u/Lady_Rhino

I know nothing about this but I just wanted to check to make sure they're not likely to spark or heat up next to each other or anything that could potentially burn my house down before I make this my official battery storage box.

I have these 4 very cute little tins which came in a set with the hinged rectangular tin you see in the background (which is being used for chocolates and biscuits). They are obviously for loose leaf tea, however we really don't drink much loose leaf tea and I personally find loose leaf tea in tins like this really annoying to get a spoon in and out of and you can never get to the corners, so I would prefer to use them for something else. Does anyone have any suggestions? Not spices for the same reasons as I mentioned for the tea. It doesn't even need to be good it could be rubber bands or whatever but they are in the kitchen. Thanks!

So we live in a country where beef is comparatively expensive and usually not great quality. HOWEVER the supermarket had a special on some US black Angus steaks which isn't something they even stock normally, so I bought some and sliced one up super thin to do a Chinese style hotpot. Yum. As a special treat we offered this princess a slice. A rare treat I thought! We rarely even eat steak unless we're on holiday, this must be mana from heaven for the discerning feline! The mana from heaven was first inspected, then rejected. Black Angus steak, sliced a mere few millimetres thin for easy chewing, simply sniffed, pawed, and left. No matter, she's not very food motivated, perhaps she'll change her mind later. So I put it in her kibble bowl (her kibble is just left for her, she snacks when she wants to). Later on that evening she returns from the garden, approaches her food bowl and 🙀🙀🙀 the steak is TOUCHING her FOOD!!! Commence sitting at her food bowl voicing her discontent. I'm too busy feeding the baby to leap to her attention so she struts over to me to yell at me directly. Baby stops eating now because the cat and the loud noises she's making are way more interesting. I dutifully put down one baby to attend to the demands of another, and remove the offending steak plus the handful of kibble from beneath it. Cleopatra returns to her food and, after a thorough assessment, comes back to yell at me because THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH HUMAN! The steak TOUCHED it so the WHOLE BOWL IS CLEARLY CONTAMINATED AND I NEED A FRESH BOWL THIS INSTANT!!!! Little shit. To top it all off after throwing away nearly a full bowl of high-quality kibble, she goes and headbutts my hand while I'm scooping the fresh helping into the bowl so it mostly went all over the floor. And why was the bowl so full in the first place you ask? Because if she can even SENSE that the bottom of the bowl is near she considers it to be empty and won't touch it 🤬

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In conclusion, roast this wasteful little layabout who causes us to throw away roughly half the kibble we buy for her. She deserves it.

Help please! My sage, thyme, mint, and lemon verbena are all suffering from these tiny pale flies and the leaves are turning speckled yellow and dying. The thyme and sage have it worst. All are in pots out the front of my house, under a clear roof so they never get rain or direct sunlight (back of my house gets more sun) the light/water isn't the issue though as they were all growing well beforehand (especially the sage) but these little flies are killing them! I have rosemary nearby too but that doesn't seem to be affected.

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I asked my parents who are better at gardening than me and they suggested spraying them with soapy water (which I have tried, yet to see results). Any other suggestions? I understand that I can't use the herbs in cooking for a while after treating them but that's ok I just want them to survive.