One of these, and a few friends to help me put it together
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I really want to buy this very expensive and on brand bath mat.
Mr Pancakes was 100% in favour of us getting it until I indicated the price was outrageous. The price is completely outrageous ($80 + postage)
I’m very likely to do it anyway because I’ve been buying things at 3am fueled by a lack of sleep and my self control being vastly inhibited by postpartum hormones. Mr Pancakes also didn’t tell me not to buy it, probably because it’s hard to say no to someone who just wants a bath mat and recently gave birth?
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We “thought” we wanted ducks too. So, we got some 1-day old cute little duckling last March, 3 of them. They were soooooo cute. But quickly became a really messy lot of work. They grew quickly & we didn’t have a good pen for them. I rigged up a makeshift day-pen for them in the driveway. We quickly realized that it wasn’t going to work at night when Mr. Fox snuck by for a 10 pm visit. Luckily we were home and none were harmed. After that, we moved them to our screened-in covered porch each night. They were extremely messy, so that allowed us to hose off the driveway “pen” & the screened-in porch as we moved the ducks back & forth.
We live on a lake, so the plan was to release them into the lake after they were grown. They loved the bathtub as small ducklings but quickly outgrew it. After the lake warmed up & they’d gotten much larger we assumed that they’d “take to the water like ducks”, right? Well, we were so wrong about that. They were terrified of the lake. I moved our boat from the boat slip, which is enclosed from 3 sides, to give them a safe cozy place to swim & play in the water. But as soon as I put them in they immediately raced back to shore & ran back to the house. I tried a few more times, and the results were always the same. So, I decided to carry them into the water in their plastic tote, which they barely fit in at that point, and wade into the lake and slowly tilt it to fill with water. They were happy floating contained like that, so after a while of hanging out with them in the tote I slowly poured them out, into the lake. They were fine with that,…for about 2 minutes & then one realized they were free-floating and freaked-out. The three of them immediately raced out of the lake again. (They are almost full-sized grown looking ducks at this point.) I decided to give up and just let them do their thing.
By this time I’d moved their makeshift day-pen to the back yard, close to the lake. They happily stayed they all day, but would waddle up to the front to sleep by our front door each night. By morning time it was a nasty mess, which had to be hosed clean. This went on for 2-3 weeks.
After a while the ducks decided that they liked the nextdoor neighbor’s yard better than ours. So, they spent a lot of time cutely bugging the neighbors. Cuties, but they didn’t really appreciate them wearing out their new grass.
Finally, Snap, Crackle, and Pop (their names) began playing in the lake! For the first few weeks, they stayed close to the shore & hid under the docks. Eventually they got bolder and began to swim out a little farther. Other ducks would swim by & visit them and after a while Snap, Crackle, & Pop began to follow them around some, but not too far. I guess that was around the beginning of June.
Fast forward to now & they barely even visit us at all. We can see 3 ducks off in the distance almost daily and suspect it’s them, but now we only see them up close about once a week. They definitely aren’t the friendly little pets we expected them to be. 
I guess it’s probably because our yard & shoreline isn’t duck friendly enough. My dad always had wild ducks visit him almost daily. His yard was flatter & he was always out puttering about gardening and tinkering on things. He kept a can of feed handy, on his trusty golf cart (that carried his cigs, cocktail, and yard tools) and the ducks knew he would always feed them. I just assumed that our ducks would be like that too.
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Why do I want this, it’s called a squash farmer jumper:
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You would be the best jumping squash farmer.
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Current escapism obsession: THESE SHOES
Like, I have reeeeeallly wide feet, so it’d probably be a process to get them to fit. And I’m also not sure I can personally pull off history-bounding without looking and feeling frumpy. BUT I WANTS THEM
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Holy shit. I’m not normally a shoe person and I barely wear shoes at all these days, but yes please. All of them.
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I watched a video with them, and they were saying that feets are surprising, and sometimes what looks narrow to modern eyes is still ok.
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I love the ones with the low heel and the criss cross straps. I am a sucker for criss cross shoes!
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Oooh yes. I fully endorse an OMD history-bounding group.
ETA they even have them in my size!
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@meerkat Right?? I hate shoe shopping but these shoes make all my hatred (and rationality) go out the window ha
@plainjane Yeah, they have that whole video on shoe sizing and it’s fascinating! They had multiple tips for people with wide feet (with the caveat that “wide” can mean totally different things for different people). Like between sizing up and shoe stretching I could probably get something to work, but it would still be effort haha
@mountainmustache29 The criss-cross straps are so cuuuuute. I’m partial to the cognac and black Bernadette, but really, if someone offered me any of the shoes I’d take them lol
@beep_boop Yesssss OMD history bounding!! I would love to see what people come up with - everyone here is so creative
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Two plus months later, finally making a purchase.
Also batsignaling @Smacky since you were both so helpful in holding my hand through the initial searching.
I’m getting these:
Now to figure out frames. If I get a frame that says it’s 8x10 does that mean it will fit an 8x10 piece of art or do I need to get something a little larger? Also the middle piece of art is 7x10 instead of 8x10 and I was going to have them as a vertical set together. Do I just need to go to Michaels in person to get an adult to help me? They were helpful in the past (uh, almost a decade ago) the last time I bought a set of prints and got them matted and framed.
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8x10 frames will fit 8x10 pictures, filled from edge to edge. If you want matting you need bigger frames.
I buy cheap black frames at the dollar store or ikea, usually.
For the slightly smaller one, is the paper it’s on normal white? If so you can put it in an 8x10 frame, centred over a piece of paper, and no one will know it’s actually smaller unless they are looking very very closely.
Matting can be hard to do. I tend to use cheap construction paper and a craft knife and just throw away the mistakes until I get one right. Getting it done professionally probably makes more sense for your life. You have enough going on.
(more often I just skip matting)
I really love the art you chose.
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I love everything about you
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Well, that made my day. 
Ikea has some nice frames for cheap. 8x10 is a standard size so Target or Michael’s should have a bunch of options. Often you can get them with mats as well. The description will tell you the size of the art.
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You’re a genius.
Previously the matting was easy because I could get off the shelf normal matting for three of the pictures and only one needed to be custom so it wasn’t horribly expensive. These ones will not have matting because of the space they’re in, so that’s easy.
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A multimeter. 
UGGS? 
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An upgraded camera. I don’t travel anymore so this is mostly to take better photos of my cats. The model I’m looking at is supposed to have super fast AF. Wondering if it’s worth it though… my old one is still pretty great but looks like I can only get about $200 for it if I sell.
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I’m pretty sure we have 4 now. Husband swears they’re all somehow different. They run the range from like $30 to like $750. They all look identical to me 
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