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Easy processing.   Harvest comes at the time of year when it's too hot to do anything, especially put the stove on.

Watering, I can do after the sun goes down and my chores are finished.  It's amazing how much the land has to teach us after dark. Where the dew gathers, early frost patches, and places that warm up before sunrise which would be perfect if we ever kept bees.

Living a long life seems like a horrific punishment, especially if we don't know in advance to invest in gold or whatever so we don't have to work if we don't want to. All friends and family dead.  The world changing and what was polite behaviour seems to flip on the head every 50 years.  No, I don't think I would enjoy living to 100, levelon a thousand.

Being healthy, I wouldn't mind finding out what that feels like,  sounds nice,

Have animals behave. Most of ours do, except ducks at bed time.  Fixing that would be lovely.

Teleport doesn't appeal to me as I like the exercise while I still can.  And I almost always enjoy the journey more than the destination.

I don't think I want to live without house plants, so every room.  It's just most of the rooms don't have enough light, so I would have to rig up lights or something.

Yep, every drain is unique.

We lived in the house for nearly 10 years, clearing the drain manually at least once a week.  Plumbers said it was a rough part of tne cast iron pipe and we would have to dif up the house foundation to dix it.  So we just kept going as snaking a drain was better than the alternative.

Then someone moved out, and suddenly the drain didn't clog.  Who knew being lazy and letting the dishes build up would be the solution for our drain?  The plumbers said never do that.

This one sounds like air can help.  They sell something innthe shops here that looks like a can of compressed air and a plunger had a baby. Put the plunger end on top of the drain and press down really well.  It shoots air into the drain and bingo, no more clog.  Good for ones just past the bend.  

I wonder if there is a more affordable version one can make at home.  It sounds like it would do the job but without taking the pipe apart or risk getting bad air in the lungs with a hose.

He says he the internet vacation went so well, that he's thinking of doing it again this winter. Do we want to watch his prime tv for 4 to 6 weeks again?  (Same terms as last winter, doing download extra like yt or go off the specific profile he set up for us)

Sure, why not?

Winter is dark this far north.

So the big question is, how do I find out what to watch?

We've got a spot in our drain that clogs.  It's an old house and is about 48 feet from the kitchen sink.

A snake is awesome!  Especially if it's only a few feet down.

Prevention is even more awesome.  When it's just us in the house, we can go 4 to 6 years between clogs.  Whenever we have people staying, we have to clean it out weekly.

Things that work for us
- no solids down the drain
- no grease down the drain
- as little detergent as possible (this is also sticky in the drain as it grabs hold of sticky things)
- don't do tiny loads of dishes after every meal.  
- wait for dishes to reach a critical mass and then wash them with as much water as possible so the big mass of water goes down the drain all at once, flushing away the start of each new clog.

When we have guests, they believe that "water saving measures" means use as little water to dirty dishes as possible and wash as we go along.  They can't grasp that they aren't helping by washing dishes after each mean and either think I'm too stupid to know how to wash dishes or lying. And then when it clogs on day three of their stay, a lecture on how to not-clog drains gushes from their mouth - and then they get angry at me for calling them out on the inapproaptrate behaviour of them not listening to me.  But unfortunately, it just increases the unwanted beahviour as they see it now as a challenge to get the dishes done to prove me wrong about the drain, thus clogging the drain more... (sorry, issues).

Anyway, every drain is different.  The list is a few things to try to see if you can find the prevention that works for you.

One thing to think about is, if the plumbing is old, using a snake to pull out the clog is better than pushing it further along where a snake can't reach.  

I've been attempting thumbnails to decide a composition.

And I've come to the conclusion that I am trying to cram too much into the painting.

Maybe if I treat it like a still life with the death of rats.  That's four things at minimum on the table (pie, turnip, sherry, rat).  Four is an awkward number for composition so I might need to try something different.

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