Tereza Okava

So glad to hear an update from you, Rufaro!! And how good that things are going well.

I was brought up that there were good clothes and hanging-around clothes, and woe to the person who wore their good clothes out in the yard. Today I'm all about wearing specific clothes for different tasks: exercise, yard/garden/animals, and office/house work.
I have a lot of aprons, a dedicated pair of yard/mud pants, and a short-sleeved lab-coat like smock with pockets that buttons down the front and goes to mid-thigh. That thing is used every time I go in the yard, I found it to be better than aprons.
I also use sleeve gaiters, started with fleece ones to keep warm in the winter, but I also use them to protect the sleeves of my clothes when I am outside or in the kitchen working. The stains and thorns get the gaiters, not my clothes, and the life of my clothes is greatly extended (because it's usually the sleeve cuffs that go first for me).
I make them out of tights, sometimes fleece or sometimes just normal opaque tights, usually girls' sizes work well. I also have a few pairs of actual UV-protection gaiters (for fishermen, I think) that I use in the summer for yard work, but they are not for clothes protection.

One thing mentioned upthread that someone told me years and years ago has always stuck with me- I started out working in New York City during my last year of college and laundry was a hassle. Office clothes were expensive to dry clean. A friend said the best thing to do was hang clothes to air out as soon as you take them off, it gets rid of impending stink and gives you another couple wearings. When you have only a few items, this can be a lifesaver (3 bras and noplace to wash/dry them, for example)-- let them air overnight and you may be able to use them again. I still hang up clothes after wearing them, in hopes of another airing. And of course, if you live in brown recluse spider territory, shake them out before wearing!!!

Blake Lenoir wrote:  Bread....   How deep we bury the scraps in order to plant crops in after that? I'd like to see the results from it. Thanks!

Where I live (urban) I would need to bury it deep enough to discourage rats from digging it up. Any scraps like that get fed to the rabbits or maybe thrown in the bokashi, then composted, otherwise I have vermin problems.  Occasionally I will trench compost a large amount of organic matter (usually orange peels or spent wort from beermaking), I dig down enough that I have 6 to 8 inches of dirt on top (but nobody wants to go eating these things-- it's deep enough that I can plant on top. if it's acidic like citrus peels i might throw some lime on top to balance it out before covering it over.).

Just saying, this sounds like the start of a hell of a limerick.

I wanted to water the garden with pee
but how to save it without plastick-y?
A bottle of wine
Will do really fine
to give my plants lots of nitrogen, you see!
(sorry)

I love the idea of horrifying guests with wine bottles full of pee. I also am way too butterfingers to permit there to be glass in my bathroom, I'm afraid.
We don't have this particular problem but I think I'd probably produce it as needed and use when fresh, since this particular resource is pretty abundant, let's say!

It's about time for an update, huh? Little Scooter is 100%. No sign that anything ever happened. Not quite caught up in weight, but close. Eats like a horse, to be sure, but the one caution from the breeder was that overfeeding these giant bunnies is very, very, very bad, so I'm not going nuts. She still has some bits of hairball type situation on her rump but she's friendly likes being handled, and even lets me cut her nails. All's well that ends well!!
(and it turns out they are both girls, apparently. I was thinking that maybe its time to start breeding, because these are great bunnies. Probably not going to happen, as things are kind of wild and I absolutely do not have space for a male here right now, also if Scooter is more disposed to parasite infection it might not be the best bloodline, but it costs nothing to dream....)

Burra, I know you eat a lot of lentils, not sure if you eat brown ones or the pink ones, but the brown ones are very well suited to cooking together with pasta in that same scheme of using the pasta to soak up all the tasty cooking water, especially if other things are involved (veggies, scraps of meat, bones, etc). Maybe a good experiment. I have a recipe but I need to think about where it might be located (it is the kind of thing that will probably have to come to me in a dream, so it might take a while).

to add, I don't think undiluted JMS would be dangerous, but I don't think it would have any great effects for your plants either. if you really were worried about getting rid of it safely, it might heat up a compost pile nicely, which molasses can do.

if it makes you feel any better, i have done the same thing, with JADAM as well as with beermaking and a whole bunch of other applications (sourdough, most notably) and absentmindedly used tap water, and everything was fine. When I make my bokashi starter, which sounds a lot like what you did (I use rice washing water and molasses during the process), and this has happened, it still worked just fine. I'd not worry about it too much. I'd be really surprised if it had any bad effect.

In the future, you could consider diluting it part at a time, as I believe it can stay at the pre-diluting stage for a while without an issue. Maybe do 5 gallons at a time, if that's all you have the bucket space for.

i just tied up a sprinkler pole with a withered old chayote vine that was nearby. I know it won't last as long as twine but i just needed it to hold while I watered, and I was too lazy to go up the hill to get wire. Does that count? (laziness is the mother of invention)

We are very big on using available materials, I think probably most permies are. I often cut specific mulberry branches for the rabbits to eat thinking about how I'm going to use them afterward (that one looks like good pea brush, that one will be a good stake for the tomato...). And that doesn't even count the things we spot on the side of the road and say "hey, i could use that ____" for something.

the summary from Youtube:

The Portland Cement Association quietly phased out pozzolan additives after the American Society for Testing and Materials standardized modern cement in 1940 with a built-in fifty-year lifespan.
USDA Farmers' Bulletin 1772, published in 1937 by agricultural engineer Howard P. Mathewson, documented the exact burn-and-mix method using kaolin clay.

This video shows the exact eight-percent ratio the Amish use: six pounds of kaolin clay per eighty-pound bag of Portland cement, mixed dry before adding sand and water, plus the slurry wash method that seals existing cracked concrete from the inside using a one-to-one-to-four ratio of lime to clay to water brushed in with a stiff broom.