Posts made by CarrieVS
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RE: The Official Status Thread
I finished the garden pond I've been working on for ... several weeks now. Honestly I forget - it feels like I've been digging and lining and filling and arranging rocks and sifting dirt and back-filling for most of my life. And I had all the materials sitting around for weeks before I started, and had been planning it for over a year before that.
Well, it's not absolutely finished, but the only thing left to do is gradually lower the water hawthorn as it grows, which I just have to wait for and is a mere rounding error of effort.
And I also have several heaps of dirt and one of turf left to deal with, but that's not part of the pond.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/554400557893419020/753288529039196340/image1.jpg
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
Cat Status: using the catflap in both directions with no assistance.
She would still like personal door service if I happen to be nearby, but if I go away and leave her she will go out or in happily enough, even negotiating the microchip lock to come in. You can teach an old cat new tricks.
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RE: TDWTF Plays Hangman
@hungrier I started out thinking pentograms and was trying for related shapes, forgetting about measures of mass at all.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
Ruby came home without her collar on today. Second time in as many weeks - the first she had a chunk of loosened fur where clearly she'd got caught on something and the safety catch had done its job. This time no such obvious evidence but that doesn't mean it didn't.
I'll buy her a new one tomorrow, but I thought that I'd post on NextDoor asking if anyone in the neighbourhood happened to find it.
I got a reply pretty quickly from someone saying that someone might be taking it off as "cats shouldn't wear collars."And then very quickly after that - in fact while I was composing a response - deleted their reply.
The fact that they obviously thought better of saying it makes me very suspicious. And I'm absolutely furious, because of course it's a safety collar and of course I tested the clip to make sure it gives way easily, and I have it on her primarily for her safety, because she's a black cat and it's reflective so that cars can see her in bad light. So if this person did steal her collar, they are actually putting her in more danger than otherwise.