Same. I’m considering sorting out my library card so I can use a book

Edit: Otherwise you could put on an asmr or brown noise video to listen to lying down until you drop back off

Oh damn, there was a praying mantis but it seems to be gone.

There was a ladybird sitting on the zucchini plant a week or two ago but I didn’t want to move it to the pumpkin plants I had just sprayed (even though organic) and it also hasn’t stuck around.

I bought some dill to help attract ladybirds back and be a sacrificial plant

Melbcat’s meds schedule has temporarily changed to 3 times a day 😪 Edit: Wait, if I want to keep her blood pressure meds at the normal time (which I should) it might be 4 times.

Unrelated I conked out waiting for the kettle to boil… woke up really dehydrated with my last brick of soy milk sitting lukewarm on the bench. D’oh.

I also missed the fortnightly recycling collection. Fell out of the groove where the bin being full lined up with the day. Still a week to go… eh… it’s fine. To make some room I’ll pull the larger bottles out to wash and cut down into extra pots.

🐈❤️

That’s a good idea. I’ve scrubbed off as much of the heavy infestation as I can but maybe there’s enough to get them to stick around for a bit

One of the pumpkins has aphids really severely and it’s starting to spread to the others…

I’ve sprayed soapy water and physically wiped as many as I could off but am a bit worried. Especially as ants are farming them.

Ugh. Both options suck.

I don’t want to be part of the mango madness and also recognise that we could be in a bad position to fight back

What the actual fuck is happening

So like universities and scientific organisations have to fall in line with whatever odd ideas this guy thinks up to go after, or they lose the funding for research?

I really don’t like this direction. This is an unreasonable amount of control and a dangerous precedence to set

Again with the conking out and waking for meds time then napping some more 🥱

This fatigue is killing me. Needing lifts to do anything.

I managed to get some ink to print forms and some gesso but no palette in stock. Hoping for enough energy to get some more things today.

Cured its tinea

I accidentally nailed a bee with the eco friendly fungicide spray 🐝 🔫 😐 (it flew off unharmed)

I do my best, poor baby didn’t get vet visits before we teamed up

A nap went awry and I woke up at 8pm to do cat meds. 😴🥱

Melbcat went to the vet yesterday and is back on antibiotics because she has another uti starting.

Only light work in the garden was done, water and a spray. I managed to enlarge the drilled holes on the bottom of the bin with an old pair of scissors (the lid can be finished later).

The pumpkins are starting to bud female flowers and I saw a bee visiting the existing male ones. I pulled out the dead 3 zucchini and spared the raggedy final one because it’s still making new growth and trying to flower.

Still pushed myself too hard. I’m now slowly trying to rehydrate because I didn’t drink much yesterday. I had no energy left and kept going back to sleep.

Edit: Melbcat has her cheek on the hot water bottle I made for her tummy… I’m wondering if she’s got a sore tooth or mouth

Thanks. The colouring book is a good idea.

I could either buy paint markers to be able to use on bed days or just try to take the pressure off myself about improving/doing a hard hobby

I have colouring books (and pencils because I can’t paint in bed) but I don’t know.

I feel like I’m just not doing well mentally or physically (unavoidable) and art has taken on some bad associations/pressure. It doesn’t lessen my desire to do it but it is messing with me.

This is not my biggest concern really. It just sucks that I can’t even do my less physical hobbies 🙃

Yeah, I’m still in pain and keep tipping back into dehydration so nothing got done today and I spent it sleeping. Hate how this is so chronic and keeps relapsing. I just want to be doing stuff and living my life.

I should be learning about drawing and colour mixing but I can’t. There’s so much to doing art ‘right’ that I’m not really able to take in right now. Major analysis paralysis and lack of focus.

I’m wondering if I should just take the random tertiary colours and paint the crappiest still life ever just to get a feel for the process (and use these tubes up). But I can’t seem to make myself. Even the drawing step stalls. Drawing boxes and shapes is not really making sense to me because I spent so long untrained and just drawing contours by eye. Teaching yourself fundamentals later in life is hard.

Art is probably not the hobby to be attempting when lacking energy and feeling low. Whether you make something bad or just don’t do anything it’s easy to feel like a failure either way.

Yikes, definitely hot wash/dry clean/tumble dry everything cloth if you can as they make a meal out of your natural fibre clothes. It’s not a bad idea to bag the clean stuff until they’re gone.

If you ever get desperate there is Frontline spray which contains fipronil and is cat safe. The downside is a tiny spritz bottle is so expensive. It also kills bees so there’s probably some precautions to take.

Yeah I’ve got the traps in the pantry already. They might be intended more as detectors but I reason if male moths are getting stuck it might help disrupt the breeding

Thanks, it wouldn’t be anything too heavy here

Would there be a particular bit or set to buy? If I get one I only need something cheap and basic for general use