Scott Perkins

Tereza Okava wrote:

Scott Perkins wrote:My stockpile of red and pinto beans (and rice)  is now 25 years old.  

That's awesome, Scott, thanks for sharing!!!

I forgot to add that refried bean paste makes excellent bean sandwiches.    I got the idea thinking about peanut butter.   Peanuts are not nuts actually but really more of a bean.   So think about it,  they make peanut butter out
of peanuts so why not bean butter ?    We know that peanuts ( legume I think ) and wheat bread form a complete protein just like beans and rice for the worlds most consumed food.    So since wheat in bread is a grain like rice is,  I thought I would take some bean paste ( refried beans) and make a sandwich using wheat bread.   Really not bad.   I didnt think the addition of fruit jelly worked so well  but it depends on how hungry you are   Remember the onion flavored dip with half cottage cheese and half beans was a "protein power house " !        If no-fat cottage cheese is used  .... way way lower calories from  fat-oil  as is the case with peanut butter.

For many years I have tried to follow and keep up with all types of materials and techniques of building sheds etc. but  I have a new ide that I have never heard of anyone trying.  That is poor concrete into a mold on the ground and when hardened , use a tractor  to tilt up what would be a concrete wall that I think would be easier and cheaper than stacking bricks with mortar or blowing  concrete onto a form to make a dome etc.    I dont have enough knowledge about concrete to design the wall such as the mix to use or if and how reinforcement should be added to the the structure when pouring into the mold etc.    I have seen contractors build large warehouses using tilt up concrete wall components but I dont have a good handle on how  to adjust the placement of the concrete tilt up wall components.   I think if you located your molds carefully the walls will tilt up right into place.
Just imagine pouring a patio slab and then grabbing one end with a tractor, or bob cat with ropes and pulleys etc
and tilting it up vertically.   What could be better ?

My stockpile of red and pinto beans (and rice)  is now 25 years old.   I packed them in a 15 gallon cooler in the basement at the turn of the century  fearing that when the clocks turned Jan 1, 2000  society was going to collapse.  My plan was to buy a lot of dried beans and eat them steadily  if nothing bad happened to the world but I forgot about them.  I still have 30 or 40 plastic bags of grocery store dried beans.  1lb and 2lb.     Here is what I concluded so far as producing appealing dinner time alternative.    I do have a dry grinder of but I also have a food processer
and while I could try to grind the beans into a flour,  I found it is far easier to cook the beans on a stove top according to directions and then  dump the cooked beans into the food processer.   The food processor is at least 15 times faster at producing a smooth refried bean paste  and also  an excellent dip when mixed 50-50 with cottage cheese and a packet of onion soup dried flavor packet.   I have also added some bean paste to meatloaf
ground from chicken breasts and pork loins.      I wanted this old thread to show what I think is the best solution to old beans not softening when cooked.   That is the food processer.

If anyone knows of a better forum category please advise or move this message please.    For two years I have been purchasing one quart Lifeway brand KEFIR ($4) at Kroger grocery store and mixing with one gallon of skim milk ($3) that has been heated to 75 degrees F in the microwave.  This mix is left out on kitchen counter room temp for 2 days.   Lots lf kurds form from the live cultures in the form of general thickening of the liquid.   I then blend in a blender 16 oz of frozen blueberries and pour this into the two empty gallon jugs that I have poured the mixture in and shake vigorously.  This is then refrigerated and it takes about ten to fourteen days to consume usually.  In anycase I am doing this for my 95 yr old mom and she drinks at least 24 oz daily.  Into this blender mix I sometimes add olive oil ( cant taste it ) carrots or carrot juice or some powdered fiber like metamucile etc.
Significant improvements in pooping, eye health, and calcium absorbstion etc.   It tasted really good like fruit flavored yogurt etc.   I just thought I would share this as I have made yogurt before and the significate difference
is the temperature of  fluid as a different set of bacteria is growing at the much lower temp compared to yogurt which grows at 115 degrees  F.     I believe I have read histories where the camel and goat herders in the middle east preserved their milk in the desert this way a thousand years ago.   Sure enough a bottle of store bought Kefir  was accidentally left in the garage for five months  and had not gone rancid at normal garage temps.    It was quite a bit more acidic than normal Kefir.   I then refrigerated it and then finally drank it all.

Angus Johnson wrote:I’m wondering if aircrete would work as a water proof barrier instead of using plastic, for a underground home?
Maybe bed sheets dipped in bees wax would work?
Just curious:)

There is an entire industry devoted to this subject and it is  the repair and remediation of leaking basements.
There are coatings for outside and inside the basement walls as well as drainage sheets that allow gravity flow of the water on outside walls to what are essentially underground gutters at the base of foundations that take the water away.   For decades an asphalt base substance has been used for roofing and underground sealing but was only good for 15 or 20 years and recently that have come up with elastomeric rubber based coatings that can potentially last forever when using silicone type base formulations.   Just google basement waterproofing.... if you are really serious get all the back copies of WATERPROOFING MAGAZINE  which is a commercial publication publicizing all the products to be used by builders and contractors and how to use them etc.  

I would love to know what the concrete experts posting in this thread think about the collapse of the residential multi family building in Florida this year that claimed 100 + lives because of degradation in the concrete.    I have built a house and done some remodeling projects using concrete and the only  option I thought I had was to order higher psi strength concrete from the ready-mix plant ( more bags of cement ) .  
and opt to pay for some fiberglass fiber reinforcement to minimize cracking etc.
For some small projects I have added the latex admixtures the tile guys were using in their mortar to further strengthen the concrete and make it more water proof.  

If we civilians are willing to spend the extra money to buy extra longevity,  what are the best ways to spend our extra money when working with concrete ?

Could not find a more appropriate forum so I chose "Tiny House".  Sorry
I have   poured concrete slabs many times in my life for driveways, foundations, floors
etc.   and have also seen how some commercial buildings and warehouses are built by
using cranes or other heavy equipment to lift up portions of concrete walls and set them together
to create a building.    I would like to do it on a smaller scale to build a completely indestructable
smallish shed like building for minimal living etc.   If I was very clever perhaps I could design walls
that when tilted together would eliminate a separate need for a roof such as a vault  or a pyramid
etc.   The main point being that such a structure would be imune to tornados,  and earthquakes
and bugs  deteriation.  Or perhaps it would be better to start out conventional and just build
four walls as in traditional shed and add the wood framed roof..... or perhaps a poured roof with
the forms made with temporary structures below holding up the form while pouring.   I suspect
building wood forms to pour a roof would cost more than a completely woodframed framed roof.
Anyway, just imagine using a skidsteer BobCat type lifing up one side of a flat driveway slab and using it
as a wall.  That is the basis concept I am starting with.    I would love to figure out a way  to do curved
slab structures then you could build a dome with orange slice segments or an igloo type structure.
I believe that to do curved concrete components you would have to have two sided molds.   Back to the flat
wall components,  What I need is to design some shape into the mold that would allow connections
of two side by side wall components or connections at the corners etc.    Has anyone here ever done
poured wall concrete foundations ?   Those are essentially two sided molds with connections but I have never seen any curved poured wall concrete foundations ? ? ?

Last year when I was raising Ducks at about 5 or 6 weeks they started getting Angel Wing and I was feeding them 15 percent protein chicken layer pellets.    I am at 5 weeks this year and want to reduce the protein
for a few weeks while their wings grow  and would like to mix something with my layer pellets to reduce the
protein content.   I was thinking of just mixing in cracked corn 50/50.    Does anyone that knows more about it
think that that would work for the next 2 or 3 weeks that they are susceptiple to the angel wing ?

Whenever I think eggs are ready to hatch,  I can candle them ( look into them with a flashlight in a dark closet)
put the egg on top of a toilet paper roll tube and shine the flashlight in.  If the egg is moving inside and it is time to hatch, I break the shell on the end where the bubble of air is to let fresh air in and look at the baby
chick or duck.  I may or may not remove more shell it if looks like the baby needs help.