fabledshadow replied to your post “cow”

I was driving home down a back road and COW appearedfrom the fog in the middle of the road. So i turned on my hazards and shooed them off into the grass. no way to tell which of the many farms nearby they came from so i called the sheriff's department with the closest address on a mailbox and let them handle it lol

I would’ve done something if I’d been the only nearby motorist but like, I couldn’t even slow down because there were so many people behind me and like, around me, and stuff. And I thought, “someone equipped to deal with this will see it before I find someone equipped to deal with this.”

missbuster replied to your post “cow”

OOH HOME TIME how long do you get to stay?

I am here until Saturday and have to be back at the farm by Saturday afternoon because Farmkid wants to have A Potluck In The Woods so like. Yeah.

BUT!! Dude’s mom is back from California and quarantining but that means she can cat-sit, so maybe we’ll haul our precious bundle of fur-joy over there and then Dude can come with me to the farm for the week and get away from this house, where he’s been trapped alone since March, so like. Maybe! I get ! to have! a nice! time! for a minute! We’ll see.

And on other notes-- I guess the discussion of building me a tiny house has been revived; my eldest nephew is fascinated with tiny houses, and my dad is busy teaching him all kinds of stuff he never taught me. (I’m a bit salty; he “taught” me to weld and do carpentry mostly by showing it and by doing it and letting me help a little but he never really let me do much on those projects? and here the Grandson is getting to actually do, and all these years I just thought my dad wasn’t a great teacher, but no, it’s that he didn’t think a girl could learn. Argh!!! Anyway, I’m not that salty, I probably wasn’t good at learning either, and I’d rather have my nephew learn to build me a house than have to come up with the time to learn how to do it myself.)

So, maybe, maybe I really will eventually wind up with a space? IDK. IDK!

 Normally I’d do this in batches of related topics or whatever but something I reblogged got a ton of notifications and for some reason Tumblr’s not grouping them together so I had to scroll for three days to get to any notes about any other posts, so like, yikes, sorry, here’s a firehose of everything interesting anyone’s ever said to me. Thanks, Xkit, for allowing reply-replies, but sorry, Dreamwidth peeps, for what an incoherent mess the crossposter makes this into.

msilverstar replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

a) sprinklers ≠ whole pool, b) May ≠ August

i mean, fair, but we also had a kiddie pool and we also just sprayed the hose on each other, and it was over 90 yesterday.

akilah12902 replied to your post “UNDERCUT ACHIEVED”

That undercut is just magnetically attractive. I was gonna play the whole game with the long hair but the opening screen kept TAUNTING me and I went undercut and haven't changed it since.

I can’t get over it, it’s sort of horrifying to me what a difference it makes for me. I have to re-evaluate myself in ways I wasn’t prepared for.

missbuster replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

Uhhh. Remember it’s still May and snowed like three weeks ago so the large bodies of water + water tables are still frigid

I mean, fair, but, I did this in spring as a kid. I have noticed that the temperature of the water at my parents’ house doesn’t vary seasonally, but the municipal water supplies in Buffalo and Rochester absolutely do, which is super weird

waxscoralpants  eplied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

My mom used to fill our kiddie pool and then boil several kettles of water to dump in. What a sweet gesture, in retrospect

awww!!!

Last night I emptied the muddy water and refilled the pools with clean water, so that it could be at least ambient temperature this afternoon. Of course, having done that, it’ll be rainy and we won’t play outside, but we need the rain so it was all really kind of a ploy to exploit Murphy’s law.

akilah12902 replied to your post “updates from the middle-aged”

HOW ON EARTH, AS THE SKINNIEST DARN KID, I EVER MANAGED TO LIVE WITH HOSE WATER

Right?? I was a lil beanpole too!! 

I really remember our fingernails and lips being blue and our mom making us stop playing 

saffronheliotrope replied to your post “mouths of babes vol 749”

My 2yo was EXTREMELY AFFRONTED when I started wearing shorts and he encountered my sting hairs. Sorry, kiddo. Shaving in a quarantine is *all done hands*

STING HAIRS. She re-shaved yesterday, the fool-- I was like no that’s your protective layer, and she just laughed. 

mikkeneko replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

So of the pig farmer, the military logistics, and the party-planner, which was the one you would ask to hide a body and which one got offended?

The pig farmer! Who, in retrospect, is also super-intense and competitive, so IDK why I didn’t see that coming except I fully expected her to be like “I have a business, I can’t risk the cops involving themselves!” and she was like HOW DARE U. She’s super ruthless but also ride or die and how dare I forget that.

bittylildragon replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

Oh man, Lambert's Tragic Dead Boyfriend Revenge Quest and Geralt's 'you smell wonderful at this funeral' line AND his dad jokes all in one evening

It was really a pretty magical evening.

missbuster replied to your post “Extra Dad Jokes”

For the first time in my life my house is getting central air too. I cannot fucking wait.

Oh I know, man. But my dude got the first quote and sent me this bitmoji of himself (the bitmoji looks a lot more like Cary Elwes than Dude actually does, for the record): 

[image description: bitmoji cartoon of green-eyed white blond man with a moustache and goatee making a dead-eyed open-mouthed grin while flinging green bills of US currency over his shoulder with wild abandon]

Garak/Bashir plot bunny

He’s travelling to give evidence for some kind of top secret trial against cardassian

I feel like if I used this reason, I would have to actually write the plot with the top secret trial. I want to stay focused on their relationship and Julian’s dynamic with the rest of the crew, so I need something less impactful. But thank you regardless!

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gilajames replied to your post:

Garak/Bashir plot bunny

He’s going to Fashion Week on some other planet and goodness how coincidental that Julien’s ship is the one available to take him there!

Oh also, if it’s a family ship, they clearly let him stay once Garak “accidentally” mentions they’re married, and he re-opens his tailor shop, specialising in kids’ play clothes and outfits for Fancy Diplomatic Events. Maybe he also teaches a class in fashion. And continues spying, which Julian accuses him of but can never prove, and also wait, what, who said we’re married??

Oh!! That sounds like a great project. I know you don't work this way, but I can probably whip up a couple diagrams of where/how to add panels to resize a garment if you're interested. (You would also have to do the sleeves if you add panels to the sides, fyi)

I have resized one denim jacket just with side panels (and triangular insets to increase the sleeves to the elbow, yeah-- both for my proportional-human arms and also because yeah the sleevehead doesn’t fit otherwise) and then I added an additional box-pleated segment to the back under the collar to make it not tight, but that was a loose, hip-length jacket and I handsewed most of it because my fucking serger was such a bitch the whole time. 

You totally could remake that denim jacket. I’m also sizing this jacket up because it’s so teeny that as a theatre costume no one would be able to use it so I’m adding 3” to each side under the arms and putting godets in the sleeves. I may also make an empire dress to go with it since I appear to have the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh yes, i have a denim jacket given to me just for the fabric, but it’s not as useful as just a pair of jeans in that respect, and there are some details on it, well-- it’s a zipper closure, and like a size 10, so i need to add panels to the front, sides, and back, i think, and just if i’m remaking it into something entirely other, i think i can go ahead and do that. (the sleeves are probably the only thing that remotely fit.) so i’d been trying to think of a way to remake it, and something this drastically different would be really fun. it’s a medium wash denim so i could probably use gold brocade and detailing for all the other things, though i’m also tempted to give it a rinse in some deeper blue dye to try to make it dark wash first, as then there’d be more contrast... that also could help me make the expansion panels match.

It looks great!!!!! I have been clippering the sides of mine and visiting my hairdresser every 3 months or so for the top so I think we will be okay!!!!!!

thanks! it’s a little scary, and i miss my jp (the color will Need To Be touched up sooner or later, the shampoo only goes so far) but it’s nice to know I can do this.

skandrae replied to your post: So I’ve been super unhappy with my hair recently...

I LOVE IT! Is it fuzzy up the side? Have you been touching it non-stop since you did it? eeeeeeee