• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’ve had a good day in the garden. Harvested the pumpkins, cut back the very exhuberant saltbush, planted the brassica seedlings and done a bit of general tidying up. It’s amazing to think that just one year ago this garden didn’t even exist.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
      2·
      2 days ago

      Productive day! I made a big batch of pumpkin soup this weekend. Eating some for lunches this week, and froze the rest for soup on demand.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    8·
    3 days ago

    There was just enough frost here last night to partially kill off the pumpkin vine, so today is officially pumpkin harvesting day. There are a couple of little fruits that were put out late that are still nowhere near ripe, hopefully there is enough life left in the vine to ripen those off before it dies off completely, but even if not it has been very productive.

    Edit: ::: spoiler The harvest is in! Many pumpkins, sunbaking :::

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    6·
    2 days ago

    I added some craft into my plans for the day - working out how to cut down the oversupply of coles bags into little gift bags I can use for my excess produce. It took a bit of fiddling but I have now worked out a fairly simple way of cutting them down and folding them. No tape or glue required. I’m rather impressed with myself and am trying to decide if I have the skills and energy required to do a tutorial I can put online, because I think they are rather nifty.

    Edit: oops, forgot the pic!

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Hi.

    My name isn’t Simon, and I’m addicted to scrabble on my ipad.

    It started off with a Disney version, and now I’m onto the official one.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 days ago

    Opened what I thought was a sealed container and got a face full of pantry moths (EWWWW) so it appears my quick clean up the other day was not enough. So cooking morning became all out pantry war morning. Oh well, everything old that was not sealed (and passed inspection) kept, new stuff had already been frozen overnight, everything else chucked. Wipe down and dosed up the cedar balls with more oil and hung back up. Ugh. I buy a lot of stuff in bulk which is more convenient and cheaper but I had been getting lazy with the freezing and sealing.

    Quick break then back to it. I shall have a belly and freezer full of lamb tagine by the end of the day.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    4·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been asleep all day. Everything feels so empty and I just don’t want to be awake for it.

    spoiler

    Edit: Check camera to see if situation is resolved. Cat was out the front for a drink last night, half an hour before curfew 🫩

    This is fucking sad, I think I care more about this cat’s wellbeing than his owners do. Unfortunately I’m just going to have to hole up inside to not get myself infected again, and hope that he loses interest in this place in favour of the good food at home.

    I can’t make someone take care of their cat or take them to the vet. All I can do is wait til there’s something the RSPCA would take seriously… (Usually if the animal has food and water and isn’t seriously injured they shrug and move on.) And I don’t want to have to pull that move.

    rolls up like a pillbug

  • TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 days ago

    Laundry nearly done - one more load to go. I put a pork hock in the slow cooker last night and now it’s been strained, the meat separated and the stock is chilling for fat removal. Peas are soaking - Pea & Ham soup coming up! Short shopping trip later then chill for the rest of the day.

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    migraine day 2. The cat is guarding me.

    Edit: The people next door are looking after their kids piece of shit yappy cunt dogs. I lost it before and yelled at them to shut the fuck up. Thankfully they took the pieces of shit indoors.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Do you know the cause or is it possibly withdrawl from the nicotine? If it’s sinus, get a heated wheatbag across your face.

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        It’s the pieces of shit next door. It’s been like this for a week and it’s really fucking stressful because it’s literally all day.

        Seems screaming at them over the fence has alerted their spastic fuck wit babysitters to put them inside.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          Get the council on them too. They’re only putting it outside because they can’t stand it inside, hate that shit. Fix your fucking problem instead of expanding its radius