RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 23 🎩 April 2025 18 hours ago:
I’m going to need a lot more potting mix to pack up all the plants I want to take with me. The iris at least can be divided and stored over winter without soil, but most of the other things will need to be potted up.
I’m hoping the landlord will let me plant a bunch of stuff in ground so I won’t need to buy bigger pots etc. for the future. It’s a pretty ratty garden at the moment, so I can’t see why they’d say no. Plus they can’t “unreasonably refuse” permission to have a vegetable garden, and most of my stuff is edible.
I planted up a pot with some flowering bulbs this morning, I should also be able to take nasturtiums, kangaroo paw, borage, comfrey, artichoke, canna edulis (arrowroot), midjin berries, raspberrries, strawberries, lemon, lime, mandarin, apple, pear, thyme, rosemary, mint and maybe a bay tree. I’m sure I’ll find a few others as well.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 22 🚂 April 2025 1 day ago:
I picked up a roll of pretty wallpaper from hard rubbish.
No idea what I’ll do with it. Maybe line some drawers or something.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 22 🚂 April 2025 1 day ago:
I don’t think it has any effect on the ads. But hiding the “suggested” posts seems to work for a short while.
I really wish more people would embrace moving away from Facebook though, I’m primarily there because of some of the groups, and until there are enough people willing to participate in the same type of groups eelsewhere I’m stuck with either using Faceboook or giving up on the groups.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 22 🚂 April 2025 1 day ago:
I decided to put the winter doona on the bed, even if the nights are still being a bit warm. It meant I finally got to use the fancy patterned sheets as a top sheet. I’m trialling using the doona between two sheets instead of putting it into a cover. I cut open the covers so I can use the patterned piece as a top sheet, and the patterned sheets I got from the Buy Nothing group are underneath and folded over to show at the top. Mr Woof thinks it’s ok, although he has a propensity to throw all the pillows onto the floor during the day so probably does not have the best credentials as a stylist.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 22 🚂 April 2025 1 day ago:
I think today will be a good day to do some stress gardening. Until I have the new lease actually signed (and confirmation of my specific work hours and moving date, rather than just “June will be fine”) I am going to be a little bundle of anxiety. I don’t do well with uncertainty at the best of times, and these are big uncertainties. Ripping out some dead tomato plants etc. seems just the anti-anxiety activity I need.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Tuesday 22 🚂 April 2025 1 day ago:
I click “see less of” and “hide this post” on everything that Facebook suggests. My feed is now mostly just the subscribed groups (plus the ads, you can’t get rid of those).
If you want to completely decontaminate your phone you’ll need to get rid of Facebook entirely.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Monday 21 🧛 April 2025 2 days ago:
Ooh, I love popping candy chocolate, I’m jealous. Mr Woof chased the Easter bunny away so I didn’t get any eggs.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Monday 21 🧛 April 2025 2 days ago:
My brain radio is now stuck on Evenescence.
Wake me up inside Wake me up inside Call my name and save me from the dark
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 3 days ago:
I’m thinking more of all the power tools and bits as well - as well as the tools themselves there will be lots of stuff like spare batteries, replacement lines and blades, oil. Prunings and things I’ll probably use my current garden cart for - maybe I can hook it up behind this one and have a road train!
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 3 days ago:
I'm thinking I need a garden cart for carrying my stuff around. Something like this
I haven’t seen anything like that for sale here, so I think I’ll have to make my own. I’m thinking of getting one of the mesh side garden carts and using the framing from one of the cheap metal hammer together shelving units to provide a support. Lots of holes for attaching things to and (if the sizing works out) fairly simple.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Sunday 20 😸 April 2025 3 days ago:
I just opened my postal vote envelope and there are way too many options there to deal with at this time of morning. Trying to decide which of the right wing nutter parties to put last will be a challenge. Probably the arse-trumpet party, due to the absolute disgust I feel every time I see one of those awful ads.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 4 days ago:
I have decided once the lease on the new place is signed I am going to celebrate by buying a new lawn edger, hedge trimmer and the fancy brushless motor for my whipper snipper. I aim to make the garden so neat people assume it’s no longer a rental 😁 It also means I’ll be able to properly edge my 3m of nature strip here as a parting gift. Hopefully because the edger rests on the ground it won’t kill my arms as much as the whipper snipper does. With a much bigger garden to look after (and a 2-strip of concrete driveway, so lots of edges) I anticipate building up lots of muscle. 💪
- Comment on Discussion Thread Saturday 19 😎 April 2025 4 days ago:
I’m picking up an armchair for free from Marketplace this morning. Similar style wood frame to my couch, and with a new cover with the same fabric I’ve been recovering mine in it should blend in fairly well. This will solve an issue in furniture placement in the new place, I will be able to have the couch and a single chair in the dining/lounge, and two chairs in the sewing/sitting room. Or if something goes wrong and I don’t end up getting this place I’ll have an extra chair I don’t have room for 🤣
I think I’ll sell my buffet unit. It’s a really good solid piece of furniture that makes me feel like I should find it a place, but it really doesn’t fit anywhere. Plus it is really heavy and because it is so long has limited options on where in a house it can go. Which makes it hard to get out too, it has to go out the back and out the side gate, which means I would have to lock away Mr Woof, traumatise Miss Meow and let a stranger into the main area of my house. I might just get the movers to put it in the carport when I move, then I can sell it as unattended pickup.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 5 days ago:
I think I’ve come up with reasonable options for pretty much all the likely unknown scenarios, so as long as there is nothing completely out of left field like mushrooms growing on the walls or a gaping hole in the floor I think it will be ok. I’ve even worked out where Miss Meow’s stuff will fit.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 5 days ago:
A double sink, but unfortunately no dishwasher. The windows are the wind out type that are not great for airflow, but it has evaporative cooling, which should be great as long as it is not humid, and hopefully my portable aircon will be enough to get me through humid spells.
I’ve got a viewing booked on Thursday so will be able to make a final decision then.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Friday 18 🤓 April 2025 5 days ago:
It has been confirmed - I didn’t get the preferred house. After looking at the alternatives available and thinking a bit more about options the house I’ve been approved for is growing on me. I think my uncertainty about it comes from two things:
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I’m filling in the gaps that I can’t see with worst case scenarios instead of what’s likely, and extrapolating a few things into problems that are unlikely. Particularly concern about overgrown trees - where I am now I have a small garden with trees in the neighbouring yards that grow over and block most of my useable garden space. In this house there are big trees, but they are already mature and there is space for a vegie garden between them. They are also deciduous trees, so I should get lovely shade in summer, light in winter and lots of leaf mulch for the garden.
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The layout of the house means some changes to how I set up my rooms, I can’t just mentally swap the rooms I have now into the new house. But when I sit down and think about how to work with the different layout it should work pretty well. I might end up changing the layout from winter to summer - it has a great dining/lounge room with a north facing bay window that will be amazing in summer, and a south facing lounge that should be much cooler in summer. Being migratory depending on weather seems a good option.
One big upside is that it is in the lower end of my budgeted rent range. I should also be able to do a dog door for Mr Woof - there is a window to floor level in the main bedroom which opens onto the back garden, I should be able to get a door put into that and replace it with normal glass when I leave. Doing that with a small window should not be much more than a good quality sliding door insert would be.
The biggest unanswered question: where to put Miss Meow’s litter trays. Do they need to be at ground level, or are cat’s happy to jump up on a bench for that? I’ll have to do some research, I could put a cover over the bath (which I don’t use) and put the trays on there.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Three bedrooms one bathroom is what I am looking at. It’s just for me so I don’t need or want another bathroom. But if you go down to two bedrooms you rarely get a full kitchen which I want (and modern places often have pretty tiny kitchens too).
I have found quite a few in the area I’m looking at have seperate rooms for bath, shower and toilet so more people can be using things at the same time. I don’t think more than one bathroom became common until the mid to late 80s.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
WTF is going on with this kitchen?
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Do you have anything which can soothe the angst of uncertainty?
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
I have approval for the rental place I’m less fond of. Haven’t heard anything from the one that looks 100%. And I still haven’t seen either of them in person.
The one I really like is currently vacant, so I’m presuming if they were liking my application they’d be moving fairly quickly on it, so not hearing anything is not a good sign. The inspection for the other one is booked on Thursday, so there is still some time for divine intervention.
But at the moment it’s looking like it will be mostly about just how deceptive the 7 year old photos are in relation to the current condition of the property, and what’s in the mysterious corner that none of the photos show. The other place I can piece together all the photos and the plan to get a great overview, this one has a few missing sections that my brain is imagining terrible possibilities for. Especially in regards to the door through the laundry, which in this place would be the most used entrance. If it’s a dodgy set of steps or something it’s going to be a hard no. I suspect it’s just not in the photos because it is utilitarian but not pretty, so that will probably be ok. But I need to work out how I’m going to manage Mr Woof’s access, which can be tricky with no sliding door to put an insert in.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
I did. The companies that my workplace contracts obviously think sweetening up the staff after jabbing us is good business sense.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Flu vax acquired. The nurse this year was the most efficient ever, I was leaving almost before I arrived. Lollipop was also aquired.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
If anyone’s looking for a stupidly large decoration but didn’t think the alien was quite right for you, there is a new option on Facebook you might like to consider.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Sandstone can explode if exposed to fire, so be cautious about where you use it. Should be fine as a support, just not right against where the fire goes.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Miss Meow will have to decline box nomming due to lack of tooths. She would however accept a box sitting invitation.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
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Miss Meow wishes her fellow Void a very happy birthday, and would like to express interest in a share of the treats.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Thursday 17 🧙🏼♂️ April 2025 6 days ago:
Sky pending
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 1 week ago:
Eastlink account has now been updated with the new vehicle. I had to phone them because the previous owner still had it on his account.
It does make me wonder what the legal situation is if you just keep driving on someone else’s account. Would they be stuck with the charges because they have agreed to pay tolls on that vehicle, or would it be considered some sort of theft by deception because I know I’m not really authorised?
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 1 week ago:
My brain just does not compute budgeting that way. I budget on my fortnightly pay cycle, with monthly and yearly payments averaged out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 16 😺 April 2025 1 week ago:
I had that dream! Oh, wait. That wasn’t a dream, that was the dental surgeon. I paid him to do horrid things to my teeth.
