It can be hard to make myself get up when the depression hits, but keeping moving forwards helps if I can. Quietly picking away at a project. I very rarely regret spending time on the boat.
#boatbuilding #maker
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🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈
@aly@mastodon.nz
mastodon 4.7.2Just your garden variety nerd, as in, I love my garden and am a nerd. Would love to connect with you.
I'm also trans, poly, and pan. Allegedly in my 40s. Resident of northern Aotearoa.
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Joined June 28, 2025
Pronouns:
She/They
Amateur Nouns:
Maker, Photographer, Tinkerer
Loves:
Permaculture, Cheese
Sewing Machine:
Bernina 830, 1973
My partner hadn't heard of the repair #RepairCafe concept before so I showed her a video. We now have a small pile of things to take, and are discussing what skills we can volunteer. I'm so excited, hehe.
Woodworking tutorials: We're going to start with square boxes because 90% of woodworking is made up of boxes.
Boat builders: You guys are getting squares??!
I seem to have grown summer cabbages by accident. Plants have little respect for the planting calendar!
One of my traps went off finally! The kill? Drum roll please...
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A snail.
The 3D printer changes your mindset so fast...
I want an adaptor part printed, but my partner has a print on that's got 4 hours to go... so it'll be like, 6 hours until I get mine, nooo!
Of course if we didn't have the printer I'd be ordering a part that is close but not really what I want, and waiting days for shipping.
I was apparently in bed for 13 hours and this morning my whole torso hurts. I didn't even do anything too interesting this week.
Why are bodies?
Interesting patterns on the office window this morning.
It''s really hard to make out, but I managed t oget a game camera pic of a snail raiding the bait in a rat trap.
What's I've learned this week is that I don't really have a rat problem. What I have is a huge cat problem (at least 5 regulars), and a busy hedgehog problem.
And snails, but we knew that.
Found some old notebooks from a couple of years ago when I was in the darkest places. I should not have opened them.
In other news we're going to have a fire soon.
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Are we back? We're back. Where did we go? I don't know.
Fedi want responding for most of the day though, weird.
Get yourself a girlfriend who will brush and dry your hair for you when you're feeling down.
And brush your back for you because brushies feel so good for puppy.
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"Alyssa did you forget your timer?"
No Harvest, is was just a really long meeting. Reeeeally long.
Replying to
@Antigrav No diligence. Just negligence!
I ignored them for months over summer. I'm taking this as a sign that my compost and mulch strategy to cut down on watering needs is working!
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@geeksam Yeah. Currently it's set up for very fine mini printing, and I want to do a big fast tool part with different filament... you can see how this is going to end up! :D
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@suearcher Excellent. I have a pretty varied skillset but wouldn't know what tools etc to take so well probably just go to visit and learn for the first one.