Tiffaney Dex

Hello,
I'm stating the obvious, but, since no one else has, ratatouille. I can it, just using bay leaves as seasoning, to be able to vary it when opening the jar.

Hello,

Here in France, all dry ingredients are in grams, even for small amounts. So a recipe will call for 15g of baking soda. If someone says to use 1 teaspoon of baking soda, the person will get one of their coffee spoons, and fill it up so that they have a very steep hill over of the teaspoon. They'll have nothing at all similar to what was asked.

I've asked chatGPT to convert things for me before, but it has not been able to do the conversions correctly. I have pointed out errors to it and it has agreed that it wasn't correct. It is always learning so maybe one day it will understand enough about the different weights of different volunns, but it's not there yet.

I really like the suggestion of using proportions. We have the famous cake 4 fourths,  with 1/4 of flour, sugar, butter and eggs. Everyone everywhere can understand amounts when it's like that.

Cordially,

Nancy Reading wrote:
Looks like it is called (wait for it) a dimple mat, or dimple sheet!

LOL!  A rather obvious name. Thanks for giving it to me.

As far as price, the friend who built the almost flat roofed garage said that it was the easiest and cheapest roof he had ever done.

Nancy Reading wrote:OT - Tiffaney, I'm intrigued by the metal springs - a mattress in the windows?

Yes. We have a very clever cat who really likes sleeping on the roof. When we open the windows, she would climb up onto it, only she could never figure out how to get down. In her opinion, not a problem if she needs to relieve herself as its an elevated yard. She only thought it was a problem to get to the cat food again. Her going up there was a big problem for us because we would need to clean up after her, which is not as easy as cleaning up a litter box. (And it had to be well cleaned since recuperate water from the roof.) So we got rid of the problem with springs from an old mattress.  Light, air and insects still pass through the windows,  but not the cat.

With what David said,  you can choose more expensive materials and have something that lasts, or go for cheaper or even free options and have something that doesn't last. For our house, we chose to spend the money for quality.

There is a plastic material that wraps around the basement or foundation of houses that we used on our yurt, when the canvas wore out. I'm including two pictures of it. A yurt is movable, so we chose by the price tag on it. We know of two others who chose this material (I'm sorry but I don't have a name for it) on a house and a garage. The house had a slant to it and the person in this case did not put cross bars on it, nor properly attach it. It ended up sliding down, giving the roof a very short life. The garage had a slope of 5 degrees at most. The person who did this did properly sealed it up to not have any leaks. Once the material is covered and is not exposed to light, it does last. But it breaks up if it's exposed to light. The garage is doing really well after probably fifteen years now. And our yurt roof is doing good while approaching ten years. But it would probably fail pretty quickly if it was moved and exposed to the sun.

We recuperated what I assume is similar to the advertising canvas that someone spoke about for lining a duck pond. It was never able to be filled up with water, so was a complete waste of time.

It didn't post the picture of the epdm and root barrier. I'm trying again.

Good day Raúl. I'm posting pictures of what I can take pictures. The picture where I pulled back the root barrier is where the connection between the porch roof and kitchen roof will be made, so I could get to it.

Hello Roul,

We have a green roof over our porch and are replacing the roof over our kitchen with a green roof this summer. The kitchen roof lines up and will hopefully just look like it and the porch roof are homogeneous one day. Ours is not flat but has an angle of about 15 degrees.  I'll try to take a picture of it tomorrow, but we're having thunderstorms here regularly right now and I'll need enough sun for it to dry before I climb up onto the roof.

Please excuse me if I don’t manage to explain everything well as I'm trying to come up with words. Ask if you need clarification. My husband put a smooth surface on the under roof, which has a frame around it. He put horizontal slats regularly to prevent the growing surface from sliding down. Then he glued epd, He says that it has to be done in a very specific way to cut it right in the corners, around skylights, drain pipes., etc Then the antii-root barrier went on.We didn't use soil because of the weight with water retention, but volcanic rock with broken clay pottery mixed in. We're happy with this as grass tries to grow on it regularly, but ends up just dying when we don't get rain. So only the fatty plants survive. So we'll never start thinking we somehow need to mow our roof or anything

I'll try to give more details if you want.

Good luck with your plans

Hugo Morvan wrote:What a weird thread! Ten year old dutch beautiful posts about insect hotels and a bunch of French speaking about our hedgehog problem and somebody from Philipines chiming in about scrap metal.... How am i supposed to moderate this? LOL
I'll just add to the confusion i guess.
I'm in France as well, In a natural park, surrounded by fields of cattle rangers not spraying much, close to a gigantic park. And hedgehogs are still here. My neighbor caught one on his video eating from his automatic cat feeding system, friendly standing next to a fox!
I saved one from a water saving catchment a couple of years back and two drowned last year in one. My neighbor cat lady has one coming over to drink and eat from her operation as well.
I heard they die of gardeners throwing snail poison around. They get infertile or something from the accumulation of gardeners. Probably the producer of the snail poison has added a secret ingredient to kill them off, to breed more snails.
People should be messier. These animals need bushes and dying heaps of debris. Everybody brings their dead debris away to the tip or burns it...It's a race of having the most tidy gardens. It's ridiculous. Kill,kill,kill is all we know how to do as humans.
Agriculture, monoculture poisons are taking away all insects. Nothing is left for the hedgehogs.
Make piles of dead tree waste on your land! Keep hedges high, plant fruit trees, be a Permie. The hedgehogs will come.

I'm sorry that the hedgehog situation seems off topic, but insects and hedgehogs seem related to me. Thank you for letting me know that there are still hedgehogs somewhere in France. It gives me hope. I have LPO flower mixtures for birds and butterflies, but I don't actually have insect hotels. If there are hedgehogs around, perhaps building a few cities for insects will help if I can manage to get back some hedgehogs. I have piles of wood and "houses" for hedgehogs all over. Is that enough. We also are restoring two hedges on our land, the hedges on the outer perimeter were always there. Are stacks of wood enough to be cities for insects?

Phil Stevens wrote:I wish I could send you all of ours. I really dislike having to dispatch something that cute, but they are a pest species here and cause all kinds of havoc.

If you have European hedgehogs, I also really wish you could send some breeding pairs here.