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https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/is-it-wise-to-mix-calcium-carbonate-along-with-galkyd-gel-into-paint/

Original question was about mixing a calcite rich medium with a alkyd medium to improve dry time.

Back to your question – Calcium Carbonate added in ends up making a more self leveling putty than a gel for me no matter what I mix it with. ...

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There might be an issue adding only more solids (the calcium carbonate) to your paint since the paint is already going to be at the max binder to pigment ratio, so I would be adding the filler to some other liquid such as linseed oil or the medium rather than to just the paint.

I do find my calcite is more likely to self level... but this impasto stuff would be a good area to explore.  I have used it to stiffen paul rubens student grade paint wich is a bit more runny than even m Graham.

Flour water, plus a little bit something, eh?


First instinct, salt.  Makes everything taste better to me.  There is a bread we can cook on a flat pan with flour, water, and salt.  It's one of those unleavened (sp?) Kinds.

Secind instinct, sourdough.   Flour, water, salt, and time.

Third thought leavening agents like baking soda, baking powder, yeast... a bit of salt and fat and now we have biscuits for stovetop or oven.

And maybe some eggs and a smidge of sugar and we have pancakes.  The best cakes of all!

Dehydrator in the shell?

I wonder if shelling, roasting, then freezing is an option?

Had a look at some more guitars.

Choice 1. Save up for cordoba.  It seems a good fit for my hands.

Choice 2. Suzuki parlor that is in need of major repair, very badly bashed up.

All i know is the unwanted harvesters take all the nuts, usually in an hour or two timespan.  We have almost two dozen trees coming to maturity, it's a lot of nuts to go missing in one day.

The thing is, the nuts are there when green, but gone by Christmas.   Right now we are getting 14 out of 15 with nuts in them.

I like the idea of getting squirls to help.  They are useful for chestnuts and if you can get them angry enough, will hearl the biggest ones at us from the highest branch.

Similar climate here.  My raised beds have walls about 8 inches high, but when we built them, we dug the beds about 1 foot deeper and filled with quick rotting wood to help hold moisture.  With use and adding more soil, it's still only 8 inches high, but the soil goes down just over 3 feet.  

That little bit of raised bed at the top gives the advantage of drainage during the wet season, but the deep trench of soil makes it easier to retain the moisture.

It's always a different harvester for us.

Some years squirls, but they tend to take a week or three to eat this many nuts.  They always sort of hover in the background and a good way to tell when the nuts are ready.

Often it's crows.  We never get crows here, but once a year, about 3 or 4 am, for an hour, and all the nuts are gone.

Sometimes it's ravens, raccoons, and other harvesters.  

Last year, we picked some when the squirl started, they were all empty come Christmas.  It was very sad.