RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 2 hours ago:
Mr Woof has found his moose toy and has been carrying it around trying to find a safe place for it. He took it to the bed yesterday and has now bought it out onto the couch next to me. I think it means I’m entrusted to look out for the moose’s safety.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎭 Tuesday 24th June 2 hours ago:
A nice healing chicken soup please, with a side of tissues.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Monday 23rd June 🪄 1 day ago:
This cold is treating me very badly - the congestion is not terrible but the brain fog is. I just did an online grocery delivery order and trying to make decisions was very hard.
I think I’ll take the next two night shifts off and try working again next week. I really need to get the energy to take the washing off the line that’s been there a couple of days already - at least it should be dry if it hasn’t blown away. I might try to wash some towels too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 💈 Saturday 21 June 2025 2 days ago:
I’m home from work early as my voice deserted me. Mr Woof is thrilled.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐰 Friday 20 June 2025 3 days ago:
Bedroom light shade is up
It was in lots of flat pieces of plastic that had to be bent and attached together so it took a while, but I’m pleased with the result. I just need to get to the assembly of the bedside tables and the bedroom will be done.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 4 days ago:
I stopped on the way home and got some Maccas for dinner, ordered chicken nuggets so they would be easy to eat while driving. I received chicken wings instead, which failed the easy to eat test but were very tasty. I’m not sure how the staff in those places can handle busy periods, it was absolute chaos in the kitchen there.
I also got some petrol - drove in the wrong side of the pump on autopilot, but remembered before I got out and did a loop around to the right side.
The pets are very glad I am home (and that they finally got dinner). I put away the frozen stuff I brought up, and Miss Meow took the opportunity to explore the garage and van a bit while I had the door open. I also put out the bins, the new pet fencing I put up worked well - I can reach the bins easily over the fence, and don’t have to worry about Mr Woof while I have the side gate open putting them out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 4 days ago:
I didn’t think it would come out that well either, it seems like the colour didn’t actually soak into the carpet fibres so it was able to actually wash out.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 4 days ago:
Bissel carpet cleaner and lots of water.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 4 days ago:
Carpet cleaner and lots of water. I actually forgot to pack the cleaning fluids so that’s just using hot water. Going over it with proper cleaning stuff would probably get the last bit out. I’m surprised it came out as well as it did.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🌞 Thursday 19th day of June 2025 4 days ago:
I’m back at my old place today. It looks really tatty without the furniture hiding things. It’s amazing how dirty walls can get. Vacuuming is improving things slightly, but it really needs a good renovation (if it’s not knocked down entirely).
I’ve dismantled Miss Meow’s old cat tree, when the weather warms up I’ll use the pieces to make her an outdoor tree in the covered area.
Next main task is a quick cleanup of my nasty carpet stain. It was caused by a dented tin of plums fermenting and spraying juice everywhere. But it looks like a murder scene.
It's not blood, I promise!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 6 days ago:
Thankyou, it worked perfectly. I made it home and then slept for hours - only just got up now.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧋 Tuesday 17 June 2025 1 week ago:
Some magic food that will keep me awake and alert for the last half hour of work and the drive home, whilst still letting me sleep well when I get home to bed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 1 week ago:
Having my routines messed up by moving and changing my work hours meant I didn’t do washing when I should have and almost ran out of clothes. It’s also been terrible drying weather, but I fortunately have an undercover area I can set up my clothes horse so I finally have clean and dry clothes tooday. Except for one t-shirt which got blown onto the ground and rained on.
I’m going to do my main cleaning day before my first night shift each week, which meant I got to come home to nice fresh sheets on the bed this morning. Athough I’m probably too exhausted at that point to really appreciate it.
After ditching my planned trip back to Melbourne last week I really have to go this week. Hopefully I can fit pretty much everything else I need into the back of the van (which will include the lawnmower which is really needed up here with the way the grass has been grrowing) but I’ll also need one more trip in a couple of weeks to organise rubbish collection for a bunch of stuff I’m getting rid of. I’m looking forward to not having to keep doing that drive, or at least not on my own time - there will be regular trips back on work time which are a very different thing to losing your own days off.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 1 week ago:
I would like Jupiter to align with Mars please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 16 June 2025 1 week ago:
They’re not really that simple, they do the planning and provide the ingredients but there is still a lot of actual cooking and chopping involved. They also don’t do single meals, so you either need to work out how to divide it over a couple of nights cooking or have a lot of leftovers.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Sunday 15 June 2025 1 week ago:
I really should be doing some cleaning but Miss Meow has me pinned down on the couch and is purring madly.
I did get a small shelf for my toaster oven assembled and have put up the small fence to keep Mr Woof and Miss Meow away from the side gate. I now have a small utility courtyard for the bins etc., and hopefully being open metal bars instead of solid it won’t trigger Mr Woof to try digging under it to get out to come and find me when I’m away. He seems to stress out if I’m gone more than about 20 minutes.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍩 Sunday 15 June 2025 1 week ago:
I choose to believe that is a ring cake. My slice was delicious, not donuty at all.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧭 Saturday 14 June 2025 1 week ago:
I bought a thick soft mattress topper (10cm thick bamboo) and also got some new linen sheets. It has definitely made the bed extra cozy. I also have a heated throw rug on the couch though, so there are lots of competing cozy spots around.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Friday 13 June 2025 1 week ago:
Whilst I do enjoy a good drive in the countryside, in the dark trying to get home from work is not really the time. I think the GPS was trying to send me the long way around to avoid some traffic, but driving back country roads you don’t know in the dark is not fun.
In good news though I had many packages when I got home, including the lost Bunnings parcel that has been spending the last week touring the state. Miss Meow has some new steps, which arrived with a bit of damage but seem to be holding together ok, and she also has a new mat to go in front of the litter trays to help contain her wild litter flinging ways.
I also have a couple of rugs which look fairly lightweight but should be decent enough for occasional use in the garage, a stand to put the toaster oven on, a rolling stand for my computer cpu, and new rollerblade style castors for my office chair. I just need to figure out how to get the old ones off.
And also a set of coasters I threw in as a last minute impulse buy and actually look pretty decent - each one has a similar but different pattern.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Friday 13 June 2025 1 week ago:
I’m tempted to start another account just so I can upvote this a second time.
I had to read the comment a few times before I could understand it, because a father hearing his daughter screaming in the night and not running in straight away to find out what is wrong and providing comfort just didn’t make sense to me. Actually berating her for it is just appalling behaviour.
@LowExperience2368@aussie.zone the only question to ask here is WTF is wrong with your father, you have absolutely no reason to feel guilty.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Friday 13 June 2025 1 week ago:
Miss Meow agrees that sleeping in is the best way to deal with today
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
Today's weird thing for sale on Marketplace (Ballarat edition)
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
Time flies when you’re in the zone 😁
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
Happy birthday 🎉🥳
Maybe when people are finding money a bit tight they do try to get “deals” like buying EOFY discounts and trying to claim things on tax? Hopefully the contrast of busy now and relaxed later will make weekend celebrations even better?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
Thankyou! That doesn’t show on my app so I had no idea. Maybe I should just add my own cake to all my posts today?
🎂
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
My attempts to be lazy and have a parcel from Bunnings delivered have not gone well. They split it into two parcels, one of which was returned to sender for having a wrong address, the other is in limbo having been sent to a LPO for collection and then sent on again from there as being incorrectly sorted. I really should have just done click and collect.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍕 Thursday 12 June 2025 1 week ago:
Having security cameras is kinda fun - I’ve just looked at last night and discovered Miss Meow has also worked out the dog door. It appears she just stayed under cover and looked out for a bit before teleporting back inside, but that last bit could just be continuity gap from the motion sensors not picking up when she went inside.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 10 June 2025 1 week ago:
It’s been a bit of a lazy day today, but I have gotten the new garage remote programmed and put up the outdoor security cameras. I can now check if anything is happening out the front of the house without leaving my couch.
I’m trying to summon the enthusiasm to do a bit more unpacking/sorting. I’m heading back to Melbourne tomorrow to pick up another load of stuff, hopefully I can at least get the remaining things from the fridge/freezer and the most important things from the shed.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 10 June 2025 1 week ago:
I haven’t had much issue with the wrong thing being delivered until I started getting stuff from the Australian warehouses. They seem to like sending me completely different but more expensive items.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Tuesday 10 June 2025 1 week ago:
I just received what was supposed to be a dustpan and brush set from Temu. They’ve sent me a vibration platform exercise machine instead. The Australian warehouses don’t seem to be that great at sending the right thing.
The machine is pink and has a cat decoration on it. I’d suspect Miss Meow was involved somehow if I couldn’t see the order history…
