melbaboutown
@melbaboutown@aussie.zone
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 8 hours ago:
I’m being punished for leaving Melbcat inside this morning… she now won’t let me in the bed!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 15 hours ago:
How would you safely handle cleaning that up?
Maybe by picking up the largest pieces, scraping the jam up with an old credit card, and then mopping for the stickiness and tiniest shards?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 17 hours ago:
I’ve removed and hidden that brick :/
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 19 hours ago:
You’re right of course. I planted when I should have been harvesting. I just don’t know if I can bring myself to do it
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 20 hours ago:
Next time I plant early 😔
I find they really started to get going when I gave them more fertiliser though.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 21 hours ago:
Butternut are the best
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 21 hours ago:
Ah, the peas have only recently sprung… oh well it’s practice.
The tomatoes are still ripening and looking healthy but will probably be on their way out as it’s getting colder.
rip pumpkins out
crying Do I have to?
I’ve got around 6 of these little guys. Two I pollinated today and four are starting to plump.
I do have some onions I was going to take to the pantry but can’t make it down. I could find space in the soil.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 21 hours ago:
Thanks
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 21 hours ago:
Probably not. I’ve done this dance before.
But I would need the police report and proof of it not being me so I don’t have to pay for damages or get kicked out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦆 Monday 31 March 2025 21 hours ago:
The pumpkins have been hand pollinated and buds/leaves wiped down where necessary. There were a few more female flowers open so I hope I get some fruit.
I weighed the remaining foil pan down with a partial brick to prevent the wildlife water from tipping over but given my area I’m now wondering if that’s a good idea… one of the druggie fuckwits could impulsively throw that right through my window. It would be on camera so I could get them charged and have proof I wasn’t responsible for the damage but it’s still not a nice thought.
My stomach is so angry -_- Being stressed all the time just doesn’t help. Having another test today.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
There are a lot of cats and birds around who would cop anything so I don’t do anything
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
I wish.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
I thought the denizens of this shithole had finally left the bird water alone… Nope. Same tweaker came back yesterday and stole the metal pet bowl I was using to weigh the foil pan down.
Threw the water out of the bowl the same aggressive way before taking off with it so I have no idea why he keeps stealing them.
He’s always around here being a dickhead. I wish stolen items could carry a curse.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
I went out and checked the yellow sticky traps. They got a few but the whiteflies were mostly clustered underneath the leaves and the traps had caught multiple long legged flies… aka the beneficial insects that eat the aphids. Plus one tiny katydid. They might have got a weird kind of ladybird yesterday (which I freed).
Not happy Jan. I’ve taken them down and won’t be using them anymore.
It was an aph-ocalypse under there on the worst plant so I ended up using a strong solution of natural dish soap to douse and scrub wherever they were. It ended up leaving a thin wet lather of detergent behind which might harm the plants and encourage mildew (already an issue) but is hopefully insecticidal. Fingers crossed it doesn’t affect the good bugs.
Melbcat wasn’t impressed that I was out there for ages while she had to stay inside, so she’s off in her bed. It’s a shame. She could have sat with me or sunbathed. But I need her to accept being a fully indoor kitty and not expect to be let out.
My gum near the problem tooth is looking red and sore so I think there’s a problem again. Hopefully only a minor infection from a floss nick but I’ll have to get that sorted between everything else going on.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
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Once in you can pinch the base and twist it to try and help it pop open, run your finger around the outside, or try a different folding method.
The Meluna are good and come in normal or Shortie but keep in mind they’re a bit pricey.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
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I stopped using them but try Meluna for smaller options. The Lunette and Divacup are quite large. Also practice wearing one at home and get used to it before wearing it out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
He could plant a nice hedge instead?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍓 Sunday 30 March 2025 1 day ago:
Sweet and savoury. Sounds like a perfectly balanced diet
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
Thank you for setting things… right
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
Onion on top of the snag? Living dangerously
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
I tried to find the versions but only could find two.
Damn, how does someone paint that good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
I asked and the painting was The Shore Of Oblivion by Eugen Bracht 🙃
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
There were a lot of pumpkin blossoms this morning. I’ve pollinated the open female flowers and have a total of four now.
I need to look more carefully though. Was moving a flower aside to see if any more females were budding underneath and then realised my hand was like an inch away from the bee inside it. 😨Luckily I didn’t end up needing the epi pen.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
Yeah maybe. I wondered that initially, if the larger central ‘rock’ was actually a small overturned boat. But I don’t think so.
I keep pulling up the mental image and it seems to be more like a flat angular rock with smaller ones around it. And there might have been one more skull.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 2 days ago:
It really did look like a Courbet and I had been looking through his but no luck so far
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Saturday 29 March 2025 3 days ago:
Oh hey there Yarrabyte 🤖
There’s this painting I once saw and I can’t find it again. It was a landscape painting of a cliff on a shore and looked very much like the 19th century romanticism oil paintings.
Compositionally it looked a lot like John Constable’s paintings of Weymouth bay but it wasn’t grey and overcast. It was glowing with slightly warm yellow light.
The sky was a desaturated yellow sunset haze with clouds. The cliff rising behind was a crumbly warm orangey yellow. The incoming small wave was a light warm blue with a rill of white foam and the flattish jagged rocks were brown. There were a few smaller flat rocks towards the centre at the bottom of the cliff with a scattering of human bones including a skull or a few skulls.
It’s driving me nuts because sometimes I think I’ll have narrowed it down to a particular setting or artist and then I find another very similar but not quite the same in a big way. I think this is an entire genre I’ve stumbled on (Romanticism is apparently big on landscapes and there might have been a British movement) so I’m looking for a needle in a haystack.
I could also be chasing a ghost if the image drew from multiple works and was ai 💔
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 3 days ago:
Thanks, they might potentially be alright
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 3 days ago:
You’re better off not knowing
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 3 days ago:
Got the melatonin… returned it for containing lactose ;-; I’m now checking out iHerb.
Not seeing ingredients on some… Lactose is used to bind stuff into pills so maybe the gel caps might be alright. The gummies I found have ingredients and while not great they might be tolerable.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 👶🏼🤖 Friday 28 March 2025 3 days ago:
Thanks, I guess I just have to keep trying.
The insect homes are a good idea.
