Rusty Raven @ RustyRaven @aussie.zone

Interested in sewing, gardening and preserving, with a strong focus on sust

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I'm thinking tonight might be a risotto night.

I'll swap you my bean festival tickets for your musical tickets and we'll both be happy!

All you can eat tickets to a baked bean festival

There is a package waiting for me at my front door. Now I just have to wait 9 hours until I can go home to get it!

Edit: now there are two packages!! What an exciting day.

I thought the house might blow away at some points. There was definitely a lot of rattling coming from everywhere.

The morning dog walk was quite short this morning. I'm not sure if all the wind brings extra smells for Mr Woof or if it blows them all away, but he seems fairly unperturbed by the wind. Maybe because he's low to the ground it doesn't hit him as much. It does give him a very streamlined look instead of his normally fluffy cloud appearance.

I was thinking of doing noodles for an easy dinner tonight, but I think my noodles are still in a box somewhere. I'm not sure I have enough enthusiasm for anything else. Maybe cheese and crackers, I'm pretty sure I can find all the ingredients for that.

I'm going to take that as a no...

Guilty

Edit: meaning I was wrong with my hung jury prediction.

That's less traumatic at least, but a late dinner. Would you like to swap for my 7-7 shift? I have either am-pm or pm-am options available....

Is that 1130am to 730pm, or 1130pm to 730am?

Full English breakfast please, no beans.

I have succeeded in unloading everything from the van, but still need to move some of the stuff out of the way so that I can move the van out of the garage. I have one set of shelves up and a rough plan of where I want all of the shelves to go, it's just going to be a bit of a hassle moving everything out of the way so I can put the shelves up and then put the things I've moved onto them. Hopefully next weekend the weather will be ok and I can either move a bit of stuff temporarily outside or move the van out the front for a little while to give me room to work. I'll also need to make a trip to the tip to get rid of a few things like an old gas bottle and tin of petrol.

I have now collapsed and removed sticky tape from the boxes I am planning to use as a weed barrier in the garden. Unfortunately I also discovered some more polystyrene, so I've had to throw that in the bin instead of being able to recycle it. Fortunately I don't have much other rubbish as the bin is now almost full. The next step is to start on assembling shelves and trying to get a bit of order into the chaos in the garage.

Miss Meow came into the garage for a bit of an explore - she scaled the heights of the van, had a look around and then realised it was actually pretty boring in there and went back inside to the couch.

That is good to hear.

If you were not alive and still posting here that would actually be a bit alarming. I'm really not ready for a zombie apocalypse.

Clear and sunny with lots of wind = good drying weather. I am loving having some decent outdoor drying space in this place, everything smells better having been outdoors and the wind helps get rid of some of the excess pet hair and dust that's always around. I've already managed to do a load of clothes and a load of towels, I now have sheets on the line and another small load of clothes in the washing machine.

Facebook managed to create duplicate listings so I woke up to a bunch more "is this available?" messages 🤣 No. No it is not.

I managed a nice late sleep in this morning. I intend to do very little today. Maybe a nice meandering dog walk, mixing up the new batch of dog food, and I should rescue the terrarium from the car as it is probably wondering where all the light's gone.

Before paying to have someone pick up my old fridge and freezer I decided to try Marketplace to give them away. It did not go well. Apparently "must be picked up ASAP today" is easily confused for "pick up maybe tomorrow" or "I'll deliver to you tomorrow in Thomastown".

Ded.

Van is packed to the gills, nature strip is 100% hard rubbish and I'm just waiting on the fridge and freezer being picked up so I can go home.

I declare tomorrow a day of rest.

7/10 I don't care about any sports, so those ones are always guesses!

Thanks for the encouragement. It doesn't help that life doesn't stop until you finish, you still have to go to work and cook and clean and mow the lawn which takes up lots of time too. I'm also giving myself a bit of leeway as I had a week off work with a cold, but it feels like it's taking forever, even if in reality it's not been that long.