• Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    5 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
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      5 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
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    5 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!

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    5 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.

  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    Does anyone here know if you can get beeswax at Vic Market? Was thinking the honey place maybe?

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    5 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.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Weekend plans totally kyboshed, His Lordship spent the night in the dining room with the boys and now we’re basically watching sammy like hawks waiting for A Poop. We get a good’un and we know the tube is clear tip to tail.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      5 days ago

      If it’s just simple constipation you might be able to give him some Osmolax (like 1/8 to 1/4 tsp) mixed in wet food with hot water until you get a good output. Half a Microlax enema (well lubed) will get results fast and hopefully help him pass all of it.

      However I don’t know everything so maybe don’t use these if something like a blockage is suspected.

      I hope things resolve soon, emergency vets aren’t cheap :(

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    5 days ago

    Can’t believe how lost I got last night. Ended up using the stars for bearings to get home which brought back memories lol.

    Stars are still useful for navigation when you have a useless cheapo phone.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      5 days ago

      Any guides to that? I think I can find north-ish using the saucepan which is vaguely west going by the setting sun, but that’s about it.

      I used to navigate by memory but now that’s gone

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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          5 days ago

          Cheers, I’ll take a look. There’s not much I can see from here and I may not remember much of the info but it’s interesting

          Edit: That’s so weird. The Big Dipper/Ursa Major which the Saucepan is from is shown to be in the north east, where on a night it was visible I thought it north west because it looked closer to the setting sun.

          Yet it must be showing me the southern hemisphere because Orion is upside down and it’s using my location.

          I wonder if the Big Dipper travels in a circle as the earth turns so it can be seen in different areas and different rotations. I wish this had been taught in school.