RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎻 Thursday 30 October 2025 23 hours ago:
Front yard has been mown (I did the back yesterday). It was a touch windier today, I had to swap out my broad-brimmed straw hat to my wind-resistant felt version. It provides less sun coverage but does stay on my head.
I have determined that the grass clippings from a full cut of front & back yard is enough to cover nearly half the edges of the back garden beds with a weed-suppression border layer. Hopefully that in combination with going around the grass edges with the edger to cut back any runner grasses will keep most of the grass encroachment under control.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎻 Thursday 30 October 2025 1 day ago:
I’m a big fan of deletion, it’s my inner nhihilist.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧵 Wednesday 29 October 2025 1 day ago:
I have whipped and snipped some edges and the tallest clumps of grass in the backyard. Now my arms are feeling a bit wobbly. Not sure if I’ll do the mowing today or tomorrow. I should do a bit more cardboard/mulch application and start on planting vegie seeds, but my motivation is very low today.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗣️ Tuesday 28 October 2025 2 days ago:
There is definitely bad weather. Cyclones, hail storms, floods, severe heat waves. Clothes cannot protect you from the nasty extremes.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗣️ Tuesday 28 October 2025 2 days ago:
It’s not really a major factor in picking a location for me. I generally like learning about the culture and history of a place, the climate is only a factor in regards to it’s influence on those. The weather becomes a factor, but only in terms of picking the best time of year to avoid things like storms and heatwaves if possible.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗣️ Tuesday 28 October 2025 2 days ago:
I think our lack of personal leave, annual leave, benefits or pay of any kind may hamper any recruitment efforts. Based on this reality I believe a PIP should only be initiated if posting levels fall below 0%.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 3 days ago:
I am so jealous right now.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 3 days ago:
Winning at life today. I really wasn’t feeling like eating the mandarin I brought for afternoon snack, then I remembered that was last shift and today I have a banana. Yay me!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 3 days ago:
My new toaster has just been delivered. Sadly the store has not given permission for it to be left so it has been taken away again to the post office for me to pick up.
Mr Woof is very funny with deliveries, he raced outside to bark at the delivery driver from the side gate. He used to do this at the old house because the gate was right next to the front door, in the new house its set back on the other side of the garage. But it seems to have become a habit, I’m not sure he knows why he does it, it’s just part of the routine.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 3 days ago:
Exploratory keyboard surgery was a success. The sticky Tab key is no longer sticky.
Last time I opened up a keyboard it was much more complicated, with individual keys that all fell out making it very hard to reassemble. This one was quite simple.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 3 days ago:
I have so much to do I’m not sure how I’ll fit it all in.
Unfortunately get rich quick schemes tend to make someone else rich and you poorer, but in any case the dream of retiring at 50 is already receding in the rear view mirror, the real dream now is hoping to cut down from full time work some time before 67. Which also seems more and more unrealistic with every rise in house prices and cost of living.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 4 days ago:
I am on the verge of nearly two weeks off. I will definitely be sad when it is over, and wish I could retire at 50.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 4 days ago:
I always find it slightly surprising that anything exists, although thinking about it too hard makes my head hurt. Probably because thinking about exising leads to thinking about not existing, both of which seem equally impossible.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 4 days ago:
Woo Hoo! Perfect, lovely and exactly what I need. Feeling a bit jittery now, but all good.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎧 Monday 27 October 2025 4 days ago:
One extra large, extra strong coffee. With an coffeee chaser please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Sunday 26 October 2025 4 days ago:
Yay, the world has returned to normal. I’ve been stuck at home making waffles and muffins and bread and biscuits with no one to tell about it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧩 Saturday 25 October 2025 5 days ago:
The tab key on my keyboard has started sticking for no obvious reason. All of my workflows that involved multiple tab presses have been completely messed up.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧩 Saturday 25 October 2025 5 days ago:
I’m drinking water and watching horsies. 💧💧🏇🏇
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧩 Saturday 25 October 2025 6 days ago:
A selection of sweet foods that will give me a sugar rush please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
I have joined the up and awake club for the day. Today’s To Do List includes checking the back yard and hunting down the things which blew off my potting table in yesterday’s wind and clearing out the fridge in preparation for tomorrow’s grocery delivery.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
I believe the “your emotions are valid” idea has some merit, but only in the context of not being critical of yourself for feeling them. Accepting that you are feeling something can be an important part in the process of then stepping back and questioning why you are feeling it and whether it is appropriate for the situation you are in.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
Ooh, day shift are starting to trickle in. I am so looking forward to bed and being horizontal.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
A pile of marshmallows big enough to lie down and have a nap on please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
I recently received a $60 credit from The Good Guys after an ACCC ruling (they’d had a promotion with some dodgy terms). I decided to get a new toaster, and fortuititously the toaster and delivery came to exactly $60. Can’t complain about an unexpected free toaster.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌬 Thursday, October 23, 2025 1 week ago:
Missing: YarraByte. May have been blown away . If seen please tell Mr Byte to report to the daily thread. Do not report sightings to 000 unless you want to really confuse an emergency calltaker.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 week ago:
The break room at work smells strongly of garlic, so now I’m craving garlic bread.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 week ago:
I had some fermentation flies take up residence in my compost bucket and kitchen, so I made a trap for them which has worked very well. I have a jar of drowned flies and haven’t seen any flying around the kitchen today. The trap is a funnel on top of a glass jar, and the bait is vinegar, sugar and yeast mixed with water.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 week ago:
I just saw a bird flying sideways. This could be the basis for a new wind strength scale…
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🏕️ Wednesday 22 October 2025 1 week ago:
Wind’s a bit wild in Ballarat. There is a lot of banging and clanging from mysterious things blowing around, but my fence repair is holding up well so far. No rain, but not much sun either.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 21 October 2025 1 week ago:
I’m just looking forward to seeing how my neighbour’s Diwali lights hold up to the wind - long strings of light hanging off the eaves at the front of the house, I’m predicting tangles will occur at the very least.