Yeah, Reggie is way past taking any shit.

The foxes here are so well fed and chill most of the time that the cats have lost almost respect for them… They’re still a bit cautious (which is good, because there certainly are incidents of foxes killing cats) but overall it’s pretty peaceful.

Especially when it’s hot and nobody wants to run around.

Reggie is great. Very chill. Just wish it wasn’t so shy. I’ve only been allowed to briefly pet Reggie on a couple of occasions over several years.

I have a suspicion she’s the timeshare cat for half the neighbourhood. One of my neighbours previous cats used to have at least half a dozen houses he’d go to where he’d come in if the garden door was open and go upstairs and go to bed in our beds…

This is basically the concept of a Webring, and used to be big. Some were fixed (as in the path through the ring was always the same), but some were more flexible or random or semi-random.

A decentralised approach would be new, and not necessarily too hard since the dataset for each ring would be small, so each member could just store all or a subset of the entries in their ring and submit updates to their “neighbours” in the ring that’d eventually spread out to everyone. The challenge is moderation - you’ll still end up with some entities that have a privileged position to weed out bad entries, because the appeal was always to a large extent to make discovery “someone else’s problem” and the moment you let someone put links on your site someone will try to abuse it.

I prefer to hope the person who made this is just a crappy writer who desperately tried to find a way to make us think they were talking to a girl first and couldn’t think of another way of describing rejection. (I fear that’s not the reason, and that you’re right, but I live in hope)

That sounds like it’ll be more than solid enough.

Reasonably so. I had to bolt down my gazebo and attach sandbags to the legs because it’d have blown away, metal frame and all, if I didn’t.

Note that a couple of decent sized hooks bolted to the wall can hold a lot compared to trying to weight something down to the ground without firmly attaching it. If you need to attach it to a pole or a post, then you probably want to make sure that side is weighed down quite a bit.

The wind is also the main reason why I have the carabiner hooks so that it’s reasonably easy to unhook and fold it up when it gets extra windy without having to try to untie ropes etc…

It’s tied to carabiners / snap hooks attached to hooks mounted on my outside wall, and then tied to the frame of my gazebo on the other side. Depending on what you have to attach it to it can be very easy or a bit of a hassle. If you don’t have anything to attach the other side to, you can drive down a tent pole or a post, but it needs to be pretty solid to handle the wind.

She’s a fairly regular visitor, and she demands regular cuddles. Usually by pretend “falling” over right in front of me, and if I ignore it she’ll do it again until I take the hint.