Donald Ham :sp_pride:

Gay partnered (for 16 yrs)Boomer in California (Palm Springs area). Napa wine tour concierge 2019-23. Pre-retirement I was a tech analyst studying emerging technology. Step-Papy to 2 amazing 20-something daughters. Big time cat dad.

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2025-02-15 01:57:40

Got very good news today, helps with perspective (waves at *all this*.)
2 yrs ago I had a little, but malignant, tumor removed from my small intestine, oral chemo since to reduce chance of relapse. CT scan in early Jan had findings that triggered precautionary endoscopy/biopsy.
Craig and I have been trying hard not to be scared for two weeks while we waited for results. The report came back today: negative. Whew!
So do your worst, bad guys. I'll be here to oppose you.

2025-01-13 02:02:32

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@nprofile…wf6t
Who is that full size grown-up cat filling up the bed, and where is the tiny kitten we first met!?

2024-12-26 01:38:40

Christmas baking is finished for the day. I made this NYT adaptation of an Edna Lewis dark gingerbread recipe last week, and we liked it so much I made another today! This time I stirred chopped candied ginger into the batter just before it went into the oven.
The Christmas tree-shaped pan was my mother's, it's associated with my very earliest memories of the holiday.
Gift link:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012460-dark-molasses-gingerbread-with-whipped-cream?unlocked_article_code=1.kU4.AEE9.N2CAoZxGc6Cr&smid=share-url
#Christmas
#baking
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2024-09-28 17:30:49

Craig and I: 16 years together today!
1. The two of us at Willy and Tony's Christmas party in Fort Lauderdale, 2008.
2. More grey, but big smiles in our home in the California desert, summer of last year.
3. In addition to Craig, I got to be Step-Papy to Hannah and Rachel, who are 7 in this photo at Disney's California Adventure, 2009.
4. Our girls are now young adults. Photo from 2023 at the viewing area where the aerial tram lets you off atop Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs
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2024-08-18 05:41:29

k. d. fang crossed the bridge many years ago. On Black Cat Appreciation Day, we remember her with great love. She found us, an already older kitty crying for food and attention one day at a side door of our home in Fort Lauderdale FL.
#TheCatWhoCameToStay
#cats
#Caturday
#BlackCatAppreciationDay
(It's still Caturday on the west coast of the US)
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2024-07-15 16:02:41

I may have posted this early Corvair ad before, but speaking of untethered kids in convertibles...
#ClassicCars
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2024-06-30 17:16:57

I just canceled my #NewYorkTimes subscription, and it feels like letting go of an old friend.
I've been a paying subscriber all the way back to their first paid offering, Times Select.
When your once-trusted news source throws out journalistic ideas in favor of "We'll make every effort to destroy Joe Biden because he didn't bend the knee to our publisher," I just don't feel I have another honorable choice.
@NewYorkTimes

2024-04-28 18:16:52

We decided to make brunch at home today instead of going out. So while Craig is at church, I made a yogurt banana raisin bran coffee cake as a surprise. It's just out of the oven, and smells wonderful! (Recipe in comments.
#GayAgenda
#baking
#HomemadeYogurt
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2024-04-26 23:37:00

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And what a sweet, sweet kitty! It has been such fun watching her grow up

2024-04-20 16:55:15

This vaguely amoeba-shaped creature in the morning sunshine on my lap is Baby Kitty in full #Caturday morning bliss. Jellybean is snoozing on the carpet.
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2024-01-19 18:25:45

Sunlight is a little watery this morning, but Bean still approves.
#cats
#caturday early
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2023-12-31 00:01:05

I got Jellybean a new box today. Oh, and new shoes for me came in it.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
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2023-12-25 21:44:04

I make these Cinnamon rolls at home for Christmas brunch every year. They are the recipe from Ann Sather's restaurants in Chicago. So rich and good! If you're from, or have lived in #Chicago these are famous.
Here's a link to a PDF of the recipe, published in 2012 by Chicago PBS station #WTTW
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dtC63PxV5iWGIxdk5VUWlfOTQ/view?usp=drivesdk&resourcekey=0-RzLetovBfhhPiifZO2reDg
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2023-12-25 01:17:13

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Merry Christmas to your family and to all the kitties!

2023-12-23 20:43:28

Merry Christmas to all!
For the #caturday before #Christmas here is Maggie from 2012.
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2023-11-23 02:38:07

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@npub1a25…l27u Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and all the cats!

2023-10-08 02:13:50

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The Oslofjord of the Norwegian American Line docked in Bergen, Norway, in 1960.
My Dad took this photo. We sailed from Oslo to New York on this ship that year. A few months later, #JuliaChild and her husband Paul took the same voyage after Paul's foreign service assignment in Norway ended.
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2023-08-05 01:18:46

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Pax has gotten so grown up! I notice the #kitten hashtag is no longer there. Such a sweetheart

2023-07-29 06:54:05

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@npub1mkw…nk5z
Possibly there are hashtags in the alt text for one of the photos? I think those can also cause a list to appear in your feed for the hashtags you follow.

2023-07-29 02:04:27

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Look who I found today!
https://mstdn.social/@NorcalGma2@sfba.social

2023-07-28 04:59:51

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Be prepared to do extra work to help your kitty. Special food, forgiving box accidents, vet bills. But always keep what your friend needs above your desire to extend their life. Kitties will let you know when it's time. Be prepared to release them from pain then.
I just had to take on that duty for my Stripey in May, and am on watch for senior kitty Bucket right now. Bless you for caring. Your friend knows.

2023-07-20 17:05:00

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@npub1nqz…838y
It's been nice, George, but I escaped from an algorithm-driven techbro hell. No way am I going to give my time and content to another one.

2023-07-20 03:06:30

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"If this place got Labrea'd" is entering my LA-speak hall of fame

2023-07-19 03:13:37

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@npub1h66…dmm4
Block early, block often works for me.
Or mute, if you're feeling mischievous, they're just sitting into a void.

2023-07-18 22:13:04

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114 F (46 C) right now in Rancho Mirage in California's Coachella Valley.
We are pretty used to it in the desert.

2023-07-17 21:15:10

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#LosAngeles

2023-07-16 03:07:32

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Thank you for taking care of her, Jason!

2023-07-16 00:16:09

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I had forgotten about Lucy! What a sweetheart

2023-07-15 15:40:12

Not my kitties, just a sweet thought I saved from someone's online post 12 or so years ago.
Good vibes for #caturday
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
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2023-07-03 16:59:48

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@npub1psy…pasy
It would be great if the "Share" feature on #UFail included "Share to Mastodon!"

2023-07-03 16:57:03

Thanks @npub1psy…pasy for #UFail
I just created an account, here is a video of Stripey and me.
#Caturday
#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon
https://u.fail/v/ZaIpfS

2023-06-09 02:59:59

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@npub1psy…pasy love me some Washy!

2023-05-31 18:40:46

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@npub1cme…w4rh
I have multiple Google accounts, including a couple of free GMail accounts and a couple where I pay for Workspace.
Upper right corner of GMail tab on your laptop, look for the icon representing the account. For me, if I click that, there is a drop-down list of all my signed-in accounts. To see a different one, click it and it opens in a new browser tab.
See if that works for you.