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Julie, Oscar cost me only $182 to spay, vaccinate for rabies, test for feline aids, and one set of painkillers. “only”… and they knew she was a feral! I would love to have a $50 bill to settle! So you can guess how many animals are dumped out here!
Thanks Sharyn! We have bobcats, foxes, coyotes, feral hogs, racoons, ringtails and mountain lions. And those are just the ones I’ve spotted. All of them are rather partial to a tasty kitty dinner. Sky pirates include kites, kestrels, and owls, as well as the ubiquitous buzzards.
Dumped animals don’t have a long lifespan!
Great week, everyone. JB takes a convincing win this week, go Julie, Go! LOL
Julie also wiped the floor with her 134 listings in the textiles challenge. Say whaaaaat? Vt clocked an impressive second with her 41. Sharyn came in 3rd with 16. VL, JR and I all got a participation point. This was quite a good challenge for some! LOL. Good going, everyone.
Spreadsheet updated!
Right, paper, folks. Let’s get lots and lots of paper out of our houses/sheds/storage units and into someone else’s! 😀
Oh! P.S. Oscar turned up a few days after we caught Felix. She was starved and very thin, so we think she was trapped somewhere. However, we didn’t think we should return Felix to her as he has settled here and I didn’t want to toss him back into feral life. Felix is the only kitten to have survived this litter – it’s tough for cats out here!
P.P.S. Oscar has been fixed, vaccinated for rabies, had her ear notched, and been on pain pills for the surgery. She has done very well and is now even more affectionate than before. Today she even stepped onto my lap for her morning cuddles! Next up, to trap and fix both Tiger and Patches before they produce any offspring. I’m happy to take care of my feral squatters, but I’m not keen to have a colony!
Good morning, all, and Happy Monday. First of October. May you have a Boo-tiful week!
I’ll give the Challenge results tomorrow, when I update the spreadsheet for this week. Sorry – it’s been a crazy weekend!
Last week I didn’t do any new listings. Instead, I ended 18 old listings and then completely reworked them – changed the title, updated Item Specifics, rewrote the descriptions, did new research and adjusted pricing accordingly, and in some cases, new photos. That was pretty much my entire listing time over the course of the week, as I’ve been going nutso with off-eBay stuff.
I’ve also had a new spanner in my spokes. For the last year and a half I’ve been feeding a feral cat, a gorgeous gray tabby I named Oscar. One week Oscar disappeared and I was heartbroken, as cats are regularly food for the plethora of predators in our area. However, Oscar returned – with kittens! Only two kittens survived the perils of the predators and they have grown into beautiful cats, a brown and gray tabby boy that I named Tiger (yes, he has… er.. boy things!) and a black calico I’ve called Patches. I suspect Patches is a girl, because calicoes are usually female, but while Tiger allows me to occasionally get close enough to touch, Patches won’t come near me!
Not wanting a repeat, I scheduled to catch Oscar and take her in to the vet. She was kind enough to disappear again, so she didn’t get fixed and, when she returned, she was pregnant again! This time, when she disappeared for a week, I wrote he date on the calendar, counted forward 8 weeks and wrote THAT date on the calendar, and booked that date at the vet! When she came back, she had obviously been in a terrible fight, she was so beaten and had wounds everywhere! My heart broke for her. She must have been defending her litter in almost a fight to the death!
Five weeks later, she vanished again, and I heard a kitten yowling. For 4 days, I struggled to find that kitten, but on day 4 the little critter turned up on my front lawn, being terrorized by my dinosaurs that cluck. I scooped him up and brought him inside. He was skeletal and in bad shape – but utterly fearless! I tried to find someone who would take him, but there are so many kittens being offered round here, nobody wanted him. I was afraid he was too small to survive, but he’s a plucky little guy and he has beaten all the odds that fate has thrown his way – including Mr. Grouchy “get that kitten away from me! I don’t want another cat in the house!”
The kitten is now Mr. Grouchy’s personal baby and is called Felix, which in Latin means “lucky.” He is indeed.
For reference, the rat is 3 inches tall
Welcome, MyCottage. Absolutely HAVE to list it for the TELC! This is Serious Stuff and we have accountability and everything! *wink*
If the paintings are on canvas, no, as that’s textile (last month’s challenge) but if they’re on a paper medium, absolutely. As do prints, watercolors, sketches, etc.
September challenge is DONE! Please post final numbers here today, results tomorrow.
OCTOBER CHALLENGE: Paper
Books, maps, sewing patterns, flyers, ephemera, posters, magazines, playing cards, recipe cards, board games (??? I think?), stickers, cardstock, greeting cards, paper banners, paper aircraft, origami figures, funny post it notes, envelopes, gift bags, paper fans, toilet paper.
Starts today, ends on Sunday October 31, post numbers on Monday November 01. (I do so love it when a month ends on a Sunday! LOL)
Welcome back, ChristineR! I’ve often wondered how you were doing. Tracking numbers is just part of the fun and, if you look at the spreadsheet, you’ll see some of us (ahem… me… cough!) are pretty awful at it, but we keep going anyway! If you just want to check in and chat with us, that’s fine too. You’re always welcome at the TELC party! 😀
Yeah, I’ve still got those horrendous Death Piles too! Imma hit those once all my dance obligations are settled. I have a show coming up next Saturday and a Flash Mob on October 30. Then I can take a deep breath and get stuck into eBay! (I hope!)
So glad you’re back.
Apparently, along with all the tweaking, eBay has made some major changes to its app. I found out two days ago that you need to uninstall your old eBay app, clear your cache (do a restart) and then install it again. That should give you all the bells and whistles and return your cha-ching!
For eBay, open your eBay page on your computer and do a hard refresh of that page
“Normally, if the browser loads a website and detects a change, it will fetch a new version of the site from the remote web server and replace the cache. But the process is not perfect, and sometimes your browser may end up with a local copy of the website data in your browser cache that doesn’t match the latest version on the server. As a result, a web page may look incorrect or not function properly.
To fix this, you need to force the web browser to discard what it already has in the cache and to download the latest version of the site. Many people call this a “hard refresh.”
There are multiple ways to do the same action:
Chrome, Firefox, or Edge for Windows: Press Ctrl+F5 (If that doesn’t work, try Shift+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R).
Chrome or Firefox for Mac: Press Shift+Command+R.
Safari for Mac: There is no simple keyboard shortcut to force a hard refresh. Instead, press Command+Option+E to empty the cache, then hold down Shift and click Reload in the toolbar.
Safari for iPhone and iPad: There is no shortcut to force a cache refresh. You’ll have to dig into settings to erase your browser’s cache.After you perform the hard refresh, you should see the web page go blank, and the reloading process will take longer than usual. That’s because the browser is redownloading all of the data and images on the site.
If forcing a refresh didn’t fix the issue, you can try to do a hard refresh again. If that doesn’t help, the issue may be with the website itself—or your browser may need an update. Good luck!”
(Information on how to do a hard refresh from HowToGeek.com)
Wow, first time ever that a Challenge total has hit triple digits! Well done, JB, you’ve made a new record!
Great week, everyone, well done. JB, you win the week!
VINTAGE LACY! Welcome back! Photos photos photos! We have heard SO much of this amazing wedding in the plans, now we HAVE to see the photos. Sincere happy wishes and hearty congratulations!
The Textile challenge ends on Thursday, please post your numbers on Friday. The challenge for October is Paper, for those who like to plan ahead. The November challenge is Death Box.
@Sharyn LOL! I have a Minister of Finance and a Minister of Construction and a Minister of Home Affairs. Sometimes he wears all his hats at the same time, sometimes he wears no hats at all and then he’s just The Naggerator! (Schwarzenegger is so jealous!) I guess I got lucky this round! 😀
First time in ages this thread wasn’t on the sidebar! Yay for uptick in chats!
Unfortunately, I bombed this week and only listed 5, of which 4 were Challenge.
I have another 5 drafts ready to go, but I didn’t get to them. I’m very excited for the reason though – I’m getting a bath! Yeah, yeah, snigger all you like! 😛 We have two bathrooms, both have showers. The master bathroom had a tub when we bought the house, but it was broken and the bathroom was horrible. We stripped the room back to the studs and rebuilt it with a gorgeous walk-in shower, 3ft by 5ft. As we usually shower, it was the perfect option. However, I like a bath sometimes and I’ve really been missing it! Our 2nd bathroom is tiny, seriously tiny, and we’ve put off the remodel for a while. We were going to build it with a smaller walk-in shower, but the Minister of Construction and I had a chat this weekend and I showed him my inspiration photo.
Yesterday, instead of listing, I spent the day searching for a 48 inch clawfoot tub and a window (there’s no window in the bathroom currently.) The tub has been ordered and will arrive in two weeks. The Minister will start work once it arrives. I’m SO EXCITED! 😀
Thanks to everyone for your replies. It’s interesting to read how different we all are, but the same as well. I appreciate the input.
Spreadsheet updated and JB takes the win with an impressive number! Go Julie, go!
Only 13 weeks to Christmas, everyone, so you need to get listing! For those of you who plan your listings in advance, next month’s challenge is Paper. Only 10 days left for this month’s challenge of Textiles. Dig out your fabric, clothes, hats, bags and purses, totes, kitchen towels, etc. and throw ’em up there!
Good morning all! And happy Fall Equinox week! The Equinox falls on September 22 this year. Fun information if you want to read some trivia https://www.inverse.com/science/fall-equinox-2021-exact-time
Despite listing regularly this week, I only managed 10 listings. All the items were awkward, fiddly, complicated, which slowed me down. However, 7 of the 10 counted towards the Challenge, so.. yay!
I have a question! How do you measure your “listing time”? For me, the clock starts: I pick up an item, research it, begin a draft off research, take photos, edit photos, open the draft and upload the photos, fill in the I.S., add measurements, pack the item and measure and weigh it, then complete the listing; clock stops. Last week I was averaging 25 minutes per listing. This week my time went out the window, with about an hour, to an hour and a half per listing. I’ve spent 4 hours on a single listing, although that’s for sewing machines, which are a whole ‘nother ball game. I was muttering about speed when my Bestie said that when she measures listing time, it’s for the actual listing time! She has photos ready to go and has already done the research. Wait… what? So now I’d like to know – how do YOU measure it?
Love it! And I had to laugh at your story. I’m the investigator of things that go bump in the night, the cleaner upper of messes that involve bodily functions (irrespective of who made the mess!) and the caretaker for anything with feet. Fortunately, HE is the one who takes care of anything dead! Go you for working with our natural scavengers!
Oh, btw, it’s Hakuna Matata (only one t at a time). Hanukah is a Jewish festival. 😉
