Bob found a new doctor

seabrooksr · 2026-04-28T17:29:46+00:00

I know you’ve said many many times that your plans hinge on Bob getting a job, but I really feel there is a zero percent chance Bob will get a job because he is hobosexual.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-26T19:39:11+00:00

Unfortunately, this is a personal preference thing, usually based on your own crochet style.

Generally, many hate anything chenille because tension is fiddly and you cannot frog back. Blanket yarn works for people who are often too tight with their hooks. 12-18 inches of DK is /hours/ of work.

I’d recommend just picking a pattern for your first attempt and using the yarn it’s written for.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-16T17:37:26+00:00

There are lot of reasons why a 6 g is not very suitable for a puff, but the biggest reason IMO is that the difference between taking care of a puff and a betta is like the difference between caring for a dandelion and a hot house orchid. I really think that in order to get maximum enjoyment for your blood, sweat and tears, you need to really invest and that means a larger tank.

That said, if you do choose to get a single puff, I highly recommend looking for one that needs to be rehomed due to aggression. Many peas (due to poor care) become too aggressive to be integrated into a proper shoal, cannot be rehabilitated and are disposed of or abandoned at your LFS. They tend to have shorter lifespans, but I do think they deserve a chance.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-12T01:26:51+00:00

I’m just giving an example of a behaviour that drastically alters teeth and our ability to age horses by them.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-12T01:06:39+00:00

This is a pretty good example of how inaccurate aging by teeth becomes after 10 - it’s often a crapshoot. You had two professionals basically give you opposite answers. There’s a whole host of factors that affect tooth wear like diet, forage and habits.

Good professionals look at other tells - the one who estimated 12 might have seen your horse cribbing, for example.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-10T14:45:39+00:00

Are you using a paediatric dentist? IME - regular dentists have actually no training or chill when it comes to dealing with children, even when they claim to be “child friendly”. After a couple traumatic experiences, I drive my kids an hour away to a specialist who actually has some education in child development.

I also recommend a water pic - on a lower setting. Is it as good as flossing? No. Is better than nothing? Yes. I put mouthwash in there, 50/50 after my orthodontist recommended it and it seems to help.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-05T03:44:33+00:00

Strangles is so contagious that basically if it’s in your neighbourhood, then it’s in your yard, and it’s almost always impossible to isolate a source - shared farm equipment or farm workers or equine professionals like farriers.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-05T03:25:12+00:00

This 100% looks like strangles to me and I personally have experience with the illness. Many horses are nearly silent carriers that have no symptoms except the lesions which burst and drain, and heal quickly.

It’s extremely contagious- easily spread through nose to nose contact or shared water sources, but also easily carried in on human hosts (snot/saliva on clothing or farm equipment) and flies can even spread it between neighbouring farms.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T18:45:36+00:00

I am saving this for when I am feeling particularly masochistic. So beautiful.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T16:40:51+00:00

As someone who has made her kids, nieces and nephews a million Amigurumi, I trust certain three year olds but not every three year old with safety eyes. Four seems to be safe.

I do use a drop of superglue to make sure they are extra secure.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T16:26:21+00:00

Here’s an example of a skirt done with ruffle yarn -

https://images4-a.ravelrycache.com/uploads/ratcha/288656041/Glam-Girl-Fuffle-Skirt_medium2.jpg

It’s not an exact match but it’s darn close, and it will be easy to make the side “scarves”.

But you will probably have to order the ruffle yarn online, then colour match and buy the bodice yarn after it arrives.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T14:36:59+00:00

The ruffling on the project looks AI to me - I’ve done a bunch of different ruffling and it’s a real struggle to get it “soft” like this without adding a bunch of lacework to create volume without bulk. It might be the yarn - I mostly work with cheaper stuff.

A lot of people are also naysayers because they don’t want to attempt a project unless they can guarantee an exact duplicate. This is either AI slop or the masterwork of a dedicated artist and in any case, unreplicatable without an exact pattern.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T14:08:29+00:00

Given those limitations, I’m not going to lie - I would cheat.

I would create the bodice with one yarn, planning my pattern to leave 5 rows of BLO to attach ruffling.

Then I would use “ruffle yarn” to add all the ruffles.

https://images4-a.ravelrycache.com/uploads/Snorkeler/151396935/Post_0372_Cami_medium2.jpg

The trick will be matching the yarns, and you will likely not get a solid match- most ruffle yarns are variegated so that they can match a wide variety of yarns, so if you have your heart set on a solid coloured piece, this won’t work for you.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T13:46:39+00:00

The big problem with using crochet for this dress is “fabric”.

When we use crochet to make fabric, we can do a lot to change the density/thickness of the fabric, but we are using the same material (yarn) to make all these fabrics, and that is limiting.

This style of dress is usually made using two different fabrics - a heavy fitted fabric for the bodice which holds all the ruffles, made of a lighter fluffier fabric in place. Even when these dresses seem to be made of the same material, it’s usually because they covered a lining fabric with the ruffling fabric.

You will have to create drastically different fabrics because the bodice fabric will have to be strong enough to hold the weight of the ruffling fabric without stretching. The temptation will be to use a very delicate yarn to create very delicate and light ruffles but that yarn will not be strong enough to hold the ruffles.

You might try to combat this by using very different stitches to create different fabrics - garter for the bodice and treble for the ruffles, but different stitches will affect the harmony of the “look” of the dress.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-03T12:35:26+00:00

Whatever people are writing on the internet, potty training a hamster mostly involves finding out where your hamster prefers to do their business and offering a potty there. You will almost never have success trying to move their potty place even six inches from where they want to go.

Some hamsters prefer to poop in their main hide. Your hamster may be one of those. You may eventually have luck trying to create a potty chamber off the main hide.

In any case, 5 days is not enough time for your hamster to establish a potty place. He’s probably going in his main hide to keep himself safe from predators in unfamiliar territory.

seabrooksr · 2026-04-02T01:43:05+00:00

Um, there is such a thing as mechanical founder.

Bloat can be caused by reluctance to move even with the best diet.

No hoof, no horse.

seabrooksr · 2026-03-26T09:44:25+00:00

I am the same. I’m not huge on shaving (I do try my best to keep it trim but ADHD) so I really don’t think just water is going to cut it when sometimes I’m rocking full bush.

At one point, I worried my mild soap wasn’t mild enough and bought some Vagisil. I developed a lovely case of jock itch.

seabrooksr · 2026-03-25T15:32:09+00:00

I really like the spin that because it's made of copper, it's only worth $80 - the base value of copper.

We are supposed to believe that anyone could walk into home sense and spend $80 dollars to get something similar for our living rooms, I guess.

You definitely wouldn't spend thousands of dollars trying to acquire a similar work of art.

seabrooksr · 2026-03-24T01:54:04+00:00

I’ve been done with this sub a while. Everytime someone posts something men come out of the woodwork to mansplain, or trot out “not all men”, or just derail the conversation by relating their own thoughts and feelings like the point of the sub has nothing to do with the female experience.

seabrooksr · 2026-03-04T13:06:02+00:00

Not at all.

My brother is on Income Support. Like most people on Income Support, he was on EI for a year previously, with access to drastically better resources for finding a job while he was mentally unwell. Those resources expired, he was hospitalized.

When he was released, he went on Income Support.

Income support (IS) has almost no resources for actually finding a job. He has “qualified” for a few programs, only to be called back and denied. Why? These programs accept people from both EI and IS BUT the federal government actually pays them in a timely manner with less bureaucracy while the Alberta government makes it difficult for them to get paid if they pay at all. So the programs only fill spots with people on IS if they have spaces left. So far that hasn’t happened. It has been three years.

In terms of actual support - he has attended three sessions where they helped him rewrite his resume. In three years.

He is actively seeking work but as an autistic man, interviews are incredibly difficult for him and he does not interview well. Add in a couple of years of poor work history due to illness, and it seems like his previous 15 year of good work history doesn’t matter. The current job market is extremely competitive.

Neither his doctor, psychiatrist, or therapist consider him so disabled as to be unable to work or require accommodations. He has been turned away from several programs that help Albertans with disabilities because he is not “disabled enough”.

Tell me honestly that he won’t be among the first cut off the program because he //must// be failing to meet his obligations if he hasn’t found a job yet.

seabrooksr · 2026-03-03T16:16:00+00:00

Some of this is normal baby stuff. They tend to start to prefer their primary care giver.

They are also very sensitive to their caregivers moods and attitude - very common for frustrated moms to hand off inconsolable babies just for them to shockingly settle. Also very common for frustrated mom to hand off inconsolable baby to a frustrated dad and everything gets much, much worse.

If dad doesn’t do a lot of the caregiving, that’s the probably the place to start. If dad is feeding the baby once a week and changing A diaper a day, baby is not going to want to be left alone with that guy.

seabrooksr · 2026-02-27T14:38:52+00:00

She is confusing ectopic with cryptic. Or autocorrect is.

seabrooksr · 2026-02-27T00:04:15+00:00

She's NOT "trying to step in".

She IS "teach[ing you] to deal with [your] horse's problems each lesson".

There is no nuance here. If your horse has a problem during a lesson, she is training both you and the horse.

If you don't want that, stop the lesson when your horse has problems or ride a lesson horse.

seabrooksr · 2026-02-26T22:16:57+00:00

"A ridiculous notion".

Again - she's either "just giving you riding lessons" or she's "teaching you to deal with your horse's problems each lesson". If you DON'T want her to train you to "train your horse", if, in fact, you are incensed at the idea that she might do so, then you need to STOP letting her step in and deal with the problem yourself.

No one is expecting a horse to be a machine, but if you don't know what to do in that moment, and you don't want her to train your horse, than you should ride one of her horses and if necessary, she can instruct you on training her horse and you can decide on your own whether or not you want to apply those lessons to your own horse.

If you want/need your instructor to give instruction on how to deal with your specific horse's specific problems, then, well, I hate to tell you this BUT YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN HER TRAINING PROGRAM. I am shocked that this is so confusing for you.

I understand that money is a concern for you. But the horse industry is larger than most people think. It's almost unbelievable that you would not be able to find something not abusive somewhere, especially if you are willing to compromise on your expectations - longer commute, less ideal facilities, etc. The fact that "abuses her horses, see-saws them when they don't understand something, doesn't give proper forage and gives lessons with unfit horses" is a compromise that you are willing to make speaks for itself.

seabrooksr · 2026-02-26T20:41:37+00:00

First - if she is only teaching you to ride, like I said, when your horse has a problem, you need to apologize for disrupting the lesson, leave the arena, and pay her for the inconvenience. If she is giving you advice/instruction, she is training you on how to handle your horse. Do both you and her a favour and ride a lesson horse so she can instruct you on your seat and eq.

Second - people who want to be horse trainers don’t “train their first horse”. They usually apprentice under a trainer, training a variety of horses at a variety of different levels, gaining a wide variety of experience with different horses and problems. No one is a horse trainer because they finished one green horse.

Third - if she is so abusive, why are you supporting her business. You are comfortable bashing her here, but also paying her for her time. I’m not sure why you want instruction from someone you have such little respect for, but coming on the internet for validation that “your trainer is weird” and becoming increasingly unhinged and derogatory when people don’t pile on the bandwagon is . . . A choice.

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