Wow. Serious hard yakka there.

Here U go 🍺 well deserved

ooh nice!

That looks fantastic 👍👍👍

Having done that at my old place - wheeling out god knows how much to the back in a tiny cart up an old door placed over the steps, then hauling it into a high edged planter box - I can fully appreciate how every muscle in your body must be aching like mad now. Let us know how it goes tomorrow morning…

Lookin’ pretty damned schmick!

The other place has qanoncasualties if that might be any help?

I wouldn’t care what the fuck is written on it. It’s silver bullion mate. Does she need a middle aged daughter?

I’m so sorry. I suggest you treat this like your mother has joined a cult. learn how to speak to cult members, the book “Combatting Cult Mind Control” is very helpful.

I wish I had advice to give, but I don’t. I do however have sympathy. Same thing happened to me during covid. We are now non contact (there were other reasons too, but this was a big one). For context I studied and work in STEM, so I was essentially the enemy and there was no way forward from that. Good luck. It’s horrid.

Once had a real estate agent called Pennisi

Yeah look this is also me when I’ve had to type or enter Pinus too many times.

“missed”

Lift that barge, tote that bale … I don’t like how the plot develops from there on.

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I love coffee art. You have perfected the moon.

That looks really good

Oooohh nice froth on that coffee.

Looks delicious, bet you it tastes even better knowing you saved like $5 per coffee for the same quality.

That looks perfect!

Only problem I had with a spay was Topie: she suddenly became Little Climbing Bastard.
And having had a cat go on heat before we could get her fixed - you don’t want that.

Had male and female siblings done last year at 6 months old. Male had just started to turn into slightly stinky male cat and was giving his sister a bit of a hard time. They both did just fine, charmed the pants off everyone in the vet clinic. Declined the cone of shame, was prepared to cut socks into bodysuits if needed. Was told to keep them quiet and confined for at least a week, but a moth didn’t get the memo and they were both climbing from the pendant light the next morning to get to the moth. The change in boy cat was quick, and he turned back into a sweet heart. We have another kitten in the house now who is just hitting the 5 month mark, and I’ll book her in as soon as my vet allows.

The only issue I’ve ever had with a spayed cat was a No belly snorgles sensitive scar. Be vigilant about your cone/padded ring/onesie while stitches are in. It’s a super common procedure. 👍🏻

It’s being done to your cat, not to you.

All of my kitties (and dogs) over the years have handled it really well.

it’s a really common procedure I wouldn’t be worried.

None of my cats, male or female, have ever had a problem.

Got all three of ours done at once. We were prepared for dopey, possibly pained kitties.

We got back happy spazzmonkeys who apart from some stitches didn’t show any evidence whatsoever they’d been de-narded (and they definitely have been given two females, one male and no further kittens in the decade that followed)

Cola

I wish this kind of ill feeling was better supported

I do wonder whether we’ll get to that point. I hope we do. And I wonder whether we’ll see advancements enough where we can point to something and say “see, this is what’s wrong with me right now”. Having something like a sprained ankle or infection is easy - they’re visible signs of why we’re not physically able to do something. But if there was like a… I don’t know… some kind of test that showed a serotonin imbalance (for example), you know?

Here you can borrow this…

Magpies like a sprinkling of rolled oats - this is cheaper than meat. Small pieces of cheese are also quite liked by my local maggies. Bribe mumma with rolled oats and/or cheese - she will probably not bother you when you go to the letterbox. An umbrella is a good shield against swooping. Bike helmets generally don’t work, in fact may be actual targets.

Enjoy observing nature in action! You will need to provide some bribes to the residents, a small token of meat is ok every now and then, but don’t do it regularly because it will be bad for them and the babies. Have a friendly chat out loud to the guard bird, congratulate it on the arrival of babies and let it know you are a friend. You will thus declare yourself friend not foe, and will not be bothered.

You get a bit of meat, preferably something that looks a bit like a worm. You let mama bird see it then you flick it as far away from the letterbox as you can while sprinting to the letterbox. Do not deviate. On the way back to the house flap your arms around like you’re about to take flight until you are safely back inside. Squawk as you do this. Next day repeat.

Granted. Baby squawks from sunset to sunrise.

Feed them veggies, talk to them. Mealworms if you have funds and a good pet store. Not much to do about the noise though.

Ooo! I’m out of the loop - what did you guys end up getting?

I never use lane assist, it’s a pain. But yeah after coming from an old car relying a mounted phone, using carplay/android auto was a whole new world.

I hired a car recently that had that. Great fuel economy, but that lane thingy, pushed me out of the lane on more than one occasion. Very frustrating.