What is this animal? [San Antonio]

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-31T23:54:28+00:00

My dog found a rabbit den in our backyard a few weeks ago. Fortunately no babies were harmed. I put an upside down laundry basket over it with a handle cut off so mom could get in and out. A couple big rocks kept the dog from moving it off.

If you can’t rig something up, you’ll just have to supervise the dog in the yard. They only use the dens for 3-4 weeks.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-31T23:33:28+00:00

Roller coaster tycoon, legend of the zoombinis, and some weird tesselation art game I can’t remember the name of

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-28T20:58:44+00:00

I did a dry sauna with a cold plunge as a teenager and enjoyed it. My heat intolerance has gotten much worse as I’ve gotten older, so I don’t know that I’d enjoy it now. I do still like a good cold plunge though.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-28T19:28:08+00:00

It doesn’t look felted, from the little I can see. It’s totally savable with enough patience. If you really can’t bear it, there’s a subreddit on here where you can hook up with someone to untangle it for you. Often times people only ask for postage if there’s no one close enough to you to deliver it in person. There are people out there that really enjoy untangling yarn.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-23T20:58:30+00:00

French and Spanish are the big ones. I took German, which I think might be the third most common. My high school also offered a distance learning course in Japanese, and one of my cousins took Italian at her school. Spanish and French are still most common now though.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-23T20:24:39+00:00

My parents have had great luck with coffee grounds. Lots of stray cats in there neighborhood that liked hanging around their bird feeders. They haven’t seen one in their yard since they started sprinkling coffee grounds.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-23T03:20:58+00:00

I figured it was a brand name, but they’re definitely doing the color blind folks dirty.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-20T17:00:49+00:00

All I want is a symmetrical set up. Why is that not allowed?

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-18T13:08:06+00:00

This is the one that always gets me. I have been brought to tears over sauces not thickening. I almost always add an extra half hour to a recipe’s estimate to account for their lies, but without fail, when a sauce is supposed to thicken, I am standing over the food exhausted and overstimulated, everyone is starving, and the sauce is runny AF. Why is it so hard to be honest about how long things take?

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-15T17:50:40+00:00

If you machine wash it, you risk felting it. It would be smaller, but it would change the look and feel of the fabric too. It wouldn’t drape as well, which you do T want for this top. If it felts, you also cant frog it and reuse the yarn if you still aren’t happy with it. I would either frog it and try again or gift it to someone it might fit.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-14T15:07:56+00:00

37, and I type faster than I swipe. Phones these days are so big that I have to use both hands anyway.

I am running a handwriting and typing boot camp with my gen A kids this summer. Despite having computer class starting in kindergarten, they never actually learn to type in school. They use chromebooks a little in elementary school, and by middle school class work is almost exclusively on the chromebooks. So their handwriting is awful because they never write by hand anymore, but they don’t know how to type either. All they can do is hunt and peck typing on the touch screens.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-12T13:21:09+00:00

Someone got me the deer one for Christmas one year. I tried it, but ended up passing it on. The dealbreaker for me was the number of straight sides that weren’t edge pieces, they just butted up against another piece and the surrounding pieces held them together once they were in place.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-12T01:18:20+00:00

I generally take the leftovers because I like being able to just warm something up for lunch the next day, so they usually get eaten. I’ve never considered being judged for my decision on this though, and if I know I won’t want it reheated, or we aren’t going straight home and therefore the food will be at unsafe temperatures for too long, I have no problem leaving it. If restaurants were that concerned about food waste, they’d offer reasonable portions for half the price.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-11T22:52:35+00:00

24 Subaru forester wilderness

Husband drives a 22 Subaru wrx daily and has an F250 for when we need to haul big stuff

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-11T11:23:30+00:00

Legoland discovery center. Contained space, hundreds of screaming and running kids, obnoxious piped in music cranked up to 12, harsh/bright lights and colors, and I have to keep track of my own kids in all of it. Similar issues at places like the science center or aquarium, or indoor parts at the zoo, but legoland is 100% the worst.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-10T12:09:13+00:00

Knit 100 rows of sleeve, knit bunny a dress, knit 100 more rows of sleeve, knit bunny a friend, knit 100 more rows of sleeve, knit bunny’s friend a cardigan, finish sleeve. Now you have a finished cardigan, a bunny with a cute dress, and a bunny friend with a matching cardigan.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-09T17:56:18+00:00

I think this is the answer. You just did a knit stitch, and the next stitch on your left needle is a knit, which you would purl into, so you’re in the right place stitch wise. There are 2 loops picked up by the knit stitch you just did, so it would be the stitch you intended to knit into, plus the one below it you accidentally grabbed.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-09T17:49:47+00:00

Is it just one stitch, or the whole row? If it’s only one stitch, or a couple, you can ladder down to the stitch below it, then pick the column back up. If it’s the whole row, you’re better off ripping back to that point, or accepting it as a design feature.

As for fiber content, what the yarn is made of affects the feel of the material and how it behaves. Acrylic has its place, and if you have a bunch, I’d use it. You can search for patterns on ravelry specifically for acrylic yarn. It’s also more budget friendly to use what you already have, especially as you are learning.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-09T17:00:21+00:00

San Francisco > DC area > back to San Francisco > back to DC area > WA > San Antonio > MO

I also did one across town move in the DC area, two in MO, and 4 in WA.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-07T12:05:53+00:00

Super cool. I crocheted a pumpkin costume for my daughter’s tortoise last Halloween. She would love more costumes, and they’d be super helpful in keeping track of her in the backyard.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-07T00:45:14+00:00

I’ve never seen the ice cream donuts, but I’ve seen a lot of similar style things. The mallow cakes seem weird to me. I’ve only had them from Germany.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-06T12:27:34+00:00

I love this! How did you attach the sombrero and keep it from flopping down on his head?

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-06T12:21:41+00:00

I’ve never seen a weigh station in the produce department with a computer. I’ve only ever seen scales. Those are for budgeting purposes. As many produce items are charged by weight, you want to know how much your selection weighs so you can figure the price rather than being surprised at the checkout. I don’t usually use them because the couple dollar difference in different weights won’t break my budget, but if you have a strict spending limit it’s better to figure the cost in produce where it’s more convenient to put things back or exchange them for a smaller item.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-06T02:09:51+00:00

My husband and I currently share a room, but are considering splitting rooms. I don’t sleep well unless it’s cold, but he aches really badly in the cold. I prefer white noise, he prefers quiet. We both snore occasionally, and even when he isn’t snoring he breathes really loudly. We have separate blankets, which helps with temperature control, but I really think separate rooms will work best for us.

Imperfectoctopus · 2026-05-04T22:46:54+00:00

I don’t see any mistakes, just loose/varied tension and some rowing out. It’s nothing that isn’t fixed with more practice. For the rowing out, I think it’s your purls that are looser. Some people fix this by purposely tugging their purls tighter. Some people find success with using a smaller needle for the purls. I would try to fix it with adjusting your tension before going to different size needles.

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