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Patio Charlotte Inspiration for a large rustic backyard stone patio kitchen remodel with a gazebo
#recessed lighting#patio#covered patio#outdoor lounge area#back yard kitchen#outdoor bar#stone counter top
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why is so much of sewing just tracing and cutting and tracing again q_q i see why people get projectors and use adobe illustrator now
#drawing up a design that i can easily pattern from my sloper: 😊#actually having to make the pattern by tracing and cutting ad infinitum: 😰#piecing together printer paper to get a big enough sheet of paper and doing this ten million times: 🥲😭#not to mention the IRONING.... prewashing the fabric and having to iron 8 yards of fabric???? excuse me????#and then distorting it as i iron bc it has a slight stretch and i got so tired i stopped being careful 2 yards in#and the way that you're supposed to press every seam... excuse me... am i just supposed to have my iron heated and on standby at all times#AND THE STEAM??? i just got stay tape the other day and thought it'd be a neat alternative to stay stitching#BUT IT NEEDS STEAM TO ACTIVATE (which okay makes sense) BUT long story short i'm too afraid to use the steam function#on my iron because none of us are sure if water should go back into a tank that's been in disuse for 30+ years#so instead i get this water spray pen and delicately spray down the length of each piece of stay tape#before i cover it with a piece of gauze and iron it. and then i have to iron it extra so all the water actually evaporates#oh and the spray pen holds as much water as half a pen so i have to walk to the kitchen every 10 sprays to refill it#and i have to do this for every curved edge on my pattern pieces#i mean the alternative is just stay stitching but then i would have to calibrate my settings for a single layer of fabric instead of double#which means i have to switch my needle out more and i'm still new enough that sometimes i install a needles wrong despite going through#all the same exact motions that i usually would. i'm LITERALLY suffering out here. anyway can't wait to sew or whatever#oh and did i mention i went to a sewing meetup recently? yeah...#everyone there bought like $30-$100/yard fabric and i was there awkwardly knowing i only buy like $12/yard fabric#honestly though i have the opposite problem people usually joke about. i find it So hard to find fabric i actually like#it needs to be the right fiber + right color + right pattern/texture + right weight + i have to know exactly what i'm going to make with it
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I'm gonna get into a brawl with my mother one day don't be surprised when I get on the news
#long rant incoming lol but#so my birthday is in like 2 weekends from now and my mom asked me for a list of things i want#so i compiled a list of six things with like 2 $10 options 2 like $17 options and one $25 and $60 option#and i wanna be clear i dont really care to make one but she gets pissy if i dont and its meant as more an ideas list#i dont need everything on there and its meant for my entire family#or ignore the list! i don't care!#FREAKED OUT on me saying i was being selfish/too expensive and im like....i never expected all of this stuff epseically from one person...#i am happy with one of the $10 options or a gift card or something else entirely so like#it kinda feels bad to get asked for a list of stuff i want and then get called selfish for it and then for her to talk behind my back about#me to my sister lol#also asked me if i was available for a bday celebration on a certain day and i was like yeah i got a thing in the afternoon but i can#still make it#get yelled at AGAIN bc she said oh u can leave that early and i was like...uh...no i cant lol im sorry....i paid to go to this thing already#and its like why ask me if u are gonna get mad if im unavailable (which im not even lmao)#idk it's just it's always been an ideas list in my family so i dont get why she's freaking out on me and acting like im asking for so much#espcially cause she just changed out all of her kitchen appliances and redid all of the landscaping in her front and back yard like 😭😭😭#truly didnt think a $10-20 gift was like crazy if u did wanna get me a gift lol#not really looking forward to it now ngl#chen.txt#rant post
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Growing Tip: Marmande Tomatoes
After sucessfully growing Cherry Tomatoes this past couple of years, I've become more ambitious this year and decided to grow bigger tomatoes! Not any bigger tomatoes either, but Marmande Tomatoes, these big, tasty, juicy Beefsteak heritage tomatoes, proudly displayed on many a Provençal market stall!
I sowed my Marmande tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) seedlings, a generous sprinkle over a mixture of good potting soil and a handful of compost in a flat-ish but wide enough pot on the 18th April. I covered the seeds with a light sprinkle of the same mixture, watered, dusted with grated coal to prevent damping off and took the pot upstairs, to the Nursery, just under the window with plenty of light, warmth and regular waterings.
A few days later, they were already sprouting. Quickly, the seedlings started growing proper leaves after their dicot cotyledon. As they grew, I thinned them, pinching off the weaker seedlings so the others had more room to expand.
On the 7th May, I potted two or three seedlings in small pots, filled with garden soil, potting soil and a handful of compost. Watered well and took them back up to the Nursery.
I continued tending to them, much like I did the Garden Cherry Tomatoes, until they started growing proper leaves, and sturdier stalks and reached about 12 centimetres/4.75 inches. I potted these in large pots in the garden filled with a mixture of garden soil, potting soil and a handful of compost a month later.
In late July, the seedlings had grown nicely and started blooming. I used sturdy branches I had cut from the apple and pear trees in the Wintrer to stake them, as they would be heftier once the tomatoes started growing.
And once the flowers were pollinated, it did not take long before tiny tomatoes indeed started growing!
And then, they just kept growing!
And began ripening!
Until I harvested my first Marmande Tomato on! And it was as fragrant and juicy and tasty as a gardener humbly wishes! Simply delicious.
I harvested three more today, and a couple are still ripening on the vine. They might have gotten a bit bigger, but there was plenty of rain by the end of the Summer! And now I know I shall sow them a little earlier next year.
For now, I am thoroughly enjoying these beautiful heritage gems!
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I don't have a lot of energy these days [because of The Horrors] so I'm looking at my day and my priorities and trying to plan how I'm going to spend what energy I have, because I do need to be able to rest and relax but there are also things that need doing and that is a careful balance for me.
I managed to [mostly] clean the kitchen last night so I've kicked it out of the priority list until next weekend. Unfortunately the living room, bathroom, bedroom, and my office all need cleaning too. I think of the priorities, my office and the bedroom are the most important to me, so I'll probably push the living room and bathroom until at least Friday.
There's also the laundry. I don't have any clean clothes and as we're moving into winter I need to be more rigid about getting that done because days where the clothes can be dried on the line will be more limited. So I definitely need to wash an outfit or two and hang them up in the next hour.
That's already a really busy day, so I'll probably cut it there. But it's definitely going to still leave me a lot of work this week. Half my cleaning, at least one more round of laundry, settling dog food for the next couple of weeks, planting the fall/winter greens, doing some set up work on my computer, work on some writing projects, cleaning out the fridge, and patching some worn clothes. My work week isn't insane atm, but it is definitely limiting. Right now I have 6+4+0+4+2+5+5= 25 non work/non-survival needs (sleep, food, shower, etc) hours available each week. I need to figure out a regukar distribution of these that means everything is getting done and I still have an hour a day to myself as often as possible. I think it's probably not realistic to give myself more than an hour a day for free time/fun, which is a bit unfortunate because I've found in the past that my floor tends to be getting 2-3hrs of free time most days because of how I deal with transition and decision-making.
25-7 [1hr per day] is 18 hrs, so I just need to decide where and how to distribute those in order to keep pace with things.
Lets say the garden needs 3hrs per week, the laundry needs 4 hours (specifically 2 sets of 2 morning/early afternoon hours), the cleaning needs an hour a day to get through a maintenance clean of the house, and 3 hours once a week to work down any deep cleaning that's built up. Which is....already three more hours than I actually have each week. So I guess I'll make a plan to work in the garden for 20-40min of 4 of my free hours each week.
It really doesn't leave me any wiggle room. Only about 4 hours a week that isn't explicitly allotted to something that needs doing, which means there will probably me a lot of weeks where I only get an hour or so at best across the whole thing for free time. I guess I've had a hard time accepting that at this point, having actual time for myself or a time-intensive project is only available if I've taken a day off work. I love my job, but it's ... not comfortable to realize that it's the only love in my life I actually have time for anymore.
I think that's probably why I end up here so much. It's this mindless little way of zoning out into my own head, dissociating away from the exhaustion, for a few minutes at a time. I keep thinking I want to use this space differently, make it more if the things I enjoy. But I think what I really want is just to actually have the time and energy to do things I love that take work. I keep crying a few times every day and I couldn't figure out why, but like
I dunno
Why **wouldn't** I cry a little every day? It's the closest I'm getting to actual emotional release or relaxation in my life. We'd probably all cry. Heck. A lot of us probably DO, capitalism being what it is.
I guess I'm starting to wonder why I'm doing what I'm doing. What is there left for me to sacrifice to this life? What is actually serving me about not just letting myself go up like a fireball and take my surroundings with me? What in the ever loving fuck am I fighting this hard for?
All I ever want, all I want now, is to be able to live. To really, actually live. How does wanting to live bring you this close to killing yourself, whether on accident or on purpose? What am I actually doing that is LIVING and what am I doing that is FACILITATION of living? It can't all be facilitation, or I'm not actually facilitating fuck all.
I'm 30 goddamn years old and I need to figure out what it looks like to actually love my life. I fundamentally refuse to zombify myself like this for everyone else around me forever.
#i really wanted to believe that if i just sat down and did the math i'd be able to figure it out.#but there is literally not enough time in the day for me to do all this.#i suppose i could sleep less. it's...not great for me to get less than 9 hrs a day#but i could probably pull it off for brief stints#a week on a week off or something#get an extra two hours a day that way#and then of course there's my old go to#i could just stop eating or taking care of myself#lord knows it's my well-being that restri ts my time more than anything else#and if i work myself to death like mom did instead of committing suicide at least the life insurance pays out#in case anyone gives wifey inheritance trouble#i already don't eat until dinner so that part won't give me a TON of extra time#but an hour a day at the end of the night to write does sound lovely so it might be worth it#on the weeks i sleep less i could use my 2 extra hours a day to do ingredient prep so that wifey's food doesn't go to waste as much#maybe even work on the garden and the yard's facilities a bit. i have a few projects that need time and attention so those'd fot in#if i cut my pain meds too i could put an extra $50/week back in my budget and i could use that for project supplies and emergency funds#god even thinking about this is making me so tired.#i don't know what this will leave of me#i've been doing this so long now#feels like the last time i remember having a consistent hour to myself every day was my BA sophomore year#and that was the first time too lmao#i'd spent high school waking up at 3am every day after going to bed at 12am because I needed to do my hw in the mornings#my bus left at 7:30am and i had to do all my paper assignments - make myself lunch for the day - wash dishes/tidy the kitchen - and THEN#i could finally make sure i had my shit together for the bus and maybe nap for 5min#then i didn't get home from school until 4pm and i had to fix the kitchen from whatever my parents did before i got back#then make dinner for the family#then clean the living room from whatever the pets had dome all day#then take the dog for her nightly walk and take a shower#and usually sometime after dinner around 9pm I would get permission to run to my room and try to get a head start on my hw before 11pm#that was my lights out curfew so it gave me a blessed single guaranteed hour to do something for me.....assuming i could stay conscious
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Basil (the herb) is a whore and you should know that before your second year with it in the flower bed
#emma posts#so is cilantro#my mom was like ‘oh you can have a few plants I want to use in the kitchen. right?’#and I was a teenager and my raised beds are on family property so I didn’t really have a choice#but. while the kale was pretty normal. THE CILANTRO AND ARUGULA WERE WHORES#whores I did NOT sign up for#I wanted the basil myself so dealing with that is annoying but whatever#but the worst part is that my mom didn’t even eat the plants she had me grow!!!#she ate ones I decided to grow because the family likes strawberries and raspberries#I need to get mint again#and sage#but ANYWAY#I did know that all of these plants were whores#i just wasn’t there when they first started sprouting#I’m going to be going home more often this month and my mom wants the yard looking good for my brothers graduation party#so today was my first garden day of the year#it was nice but my back hates me and I really should have worn gloves (I didn’t know where my mom put mine)#but I hope the plants do well while I’m gone#the basil should be fine. I’d be genuinely surprised if that hoard all died#but the new plants i added for it to look better. those I’ve never had myself#although I’ve wanted to#don’t think I have a green thumb. it’s maybe greenish but half the work is done by the dirt here#it’s just like ‘on it boss 👍’#I should move some catnip into my garden#the stuff in front of my parents house could use some seperating#my strawberries were little bitches last year though so I have to be extra careful this year#I like the variety I have and I don’t know what it’s called so if it dies I’m out of luck#it’s a really cool variety. it actually blooms twice a summer#I can’t keep plants alive inside very long though:(#except my current African violet that takes anything I throw at it
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#I know which window held the sunflowers I wrote poems about#I know what your blundstones looked like kicked off on this patio#I know what this yard looked like when it was still a yard and not a driveway#covered in horrible fake grass where I learned how to play cricket#and felt so alive as I hit it out of the park#I know what this front porch looked like when it was filled with plants and a giant mirror and life and you wrapped me up in a huge blanket#and made me raisin toast#I know the layout of the inside#I know where the toaster oven is kept in the kitchen and I know the stove is too small to make industrial quantities of jam#I know which brick has the spare key and I know what it felt like in my jet lagged hands as I picked it up and went inside to wait for you#I know what this yard felt like when we cut up strawberries at a trashy little folding table in the sunlight#the scenes all play out before my eyes#I know it all because it lived in my dreams for so long#the way I’d come back and I���d knock on your door and you’d have me#it was all I dreamed about and the thing I wrote poems about as I felt it slipping out of my fingers as we forgot each other#and now I sit here and everything has changed#it’s quite beautiful how much sadder it looks now thanks to the gift of time and new tenants and the loss of a lot of spellbound magic#but the way the universe changed me inside that house#will be there forever
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After two days of actively wishing death to the other, Rose and Amy would have gotten on like a house on fire.
#the Doctor isn't sure this is a good thing for him#this was supposed to be him and rose taking this poor kid on an adventure after crashing in her yard and trashing her kitchen while#he was still post-regen goofy and rose was still reeling from having gone bad wolf again#and then they go back and she's an adult and Hates rose and she's pretty and flirty and Rose wants to leave her behind#because this regeneration is so unsure of who he is#ten was very adamant that he thought the same about her but eleven hasn't taken a breath yet#but amy is clever and quick and takes to time and space without much shock (yet still with wonder!)#and her and rose start coming up with lists of adventure ideas#and the doctor now has TWO jeopardy friendly women Loose in time and space and he is only one person!!!!#[tentoo has Not happened]#rose likes rory enough and maybe even shames him into trying to be a better friend not just a Good Boyfriend to amy#anyway amy and rose would have kicked ass and taken names together
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Thank you for your patience. I had a mini anxiety attack tonight because of things just. Not being right at home at all and it’s stressing me out big time. I know I’m already slow as molasses, but I think I’m going to be even slower for the time being until things just... get back to semi-normal.
#&&. my room is now being overloaded with junk after I did a massive clean out a few months back because there is nowhere else to put it#&&. We can't even use our kitchen that much anymore because it's piled high with junk and furniture#&&. The backporch to get to the back yard? ha#&&. we only have a few feet of clearance because it's filled to the brim#&&. then I gotta crabwalk to get to my own room#&&. since the hall is packed with boxes#&&. I just feel like I'm living in a minor hording situation#&&. then we have a rat that won't get caught#&&. on top of other problems#&&. there is too much...way too much#&&. I'm close to a breaking point#negative //#&&. also this is because the house is pretty old and we are renovating it after a water heater explosion#&&. we've been dealing with this for 6 months because it had been hell to get people out here to help fix it
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im moving in a month and i found the most perfect and beautiful house to rent and was fully ready to move in right now AND THEYRE SELLING IT INSTEAD OF RENTING NOW
#im heart broken#it was so good#it had a laundry room#and a renovated kitchen#it had two bedrooms and an office#there was a cool ladder attached to shelves!!!’#and a fenced in back yard!#literally had a white picket fence in the front#the living room had vaulted ceilings!!!!#it was so charming#it wasn’t too far out of my price range either#they took it from me#I was gonna move in there a month early#im so sad#I LITERALLY EMAILED THEM LIKE HEY CAN I MOVE IN HERE NOW
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just wanna fuckin. rip the roof off of my living room so i can get some fucking SUNLIGHT in here!
#i only get direct sunlight inside my house when it is dawn or dusk and i HATE IT#i don't have a back yard i need natural light!!!!!!#some dipshit in the 70s: what if we built a block of apartments with windows exclusively facing east and west#the residents won't at all feel like they're living in caves if they're at home in the daytime!#why would they get headaches from the difference in light inside vs outside the windows that's dumb#also let's put brown-patterned asbestos tiling in the kitchen and cover the rest of the floorboards with the MOST dust-collecting carpet#space age isn't it?#working indoors all day and having to choose between privacy and natural light between times is physically killing me
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Since dropping a 32 oz glass bottle of Valentina cayenne pepper sauce on my concrete driveway the night of December 31st and subsequently having it explode in a convincingly homicidal pattern of blood red that immediately stained the concrete at just about the time our neighborhood’s New Years Eve fireworks were going off, I’m now side eyed nervously by the entire block and the dogwalkers and mountainbikers are taking the long way around instead of skirting our house and that suspicious stain to get to the park.
We have a neighbor who is friendly with us who goes on business trips frequently and is often gone for weeks at a time and I just know everybody on this street is waiting anxiously to see if he ever actually shows back up
Meanwhile I’m just waving at everyone as I leave for work humming the theme to American Psycho and my kid is still pissed at me for breaking his hot sauce
#somebody call Dexter we got blood#Well Deb it looks like the homeowner returned home from work and was unloading groceries from the back of the SUV#when the bag broke and a big ass bottle of cayenne sauce hit the pavement#shattering in an impressive splatter pattern#you can see from the spray near the curb that the bottle was big#the red spots in the snow indicate it hit the ground harder than you'd expect#indicating the person attempted to catch it and ended up making it fall faster#the smears show a futile attempt to sweep most of the mess up with a kitchen broom#these clean streaks show where the glass chunks scraped across the concrete#and this small area of the yard here close to the driveway is devoid of landscaping rocks#which clearly indicate the person who dropped the bottle threw a tantrum and kicked all the rocks out of the yard in this small spot#before moving toward the house#leaving red tracks across the decorative stone#and if you look in the recycling bin I think you'll find the broom that was used to clear the glass#likely deposited there because it was snowing that night and the perp was tired and pissed off#*wipes hands on pants*#the only crime I see here is the fact that this concrete is so porous the stain will likely remain for years#and who in the everloving hell buys 32 ounces of cayenne sauce?
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(designs a tiny home, frantically, feverishly) I think I need to scale back the big wants and needs for costs and reasons, but also fuck that I want EVERYTHING
#me trying to plan shit to meet safety building regulations#my list of non negotiables keeps growing....#big on kitchen space (with drawers designed the same way as my mums kitchen) with MUST for space for my coffee machine#bifold door opposite living room space that opens to the yard#bifold window from the kitchen to go along with the side door#thats a must bc if i have people over and weve got dishes that we want to move to the kitchen? thats fine just pop through the window!#but also so i can open that up for the arvo breeze while im in the kitchen#i really want a bath and i think my plan of building that partially under the stairs leading up to one of the bedrooms is going to look cute#oh also TWO BEDROOMS#one loft style one and one enclosed one#so if i ever decide i need a change for space where i sleep i can just? swap rooms?#the other room would double as storage space for my large containers and maybe as an office space if i ever needed that#i guess either the bathroom combined with space for a washing machine OR a lil hidden laundry#i like the idea of a hidden laundry bc then i can fit in a back door of sorts#to both be a second exit in case of a fire but to also be the joining doorway for when id eventually extend the house#it would happen eventually i know#this is SOOOOO ON MY BRAIN
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my rabbit died today :(
#she got sick yesterday but it didn't seem that bad + she's bounced back from worse but. tonight she took a turn for the worst#and when we finally got her to the vet (it's almost an hour away) she didn't make it more than like. 15 minutes#i'm pretty ok with the whole concept of death and dying so i only cried once but my mom has been in hysterics on and off all night#she (the rabbit) is in a box on the kitchen floor right now. my mom said she was going to bury her in the yard tonight but i don't think#she will. tuesday's snow hasn't completely melted yet and the ground is all mud. i personally wanted to have her pelt tanned#bc i'm 100% team 'using natural fabrics instead of synthetics' but it wasn't offered by the vet + my mom would NEVER forgive me if i#so much as expressed the idea. i wanted to use a rabbit pelt in a project a few months ago and she nearly killed me for it#n e ways. :(#romeo.txt
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My friend just sent me the greatest home listing I think I have ever seen
I mean, check out this beutiful riverside home! Double garage! Upstairs access from the outside! Lets check out the inside
Open concept kitchen, nice, nice
Oh, the whole Floorplan seems to be open concept. Okay! That floor is a little odd, but not a deal breaker.
That bathroom could use an update
Need to change out that curtain
Okay, let's go take a look at the back yard!
Oh
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Me: what is this feature for?
Google: BUY SHIT NOW! BUY EVERYTHING!!!
Me: but you haven’t answered my question???
google: YOU MUST CONSUME!
#this house I like has a storage box on the front porch that I’m pretty sure is for storing recycling bins#or maybe parcel deliveries#and I wanted to confirm if I was correct#but no#google could only show me ads & sponsored posts & direct shopping links#with no actual information#I even tried following some of the Home Depot links#to see if their product descriptions maybe answered my questions but no#I’m just going to continue to assume it’s for recycling#it’s the perfect size for a blue box and a black box#with doors on the front to take them out#and a lid for easy sorting#especially since it’s a small house with no space in the kitchen for separate bins#and it’s more convenient to keep them at the front of the house instead of the back yard or garage
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