I currently don’t have much time to put into hobbies, but I did some gardening/landscaping during a break in the rain last weekend. Felt great to get out and move around. Garden finally is put to bed for the winter (or what’s left of it).
Thank you so much! I’m glad you think so! 😃
I love drawing biblically accurate angels and peculiar creatures! I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, but I was particularly influenced to draw strange creatures after playing Pikmin, and that kinda stuck with me! Typically what I do is to just draw whatever image is in my head and I’m particularly fond of things with lots of eyes or none of them. Some ideas come from dreams wheras others arise spontaneously. Others come from simply messing around while sketching.
I use Paint Tool Sai 1 for all of my drawings. It’s an older program but it’s very lightweight and also has a really good pen stabilization and pressure system! I honestly wouldn’t trade it for anything else.
I can absolutely imagine these as Pikmin bosses that wipe half my team while I’m desperately blowing my whistle across the arena. Amazing!
Does that mean your Wounded Angel is biblically accurate? Like the Bible describes it as a series of interlocked rings circled by eyes? If so, the old testament (I assume) is wild.
I really enjoy caring for and interacting with animals. I have raised a flock of ducks, own two cats, and two dogs. I volunteer at a stables 3x a week and horseback ride once a week. I grew up on farms, so I’m not comfortable unless there’s animal surrounding me. It’s kinda really expensive, but it’s more rewarding than anything else to build a bond with animals and train them and show them love.
I trained my dogs the basic dog stuff, and my beagle picked up some super specific commands over time. My ducks also know some commands and a few know their names. I am working on teaching barn manners to one of the horses I work with and I’m trying to desensitize her to totally mundane things she is a bit scared of. My cats know their names and probably know some of the commands I taught the dogs, but they’re cats lol. They do know to stop whatever they’re doing when I say, “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
All of the critters get excited to see me, aside from my one cat who just exists in my house and likes my mom more than anyone else lol. We usually only interact when she wants something and it’s a HUGE deal if she seeks me out for attention.
You can buy a good handpan on Temu for like 100$. Incredibly easy to learn and very satisfying to play!
Look for Kurd tuning and around 45cm size and avoid tongue ones (one with holes) and you’ll have a blast, especially if you have an edible or some acid.
Had to google it. Then upon seeing it, I had to youtube it. I might have to buy one for my wife
They’re a bit worse overall. The tongued ones are easier to manufacture and tune but somehow that also means the quality is just worse in general. It also has a bit of this metalic tone which is harder to play nicely but you can hand cover the holes to manipulate the sound as an advanced technique. Also tongued ones are better played with sticks rather than hands so the instrument just feels different overall and smacking the handpan with your hands (thus the name) is much more fun.
That being said, tongued handpands are still cool and can be very flexible though for first handpan I’d go with the traditional one.
Traditional ones are more than a month’s salary for me, where the tongued ones are affordable, even on the upper end. That’s why I was a bit alarmed to hear recommendations not to go with one. 😀
Aquariums and indoor gardening can be fun in winter! Both can grow plants. Get some white grow lights and a cabinet and they work quite well.
Larger aquariums appear to be easier to manage than small ones, if you pick that up. Things happen more slowly in larger aquariums since things are more diluted.
Skiing is really fun in winter, downhill mountain biking in summer is awesome. Getting your $35 GMRS license allows you to use the more powerful walkie talkies, which are nice for skiing and biking, but also have entire communities of their own, when I switched on my mountain radio in town and accidentally found a group doing radio-based trivia on an island 30 miles south of me. Kinda neat!
Longshot, but can you tell what’s wrong with my lotus?
Leaves come in healthy green, but each leaf has a different deficiency symptom and I’m thinking it’s because of the small tank condition you described.
Check out https://lemmy.world/c/aquariums for more specific help :)
Hmm, I’d probably give it broad-spectrum nutrients and see if that helps. I’m actually having my own issues this winter as well, though I haven’t pinned down the source. I think I may have been too aggressive with algae removal after cleaning up some hair algae with hydrogen peroxide. :P
I brew beer with a friend.
Started with a simple kettle, bucket, and malt extract.
Now we both have a kegging system and an all-in-one all-grain system that we are going to upgrade to make larger batches.
We are also bringing on a friend who has two stainless steel unitanks with a glycol chiller.
We have intentions of opening a nano brewery, but that’s much further down the line. Mainly cuz it’s so damn expensive.
The last red I made was a disaster. Recipe was terrible and it came out insanely malty. Had to drink it all as Shanties.
Damn that sucks. I’ve made my fair share of bad ones for sure.
We made a Skittles seltzer once. It was down right horrible. Undrinkable, used too many Skittles and didn’t use any sort of muslin bag or anything thinking it’ll all just dissolve. It was chunky and unbearablely sweet. Had to pour it all down the drain.
The last one we made though was awesome. Made a west coast and used Belgian yeast. It was so good my roommate drank all of it. I only had a few beers. Didn’t last a fucking week.
We are gonna brew a lager this weekend.
I’m not exactly proud of it, but dude ChaGPT can make some pretty good recipes.
What kind of setup do you have?
