Needs more begonias
beautiful 😊
Behold, my $275 wooden spoon
Assembly was required. Fortunately there was an expert instructor and all tools required.
It started out as a chunk of firewood, then we used an axe and various carving tools to turn it into a spoon. The wood is from a nectarine tree. Once it has dried out fully in a few weeks time I can sand and oil it to finish it off.
It was rather hard work, and I am definitely cancelling tomorrows planned weightlifting session, as I am unlikely to be able to grip anything, let alone lift it.
I also got a bonus couple of garbage bags full of woodchips to put on the garden.
Lost Trades Fair? Nectarine sounds beautiful.
It’s the ‘Rare Arts and Lost Trades’ centre at Ballarat. It’s next to Sovereign Hill, in what used to be the gold museum.
Did you do that? Nice job.
I was wanting to learn how to whittle but not sure I can be trusted with a proper sharp knife
They were very big on safety procedures and they also had cut resistant gloves. I did not cut myself or come anywhere close to doing so. I did however cut myself last night on a piece of dried chicken marinade baked onto a baking rack, so I think it’s fair to say that washing the dishes is an inherently more dangerous endeavour than spoon carving.
Breakfast!
Oh yum.
looks delicious
Decided I’m actually not going out today. The weather is just terrible and I want to sit outside lol
Will probably go on Wednesday arvo, as the weather looks better
Time to hurry up and chill
Give us all a heads up on the time cause down for some b’day drinks :)
Will do! 😸
YL is dog sitting (staying at the house). I got this text.
Question: If someone was staying at your house on their own for 2 weeks what might they find strange?
I think someone would be curious about the amount of speakers and disco lights here.
Absence of a tv.
What a weird layout the joint is, it’s a whole lot of renovations cobbled together. It’s a rabbit warren in a trenchcoat 😂. Maybe also all the weird noises and stuff in the main part of the house. But mainly the quantity of art and craft supplies crammed into my part of the house, a fairly small space. I’ve got enough stuff here to power a small primary school 😆
Me, because I never actually left and I’m watching them from the closet
The amount of pointless shit in the shed.
Sometimes some stuff ends up being handy though.
No microwave. Number of plastic dinosaurs? Number of things that are not black? Ask Witchy I guess 😺
Dinosaurs are not strange. Extinct, yes. Strange, no. At least for anyone that has ever had children in the house plastic dinos are normal.
so many books but very few novels
a complete mish mash of interior design styles
The sheer quantity of tea
Well I also don’t have a toaster (I use a cast iron griddle instead)
Your cupboards would be rifled through.
Giant disco ball in the entry area.
Yep. This would confuse. Also the sex room extension.
I have been thinking way too much about this sex room thing lately and it just seems inherently creepy to me.
You gotta watch the show. Some of the rooms were done nice if you don’t look at what’s hanging on the walls.
Bed in a non-bedroom room because of upcoming works.
The random tent inside. Either to be used as emergency ringworm cat accommodation or I can sit or sleep in there to save on heating bills this winter.
https://www.businessinsider.com/cold-korean-families-moving-tents-2013-1
I feel like I should get a prize for cleaning the house with a migraine.
Throwback to early days
Heater is on
yup,
had to turn the heater on for the fish ( haven’t got his heater yet ) and now I’ve turned on the heater in my office
Zucchini Slice tonight 🙂
Steak, roast sweet potato, roast cauliflower, rocket salad at my place.
I love a good steak once in a while.
Haven’t yet decided, but I’m considering nipping down Lydiard St for a kebab
Stir fry of pork fillet & bok choy with mashed potato. Various tasty sauces according to whim.
I love a good whim
Good morning migraine. And somehow I need to do a fresh install of Windows today because Windows 11 can suck a dumpster of disease ridden dicks.
I grabbed the one off AN (of all places) and have to say that version is fine for me. Been going for 7 months now w/o a problemo. Only use it for DAW / photo stuff though.
Did you a fresh install or an in place upgrade?
Yea fresh.
Takes forever re-installing all the vsts though lol.
See that was my mistake. I was being lazy lol
So now I’ve got an extracted list of vsts that I’m collecting the installers for :(
tea and aspirin and sunnies and a gentle hug. hope you feel better soon
🍵💊😎
Thank you :)
I wish to register a complaint. These hot twiggy sticks are not.
One minute in the microwave should fix them. I saw this on tv.
What a prehistoric solution
Strongly agree. Dip them in one of your hot sauces.
Bite the ends off and do a hot sauce Tim Tam slam
There’s so much good music in this city. Unexpected for a place that is at the end of the world. Hell yeah Melbourne.
I got the tent and set it up inside just in case. The little one has forgiven me for last night and came back this morning for food and gloved pats. Was meowing to come in. Haven’t let him in yet but I’m trying to get ready in case it has to happen.
I’ve got a big birthday coming up but am sad Melbcat isn’t here to share it. I’m probably just going to do normal stuff (or as normal as things get around here).
aw, 🐱🐈⬛
He ran away in such a huff I was worried I’d scared him off
he knows you’re a sweetheart and it was one little thing that you were probably more worried about than he was
Yeah I think he knows I wouldn’t hurt him.
Years ago he had his little buns parked on my hot water heater (probably just a visitor at the time) and I was very gently poking him with a pipe to shoo him away (because of my cat)… he wasn’t scared in the slightest and just smooched the pipe like I was patting him.
Artemis II Integrity Capsule has safely splashed down. I admit I got a bit teary. 😄😄😄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFcP1QfSp0
So good. Textbook. I think I saw 3,200,000 peak viewers on the NASA YouTube livestream.
Just about to head out to the bakery on the corner for a banh mi and coffee. The word on the street is that they’ve just done a batch of coconut slice. Does anyone else want some?
Crispy pork banh mi please 🙏
🥖 🥬🐖🔥🥕🌶 🥖
🚚 💊🥤
yes please 😊
🥥🔪 🍪 🚛
