RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Monday 22 June 2026 15 hours ago:
Miss Meow didn’t wake up this morning.
I think I’m a bit in shock and not sure how to feel, this is very unexpected.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥞 Friday 19 June 2026 3 days ago:
It could be worse. I joined a facebook group which required you to type the word ‘cat’ as the answer to two questions. I messed that up. Twice.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 4 days ago:
My app is telling me I have an average of 81 days, with a variation of 103 days. I get the old PMS symptoms that used to be a warning almost constantly, so I really have absolutely no idea. Mostly not heavy, but with a couple of ‘am I bleeding out?’ level thrown in just to keep me guessing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Thursday 18 June 2026 4 days ago:
TMI period talk...
What is it that makes my body want to always have a period at the most inconvenient time/place possible?
On a remote camping holiday with no toilets or running water? Perfect timing for a girl to have her first ever period, right? That set the pattern for my entire life.
More recently it’s been unpredictable peri-menopause periods deciding that a trip to Melbourne with limited access to my normal supplies is a perfect time to absolutely flood. The sooner this bitch of a uterus dries up for good the better.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪿 Wednesday 17 June 2026 5 days ago:
I’m envious, mine is looking quite tatty at the moment. It’s hard at this time of year to get a patch of weather that is dry enough to mow - although at least once I do the next cut it should not need another for ages because it’s not growing much now.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
If you ever want cringe lyrics the stuff Tim Rice wrote for Andrew Lloyd Webber are amazingly awful. And look how popular they were!
Lyrics are an interesting thing, when blended with the music they can often convey emotions and ideas in a way that transcend what the actual words themselves do. Language is an amazingly intricate and complex communication method that can sometimes convey more through imperfection than when you get everything right.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
I would like to thank my past self for freezing some cheese sauce that went very well on my cauliflower and broccoli to serve with some baked salmon. I would also like to thank yesterday’s self for making enough apricot crumble that I could eat it two days in a row.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
I tend to err on the side of assuming really, really dumb, but part of me doesn’t want to believe people are actually that stupid. But I don’t engage unless it’s something that I think will be useful to other people to read anyway so it’s not like it matters that much.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
I’m having one of those Reddit conversations where I’m not sure if the other person is a troll or just really, really dumb. It’s a bit of a coin flip at this time.
I’m always a bit perplexed by people who troll that way. Why do people find coming across as really stupid to be something to aim for?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
Ouch. This is why I have ended up in Ballarat. I just count myself fortunate that I could move my job too. Trying to find an affordable rental that was appropriate for a dog as well was not looking likely.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
A bowl of hot porridge and a strong latte, please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
It’s been steady and ongoing out here.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🪴 Tuesday 16 June 2026 6 days ago:
It’s a bit wet out there this morning.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
I followed up pizza with apricot crumble. Today has been a very good day.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
I had a busy afternoon getting some cooking done for the week ahead. I made a pot of pumpkin soup, a dozen herb & garlic scrolls, a sandwich loaf, four serves of overnight oats and a rattatouille and beef sausage dish to share with my mother in a couple of days. All followed up with pizza which is in the overn for dinner now.
I thought I was running really late getting everything done, but it’s just fooling me by getting dark so early.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
Yikes, I think the wait was about 3 months with my specialist and I thought that was bad. It’s also frustrating when you have waited that long for an initial consultation and then have to wait that long again for whatever procedure they are doing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
I just spent half an hour fixing my budgeting spreadsheet because my calculations and my bank balance are out by 9 cents. The complexity of rounding numbers.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
My tooths are having a group portrait taken this morning. The next step in rhe process of adopting a couple of artificial siblings.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥪 Monday 15 June 2026 1 week ago:
I got fancy today and rotated my mattress. It feels so firm and unsquished!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Sunday 14 June 2026 1 week ago:
Labeling is underway
I made some long-overdue changes to my design to account for the tapered jars so they sit better - slightly annoying to cut because I have to cut a curve instead of a straght line, but it does work much better.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍜 Sunday 14 June 2026 1 week ago:
28 jars of beef chilli and all of them sealed. They are cleaned up and just need to be labelled and put away. I usually have one or two that don’t seal, especially the reusable lid type that are a touch more finicky, so having all of them seal is a very good result.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 13 June 2026 1 week ago:
Chilli day is about to begin. One small kitchen, one giant pot of chilli. Let the chaos begin.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😀 Friday 12 June 2026 1 week ago:
Someone on the Woolworths reddit sub posted this pic, I thought it was too good not to share. Wonder if chef has any good butt hole recipes?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😀 Friday 12 June 2026 1 week ago:
Mr Woof had a bit of a compulsive face licking problem when I first got him, so I had to advise him quite frequently that “no one likes a dog who can’t hold his licker”. It sunk in eventually, I haven’t had to use that one for years.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 😀 Friday 12 June 2026 1 week ago:
I refuse to accept Friday and will continue to live in Thursday evening until I’ve had a chance to go home and get some sleep.
But I do encourage everyone else to have a good Friday and I’ll catch up with you eventually!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Thursday 11 June 2026 1 week ago:
I big pile of scrambled eggs, lots of crispy bacon, some garlic mushrooms and a couple of sausages, please.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐬 Thursday 11 June 2026 1 week ago:
mornin’ to you too. May the day ahead be filled with sunshine and rainbows.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 10 June 2026 1 week ago:
If I wet my hair it gets it’s own towel, but sometimes I put my hair up so it doesn’t get wet and just use one towel.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🫠 Wednesday 10 June 2026 1 week ago:
Very true.
Although sometimes it is also ripping things apart so you can just move bits of it. Chemical reactions involve moving things on a molecular level. Sound is just a chain of things wobbling in a specific way. And the whole system can be stopped entirely by having a cat on your lap, which prevents all movement indefinitely.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Tuesday 9 June 2026 1 week ago:
I think tonight is a night for potat. With chilli and yummy things on top. I believe I even have spring onion available.
