RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎁 Saturday 20 September 2025 35 minutes ago:
I spoke to the percussioninsts from the MSO once, they said the triangle is actually one of the hardest instruments to do really well. So you should never feel shame at not mastering such a difficult instrument!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎁 Saturday 20 September 2025 9 hours ago:
A touch chilly outside 🥶
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Friday 19 September 2025 17 hours ago:
cheesy pasta and salmon sound like a good mix to me…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Friday 19 September 2025 1 day ago:
Wind on rubbish collection day is always fun. I picked up a bunch of wrappers blown into the corner of the yard, but Mr Woof made off with an empty chocolate wrapper before I could stop him. It was a catch and release, I can now see it blowing around the back yard. I also picked up the instructions for how to install hybrid floor boards that have presumably escaped from a nearby building site.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧢 Thursday 18 September 2025 2 days ago:
I’m up. It’s a bit chilly outside.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎩 Wednesday 17 September 2025 2 days ago:
I got a bit stuck in the game I’ve been playing (Horizon Zero Dawn) so I looked up some hints today for how to move forward. Now I want to try them out, but I need to get up at 4:30 to go to work tomorrow so I really can’t. 🙁
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎩 Wednesday 17 September 2025 3 days ago:
That’s what this one is. It’s just weird that it doesn’t change at all. Not having to worry about a sudden jump to $2.20 at the wrong time is very nice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎩 Wednesday 17 September 2025 3 days ago:
I do not understand petrol in Ballarat. In Melbourne there was always a price cycle where the price would suddenly jump up by 40-60 cents and then slowly drop down over about a month. The petrol station I go to here has not changed its price at all since I moved here. There is no price cycle to keep an eye on, no trying to judge the best time to fill up and having to spend a small fortune if you misjudge. I just fill up with petrol when I need petrol. It is really weird, in a good way.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎩 Wednesday 17 September 2025 3 days ago:
Special fried rice, with garlic prawns and honey chicken please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦋 Tuesday 16 September 2025 3 days ago:
Discovering I could get a dicing attachment was a game changer. Being able to chop everything into perfect evenly sized cubes is fabulous.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦋 Tuesday 16 September 2025 3 days ago:
Soggy?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦋 Tuesday 16 September 2025 3 days ago:
I now have a giant pot of stew on the stove. 2.5kg of meat, there will be many serves to go in the freezer. One nice thing about doing such a large batch, it makes it worth the effort of using the food processor to dice the vegetables.
I have also organised breakfast and lunch for the next two days at work (salad & ham/lamb rolls for lunches, bacon, egg & cheese muffins for breakfasts)
I am currently contemplating making a cake. There is a risk if i do that I could eat the whole thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦋 Tuesday 16 September 2025 4 days ago:
I thought Miss Meow was just exploring the spare room yesterday, but apparently it was sabotage - she switched off my chest freezer! Fortunately I discovered it before much damage was done. There was some meat which was starting to thaw out, but as I was pulling it out to defrost that’s actually a positive!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 14 September 2025 5 days ago:
It is such an amazingly beautiful day today. The wind’s even died down enough that I think it will be safe to put down some mulch.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 14 September 2025 6 days ago:
I poisoned some weeks in the back yard and mowed the front. I’ll do it in reverse the next time there is a decent day. There are a few knarly weeds that pop up here, being a new estate with not much garden work done previously. There is one in particular that is a very thorny broadleaf, I haven’t been able to identify it properly yet so I just refer to it as “the rosette of doom”.
Miss Meow is napping and completely disinterested in all garden work.
As a bonus today I’ve seen some dragonflies in the yard.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 14 September 2025 6 days ago:
I was so late having breakfast today it became lunch.
I have been productive though, with two loaves of bread in progress. This afternoon I’ll do a bit of gardening work (if the wind isn’t too much of a problem) and finish packing the meat for the freezer.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😎 Sunday 14 September 2025 6 days ago:
Nice setup. The last lot of bulk mulch and soil I got weren’t very good, lots of bits of rubbish in it. Hopefully the landscape place here has better quality - I’ll find out when the weather is right for me to do the topdressing of the grass that I’m planning. I might get some bulk soil to build up the garden beds a bit too, or I might stick with the bags and do a bit at a time. Once I’ve had to move the first lot via shovel I’ll be in a better position to decide!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧸 Saturday 13 September 2025 6 days ago:
I’ve spent the afternoon doing lots of sorting of groceries and the fridge. I had some bits of capsicum left, so I did a refrigerator pickle with those and a few of the fresh mushrooms. I’ve also sliced up leftover pumpkin and sweet potato and roasted them for the freezer. I’ve made a start on packing up the meat and will finish the rest tomorrow.
The liver is cooking with lots of bacon & onion (making lots of yummy gravy) and I’ll just need to do some mashed potato to go with it. I didn’t use all the liver, so there’s a package of that back in the fridge to figure out what to do with too. The pieces you got were a lot smaller when I was a kid, and I remember it being something you could only get sometimes. The butcher and supermarket would only get a limited amount on one day of the week, there was not a constant supply. And because they didn’t have the vacuum packaging it didn’t last that long either so you had to be a lot more careful to make sure it was fresh.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧸 Saturday 13 September 2025 6 days ago:
Grocery delivery should be arriving in the next hour. Lots of yummy things to pack away, and liver for dinner tonight. Miss Meow and Mr Woof are very excited. OK, they are both completely oblivious and happily napping, but I’m sure they would be excited if they could understand what I was telling them.
There is one substitution made - they didn’t have any Coles Simply butter, so I am getting Coles butter instead. I do not understand why these are different products.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Friday 12 September 2025 1 week ago:
That should come up nicely. I’d probably use wood chip mulch instead of actual pavers for the paths, then you can just keep adding more over time as they break down to refresh it. I’d also be a bit worried about pavers getting slippery.
I think it is much better not to have a lawn for most purposes, it is a lot of upkeep for an area most people don’t actually use. Garden beds with ground covers or native grasses generally look great, are less maintenance and if done right provide great habitat for birds and small animals.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🦜 Friday 12 September 2025 1 week ago:
I had an autopilot failure on the way home. Went straight when I normally turn and suddenly realised I was at an intersection I’d never seen before. My sense of direction was still good though as I turned the right way, but it was a bit disorienting.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Thursday 11 September 2025 1 week ago:
Ballarat Landscape Supply, so probably a touch out of the way for most people in the group 😁
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Thursday 11 September 2025 1 week ago:
I have now successfully visited a new place and aquired some mulch. The landscape supply place is a tiny bit more expensive than Bunnings, but it has an indoor drive in area that was much nicer than having to wrangle lots of stuff on a trolley (probably 2 or 3 trips worth) in the rain.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025 1 week ago:
Oh no, you’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to judge people by how much time they spend telling you about how hard they are working, and by how often you see them at work (with bonus points if you see them late in the day or eating at their desk). Judging people by the quality of work (or by whether they even work or just spend all day scrolling social media and shopping) is very unfair, the best workers don’t have time to do actual work because they are too busy looking busy and doing performative work to actually get things done. The actual work is supposed to be done only by the lowest levels in the company for minimal pay, the top performers are all about visibility and bragging.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025 1 week ago:
I start early and finish late. But 12 hour days when working equal more days with no work at all, so I think it’s worth it.
A lot of people have very rigid thought patterns and can’t cope with anyone doing something different. So they will decide you are lazy because you “finish early” while ignoring that you started early too. Or they berate people for “sleeping in” and ignore they worked late at night, etc. It’s a constant problem for shift workers because these sorts of people can’t comprehend that when you work night shifts the day is not a “day off” that is free to do things. I also get people that think because I work a lower number of days I am part time, they can’t comprehend that I’m actually working a 42 hour week.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025 1 week ago:
Perfection thank you. This is definitely the way to get the day off to a good start.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💎 Tuesday 9 September 2025 1 week ago:
She did get a lick of the plate. She enjoyed the yoghurt salad dressing, and there may have been a tiny crumb of tuna.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💎 Tuesday 9 September 2025 1 week ago:
I had tuna steak for dinner. Miss Meow is complaining she didn’t get a serve.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💎 Tuesday 9 September 2025 1 week ago:
Tell her things could be worse, she could be wearing that sunflower instead. And as we all know being told “it could be worse” when we are pissed off and grumpy always instantly lightens our spirits and makes everything ok.
/s just in case it’s not obvious
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💎 Tuesday 9 September 2025 1 week ago:
Bills paid, payslip checked, grocery delivery ordered. I’m running out of excuses to avoid doing my assignment.