RustyRaven
@RustyRaven@aussie.zone
Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sustainability.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧹Friday 29 August 2025 1 day ago:
7/10
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🧀 Thursday 28 August 2025 2 days ago:
I found the sound of an old fashioned alarm clock to be a bit too alarming.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Wednesday 27 August 2025 3 days ago:
Exciting achievement for today: I finally figured out how to turn on the fog lights in the van 🤣.
- Comment on Discussion Thread ☕️ Wednesday 27 August 2025 4 days ago:
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I’m lighting a candle to try to guide Yarrabyte home
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐘 Tuesday 26 August 2025 4 days ago:
I totally misjudged my walk timing and got myself and Mr Woof very soggy.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐘 Tuesday 26 August 2025 4 days ago:
But a vest on it’s own is never going to do anything. It needs to be paired with the power of a custom pen and a printed stress ball.
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- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 25 August 2025 5 days ago:
A bit windy out there. Wind + van on the Western Fwy gives an extra challenge to the drive. Seeing all the lights in the city is rather pretty, as is the view off the West Gate Bridge. The flashing lights of the emergency vehicles attending an accident were also rather pretty, although I suspect the drivers of the cars involved didn’t really appreciate the effect (looked pretty minor, lots of dents and inconvenience rather than trapped inside mangled wreckage type accident).
Driving down the Fwy at night is always fun, especially in patches where there are no cars in front of you. Something about the lack of reference points starts to give me the feeling that I’m sitting still and everything outside is moving, or like it’s a video game.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🎨 Monday 25 August 2025 5 days ago:
Toasted lamb & vegie roll for lunch was delicious. The kiwifruit & chili chutney is really good on that sort of thing, adds just a bit of kick with the chili and pulls all the flavours together really well.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Potat was included. Was good.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
My tastebuds say no, my waistline says yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Last time I did potat I went overboard and ended up eating three.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I have steak for dinner and was planning on making salad to go with it. But I think I’m going to do vegies in cheese sauce instead. Plus onion gravy. Maybe potat.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I was just looking in my junk email folder and I almost missed seeing an important email from the Director of the FBI. Apparently I was almost scammed out of lots of money, which means I am entitled to millions of dollars in compensation. But the FBI put me on a blacklist for my dealings with untrustworthy individuals, so I can’t get the money and might even be arrested! Fortunately the Director of the FBI believe I’m inoccent though, and they want to help me clear my name so I can get the compensation. I just need to send some personal details and all will be well. It’s a bit weird that the FBI are using a yandex.com email address, but it has the name of the actual Director of the FBI in the email so it must be legit.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I think I’m going to have a walk outside on my next break. I’m also looking forward to being in Melbourne tomorrow, predicted to be 20 degrees!
- Comment on Discussion Thread 📚 Saturday 23 August 2025 1 week ago:
2/10
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🥠 Friday 22 August 2025 1 week ago:
2/10
I really haven’t been paying attention at all, have I?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤯 Thursday 21 August 2025 1 week ago:
I read that as animated tempura and thought you were being very adventurous.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
I don’t know if I can visualise it. I don’t “see a picture” or run a video in my head. Thoughts are a complicated web of interlinked ideas that constantly change as you focus on them. Telling me to visualise something like that brings up lots of ideas which include what giraffes and pandas look like, but also thoughts about how levers work, links to zoos where I have seen giraffes and pandas, the panda toy I had (and lost) as a kid, a whole mess of things that are definitely not visual, And it’s all simultaneous, it’s not like one single thing.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
Well, I’m not sure a giraffe could headbut a panda, the angles are all wrong.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
I’m not convinced. People don’t mean the same thing when they say “internal monologue” so it’s not that clear whether the differences are that big.
Is an internal monologue like having a narrator talking constantly? Is it actually like hearing an external sound, or is it an awareness of the concept of the sounds and words along with all the other bits of meaning and fragmented thoughts that run through my brain? If you don’t have any sort of internal monologue how do you ever manage to speak or write? Does writing something down feel like someone else has taken control of your hands and leave you surprised when you read it, because you don’t have the idea in your head forming words first?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
Dinner
Lemon-pepper snapper with salad.
I didn’t get the fish fully defrosted so oil spat everywhere while I was cooking. I had to do a full clean of the stovetop, benches and back wall.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve finisished the gardening for the day. The new edger works well and was less strain on my arms than the whipper snipper, as I hoped. It did take a while to do the front even though it’s a small area because there are a lot of edges and things to work around. I ended up doing another run around the back yard too, which gave me more clippings to help weigh down the cardboard designed to smother the grass where the new beds will go. It’s pretty bumpy out there which I’m hoping I’ll be able to improve a bit in time. The grass at the front’s a bit dodgy too - it had turf laid which is very healthy, but because it is on a slope the pieces moved apart a bit and there are ditches between them which need to be filled in. I think I’ll do a topdress in Spring to try and get it a bit neater, and any extra soil can go on the nature strip which is a horrible mess of weeds, including a horrible flat spiky thing I have name the Rosette of Doom. There are also spiky gorse bushes around in a lot of the open land and naturestrips around so I want to try to make sure they don’t get a foothold either.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
Groceries are in and put away. The delivery man was very nice and even had a treat for Mr Woof. Mr Woof refused to be distracted from his guard duties by mere food, but went straight for it the moment the delivery man left. Now I need to chop up the chickens into smaller pieces for the freezer, cut a few bits off the beef roast for the same thing, and work out a container to put the giant bag of bread mix into.
I also need to do some tidying in the front yard while the weather’s good. I just bought a new edger attachment for the grass that will hopefully be a bit neater and easier than the whipper snipper.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍔 Wednesday 20 August 2025 1 week ago:
I assume C-Suite is the Cat? My Back to Bed ecommerce strategy is an online grocery delivery that’s coming soon, so I do my shopping and nap simultaneously. The cat is fully on board after I provided a strategic breakfast and snack option.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
I keep my buttons in multiple jars instead of just one, it helps to confuse the hobgoblins and keep the buttons safe.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
I’ve had mulch that had bits of plastic and glass in it too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
Both wheels went over it 🤢
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
I just had a suicidal rabbit throw itself under my wheels on the way to work.
#countrylife
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🤖 Tuesday 19 August 2025 1 week ago:
🤞
