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We live in the middle of the bush, so tūī, are the main suspects, but there are a number of species out there and I know others can do it too. And yes, total waste of their natural talents!

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 23h

The caution labels were never a joke. They were a health and safety response to a frequently reported event 😅

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

I'm quite happy with Affinity as an Adobe replacement.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

Thank you! I hope so, I'm putting a lot of effort into all this! 😅

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who contributed, but especially @beckydubs.bsky.social and @parrykylie.bsky.social. I'm loving how these turned out!

Nine flattened paper carry bags with stickers saying things like "may cause excessive feline joy", "open in case of grumpy cat", "your cat will fight you for this bag", "your cat's gonna love this" "do not trust your cat around this bag", "your cat know what's inside of this bag", "this will make the cat happy", "contains cat bribes" and "do not leave in reach of the cat".

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

+1 for Libre. It's not perfect but it does a lot of it in a similar way. Otherwise Google Sheets as second best?

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

Got out the giant office chair for my desk/computer setup because the dining chair I've been using for years has been very painful lately. Incredible improvement on pain scale for new chair. Incredibly impractical on physical size and shape though.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

I appreciate the horticultural nod in this logo.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 10/10/2026

It fooled the dogs this morning 😆

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

I think perhaps one of the local birds has learned to imitate the squeaking of our car's breaks 😅 either that or our squeaking breaks sound exactly like a local bird's call.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Though, now I think about it, that's actually a place I trust nobody is sick because everyone is screened for that.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Good. And thank you, I shall take a mask.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

That would have made things fun haha. But it is good we're both keeping them busy.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

A few, yes. That's about a week. Some overlap. Something is driving me towards connection with people on this one. I live a fairly isolated life, so a short sprint with people I adore is almost like a reverse-charge now?

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Probably the same one actually. I'm going to Hamilton because I can't do it up here. And yes, there's not a single thing on that list I'm not excited about.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

- collecting ALL my grandmother's photo albums - seeing Lily Allen eviscerate her ex-husband - coffee with someone I don't think I've seen in over a decade Then I'm still scheming and I haven't set a return date yet. But if those ideas don't work out, it's already going to be so much fun.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

So far my holiday itinerary includes: - gardening with kids - op shopping with my bff - a plasma donation - collecting a family story - any jobs my aunt has lined up for me in her garden. - dinner with my cousin, and meeting her kids - my first trip to Ikea with my sister in law and niece

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking is a good romp too. I like her stuff as a palate cleanse.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Always. There is always at least one pineapple fruju in my freezer because you never honestly know when you'll need it.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

So warm today that I'm wearing shorts and had to break out the emergency Fruju.

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 09/10/2026

if, like me, you get a daily jumpscare upon logging in and seeing the Absolute State of Things and you want a break from it all, might I suggest signing up for the no-AI offline-first drawing course that I am building mostly in public www.arti.ly

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

80 is right for that stretch. Hopefully here to stay now.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Yep. Every time I head away, apparently I need to check what the speed limit is! Kawakawa is the one I use most. It has a speed camera. 80km is comfortable. But if you let them do 100, people want to do 100.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Our Carrfields agent makes that so easy. But you can just choose a life stage to specialise in. My BFF has access to free supplementary feed so they take them as calves and raise them to weaners. Tidy little operation for them. If they're smaller, they have less land impact and you can hold more.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Me too. The new T. Kingfisher (Daggerbound) was good and I actually finished it though. It's a sequel of sorts so now I'm 30% through Clockwork Boys.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Found one in a pot last week and I'm not sure who got the bigger fright. I let her keep her pot and used another one. She was welcome to it, but my hair would be a whole other story!!

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

The previous Labour Govt dropped a bunch of speed limits. The NACT Govt reversed the changes, did two rounds of consultation, and ended up reinstating the original Labour govt changes. Great use of resources. Glad we're not wasting time or money on idealogical farts. #nzpol

Text from an email, reads: "Kia ora
New lower speed limits will in place in the following locations in Northland.

SH1 Moerewa to Kawakawa - 80km/h from 12/10/2026
SH10 Kaingaroa north - 80km/h from 14/10/2026
SH10 Kaingaroa south - 80km/h from 15/10/2026
SH12 Opononi north - 60km/h from 13/10/2026"

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

You'll need that set up in advance if you're using a transporter. Ideally they are tagged at the oroginal farm and transfer to you is registered at the time.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 09/10/2026

Absolutely you can. But how many cows are you going to eat? It's cruel to keep less than 3 of a herd animal. The current govt has just changed rules in this area to make it easier to feed others though. That's new, but possibly worth looking into too.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Young ones do need some intensive management. We avoid them because we don't have a barn. But cattle generally are a very good way to make cash to fund restoration/rates if you can ride the waves of the market, and you have the grass for them. Especially if you are considerate of your land's limits.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

It could be different where you are, but last I checked, 6-9 m.o were ~$1,000 each up here, and apparently it's higher in the Waikato. I did a full run down on what we got from Silver Fern earlier this year. Steers get better prices but take 2.5-3 years to reach the ideal weight.

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The price of beef : Kat's Garden

How much is a cow worth? Real numbers from our low-input lifestyle block in New Zealand from 2020 to 2026.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

The way I see it, you ring a rural vet and find out the answer to the second question (and the cost), and you take advantage of the situation if you have the food to turn that beef into money for property maintenance. One steer can buy a lot of native trees, or some fence, 50m of driveway...

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Eat more, take longer to reach sale weight, moody, need steer-i-fying. Better to take what the market will give now, and save the feed to put the girls through faster?

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Cannot answer the second question because we always get heifers, but the predicted summer droughts seem to have spooked a few farmers into being rational about stock numbers, and once you have the blood lines you need, the rest aren't worth the risk?

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Also fun: going to the craft shop and getting to buy lots of colourful craft supplies you're actually gonna use 😂

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

I could build these kits all the same, but it's much more fun to make them each slightly different. 15 new Kat's Nip Fluffy Ball catnip toy needle felting kits, ready to go.

Seven open boxes containing wool in bright colours in a semi circle on a bed. A cat sleeps in the background.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

We usually get some ham, new potatoes, sweetcorn. Add a nice salad. And I never got the hang of making pavlova so I usually make cheesecake for dessert.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

The news got banned in our house more than three years ago when I started arguing with it every night. Easier to skip the lecture series 😅

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

It's genuinely amazing what can happen with minimum viable effort 😉

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Sorry that happened to you. Well done for standing up for yourself by writing the complaint.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Haha, don't worry, my own garden is behind too. Seed kūmara is turning into a triffid while the bed it needs to go into is the one bed I haven't weeded yet. Garlic has rust and don't even get me started on the berries! Do what you can. The rest will figure itself out.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Yeah I do use them, especially because book hub's catalogue can be a bit weak, but the speed at which book hub can get a book to my rural mailbox is kind of miraculous.

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 08/10/2026

In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Fuck. That is rough news for a lefty booklover in a small town.

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 08/10/2026

Nah not so weird. WS has the best local price but I haven't actually checked Amazon...

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Kat 👩‍🌾 @kats-garden.nz · 07/10/2026

I only have 13 stickers for the labels I use to make my craft kits and Warehouse Stationery is out of stock online, and locally. Thankfully next week I'll be in both Auckland and Hamilton and a few stores there seem to have them. So I guess 'chase stationery for work' is on the holiday to-do list.

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