Recent content by flowerbug

the key parts are to dress enough in layers, to not to have things tight that cut off circulation and don't get wet. like this morning when i went out to shovel i had my hat, scarf and gloves on and a coat and two layers on my legs. socks and then my crocs as there wasn't enough snow to worry...

all good to know and i hope that helps you get your hot pepper sauce made properly at last! :) when i've watched a lot of the mass production big factory vids on-line i've always seen the peppers going in and getting cleaned in water and stuff like that but never saw them adding extra water to...

i dislike lukewarm coffee or hot chocolate - i hardly ever set them down if possible and just sip sip sip until they're gone gone gone.

well it's not like i go out there and stand in it without any clothes on or something...

we had a light dusting of snow and it was a full moon shining on me a few minutes ago. today is sunny with a high of 20F. i'll go out for a few minutes this morning and shovel just to make sure there's some spots of bare cement for Mom to drive on. hopefully it will all be gone when the sun...

is that something you are adding? i don't do much fermenting here so it hasn't been a common thing to see, here are a few comments on it and approaches to preventing it: https://www.nwferments.com/prevention-and-treatment-of-kahm-yeast

what type of salt are you using? 3 T might be too much, but how big is the bottle? the amount of salt used seems to be about 1 and 1/4 teaspoons per cup of water.

thank you! :)

cathedral type ceiling makes any lowering not workable for the detector, but i was thinking last night of switching over to a battery one and setting up a pully and string arrangement... currently it isn't too hard for me to get up there but at some future date if i stay here longer i'll want...

last night i'd stayed up a bit late and went to sleep, a few minutes after i fell asleep the smoke detector way up high started chirping. there is no fast or easy way to get to it. it involves going out in the garage, getting a ladder, bringing the ladder inside, setting the ladder up in Mom's...

at least it is after Thanksgiving when decorations for Christmas should start making appearances... we have a few small things we put out but overall it's just not for us. we don't have a lot of storage space so having places for decorations would mean we'd have even less room for the stuff we...

haha! good to hear, i guess i really don't know what i'm talking about then. which team are you rooting for? :)

i don't think it got that cold last night. it sure didn't feel that way when i took the trash out this morning. there was cloud cover and that usually will keep it warmer.

i'm not sure how it went but not seeing any obvious news so guessing they didn't win... :(

brrr! now have us forecast for down to 8F and gusts up to 25mph tonight. when i was going out to shovel i checked the propane to make sure we had enough for a while (we do) as since we got the new furnace last winter i wasn't sure how much we'd burned already. i didn't think we'd be doing too...