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(via Ravelry: AMerryweather’s Blanket of British birds)

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distressing things to say to your friends

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consider this field HARVESTED

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An idiot robin has built a nest on top of our garage door motor. The nest was constructed so the chain that drives the door is actually a part of the nest, and if we open or close the garage door, the whole thing is going to get torn apart. So I guess the garage door is staying open for as long as it takes for these eggs to hatch and these birds to leave the nest.

My wife has set up a camera to continuously monitor the situation.

Wife: Maybe we should set up some padding beneath where they'll fall out of the nest? Normally they fall onto grass, not concrete. Me: Seems like we're really coddling these birds. Wife: Well, yeah. Me: I just don't want you to get invested. Wife: Way, way too late for that. I'm all in.

So we're keeping the garage door open for a few weeks, I guess. Whenever I go to use the car, the robin flies away from the nest and watches me cautiously to see whether I'm going to kill her babies, and I can't help but find that a little bit rude of her.

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what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

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She dragged this banana across the tank just to eat it in this specific spot

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Boney McClyde does the last of the autumn chores, even though he'd rather rest

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“Now, bear in mind,” *I pause, allowing time for you to visualize the bear*

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I have recently come to realize that there are many different techniques to employ to get down the stairs, safely. Here is a particularly effective one.

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See this reddit tutorial from five years ago about sewing a rope grommet, by jerseycityfrankie who claims to also be the photographer of this beauty: https://www.reddit.com/r/myog/comments/j36rds/comment/g7cfqn4/

That’s seven small grommets and one large one with a metal thimble inserted. This is the Clew of a sail on a J-Class racing yacht from the 1930’s. Ask me how I know! [...] I was the photographer of that image. It was at a NY Yacht Club/America’s Cup History display at Rockefeller Center over a decade ago and it was on display in a glass case. I put the photo up on the internet and after five years or so I saw it posted again by someone. Then I’d see it posted every year or two. It popped up again recently on Facebook last week then I saw it on a bunch of Subreddits the next day. I’m delighted the photo has a life of its own now.

Run into while I was looking to see if I could find an explanation for the exact reasoning behind that interconnected system of grommets--I didn't find that but I'm guessing it's something kinda like pinked fabric not having as clear a point to tear or fray by breaking up and spreading out the sharp round edge of the main hole.

Tutorial summary:

The individual grommets are simple, close whip stitches sewn without knots (just catching the first tail under your stitches and also feeding the second tail through several stitches at the end), around a circle of rope made of one section of a three-ply rope wrapped around itself twice to be all three of its own plies. The hole in the fabric should be a bit smaller than your rope circle and, after you get started, you use a tapered wooden handle or dowel to ream the hole every few stitches as you work to keep it circular.

The comments point out that this isn't just cool to make do if you don't have a metal ring but also becomes one with the fabric in a way metal won't, flexing as it needs instead of putting more strain on all the surrounding fibers.

Corner of a hand-stitched sail from the 1800s

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Fresh light greens and white, an antidote for the hot and very sticky humid day here. This little drawing is available to buy on Folksy…

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what makes art special is that it's hard to make

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infinite tea dragon for all your tea needs:)

[prompt: tea, butterfly, wyrm]

kinda following @kmccaigue 's list:)

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Mona Lisa cat nest 😭