I should be getting to sleep because I'm going out for brunch with my MIL tomorrow. She wants to have brunch with just me, not with the kids and Mr P tagging along, so we've told them I'm going to help her with some shopping. We used to go out together a lot more when I was a sahm and the kids were in school, but we haven't much at all these past 3½ years I've been working. I feel guilty 😔

Depends how expensive looking they are 😆

Set fire to 2 acres of grassland at this time of year? What an idiot

Her ginger floofy belly 😍

Got definite feed me Seymour vibes

Oh no 😮 poor little man

Thanks for your response! I'm at the pipe dreams stage at the moment, but it's a worthy dream I think. I worked at CERES many moons ago when the ATA was there, and we had things like composting toilets, which were ok but not perhaps set up for the volume of traffic they were dealing with! I'd rather go without gas completely, even though in an urban setting it's my favourite way to cook (something about cooking with a flame).

It's interesting looking at the kinds of off-grid properties already established and for sale. They range from the very basic and self sufficient to what looks like people trying to have all the mod cons with super glamorous houses and very complex systems in place. At heart, I'm the kind of person who's happy cooking on a fire lol, so the former type suit me best. But I will definitely start watching more off-grid YouTube videos, thankyou.

That's an enjoyable and intriguing rabbit hole I've been down in the past. Sooo many factors to consider with Tas (especially seeing as how I don't know it very well) like contaminated water in some towns from mining. Might be time I had another deep dive..

They don't deliver to my suburb, spewin'!

Laundry today, Mt Washmore seems to be expanding overnight. I'm fantasizing about buying an off-grid property, so idly scrolling through property listings. It makes a change from doomscrolling about climate change and the US. Trying to learn a bit more about off-grid living, but I'm about as technically minded as a carrot lol.

What kind of bowling? Lawn or the indoor kind?

laughs nervously in hoarded ewaste

Edit: my problem is stuff that packed it in before I could do a hard reset or wipe the memory in any meaningful way. How much of mine and my kids personal info is still on there. Probably irrational worry.