J. Syme

Check out your local habitat for humanity restore for kitchen setup items. After hurricane Andrew I helped a few Florida people rebuild and that place save us a ton of money on some really nice gently used stuff, and as a bonus I met some good folks with construction experience.

A used RV would be the easiest fix, but I suspect she will not like climbing stairs to get in and out of the "house/truck"...   So this leads me to ask is she a young older person, or an old, older person, because this will have to be factored into ease of access, and how long the structure is to be used. Will she be joining you for meals or cooking on her own? Real kitchen vs space to warm up meals. once you get a handle on these issues the living space can be designed to serve her well, and not burden you retrofitting handicap access ramps wide hallways for wheel chairs and such. Florida is still recovering from summer hurricanes, do not expect to find a contractor for reasonable price, so the more work you can do yourself the better. 20ft and 40ft ISO shipping containers are trendy tiny homes, check online adds to see if there are any local to you that you could go see. sadly most of those are built with lots of environmentally unfriendly interiors. I do like the idea of solid walls and repurposing/recycling a shipping container.

Merry Christmas, to all and may you have a blessed new year.

Christopher Weeks wrote:I think this is going to sound a little weird, but I don't think I know how to forgive people. Or maybe I don't know what that word means.

Let's say Person A harms Person B.

What does it mean for Person B to forgive Person A? What changes inside Person B? Does Person B somehow forget what Person A did? Is a formal forgiveness when Person B agrees to pretend, maybe even to themself, that Person A didn't do that thing or isn't the kind of person who might do it again?

Do you forgive? How?

Yes I forgive, Forgiveness is hard, but necessary. When person B forgives person A, it moves the responsibility/burden of being judge, jury and punisher from person B . This does not mean reconciliation has occurred, it just opens the door for reconciliation. When you have been harmed you have to acknowledge the hurt, then think, maybe it's time to forgive the person who hurt you. say something to yourself like  "person A did an awful thing to me but I'm past that now." It gets you ready to move on with the knowledge that you can get thru it in the future. This does not mean you trust blindly that person until they make steps to reconcile the pain they caused, perhaps never, but it does leave you open to them acknowledging the pain they caused you and the clear actions they will take to avoid future harm, and rebuilding trust. I pray this helps you find peace.

Nancy Reading wrote:

Ezra Byrne wrote:I had always called it a 'pat' of butter, meaning a slice of a stick approximately 1/8"-1/4" thick. These days cooking family-sized meals it is usually just a quarter half or whole stick.

For dry ingredients I use shake, pinch, palmful, handful, fistful if accuracy isn't necessary.

Now how much is a "stick" of butter?!

stick is 8 table spoons.
Jack & Jill are also interesting measures. Jack is about 1/2 pint Jill (Gill) is about 1/4 pint.

side note: Jack & Jill nursery rhyme was about the king wanting to raise taxes on alcohol, since Parliament didn't want to raise taxes, Charles I (mid 1700's),  made the unit of measurement Jack smaller. By lowering the imperial measure of the half-pint line, which was indicated by a crown symbol.  Jack "lost his crown" and a reduced volume on the Gill soon followed or "came tumbling after. Since those that made fun of the royals were often tossed in jail, They made a nursery rhyme about it to poke fun at the policy without actually saying so.

ran thru words describing: environment impact, what it is, what it does. then tried to rhyme (maybe a bit too corny but :  Healthy Hearth Heater??

Hot dip Galvanized barrels: the outer layer of zinc iron coating will begin to scale away from the inner layer @ 400 deg.. temps greater than 500 deg it is not recommended for Galvanized coatings. Personally I would keep looking for a clean barrel that will not have off gassing issues. john

This laundry setup reminds me of a compost barrel tumbler, perhaps one could make one with a wine barrel & a boat porthole?