyhound dog lying on his side with his head on a golden pillow.
A fawn brindle greyhound, head cocked, ears out, communicating his desire for more food with a penetrating stare.
A fawn brindle greyhound lying awkwardly with his head resting on the edge of a wood coffee table, one ear up, one ear back, tongue hanging out, being petted just the way he likes, and in his happy place.
A relaxed and snoozing greyhound dog, unbothered by NFL drama.
TD Ballpark, spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays, with fans sitting on camp chairs and blankets in the outfield, looking at the Jumbotron, getting ready to watch game 7 of the 2025 World Series.
A meme depicting a Packers character berating other members of the NFC North for finding it difficult to defeat Aaron Rodgers.
Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, PA
A rear view of a man wearing a #87 Doubs Green Bay Packers jersey and a Guardian cap looking out over a river.
A weather forecast showing current temperatures of 71 degrees F, mostly cloudy, high of 75 and low of 70. Partly cloudy conditions expected around 00:00. Wind gusts are up to 19 mph.
Stir fry with beef, bok choy, sugar snap peas, radishes, assorted sweet peppers and onions.
A fawn brindle greyhound licking his chops while wearing a black kerchief with little green alien heads. He is licking his chops.
A fawn bridle greyhound dog, laid out in a full roach on a human-sized dog bed.
A magnet on a fridge that has the words “Did you feed the dog” on it with a table with the days Sunday through Saturday and the times AM and PM and markers to show that the dog was indeed fed.
My phone Lock Screen featuring a picture of a fawn brindle greyhound, backlit with the sharply angled rays of an almost sunset, standing on a green lawn with live oaks and a black aluminum fence in the background.
A backlit, vibrant red, luminous, fully open hibiscus flower, shot from the back, in a small glass vase on a black marble countertop, bathed in the light of the early morning sun.
“The respect that the courts must accord the Executive must be reciprocated by the Executive’s respect for the courts.” -United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit No. 25-1404
A fawn brindle greyhound dog lounging on a dog bed in front of a fireplace, both ears flopped over to his left.
A pint of Graeter’s black raspberry chocolate chip ice cream, a pint of Graeter’s bourbon pecan ice cream, and 5 frozen logs of Glier’s goetta in a white Skyline Chili plastic bag.
A bright moon sliding behind white fluffy cloud with the eternal black of infinity beyond… a tree branch in the lower right corner grounds the scale of the image and enhances the contrast.
Screenshot of part of the Merriam-Webster list of words first recorded in 1611. Words shown are ropewalker, running knot, salaam, scalelike, scenography, secularize, self-opinionated, serf, series, shittah, short ribs, side-glance, silky, skewed, smacker, soapsuds, and soft-shell. The word shittah is circled in red.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog lounging in bright sunshine on a green lawn next to a stone pathway.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog with an “I love Mom” collar in classic tattoo style standing next to a neighborhood retention pond, limned in golden light with a backdrop of a cloudless blue Florida sky.
A screenshot of a subscription confirmation page for The Atlantic.
A woman holding a s’more in front of a fireplace. A man is holding a skewer with marshmallows over the fire.
A work in progress cross stitch of a woman (Anne of Green Gables) in profile, with a red braid of hair cascading down her shoulder.
A cross stitch in progress showing vague outlines of a face and hair.
Picture of Wikipedia entry for the cocktail “Corpse Reviver No. 2” which consists of equal parts gin, Cointreau, lemon juice, and Lillet Blanc (or Cocchi Americano), served chilled and up with an absinthe rinse).
A hand embroidered folk art style red cardinal on unbleached cotton fabric.
CivVII start screen with Harriet Tubman as Leader.
A greyhound dog, ears up and in, snoot forward, pretending to have never eaten a day in his life despite being an utterly spoiled brat.
A small hand embroidery of a field of sunflowers with hills, ocean, and sky in the background.
An embroidery work in progress with satin stitches in bright blue radiating out from a central point to form the upper half of a circle to represent the sky in an unfinished picture of a sunflower field.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog smiling at the camera while reclining on a huge dog bed.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog reclining on a dog bed and smiling, a little tongue out, for the camera.
A counted cross stitch of various flowers in pink, yellow, and blue arranged in a vaguely heart shaped pattern.
Madeline Kahn in the movie Clue as Mrs. White, standing in front of a fireplace above which is inscribed “Nouveau Riche Oblige.”
A DVD of the movie Clue.
Bob Uecker, 1934-2025
Small hand embroidery butterfly.
A fawn brindle greyhound dog with one ear up at full attention.
A very skinny 18 month old fawn brindle greyhound dog with all his ribs showing.
A picture of Spiceology brand Pizza Pie seasoning blend in a jar.