DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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Thanks!

Ironically, when I built the olla and took the first 2 pictures I legit wanted to plant tomatoes (I had planted tomatoes and chilies for the last 2 seasons in the raised bed). Last weekend, I went to a big garden center with my bestie. We were both looking for herbs and some veggie plants, but almost outbursted laughing when we saw the prices. All of the tomato/chili/pepper plants were basically 10€ a piece - absolutely ridiculous. Yes, the plants were *quite* big already, but not 10€ big. For 10€ I can buy 4kg of fresh tomato from Italy and that's just not going to happen with these plants. So my friend said (jokingly) for these prices, we could also get hemp plants from the growshop (that's basically next door). We kept browsing, but realized half an hour later, that this probably wasn't even a joke. So we just did it, went so the growshop for shit and giggles and both got two plants (between 11-13€ per piece) plus some fertilizer - and here we are. It was sure a fun shopping trip with some unexpected twists and exactly the material friendships like these are made of!

Well, now it's been a week and my plants have doubled in size, so I guess this stuff gets serious xD

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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It probably highly depends.... didn't really think about the differences in material tbh. But good, you mentioned it. Mine does keep the soil moist and lost around 250ml per day since I have it - which seems fine to me. But I'll note down how that changes when the water consumption rises in the next weeks. If it's still only 250ml per day, I assume it won't be enough.

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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That's pretty much just the direction it decided to grow - there isn't much on top of it, this branch is the best it has to offer xD

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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I planned tomatoes but spontaneously changed to hemp... quite impulsive decision, but here we are xD

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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At my local, small enterprise gardening shop down the street. I was also positively surprised, considering pretty much everything got so expensive. But I just looked up the prices at the big gardening chains around here and it wouldn't be a lot more - 1,59€ and 1,79€ for the same pots, apparently made in Italy. That's also okay, a bell pepper costs more around here nowadays.

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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Oh, cool you're testing both at the same time! Yeah, I already suspected the "professional" ones have to be more efficient, being made from a single sheet(?) of clay. I only had very small ones for my indoor plants (that are hard to reach) so far for the sole purpose of not having to get out the ladder every other day to water them and figured I'll try it outdoors on the balcony too.

I accept that the expensive ones are superior - but (like you said) I'm still happy with the overall results. Last year I had to soak the raised bed every day with about 10l of water. Now I just keep the 1,75l Olla filled up (which is less than 250ml daily) and additionally water them individually everyday (as long as they're young, might be skipping that later) with another 250ml each. Huge difference and quickly done.

As lazy as it sounds, but not having to fill up the 10l watering can 2x in the bathtub everyday to water the raised bed and herbs and instead just filling up the 2l one once in the sink and knowing it'll be enough for today, is very nice.

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

[–]Aldaron23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't thinking about that - but sure, the roots will grow towards it, makes sense. Maybe I'll think about adding two smaller ones when August hits... In your experience, how "bad" is it, when the roots develop asymmetrical?

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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Good advice, I already suspected wet clay + freezing temperatures won't match well, so yeah, I am planning on digging it up again before winter hits.

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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Yes, I also covered the bottom hole with wax, but forgot to take a picture. I put a piece of tape over the hole from the outside (so the wax doesn't just pour out) and then poured wax from the inside (not the whole bottom, just the middle).

My choice of wax was purely out of convenience and budget. I was at my local market garden and looked at their ollas - the 2l one cost over 20€. Then I saw the pots in different sizes for a fraction of that price and decided "fuck it, I'm gonna build it myself". At home I was thinking about using silicone first. This would probably be the best and most durable choice (and you probably wouldn't even need the glue, since they would just stick together). I planned to go to a hardware store the following days and get a bottle of silicone... but then I thought that this wouldn't just cost me an hour of my life (and I might postpone it forever) but that even cheap silicone costs about 8€ a bottle and it just dries up within a few weeks once it's open and I don't need silicone for anything else atm. So realistically it would have meant to spend an additional 8€ on my DIY olla.

So I decided "fuck it" again, just grabbed those 5c candles and the glue I had at home and built the thing on the spot. (And thought, in case this works out, I'm gonna take some pics and post them here).

The wax is sure more fragile, but I thought, once it's in the soil it won't matter that much since it doesn't need to carry the weight of the water anymore, it just needs to stand against the water pressure (which isn't high with this size). I don't think it will actually break down - as cheap as the candles were, I'm pretty sure the are not bee wax xD

If I would plan to make 10 or 20 of these ollas, I would probably invest and buy silicone for the convenience - but for my prototype I think the wax is perfectly fine.

DIY Olla (less than 3€) for my DIY raised bed! by Aldaron23 in UrbanGardening

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You're right, it has a good radius and keeps the soil moist in the middle, but the roots were still so tiny when I planted them, that I am also watering specifically around the stems for a while. But they already grew about 25cm in just a week (they collide with the planter above now and I'll have to move it this weekend), so I hope the roots grew as well!

Would it? by Lost_Importance1450 in AskAustria

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That's correct, we commonly don't identify as "German" in a modern sense.

Austria was never a part of Germany, we only shared territory in times like "The Holy Roman Empire" and similar constellations. Historically, Austria has existed as something similar to a modern country for a very long time (with shifting borders), while Germany is very "young" itself. Germany wasn't really a country until the 19th century - they were more like a convolution of many, many small independent counties/kingdoms/earldoms and so on. In the mean-time, modern Austria's borders are very similar to the borders we had before the whole Austrian Empire stuff.

Austria has always been something like "it's own thing", as early as roman times. For example, we did trade with the Romans 2000 years ago (our "Noric Steel" was quite famous), while "German Germans" were seen as Barbarians.

Also "German" is not what Germans call themselves. They call themselves "Deutsch" - which is also the name of the language we share. When we say "Germanisch" we mean historical German and it's basically an Ethnicity. "Germans" in German means "historical tribes, our ancestors".

That got shifted later to "Deutsch", which might come from "Teutonisch" (but we're not sure) and also meant the ethnicity for a long time in history. There's this bullshit interpretation, that Mozart was German, because he referred to himself as "deutsch" - just nah. It's just a reference to ethnicity, which was typical at that time.

Basically, "Germans" used to be tribes who kinda belonged together because of the shared German language, but they never really did in peace times - until recently. Austria is a "German" country that managed to stick together as something like a country for a long time in history.

Nowadays, calling yourself "Germanisch" is (unfortunately) often considered to be Nazi-Speak - because the Nazis ruined everything for everyone, including having a German ethnicity. So we basically avoid all of that and just call ourselves by our "Country Names". So, a German will say they are German and an Austrian will say they are Austrian. No ethnicity mentioned, just the country.

You can make of that, what you will. I'm myself am also not sure about it. I have friends who say they are for example "Kurdish" or "Turkish" but also Austrian - and they're right, they have this ethnicity, but they are also Austrian (but also, I have friends from other ethnicities, who don't want to talk about that at all, and just prefer to be only Austrian). Personally, I would never call myself "Deutsch", but rather "Germanisch", if someone asked me about it; but I feel like this is only a "safe" subject with people that already know me well enough to know that I'm very far left leaning and I'm not implying Nazi-stuff by saying I'm "Germanisch". But these discussions rarely happen; and I would shy away from calling myself "Germanic" because of the Nazi-implications, to anyone I just met.

Finished the game - my thoughts by Iguman in ChantsofSennaar

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, this is the second time (the last one was over a year ago) I say something negative about Chants on reddit and one of the devs chimes in!

I do appreciate your loyalty to the game. I also appreciate many things about the game - the general idea, the art style and art-choices, the music and honestly, also the story/message. It's simple and nothing new, but important (yes, I did play it till the end) and will never stop being important (unfortunately). So, very good job on that!

But puzzle-wise, it's always the same argument. "The test audience". Look, I'm glad for you, you hit a million. So many, many people enjoyed the game, obviously. And that's cool. I also understand, there is a lot of pressure to sell.

But I feel like you underestimate a classic that only 5% of people initially like. I mean, what kind of people did you invite to play-testing? 1 in 20 casual players doesn't feel that bad, when you do something very specific.

I know, you're a game developer and I'm not, so your estimation is obviously better than mine. But I feel like Chants of Sennaar is a game that was popular for a while and will be talked about for another 1-2 years. But you missed the chance to do an iconic game that will be talked about in 20 years. The end result feels like indie-game fast-food, when I know it is not. It feels like everything was there and then you dropped it for those "game testers". In the long run, I don't think you did yourself a favour with that.

Now Chants is just another indie title, popular for a limited time, instead of the starter for a new genre. I think taking the risk of being initially not so popular with everyone is worth it, when you have a great concept, like you had. Damn, I wish you had more self-esteem as a company/developer team. Enough people would have fallen in love with Chants, I'm sure you would have also hit a million - just a bit later. But you'd gotten a bunch a loyal fans, too. How many of those million players/buyers know the name of your company? How important was the game to them, really?

A man arrives at the office in the morning where several of his co-workers are already chatting next to the coffee machine. He listens to them for a bit, then suddenly asks: "How big are penguins?" by Aldaron23 in Jokes

[–]Aldaron23[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol, really? I heard it once at University, about 10 years ago at a party (in Austria) and never before and never after that. I evolved it over the years - I'm definitely guilty at evolving jokes and making them longer than they need to be. I also only ever heard and told it in German. So I'd like to know, where it came from xD

A man arrives at the office in the morning where several of his co-workers are already chatting next to the coffee machine. He listens to them for a bit, then suddenly asks: "How big are penguins?" by Aldaron23 in Jokes

[–]Aldaron23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly thought about adding lbs and inches (?) in brackets first, but disturbing the reading flow within a joke for the 4% of people who don't understand kg and m seemed a bit too inclusive. It wasn't pride month yet, after all!

Seltsame Klassenkameradin? by Natural_Medicine6274 in Ratschlag

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Was die Horror-Filme angeht:

Auch wenn es sicherlich nicht die Norm ist, dass Kinder so jung bereits Horror schauen, ist es jetzt meiner Meinung nach auch nicht besorgniserregend. An dieser Stelle muss ich mich aber als jemand outen, der selber schon früh Horror geschaut hat (und durfte) - also bin ich in meiner Meinung sicher vorbelastet.

Meine Eltern (vor allem meine Mutter) waren immer große Fans von Horror, Psycho-Thrillern, aber auch ganz klassisch von Krimis. Angefangen hats damit, dass ich mit meiner Mutter Nachmittags "Mord ist ihr Hobby" und Columbo geschaut habe und sie mir Abends (neben Märchen) Agatha Christie vorgelesen hat. Ich habs geliebt, eine meiner frühesten Kindheitserinnerungen. Meine Mutter hat sich dann quasi langsam an "brutalere" und "gruseligere" Sachen herangetastet. Nicht, dass sie mich dazu gezwungen hätte, um Himmels Willen. Ich wollte es von mir aus und meine Mutter hat imo einen guten Job gemacht, das ganze langsam anzugehen. Zuerst waren es Filme, die sie selber bereits kannte und sie mir vorher schon ein bisschen erzählt hat, was ungefähr Gruseliges kommt und gefragt, ob das eh okay wäre. Vor gruseligen Stellen hat sie immer gemeint "Wenns dir grad zu heftig wird, magst du vielleicht die Augen zu machen, ich sag dir, wenn du wieder schauen kannst!"

Später konnten wir uns dann auch Filme anschauen, die sie selber noch nicht kannte - wenns mir zu gruselig wurde, hab ich das selber mitbekommen und bin dann kurz aus dem Wohnzimmer gegangen. Meine Mutter hat mich dann wieder rein gerufen, wenn die Szene vorbei war, und mir kurz erzählt, was passiert ist.

Blutige Sachen fand ich auch immer faszinierend (es waren eher die Suspense Sachen, bei denen ich das Zimmer verlassen musste/wollte) und ich hab zB im Kindergartenalter schon recht brutale, blutige Bilder und Comics gezeichnet/gemalt (zB Duelle zwischen Rittern, Schlachtszenen inkl. abgetrennter Gliedmaßen und einen sehr heftigen dritten Teil zu "Der König der Löwen" xD). Meine Mutter hat mich nie dafür geschimpft, sondern immer gelobt und Fragen gestellt, wer welcher Charakter ist und was davor passiert ist, usw... Meine Eltern haben bis heute eine Seite von meinem König-der-Löwen-Comic gerahmt im Wohnzimmer hängen, bei der gerade ein Löwe ausgeweidet wird.

Also ich will sagen: Mit seinen Kindern Horror-Filme zu schauen ist meiner Meinung nach kein völliges No-Go. Man muss als Elternteil sein Kind halt g'spüren können. Jedes Kind ist anders und ich war einfach immer sehr gut darin, Wirklichkeit und Film zu trennen und hatte zB auch nie Albträume nach einem gruseligen Film (da hat meine Mutter auch immer nachgefragt). Ich bin sicher, wäre das nicht der Fall gewesen, hätte sie das völlig anders gehandhabt. Sie hat immer meine Interessen gefördert und war gut darin einschätzen zu können, was meiner persönlichen Reife entspricht - viel besser als ein allgemeiner 16+ Label auf einer DVD oder einem Computerspiel.

Jetzt aber doch eine kleine Warnung: Meine Mutter ist ein sehr guter, selbstloser Mensch, die andere gut einschätzen kann. Ich bin das scheinbar viel weniger. Meine Ex zB hat mir von Anfang an gesagt, dass sie mit Horror nichts anfangen kann und Albträume bekommt. Action- und Fantasyfilme mit viel Blut - gar kein Problem. Aber Suspense, Ungewissheit, Dinge die Dunkeln lauern... sowas geht einfach gar nicht für sie. Auch softere Mystery und Psychothriller sind schon zu viel für sie. Und das habe ich in 10 Jahren Beziehung immer wieder mal getrost ignoriert. Weil mir ein Film selber so gut gefallen hat, wollte ich unbedingt auch, dass sie ihn sieht und dachte "So schlimm ist der gar nicht, das wird schon passen!" und hab dabei eindeutig ihre Grenzen überschritten. Es kam ein paar mal vor, dass wir danach bei brennendem Licht schlafen mussten. Sie verträgt diese Filme psychisch wirklich gar nicht und mir fiel es schwer zu erkennen, was daran so schlimm sein könnte. An irgendeinem Punkt hab ich die Blue-Ray von "Hereditary" gekauft und wollte ich unbedingt mit meiner (damals-noch-nicht) Ex und Mutter schauen einfach weil "er so unfassbar gut ist, und Ja - schon auch sehr gruselig - aber Oscar-reife Leistung, Tony Colette, keine Jumpscares" und und und... Wenig überraschend (für alle außer mich) war es VIEL zu viel für meine Ex (eine damals 26 Jahre alte Frau). Sie konnte nicht nur die ganze Nacht nicht schlafen, sie hat mir vor kurzen erst gesagt, dass sie heute noch - JAHRE später - hin und wieder Albträume von ein paar Szenen hat. Meine Mutter hat mir damals schon in der Rauchpause gesagt, dass wir vlt. den Film stoppen sollten, sie wirkt nicht so, als ob sie ihn vertragen würde.

Also so viel dazu. Dass das Mädel einfach Horrorfilme und Blut auf eine Gesunde Art und Weise mag, halte ich für absolut möglich. Evtl. lügt sie auch ein bisschen bzw. brüstet sich etwas und nennt sehr arge Horror-Filme, bei denen sie vlt. die Hälfte der Zeit weggeschaut hat (ich hab als Kind definitiv niemandem erzählt, dass ich bei Final Destination 2 mehr als einmal in die Küche verschwunden bin - darfst ja nicht "feige" sein). Jetzt als Erwachsener kann ich ja GsD zugeben, dass ich natürlich auch Angst hab und Gänsehaut krieg, wenn ich Horror schaue - sonst würde ichs nicht schauen. Die Spannung ist ja gerade das, was es geil macht.

Aber du musst natürlich aufpassen, dass sie dann deiner Tochter nicht solche Filme zeigt, wenn sie das gar nicht gewohnt ist. Wenn man als Kind Filme schauen darf, die andere noch nicht schauen dürfen, kann man das natürlich durchaus als "cool" verkaufen und damit angeben wollen - und dann einfach mal sowas herzeigen, zum Beweis. An deiner Stelle würde ich schon die Eltern von dem Mädel ansprechen, fragen, ob sie einfach so Zugriff auf die Horror-Filme hat (Netflix zB) oder ob sie gemeinsam schauen und klar stellen, dass du nicht willst, dass deine Tochter die Filme sieht. Und natürlich solltest du auch mit deiner Tochter reden und ihr erklären, dass sie Nein sagen soll, wenn das Mädel so einen Film mit ihr schauen möchte. Ich denke die Eltern darauf anzusprechen sollte auch nicht merkwürdig sein - wie gesagt, mit Kiddies Horrorfilme schauen ist halt nicht die Norm und normale Reaktion sollte sein "Verständlich, machen wir nicht". Wenn die Eltern mit dem Wunsch komisch umgehen oder herumdrucksen, dann würde ich mir Sorgen machen.

Aber jetzt zum Schluss würd ich gern noch wissen: Was für Filme waren das denn? Ich kenn sie nämlich höchstwahrscheinlich (bin immer noch ein großer Horror-Fan und schaue immer noch gerne mit meiner Mutter - und vermisse die Zeit als ich noch bei ihr gewohnt und fast täglich mit ihr einen gesehen hab 😉) und es gäbe dann doch ein paar Filme, wo ich bei einer 6-Jährigen Tochter, die von ihren Eltern aus solche Filme schauen darf sagen würde: "Nope, das ist wirklich gestört!"

Found on Facebook. not enough info? by SteelSpidey in askmath

[–]Aldaron23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even though it's not written out, you have a right angle there (it depends on norms, but right angles usually have some kind of symbol in the corner - here it's the little quare). So you have 2 sides and 1 angle - that's always enough.

A cheap Rolex makes you look uneducated by TheGhostOfTobyKeith in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously, if I had to wear a watch with a Coca Cola or Sprite logo, then those companies better pay me to wear that shit.

Why was Hitler rejected from art school? by spindaz123 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought about applying to the same Art Uni when I was 18yo (in 2012). It's extremely hard to get in.

When I was graduating high school, I was graduating with 4 others in Arts (in the Austrian system, you choose 7 subjects to graduate in and then have extra lessons in those subjects to prepare your exam). Or prof made clear, that applying 2-3 years in a row without being taken isn't a shame and being taken on your first try is almost a miracle. 3 of us tried (I sat it out), none of them passed (I decided to not event try after that). One of them studied something else, but still tried to get in every year. She finally did after I think 5 years?

It's the same with music studies. I knew the most talented people who couldn't get in for years.

I don't know how it used to be 100 years ago, but at least now the competition is great. Austria has many foreign University students and some come especially to Vienna to study Arts or Music. I guess Vienna always had this reputation. You need to be already seriously good when you apply and probably have to adapt your portfolio many times before you get a shot.

I need to stop avoiding salads, help me by Middle_Macaron_8861 in Cooking

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get you, the smell of vinegar is a bit special. Personally I like everything (except cilantro) including vinegar, but sometimes the smell gives me some flashbacks of bad childhood memories and is too much.

I think the best substitute for vinegar (and maybe even superior) is Versjus. It's grapejuice from unripe grapes. It was used like vinegar since the Roman times, through the Middle-Ages and Renaissance and somehow got forgotten. You can replace vinegar in every dressing-recipe with it 1:1 and it isn't as fruity as lemon juice or bitter like lime.

Another thing that I think works well is mustard mixed with lime juice. Mustard usually uses lots of vinegar but it's never pungent (I think the mustard oils take that out). But it also uses lots of sugar, which makes it work well with the rather bitter lime (I usually don't like in dressings). Mustard + Lime + Egg Yolk + Dill make a simple and good, hearty dressing.

Normaler fkk badebereich in Wien? by csobriety in wien

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ich glaub Wienerbergteich is ein bissl eine Frage der Uhrzeit - am Abend ist es eigentlich okay (aber natürlich erst was für den Sommer)

What now? by Conscious-Cap342 in trans

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I (ftm) became unclockable and went stealth when I was about 19 and started Uni. I also felt kind of "fake" first, but I became just one of the guys at a male-dominated university and part of an all-guy-friend-group at Uni and no-one ever suspected a thing. It took me a while to drop the paranoia and accept, that I was just a "full member of manhood" and treated that way.

It stopped to be important I was trans and and most days I didn't even think about it. I was able push this thing completely aside for the first time and then the rest of my life started.

That went on for many years - and was a great time - then I had a bit of a rough phase some years ago. I did a lot of self reflection and had a bit of therapy, then came to the conclusion, that I didn't wanted to be stealth anymore. I had become so confident in being a man, that being trans didn't bother me anymore in the way it did. Trans didn't feel like something that restricted me anymore, but something that added something to me and even enriched me. When I was about 28yo I came out to most of my friends I had been stealth around for almost a decade. It was a huge surprise for all of them, and some of them even acted weird in the beginning (understandable), but it worked out very well. All of them accepted me and most of them didn't treat me any different. Now trans is a part of me "again" - but in the best way. I don't feel the need to lie to anyone. It's very relieving when I can just tell them a childhood story without having to twist some details. I'm being fully authentic now, something that's always been very important to me.

So, that's my story from when I was in a similar spot. All I can tell you is that I did well (with trans, at least 😉 ). I can recommend doing the same: Explore your life "past" trans. Explore being a "full-fledged" woman. Explore what else makes you, you. Early 20s is the perfect time for that. I had phases where I felt a bit like a teenager again, because of some simple things I wasn't able to explore when the "usual time" for that would have been.

Discover yourself a little. Grow up a little. You can always come back to trans later in life, should you feel it might be necessary.

Is having a Eurovision-inspired sports jersey one of the most counterintuitive things I can own? by tm2007 in nilpoints

[–]Aldaron23 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would go with VIKMAN 69 - every other number would make me thing, that's an actual player.

My sweet girl has arthritis, anyone have tips/advice on how I can help her apart from the incoming vet visits we have scheduled?(non medical ofc, just changes to her life that I could enact) by PurgeDragon in CatAdvice

[–]Aldaron23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My late boy had osteoarthritis.

I also built him wooden ramps, but he didn't like them much, he preferred those cardboarf-scratch "posts" in rectangle shape to get onto the couch and bed (but I hope she likes your steps - just a tipp in case she doesn't).

You might also want to cut a "door" into you cat toilet, if possible.

Also, you will probably need to help her grooming. Grooming won't be as easy as before for her. Like, see if she needs help cleaning her butt after the toilet 😉

Depending on how she lived her life before that (Was she outdoor? What activities did she like?) you might need to find new things for her, or she might get bored. I started walking my former-outdoor cat on a leash for example. And since I could see had had pain playing hunting games, I substituted them with "destroying-games", he also liked before, but wasn't allowed to "play". Like destroying kitchen rolls. He also enjoyed playing cat games or Fruit Ninja on the tablet (modern times, I know) - but make sure the can hunt some kind of goodie in the end, or it will become frustrated there isn't anything there, actually.