RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐝 Wednesday 10 December 2025 14 hours ago:
Sleep has been obtained and I’m on my second cup of coffee. To Do List for today: Get dressed and take Mr Woof out for out daily stroll. Mow the lawn in the back garden. Sort out the stuff left in the fridge before grocery delivery tomorrow. There’s not much left to deal with, but I might pickle the remaining mushrooms and freeze some cauliflower. The kiwi fruit can go in the freezer for a future chutney. They top the list for fruit I am most likely to buy and not actually eat, but they are fortunately also high on my preferred chutney ingredient list.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐝 Wednesday 10 December 2025 21 hours ago:
I’ll schedule that in for later. Too tired to be happy at the moment. Only an hour of work to go, then I can go home and get some sleep and I’ll be able to think about happy then.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🛳️ Tuesday 9 December 2025 1 day ago:
lost in a red salmon cannery?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧃 Sunday 7 December 2025 3 days ago:
Some random chocolates with no obvious branding someone at work had. It was much appreciated.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧃 Sunday 7 December 2025 3 days ago:
Want chocolate. Only have mandarin. 😭
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
I have lasagne in the oven with a couple of trays of veg, now I just need to wait. I’m pretty happy with past me who decided to make a bunch of mini lasagnes for the freezer.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
I found the Covid ones made me horribly sick for 2-3 days then tired for a couple of weeks. Actual Covid was much milder but lasted about twice as long.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
I think some dates could work quite well too. Assuming I actually get the dates I ordered this month, anyway.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
I just had a ham and salad sandwich for lunch. Salad just hits differently at the start of summer than the end. Give it a few months and I’ll be ready to stop the endless salads and go back to soups and stews for winter, but at the moment I’m all about the salad.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
That does look pretty good. I might be tempted to try that myself.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
They did a cut and paste from a recipe that included the chocolate and just missed taking out that line. Very poor editing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
I found the original with choc chips included if you want to do that bit www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1244019863754660
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
It was looking like the monthly grocery shop was going to be a bit cheaper than normal, then I decided to get some turkey and ham and some more dried fruit and extra butter so I can do some baking. Now it’s looking like it will be a bit more expensive than normal.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
In a row is definitely better than the single duck that likes to wait on the nature strip and then run out suddenly in front of the car. Ducks really shouldn’t play chicken.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
Good luck. Can you grab me a meatball?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Saturday 6 December 2025 4 days ago:
There were so many ducks blocking the road to work moving very begrudgingly out of the way of my car that I felt like I was crossing a picket line.
- Comment on Discussion thread ❤️Friyay 5th December 5 days ago:
I have now hemmed two new pairs of pants. Miss Meow helped by confirming they were good to sleep on, an essential quality control step.
- Comment on Discussion thread ❤️Friyay 5th December 5 days ago:
I do not wish to eat the mallow. If I did I would put a mallow plant somewhere convenient and nurture it so it was actually good to eat, not have it hide through the lawn.
- Comment on Discussion thread ❤️Friyay 5th December 5 days ago:
I’ve been doing some painting today, but not the artistic kind. I’ve been painting lots of weeds in the back yard with poison, focussing on the mallow in the lawn and the grass runners popping up in the garden. There were also a couple of very tiny bindi plants I spotted, but I seem to have mostly gotten rid of them for now. I should do a bit in the front yard too, but I was overheating enough just doing that much so will put it off until another day.
- Comment on Discussion thread ❤️Friyay 5th December 5 days ago:
I finally got around to some long put-off sewing work and fixed some flannelette pjs. They’ve annoyed me for ages because the buttons all come undone and the front facings bunch up instead of sitting properly, so I’ve sewn the facings down and sewn the front shut so the buttons are now just decorative. Now when I pull it out of the cupboard after the weather cools down again next year I won’t have to go throught the whole wear it once and remember ‘oh yeah, that’s why I don’t wear that pair very much, I should do something about that’ procedure like I have been for the last few years.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⏰ Thursday 4 December 2025 5 days ago:
I have a good squeegie for the outside which is pretty quick and easy. But there is not much outside to do, here. The windows swing inwards to open and have fly screens which are not designed to be removed easily, so you have to clean the outside of the window from the inside. So there are only 4 half-windows and a couple of sliding doors that can be done from the outside.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ⏰ Thursday 4 December 2025 6 days ago:
I keep putting off cleaning the windows because it’s a big job I don’t feel like spending the time on. But one of the windows has been getting extra manky, so today I cleaned just that one. The room looks so much better now. Miss Meow loves her window hammock but she does create quite a lot of mess around it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
I have had a few breadmakers before. They are really good at kneading dough (and providing a warm place for it to rise) but are not as good at the actual baking. I intend to just use it for the kneading and then bake the loaf in the oven. Which is how my mother has been using hers for years too, with very good results.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
Peak rainbow weather. Look to the east, there may be pretty colours there.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
My last lawnmower was basically a glorifies whipper snipper and had a plastic ‘blade’. Having to worry about things like sharpening a blade is a new thing for me.
I don’t really want the lawnmower to go too fast, I generally keep the speed control closer to tortoise than hare, so red could have been a problem. The yellow is all underneath so is mostly invisible anyway & I’m pretty sure the red thing only works if you can see it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
The last coat of paint has gone on the lawnmower. I failed to keep the paint off my hands this time, so I’m now sprorting yellow spots. We should have a couple of mostly dry days coming up so I’ll be able to get out and cut the grass and see how much difference to new sharp blades make.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
Pakidge!
I decided I wasn’t happy with how well the food processor kneads bread dough and decided to get a bread maker. It also gives me another option for making yoghurt which is a good thing, I usually make it in the rice cooker and some times I want to make both rice and yoghurt and things get awkward.
Myers had the model I got on special, so I price matched it with Appliances Online and bought it through them. It’s funny to think when I was growing up Myers was considered a top store with great service and now I’d prefer not to buy from them if I can avoid it and don’t really trust their customer service to be up to scratch. How the world has changed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
Is he aware he’s not a bot, or is it a Multiple Personality Disorder situation?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025 1 week ago:
Welcome back YarraByte, hope you’r feeling ok.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread - Saturday 29 November 1 week ago:
The second coat of primer has just been done on the mower. Two top coats to go on over the next two days, then it should be right to put the new blade on and do a grass trim in the next lot of dry days. I figure even if the rust has not been completely removed/neutralised there should be enough paint to hold it together.