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@caitatonic Thanks! It really is a huge relief. Besides being glad to spend time again with Mr. C and the cats, I would rather crawl around the house than spend more time in institutional settings like that. 😵 Getting consistently treated like a competent adult shouldn't be that refreshing, but it is.

@sgt-sgt Thanks for the suggestion! I had been considering trying one before, because they did look so convenient. But, your recommendation gave me a good excuse to go ahead and order one now. 😅

Should be way more versatile than the dedicated slow cooker, which I was already thinking would save me a good bit of trouble and energy.

#replies #caitatonic #sgt-sgt #food mention #wheelchair cooking #institutions

banjo, harpsichord, accordion

banjo: name a country you’d like to visit.

Japan island of kitties

harpsichord: where were you last told that you’re ‘weird’?

In my own room, on discord

accordion: what is your favourite kind/flavour of tea?

Any of the ones with caffeine!! but also fruity herbal teas

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I noticed your yarn is handspun and hand dyed. Do you have your own alpacas, or other animals? If not, where so your source your wool (or whichever textile)? Not A GOTCHA question I am genuinely interested in how such a thing works. Thank you.

Hi thereThank you for your interest. Many of the yarns offered in my shop are commercially produced sock yarn which I acquire in “bare” form and hand dye. MY favorite supplier is out of Miami and deals in mulesing-free fibers from South American sources.

I own many pounds of gray and white raw corriedale which I got from a 4H homeschool group my kids were involved in. I have a huge box of russet llama fiber from the llama of a dear friend in Northern IL, as well as many bags of various natural color llama fiber I acquired off a local farmer who advertised her shearings on Craigslist. And I have about 15 boxes of raw alpaca fiber in varous natural colors, some of it first shearings, which I got from a friend who owned a haul-off business. He cleaned out an estate which had the boxes of fiber in a barn and he didn’t know what to do with them.

I haven’t had time to spin or mess with the fibers since moving (we bought a house the end of Feb). Corriedale just takes several washings by warm soapy soak and then a couple of cardings, and TADA! Beautiful fluffy wool that can be spun or dyed and then spun.

Llama or alpaca is moar of a pain, because the animals dust bath. So it takes several warm soapy soak washings, followed by usually SIX cardings (OMG SO MUCH CARDING I WANNA DIE) to get out all the weed seeds and debris. The fiber is to die for but not cheap because it’s labor intensive.

For probably 10 years I spun only on a drop spindle, but a couple years ago I got a wheel, which I couldn’t spin 4 inches of yarn on. A friend of mine (and a long-time spinner) traded me wheels about a year and a half ago. I can now spin on her wheel. She had figured mine out but says it’s very finicky, def not for a wheel beginner. Additionally, 3 of my daughters spin, all 4 knit, 2 of my 3 sons, and my husband knit (or have knitted things).

Sometime soon I hope to get to spinning again, but right now I have a broken middle finger, which hampers EVERYthing.

#natural fibers #spinning #knitting #alpaca wool #llama wool #caitatonic #Nikki answers things

Because of your Avatar I just kinda imagine you as blond and about as big as my thumbnail. Tiny. Blond.

Blond? Nope, though I might dye my hair in the future, or maybe just wear a blonde wig. I STILL do want to do a Rose Lalonde cosplay someday (that’s the character of my icon)

Tiny? That’s relative. I’m taller than most of the other women I know, but shorter than most of the guys I know. Somehow my height stuck me into this weird size limbo. Sometimes I do wish I was shorter, though

#ask meme #caitatonic

caitatonic replied to your post “Maybe it’s the mania™️ but i want to completely change my appearance”

Relatable mania feel

tfw want tattoos and piercings but no money also need job so have to look “””respectable””” lol i die

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YCH commission for caitatonic !! thank you so much for buying!!

#commission #caitatonic #other's character

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@kellyclowers @caitatonic @apopheniaandeisegesis @slashmarks @queerdo-mcjewface

Thanks! I meant to reply well before this, but hopefully y'all will understand.

Thankfully, the ones inclined to act Like That mostly backed off after the first couple of days, having Made Their Point.

Still about the power dynamics you might expect around here, but yeah. I was going to say that at least nobody has been OTT obnoxious with it in a few days. But, in a way that is preferable because it's easier to point to as inappropriate behavior.

(Not that a lot of even just background ableist people ever would want to recognize the examples I mentioned as messed up. Which is kinda one of the ways that institutions keep being allowed to operate the ways they do.)