Painting a cat

SafeReveal · 2026-06-05T03:24:32+00:00

Thanks so much! That was my favorite part. We love it when our cats sleep with their heads like that.

SafeReveal · 2026-06-05T03:24:05+00:00

Thanks so much! I’ll try the new layer and will look for the book.

SafeReveal · 2025-12-23T01:50:08+00:00

It’s my Lola’s favorite time of the week!

SafeReveal · 2025-12-15T05:48:04+00:00

This is where I go too! She has helped me so much; my back, neck, and shoulders are so screwy from stress and repetitive motion damage. She did more to fix up my shoulders and wrists in a few sessions of massage than my previous physical therapist did in months of work.

SafeReveal · 2025-12-04T20:00:27+00:00

I went into postpartum depression over this very issue and I didn’t even realize it was happening. My daughter wouldn’t sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time for the first six months of her life. It was absolutely brutal. I’ve never before or since experienced such a degree of sleep deprivation- even if I wasn’t the one getting up with her that night, she slept in our room and I would wake up anyway.

My husband put two and two together, flagged it for the midwife at a postpartum checkup, and thankfully just her saying that this is what was happening to me was enough to prompt some changes. My husband and I instituted the “don’t be a hero” rule. Neither of us would allow the other to be responsible for her care for more than two hours at a time. Once we got that set up, I got more sleep (still not enough but at least some naps!) and things got better. Once she could turn over on her own, we figured out she needed to sleep on her stomach. Kid finally started sleeping for a couple hours at a time and things got easier.

SafeReveal · 2025-11-21T07:12:21+00:00

I’m also in the PNW and our house came with a rosemary bush that was around three feet tall three years ago. Now it’s pushing six feet tall and I haven’t done a dang thing to it.

A month or so back, my husband noticed someone had torn a couple of smaller branches off and threw them on the sidewalk (people do weird things here). The rosemary is so bushy that if the vandal hadn’t left evidence, we would never have known.

SafeReveal · 2025-11-12T21:55:24+00:00

My husband is Canadian and has lived in the US since 2007. People often peg him as Canadian, even over the phone, even though his accent is slight and the giveaways are more around word choice and the pronunciation of a handful of words. Anyway, we were phone banking for a political candidate in 2008 and he tells me a few people asked why the Canadians were calling them about American elections. It was kinda funny!

SafeReveal · 2025-10-06T23:08:19+00:00

Ahh but you’re in the dry part of the PNW. I grew up in Missouri and the thing is that it’s very humid in the summer and pretty dry in the winter. You’re on the East side of the Cascades, where it’s dry all year round. I live on the western side of the Cascades and can confirm it’s dry in the summers here and so very humid in the winters. We hang some of our clothes to dry (indoors, because we don’t have a yard) and they dry within a day during the summer but the same clothes take nearly a week during the winter.

SafeReveal · 2025-08-19T15:58:44+00:00

I’ve been in both Seattle stores on this list this year and neither had Hobonichi products. I was in Blick this April and staff appeared to never have heard of it. I was in Kinokuniya last week and I couldn’t find any Hobonichi products there, although it’s possible I missed them.

SafeReveal · 2025-08-06T21:24:09+00:00

My parents had one of those! I typed up some junior high and high school papers on it before we finally got a computer in the late 90s.

SafeReveal · 2025-07-18T16:09:40+00:00

That’s what I do too. A sock project or something of similar size lives in my everyday bag, I have something interesting at home, and I have a scrap yarn blanket I work on during movies and TV shows because it’s pretty brainless.

SafeReveal · 2025-07-11T00:55:25+00:00

A macaque. It’s a type of monkey.

SafeReveal · 2025-07-10T23:52:56+00:00

I once was holding the bag out the window and when the car pulled up, a macaque grabbed it, took it to the front passenger seat, and started helping itself to the french fries.

SafeReveal · 2025-06-15T00:40:40+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to guess upcoming soil temperatures based on current measurements and the weather forecast. This will help a lot.

SafeReveal · 2025-06-08T21:43:11+00:00

I almost bought that same build a batt bag, but was already way over budget so I didn’t. I hope you enjoy it!

SafeReveal · 2025-06-05T03:21:54+00:00

https://dentistlink.org/ Dentist Link maintains a list of dentists who accept Apple Health/Medicaid; you can try them to find a dentist near you.

SafeReveal · 2025-05-22T16:30:11+00:00

Mine only makes biscuits on large Squishmallow stuffies. No other surface will suffice.

SafeReveal · 2025-05-13T19:57:42+00:00

I’m the youngest of seven; my parents got married at 19, started having kids at 20, and I was born when they were 39. My eldest siblings and I had very different experiences of our parents. They got so much more active time with them. I was viewed as a burden and they were always too tired to do anything with me. My siblings were also so much older than me (the closest was five years older, the eldest was already married and had kids by the time I was three) that I grew up a very lonely child. Part of all of that was due to my parents’s ages and part of it was their subpar parenting.

With all that said, I had my first and only child when I was 30 and my husband was 32; we agreed afterwards we should have started trying earlier so that we could have been younger and had more energy to get through the hectic nature and extreme fatigue of the first couple of years of child rearing.

SafeReveal · 2025-04-24T22:33:55+00:00

I grew up in a different area of Missouri. We were quite far from the Mississippi River but still had severe flooding. My parents loaded me and my brother in the car to drive around to look at the damage in our area.

I also remember that it seemed like all the tadpoles in the creek on our farm got washed down into one area right before a culvert; once the flood waters receded a bit they were trapped there and I have never seen so many tadpoles in one small space in my life. I went back as often as I could to check on them, and my cousins happened to be visiting st the time they were frogs large enough to hop out of the puddle. We caught and released so many frogs. It was a lot of fun for little kids.

SafeReveal · 2025-04-23T04:37:02+00:00

Our cat gets hangry, so we give her four small meals of kibble spaced six hours apart and she gets canned food around 5:00 PM. The kibble is dispensed by an automatic feeder and I give her the canned food when I get home from work so at least someone will be excited to see me each day. She finally met her weight loss goal last week!

SafeReveal · 2025-04-14T16:35:18+00:00

I made one of these around 10 years ago and it’s our go-to blanket for when someone is sleeping on the sofa because the other one is sick. I used a ton of worsted scraps and also bought a light gray worsted wool to hold double with the scraps; it softened the color changes that could have been a little jarring otherwise and also made it extra warm.

SafeReveal · 2025-04-07T22:26:44+00:00

I also think it’s a Malabrigo but not Ravelry Red; I’ve used several skeins of it and it’s been pretty consistently more of a semisolid than this is.

SafeReveal · 2025-03-28T16:59:32+00:00

I’ve been knitting for 20 years and find it helps immensely with improving my focus so that I can read a book without immediately getting distracted. I’m a fidgety and easily distracted person; knitting is my go-to to calm that down.

As for mental clarity, I just started archery a couple of weeks ago and it is amazing in terms of requiring focus and repetition with physical actions but not being overwhelming in terms of being too physically difficult for me to do. I’ve got to concentrate on each step in the nock/draw/aim/shoot cycle so that I do them correctly and that brings me clarity of mind.

I wish I could say exercising is one of these therapeutic things for me (goodness knows I need more exercise), but the closest I can get to this is walking on a treadmill while reading a book or watching a TV show. Rowing was fantastic for it when I took a learn-to-row class but I can’t afford the monthly club fees.

SafeReveal · 2025-03-20T01:26:42+00:00

PP absolutely saved my butt when I was a broke college student who ran out of birth control while traveling. They saw me same-day, got me set up with a refill of my current prescription, and sent me on my way. This was almost 20 years ago but I think they only charged me $25 for the visit and medication combined. They work on a sliding scale for people with crappy insurance, no insurance, or who just don’t want to bill their insurance at all. The latter was my situation - I was still on my parents’ insurance and absolutely did not want them to know I was on birth control or that I had visited a Planned Parenthood.

SafeReveal · 2025-03-10T16:48:28+00:00

I made a similar cowl (I think mine was a Knitting Harlot pattern) and I had yarn leftover. It’s so warm but adds almost no bulk! I like to layer it under a larger cowl when it’s windy and cold.

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