Pearl Sutton

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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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Dragon Art

Carla Burke wrote:How about a wearable dragon...

THAT is AWESOME!! If it's AI, it's replicatable. That concept could be done a bunch of ways. I might go with a stuffed dragon head that hooks into the embroidery down the dress...
Off the net, looks like someone on Etsy is selling these:

That kind of head hooking into jeweled and metallic scales down a dress would be LOVELY.

Too too cool. Dragons are too neat. I'm having too much fun with this thread!! :D

11 hours ago

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Dragon Art

OH MY YES!!! That's awesome!
I wonder how much AI will affect art the right way, people saying "Huh, how COULD I do something like that then?"

I went down a dragon rabbit hole a while back, dragon sinks. Impossible to keep clean easily, and that's priority in my kitchens, but OOOOOH!!
And it DOES make me think "What CAN I do that fits my parameters?"
What I CAN do is my own art of a dragon (or something else I want) on a countertop and do an acrylic resin pour over it. That's how my bathroom counters are designed, I can do a kitchen one too :D

1 day ago

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what is the advantage to an 'app'?

Judith Browning wrote:I'm not even sure how to ask the question.

Many times when I am looking at a site that I would like to add to my home screen on this phone it will only offer to 'install an app'.
These aren't sites I am wary of but I don't see what an app would do for me when I can just as easily save the url link and connect without the app.

Will it use less data?
I have the storage space but don't see the need🤔

I don't use apps if there is a web page. I save links. I don't feel the need for anything else.
I'm not the best one to explain them to you, but I am a vote for "I don't if I don't HAVE to"
I have installed 3 on mom's phone, and zero on mine. That's it. And lots and lots of bookmarks on them both.
(The three are X, Telegram, and a standalone program that doesn't exist on the net.)

1 day ago

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Oh my! Weird Pies!! Concept Cooking

I got some avocado the other day, thought I need to make another avocado pie! Got a lime syrup stuff. Failed to read the ingredients... HFCS. Nope. BUT!! I also got a raspberry syrup, it was made with sugar... Raspberry Pi seems appropriate :D
Still have a squash pie in the fridge, next one I make will be the green raspberry pi :D

3 days ago

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Northern Lights alert

Coronal hole stream impact. Pretty lights in the north tonight.

4 days ago

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Oh my! Weird Pies!! Concept Cooking

Julie Johnston wrote:George Bernard Shaw's favourite was mashed potato pie. Just load (usually leftover, for me) mashed potatoes into a pie plate but stuff a few surprises in along the way: a layer or fried leeks and mushrooms, two halves of a hard-boiled egg (if you're not vegan). Grate some cheese/cheeze over the top and heat in the oven.

I have made mashed potato pie, but differently. Mashed potatoes, spices, an egg, all mixed well, patted into a well greased cast iron skillet, about 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick all over the bottom and up the sides. Then fill the space with leftovers (turkey and veggies is excellent!) Bake for a bit, then add cheese to melt on it.
Excellent way to use up holiday leftovers.

While I'm on mashed potato abuse... Not pie but I did this once for a party:
Mashed potatoes, Indian spices, made into about 1 inch balls. Dipped in tempura batter and deep fried, served with a collection of assorted sauces. They went over VERY WELL! Any spicing would work, I wonder if they'd work in an air fryer? If you have one, try it, I'm curious!

4 days ago

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Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

My friends are wanting me to test the oven. I have no urge to do wood heat right now for a lot of reasons. I haven't got a decent solar hook up I could use without a ton of work.
I do have a catalytic heater with a flat top that I used to cook on a lot when I lived in a van. That might work.
Not running equipment for a while still. I was bummed when I tested it and it's not magnetic. I wanted bad to magnet it to my mower or tractor while it's working to use the waste heat. That would have been the easiest way to make it stay still on a lot of things. I'm debating epoxying metal straps to it that magnets do like, (metal lumber straps, fun things to play with!) then I can magnet it places if I want to.

My head went off on a tangent, what this thing feels like, in a way, is the EZ Bake Oven I had as a kid. It cooks with a light bulb. Which has led to me eyeing lights in the house... I have some floodlights....

I'll probably drop it on the catalytic one of these days to test it.

4 days ago

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Viking Star Trek

Fun AI video

4 days ago

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Did you know that _____ are absolutely terrified of _____?

Did you know that cats who lay on the window ledge are absolutely terrified of butterflies?

5 days ago

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Winnerwell Foldfast Oven question

Christopher Weeks wrote:From zooming in on the lower right picture here: https://www.canvastentshop.co.uk/fastfold-oven/ it looks like it's meant to hold the screen down.

That shot looks exactly like my pic, except it's a not used oven.
It doesn't hold the screen. It's loose, and only sits barely on the screen. And only on one side at a time. And the screen has good clips. If that's what it's for, it's useless, it's not doing it.
Unless it's doing something really weird with that screen, holding it upward at some times or something, I can't imagine that's it.

5 days ago

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