u/ScarieltheMudmaid

best seamstress in town that can work with a very tight schedule?

what the title says. my dressmaker is delivering two months late and no longer coming in person so she can adjust it overnight like she had promised.

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u/ScarieltheMudmaid — 1 day ago

Help me prevent my cat from becoming an outdoor cat

13 year old neutered since a year ish old nebelung

Kitty was indoor/outdoor growing up, basically just followed the dog wherever she went, and usually peed/pooped near where she did lol. integrated household with my hubby's cat with no issues.

we moved to the city and he adapted to indoor life and a litter box pretty quickly. he and hubby's cat had no issues sharing. e ended up having to take in my mil's cat while we found it a new home. spent six weeks introducing them only for new cat to start ambushing ours in the litter box as soon as the doors were open. then they both ambushed my cat in the box together and new cat went back in her own room and things were generally fine but some out of box issues.

he had a checkup with his shots and doc gave him the all clear recently because my
now we live in a house again, it's been years, and we have litter boxes everywhere with all kinds of medium. the crystal litter he really liked, walnut, regular, 5 boxes in different situations, 3 with "no hiding spots around" and we've never really gotten over the out of box issues but now they're getting really bad. he's designated a spot in the basement carpet and the bathroom floors as his potties. we've been rotating medium. cleaning extra, changing litter locations after a few weeks of no use. I'm at my wits end and our baby is almost mobile so I really can't be having this as an issue.

he loves baby and they're so sweet and gentle with each other and it's so cute so it's extra confusing because there's not really any other stressors in the house

I need any idea y'all got because otherwise I'm not sure what we can do but build him a cation with a little warm box to sleep in for anytime i can't be with him and present.

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u/ScarieltheMudmaid — 2 days ago

She doesn't deserve the title bio mom

Egg donor lost all legal or moral right to know my niece when she was not even a year old. She was adopted by My brother's wife a couple years later. My brother died almost a decade ago and Eggy tried to act like my niece was automatically hers, luckily we were able to kibosh that whole situation without my niece knowing. my nieces mom has a permanent restraining order on eggy, my nieces PO expired a few years back. Eggy tried getting a PO against me but the judge basically told her to stay in her lane and she won't catch these hands again.

Niece is almost 18 now and curiousish about eggy, and I've always told my niece I would follow her lead. Niece wrote a letter to eggy asking to meet in neutral territory with me present. Now Eggy is crashing out on sociald about having to be chaperoned, called my niece out by name and basically said niece was kidnapped and she needs the public's help getting back her "long lost daughter". my niece hasn't told many of her peers about all this so it's all news to them, is the talk of the small town, and my poor niece is mortified

I don't know what Eggy thought she get out of that move, but I'm not convinced she thinks. I guess she just really needed my niece to have a living memory of how big a fuck up she is

pictured: my favorite wings: hubby style

Crucially - dry them before seasoning-

The seasoning was a combo of salt, pepper, baking powder (helps them crisp) and the rest of the garlic Parm wing dust bag

Dry the chicken wings thoroughly on all sides with a paper towel. Mix rub ingredients in bowl and rub outside the chicken wings. Preheat smoker to 200°F. Smoke chicken wings for 30 minutes before increasing temperature to 375°F and cooking for another 45 minutes. Flip and rotate the wings to avoid burn spots. Cook until internal temperature reaches 165°F.

u/ScarieltheMudmaid — 3 days ago