Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈🎣 🧌 Friday, September 27, 2024

Sun cat

How is Gibson so pretty?
If I had her camera-fu...
- As someone who isn't photogenic, I'm also a little envious lol

I’m a learner gardener and have inadvertently bumped off more plants than I care to admit. Despite this, these orchids have been going strong for about 15 years, so thought I’d show them off

Beautiful! I love cymbidium orchids.
They are beautiful!
ooh looking healthy!
Heckin good orchids - that's pretty awesome work I'd say.

Lol, that cat showbag I got yesterday had a pack of Hills Science Diet sachets, turkey and liver casserole. It's the first time I've seen Mickey eat it all - usually he licks up all the gravy and leaves some of the meat bits with the Dine sachets,, but nup, he ate up all of Hills.

Hills it is Mickey, you fickle furrball

Until you buy a box of it, then he won't like it anymore!

I splurged and got a slice of cheese cake and a small mousse.

Living large over here lol

I slipped and fell last night right on my bum and today my tailbone / sacrum is definitely bruised. Good excuse for a lazy day but I can't help wondering at what ages does one go from "fell over" to "had a fall".... 🧓

I don't know, but a couple of weeks ago I turned my head slightly the wrong way and had to go the physio lol
You are old when you have a fall and end up with a broken hip and in hospital lol
Tripped over something, stepped on something slippery etc. = "fell over"
Ended up on the ground because you can no longer balance while standing without something to hold on to = "had a fall"
I’m in complete denial about stuff like this, despite having put my back out really badly in the past by bending down to pick up a tea towel

BEEEEZ

Echium to the pollinator rescue.

After 40 years she gets her own story for the first time.

Girlboss Zelda coming in hot 😍 about time she gets the spotlight.
Is it good?
- Pretty good so far but I’m not very far into it.
  Requires a different approach to problem solving and fighting because Zelda uses summoning of items and monsters to fight.
- Did you see in the trailer you can climb things by stacking beds on top of each other?
  Instant classic
Oooh. Need to get my Seitch back in working order

I'm free at last 😍🍻🍻🍻🍺.
Actually didn't mind working today for almost $100 per hour 😎

I’m still struggling both physically and mentally. Forcing myself to do stuff is backfiring and causing a lot of stress. But the alternative is to just do nothing? Indefinitely?

I’ve inexpertly taken the soil samples and only just remembered - even if they come back safe I might not use the soil because there’s the cat poo to consider.

When I adopted Melbcat she was an outdoor girlie. While that was years ago and she’s now adjusted to being a litterbox enjoyer, I can’t promise the same for the visiting cats or possums.

AHHHHHHH 🎢
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No food for me, I'm about to be spun around, up and down, and have my photo taken without realising 👀
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I have a hankering for hash browns and potato cakes please Chef.
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All of the cassowary has been eaten so I would like the cooked stone please
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Choo?
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I would like a Reuben please. Don’t stint the pickle.
- 🍞🥩🧀🥬🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🍞
Hmm how about 5cc's of motivation and 20cc's of energy?
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Could I plz have one of your KFC chips but can I steal it when you're not looking?
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I would like to second Catfish's order of a Rueben plz chef.
Also for you: ☕🍰
- 🍞🥩🧀🥬🥒🥒🥒🥒🥒🍞
  much appreciated
For you 🧁☕️
- thank you

for a perfectly balanced diet i shall have porridge for breakfast and then buy KFC to bring to work

Miserable Melbourne weather out west after a ripper 29C yesterday, guess it was to prepare me for coming back home. I'm still feeling anxious about uni and not being up to what's required of me - but the TLC at my aunties has been really great. I'm glad I'm not staying longer or I think I'd get to a point of indulged-in inertia that I won't be able to get out of in a hurry...

I have procured salmon tempura sushi roll. This is the business

i shall arise

Bacon anesti

I’ve chosen not to and I think everyone will be happier for it
thank you
if good people stop having having children then there will only be the children of bad people

No shit….

ash nazg thrak.. ⋆｡𖦹°‧🫧˚˖𓍢 wow i walked over 19000 steps yesterday

Wow that's 0.00004% of the way to the moon!

Good night everyone. 😘 Sweet Dreams

😹👻

Beer & chips in the sunshine, don't mind if I do.

The free food market was small today but I managed to get enough to pull together meals for a few days. My most urgent need was tomatoes and fruit, which I did manage to get. Now I just need to do a proper menu plan for the next few days and I'm set.

What are people's plans today? Grand Final related or not

Oh what a beautiful morning,
Oh what a beautiful day,
I've got a beautiful feeling,
The washing will get dry today.
- Lol nice
Work 😊
- Love those public holiday rates!
Movies. Runt. May require 2nd mortgage to pay for tickets and snacks.
Drinking and painting DnD mini's.
- I love this. 🙂
Working but taking a day in lieu next Friday.
Putting together a large trampoline. Gawd help me
- Your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and dial again
Washing my hair and apparently getting a pakidge. Seems a bit odd, but that’s what the email said.
Going to the market to buy footy snacks, then chilling out in the sun
Drinking and cleaning gutters. Hopefully not in that order.
Walk in park. Will work on my sewing machine.
weeding. cooking. showering Miss Meow with attention.
Laundry, made more waffles, more laundry, tidied up a bit. Gotta nip out and grab some shopping. Lament the loss of wages from not working today (cries in casual worker whose boss would rather shut the business than pay anyone extra for working) Nothing major.
- That sucks. I feel like the public holidays outside of the major religious ones are paid days off for office workers.
  A lot needs to be done here around the treatment of casual workers. The 25% loading isn't enough and it has shown not to be an incentive for employers to move people across to part or full time
Did a beach walk and tried a cafe which matched the online reviews (the odd one hasn't).
Now on the third load of washing and doing a bit of sorting in the spare/office room.
- Laundry had come up a lot today. Compared to yesterday the weather had been much nicer, a perfect day for it
Not much. Wondering if I should get the washing done since the sun is out it wait till tomorrow.
Need food and coffee though.
We ended up going to a car show in the morning so the boys could look at a bunch of classic cars
Then in the afternoon I took the boys for a ride for a bit of a bush kinder
Look at that spot. There's no way you could get two kids and a pram there on foot or in a car

I'm watching all the Death Stranding movie cut scenes. Looks like it's about a guy who is asked to take things from A to B and it's never easy.

Just a weird day here.

But what is not weird. I don't think I will ever tire of looking at the stars. They are always beautiful and wondrous. 🌃

I love it when I’m in country areas with less light pollution. So many stars!

Ha, that was funny - was cooking dinner and due to the cats deciding that they wanted food Right Now and me trying to cook, feed them and not trip on them simultaneously, I grabbed and used the 1/3 cup measure instead of the tablespoon one. Turned out delicious, though, so no complaints in the end.

They Ratatouille’d you

Market run is great success. Free ice cream from Sam

Is anyone else's NBN completely screwed or is this a job I need to sort?

How does one tell if it's completely screwed? Well, more so than usual.
- Mine is just intermittent red lights on the router but yet completely non functional. We're tethering off my phone.
  And I get the meme of hating on NBN but ours is typically rock solid and full speed :(

I had a devastating discovery. I was given footy franks instead of cocktail franks from the deli. I rectified the problem with a knife.

Um, at the deli? Or when you got home ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-27/weekly-news-quiz-september-27/104400136

Quiz?

7/10 some lucky guesses
0/10, f quizs
4/10, mostly lucky guesses!
- Same here
5/10 but all lucky guesses, maybe I should play the lotto?
7/10
Couple of lucky guesses there but knew a couple of them.
6/10

Pakidge! Am now in temporary possession of a vampire llama Halloween jumper. It is ridonkulous.

Pix please! There is a vampire llama shaped hole in my life that I didn't know existed.
- It’s highly internetsble, but ok

Oh and I forgot who had the chillos that were at risk of getting too cold - but you can buy or make covers to go over the top of them.

Even put them in a plastic tub with a lid as a temporary greenhouse til you can get something else sorted

If I was to grow zucchini in pots would a tripod of Brunnings bamboo stakes be enough support? (The thin kind?) Or should I go for a thicker individual wooden stake for each, or a cheap wooden lattice?

I probably wouldn’t be letting the fruit get full size. More young tender zukes

I’ve never staked zucchinis, the grow in a sprawling style. From memory I think the stalks might be a bit too fragile for forcing upright? I’m no expert though, just what’s worked for me.
- Ah I kinda have to though. Using pots in a limited space and trying to keep the fruit off the ground.
  I’ll try to be very careful with wide fabric ties and picking them small
Zuchs don't usually need staking as they form a rosette style bush. Maybe one thick sturdy stake to tie the growing tip up to.
- Thanks, that sounds nice and cheap.
  I want to do tiny sugar pumpkins too but that might be too many plants

Felt really tired today for no real reason. So of course, now I am not sleepy at all.

You don't know how it feels....

RIP Tom Petty

nooo
- I know but...he dead