It is inevitable that my cyanoacrylate glue plugs up after the first couple uses, no matter how well I wipe the tip, or how fast I get the lid back on. When the time comes to use it next, I have to go hunt down a pin to break through the dried plug. What would be better? Tucking the pin in the folded section of the glue tube! Now the pin is right at hand when I need it. Yay.
This is Loctite 454, which is my favorite instant glue, and yes, I store it in the refrigerator.
Izzy is only allowed outside in the catio without supervision. Sophie comes to the catio to ask to be let inside. Multipurpose structure. I thought this photo op too good to pass by, as they stare at each other through the divide. (They are not buddies, if you didn’t know.)
The hardy hibiscus is putting out daily blooms! It is worth spraying for Thrips to see these glorious huge flowers. I’m still just using a mixture of Neem oil, Peppermint oil, and Castor soap in water, but now spraying twice a week.
I think I can get one more planted in that area. Hm.
As the pull skein of yarn sat wrapped up in my Grandma’s blanket, waiting for me to finish the edges, it became quite untidy. Since it will be awhile before I am ready to get back to knitting on this piece, and I will have it laid out and put away several times to measure edges, I decided to rewrap the yarn to keep it neat. A cut and folded paper towel roll works well as a center, and if you run the yarn down the fold, it stays out of the way during wrapping.
Here is the link to my short video on wrapping a center-pull ball of yarn, if you need it.
Hm. The trail cam went unchecked for several weeks again. There were over 6,000 pictures on the SD card. Six-thousand. I usually import the whole reel then delete 95%, but in this case it was better to draw upon the skills of my eagle eyed eldest and sift through the thumb nails to just import photos of interest. I really don’t need 5,900 pics of shadows, grass, and cat tails (not the plant type). I do need a crisp, amazing photo of a gray fox. Nice.
This photo was taken a while ago, as we haven’t seen 71 degrees in weeks. This is about 20 feet from the coop, by the way. I definitely recommend installing hardware cloth around the chicken runs and coop, and buried a foot or more down into the dirt.
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