ChaosCoati

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Thank you for sharing, it made me smile. My senior citizen cat (he’ll be 18 in less than 2 months) also now wants my arm as his pillow and lets me know, loudly, if he’s ready but my arm isn’t in the right “spot” yet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a great start! If that’s a current photo, I’d recommend removing the flowers from your tomatoes if you haven’t yet. Once they start flowering they tend to stop growing because they switch gears to making fruit instead. I usually just use my fingers and pinch each flower cluster off where it attaches to the tomato stem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

haha true. I did wait to post this until I got back home, but I am guilty of trying to get a photo to send to her family to show how she’s doing instead of just petting her nonstop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

She approves of this

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m sorry this happened. I know it feels really terrible right now, but I hope another great opportunity comes your way and that you feel prepared when it comes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

great shot!

took me a minute to realize those funky tail feathers are actually the other wing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most likely black-capped chickadee this time of year and in a box. My bird nest guide describes it as

a moss base and cup of plant down, fiber, hair, wool, feathers, and spiders’ cocoons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

For our pet rabbit I bought a clay plant saucer (the part you would put under the pot to catch extra water). I flip it upside down and put an ice pack under it. Then a towel between the ice pack and floor to soak up condensation. The ice cools the clay without her being in direct contact with the ice.

Also frozen water bottle in a sock she can lay next to on the extra hot days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It always is when cats are involved

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Per the Minnesota Wildlife Rehab Center, if she’s certain the cat never got it:

if it's a bunny that is larger than a tennis ball, and its ears are upright, it's old enough to be on its own

Best option is to release it back where she found it and keep an eye on it if she’s worried about the cat again.

Also if she has some greens like arugula, clover, basil, cilantro, or any lettuce except iceberg available those will sit better in the bunny’s tummy than carrots which have too much sugar.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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Protein Bread (midwest.social)
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Protein bread is what the recipe calls it. You blend cottage cheese with egg whites and use that as some of the liquid in the dough. It’s a good chewy bread, I like it toasted with some cream cheese.

Edit: I forgot to mention this recipe uses bread flour so isn’t gluten-free

 
 

I need all your tips, tricks and ideas - both to help my kid get started on and finish her work, and to help me get through it. Because currently it’s painful for both of us. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, sitting with her and trying to make myself stay focused so I can help her stay on task.

What does your evening look like? How often do you take breaks and what do you do during the break? Do you have any fidgets, wiggle chairs, etc., that you keep in the “homework area” for them to use while they’re doing their homework? Anything you’ve learned almost always derails things?

What we’ve tried so far (she’s in 4th grade):

  • Do one entire item (ex: worksheet, reading passage, spelling list) then take a break and do something fun - this works for some things but others we’re sitting there for 20-30 minutes struggling to finish it
  • Set a timer and do as much as she can in 10-15 minutes then take a break - this works well at the start each evening but each time it’s more of a struggle for both of us to come back and do more homework. I feel like it may be too many transitions for our tired, end-of-day executive functioning abilities (or lack thereof).
  • Earn a small piece of candy for each question answered, math problem solved, etc. - This works well for math, but I don’t like to use it before we eat dinner, and usually we do at least some homework before dinner.

I just want to help her find some skills she can use to tackle “have to do” things - because as we all know it’ll be a daily struggle even as adults (at least during the work week).

 
 

Still pretty new to bread making. I think I needed to add a little more flour and next time I won’t egg wash the slits I cut. But it’s tasty!

 

Lifeline is in so I’m ready to try the fish lips kiss heel for the first time. If you’ve done this heel before I’d love to hear how it went.

Two at a time toe-up socks with a P1, K3 pattern across the top of the foot, yarn is Knit Picks Stroll Gradient in Storm

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