Posts made by jibberthehut

What size are these pictures?

Ripley!

@aria If'n you wanna get suuuuper archival friendly, you buy a pack of archival quality photo mounts and use them instead of masking tape. Looks neater, less long term damage from adhesive to the paper since the adhesive is actually between mat and photomounts annnnd, no peeling tape off your portrait!

There. Put my college education to work. Enjoy.

@tributary where did you get those?

@crawfish I have pea gravel in the garden beds but they just keep digging and it's like noooo. Stop killing my lily garden!!!!!

So I went googling. Apparently play-sand for sandboxes comes with a warning on the bag that... it's not actually meant to be played in. And then my cats will use it as a litterbox. So I opted for pea gravel. If I ever have to dissemble it, I can freshen up my garden beds.

But hauling those bags ugh.

Now in the right thread....

Made a pea gravel sandbox for the kids because I was tired of the 4 year old going I'm booored despite a bajillion things. So I got dog eared pickets, spent three days cutting down 2x4's by hand because my table saw and mitre saw got stolen and I never replaced them. Then the kids marked the spots for screws, handed me screws, we assembled it with no plan, and then filled with pea gravel.

I am done being crafty. For today.

I still have to paint it, re-mulch around it and probably some planters because derecho damage killed everything. But I am pleased! $135 bucks all said and done after I account for another 10-15 bags of pea gravel to really fill it up. 1 hour of work.

@herja She's so plush. You know that cat is plush.

Derpy Ripley just staring off into the air. Heeee.

Binged it, it's lovely, the costumes are gorgeous. It did however leave me confused and realizing that you probably need to have a basic understanding of the world it's set in, as it lacks some worldbuilding. They seem to expect that you'll have understanding of different races/peoples of the setting.

That said, I enjoyed it. I'll give it another watch and having never read the series, I'd probably give the books a go just so that I can better understand the world as a whole.

@il-volpe And they wonder why people just go get pets off of craigslist.

@crawfish sooo leola.

@crawfish that's so felix.

@saturna where did you find the frame?!

@redbird :fist bumps: Good to see you!

@ganymede there can be a dog or cat at the foot of the bed quiet and she's clueless. Till they make a noise or she wanders downs then freezes or startles as they come into focus.

I think it's gotten worse? She does a lot more things by scent now we noticed. As if she doesn't trust her eyes that it's us or doesn't see me doing a duck beak motion with my hand to call her over. Lots more nose touching/sniffing. Vet seems unconcerned so. Senior cats yo. But she's super southern lady crossed paws judgy.

@ganymede she has resting bitchy mc bitch face all the time. She lives in the bedroom, terrified of dogs. Got her at 6 weeks old from a no-kill in Norco California. She was huddled in the litter box, terrified. Took 6 months yanking her from a hole under the sink till she learned we were friendly. She's endured a 3 day cross country trip with a harness on and hotel rooms. She loooves chicken. She will brave dogs if there's chicken and she sleeps on a small pillow between my head and the wall at night but only after I lift the covers so she can slip under, be cuddled, then off to her nest at night.

If we are gone more than 3 days, we don't hear the end of it for almost a week with her screech at night giving us shit and usually she will pee on a bed so she isn't allowed in bedrooms while we are gone.

She was my Mother's Day present. My husband is mildly allergic to cats and I accepted I would never have a cat but he brought me to the norco shelter and there she was. Shelter attendant said "She's too skittish, she will make a horrible pet" she has shitty vision too. She can only see roughly 4 feet or so. I said "Well she will never have a home if you keep saying that..." and we took her home.

I will be devestated the day she passes. I love her so much. So. Much. My imperious plush lady.

Omg! My plush imperious old lady! Right down to her super plush cheeks, black dot on her nose and her crossed paws. That look is IDENTICAL! Omg I need to mat and frame this and then order another for Scribe!

The grand dame irl for reference.

@rhamnious Like five people were all "How does it work?" "I dunno, maybe licking it?"

They licked it.

You paged <player> with: 'EW GOD THAT'S DISGUSTING! YOU LICKED A STONE! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE TOUCHED THAT?! IT'S BEEN IN A MILDEWY CAVE! FOR YEARS! DECADES! DEAR GOD IT TASTES HORRIBLE! You're going to want some water >>'.

When you make a long, long, long prp with many segments and one of the segments ends up with people in a garden, gathered around a stone, poking it, touching it, musing how to activate it, what does it do... LICKING IT.

Wonderful

People need to lick more stones.

@crawfish I mean, I am sure you will pack it better than the people who packed the laptop we just bought from Amazon. It looked like it was part of a failed attempt at a touchdown

But it's okay! It makes it more special and when it comes, I will scan it for you!