Fishing whole tea leaves out of tea is not ideal. I don’t have a tea ball, but I did have the idea of clipping the leaves together! I opened up one side of my wire clip so it could hang on my cup, then rather than tear the leaves off the stem, just clipped the stems together and hung them in the hot water in the cup. It works!
I noticed one of our guitar foot stands was missing a rubber foot. I noticed it because my youngest and I were practicing and it scratched my floor when I moved it. Ugh.
One of my readers told me about Sugru moldable glue (Thank you!). So I tried some to replace the missing foot. It works well! It is easy to shape, and after 24 hours it solidifies into silicone rubber with almost the exact same feel as the remaining feet. The stand is stable and doesn’t scratch the floor. Hurray!
Wear gloves.
Long title, short answer, and one that is so simple and straightforward that it hurts I didn’t think of it sooner. I tried three different colored silicone bands (I wasn’t risking any gemstones!), and have three wounds on my ring finger for my efforts. Checking the chickens one cold morning I pulled on my gloves and sighed. I love simple answers.
I do have a little solace in that when I googled the problem, other people suggested not wearing rings or jewelry around chickens. No mention of gloves there either, although one suggested tucking necklaces into your shirt. Getting there.
I thought today I would share my cat bowl hack. Our grocery store carries plastic salsa bowls for $1 each (this may be a southern thing). These make awesome cat food bowls because the feet raise up the food a little for the cats, they are dishwasher safe, and if they drop, they don’t shatter. They are heavier than regular plastic bowls, so don’t move as much as the cats lick the last bits from the bottom. And the cats love them. So much so that Izzy (the inside calico), refuses to eat from the other bowls we have.
Here is a Pinterest win: a drip catcher for a beverage dispenser made from a plastic bottle! Materials: plastic bottle (drinking or liter), scissors.
Critters and Craft 