21st
May
2021
Anyone that can make a food video about pork and beans look delicious gets a salute. OK, not “pork and beans”, exactly. More like “nuggets of pork shoulder, browned in bacon fat” and then added to a slow stew of black beans, onions and a variety of spices unavailable outside of the Yucatan peninsula. Are you imagining the odours, yet?
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posted in food |
20th
May
2021
Outside, the sun is shining. The winds are calm. I’m bored. What a perfect day to check the DEF level!
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posted in technology |
19th
May
2021
Cold storage; not to be taken lightly. For example, one of the more important vaccines is to be kept in the level of cold that is found at the South Pole, and in refrigerators where we store salmon until needed for a dose of sushi. I know this because one of the neighbours loaned his refrigerator to the government some months back. A big deal, for a small business owner.
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posted in health |
18th
May
2021
Hang in there. I’ll think of something that sets today apart from earlier moments in my life. Let me check the news; there is always something going on over there. News, right?
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posted in technology |
17th
May
2021
Has anyone else noted (lately) that there are fewer planes overhead? If it was just me, I could say that my lessened observation time (looking up instead of ahead of me) could be a reason, but I have something more scientific on my side: a tiny radio received that “watches” for commercial aircraft and sends the salient details to somewhere else. Rather, I HAD a tiny radio, until it stopped working a couple of days back.
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posted in technology |
16th
May
2021
Part of the default feature set of our RV is a generator. I’ve started it, once of twice; proof that it works. And since we have always found reliable A/C for the AC while in campgrounds, I seriously ignored it. Noisy, and it requires LP gas which is on the list of “learn how to get more”. Anyhow, the question came up in one of the online forums about deciding if an oil change is overdue, and I decided that I needed to better understand things.
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posted in travel |
15th
May
2021
It might be the throaty growl of the neighbour’s “zero turn mower”, (a subliminal trigger), or the carefully arranged yellow-on-green foliage, but we are into another season of pointless harvests. The lawn. It takes time to start (blame it on the weather), but suddenly everything is getting taller. And so with a vengeance, things must be placed under the spinning blades of our own yellow-on-green “mean machine”.
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posted in environment |
14th
May
2021
I don’t want to take the blame for the decline of American manufacturing. Sure, I could have bought more stuff, but my limited resources would never have kept all of those small factories open. And maybe I should have purchased more new things; the flea markets never protected a single job in industry. However, I did what I could, along the way.
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posted in ham radio |
13th
May
2021
Today, the CDC offered a deal to the human race. If you get fully vaccinated, you can stop wearing a mask and start cuddling with others. Not exactly how it was worded, but close enough. However, the second paragraph muddied the waters. You can do these things, but “masks may still be required by state, local, tribal or territorial laws as well as businesses and workplaces.” That takes the air out of their fancy balloon.
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posted in environment |
12th
May
2021
Getting up in the middle of the night with a restless dog does come with some benefits. For example, I have a better idea about how many boats are fishing offshore (from me) at night. A lot more than I would have guessed. Perhaps I should try and harvest some shoreline food; there must be some species that isn’t allocated to the industry. More research needed.
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