Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier
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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.
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Robert Ray wrote:My daughter calls me a Renaissance Man instead of a Polymath.


Same thing.  :D
10 hours ago
I'm always attracted to fire.

I prefer to wander around in public in a weird costume rather than do pranks. I can't think of any "pranks" that wouldn't annoy someone (probably whoever had to clean up the mess.)
1 day ago
It was Halloween.
A kid came to the door with a sign "I love ceilings!"
"What are you?"
"I'm a ceiling fan!"
I gave him all the candy I had :D
1 day ago
I don't own an instapot.  I use a basic pressure cooker, cheap, goes on the stove top, doesn't blow breakers, have digital stuff, and is more useful to me.  Not a pressure canner, different animal :D
Random pic off the net, this sort of thing:
random pressure cooker

2 days ago
I had good luck with an old batch of beans that I put in the pressure cooker with salt, cooked them for an hour under pressure, left them on the stove overnight closed up tight, and then cooked for another hour of pressure before opening them.
Nothing else added.
2 days ago
I'd say to use a lot of head space, that's the part small jars do badly.
To measure how much headspace you need to can safely: Take one of your old jars that you have used safely, fill it totally to the top with water, take out and keep enough water to leave a proper headspace in that jar. Pour the kept water into your small jar, that's the volume of headspace that you need to can it safely. Will it leave any space for food? I'm guessing no. Put that water into an 8 oz jar, that might leave enough for food.
1 week ago
How do you figure out what sex an ant is? Put it in water.
If it sinks it's a girl ant.
If it floats....
1 week ago
I wonder if something along these lines would keep deer out of the garden?



1 week ago