Most of the jays I hear sound more like life long chain smokers
Yep, Germany. Forgot to put it in the description. It's a Eurasian jay :)
Reminds me of a friend of mine who used to complain about a jay mimicking his cat, just so that he would put out cat food :D
For me the trick was to minimze the amount of hair that gets plucked per session. The idea is to first get to a state where you have plucked the majority of hair (this is the hard part). After that you can continuously epliate once a hand full of hair has regrown.
So for large areas like the legs, I inititally only epilated so much until I've had enough and continued the next day. I also would at times move the epilator in direction of growth; by this hairs are more likely to break off, but it reduces the density of hair on your skin at that moment and makes the epilation against direction of growth a lot more tolerable.
After this point, the number of hairs that grow in the first week or so should be greatly reduced. Epilate those, rinse and repeat. I usually epilate once a week, which doesn't take too long (esp. compared to the initial step) and doesn't really hurt because each time there are only a few hairs there.
Met this very cute magpie in the park today.
It seems like it hurt its leg since it stood on a single foot most of the time and did some impressive maneuvers with the opposing wing for balance.
It let me get surprisingly close and even accepted some peanuts which immediately got hidden under nearby bushes ๐
Location: Germany; May 2026
I used this one here, 1200m 4 ply
Love the pattern! Do you plan to sew the scarf into a loop or keep it as it is?
Location: Germany, Nov 2025
I recently started laying out whole peanuts on my balcony in an attempt to attract some of the local crows, but caught the attention of three jays instead ๐
Same, upgrading to 6.8 for the exact same reason right now ๐
There is probably some pun here I'm too uncreative to make.
Taken in Germany, Sept. 25 by my partner and uploaded with permission.
Great catch! Also really like the colours and lighting.
Thank you! I had to redo a couple of rows because I wasn't happy with the cable placement relative to the rib stitches and to get the owl proportions right, though. And I think having done gloves before helped the most :)
Thank you, they are definetly quite warm! I guess I'll keep them as they are then ๐
Some hand warmes with an owl cable stitch I finished recently. I didn't have much of a pattern, so I hope this post is still allowed.
Basically, I went off this picture for the owl/kable knit pattern and used some pattern for gloves to get the thumbs right.
I was thinking about maybe adding french knot stitches as eyes to make the owls more prominent, but I think I like the plain version better.
Those look really nice, especially the suicidal tendencies one.