Inge Leonora-den Ouden

David Wieland wrote:I'm a guy and have never been accused of being stylish, but I'm fond of cargo pants (shorts for hot weather). Don't they make them for women too? ...

If they make trousers/pants for females that look like cargo pants ... then probably the pockets will be too small, or even 'fake pockets'!
Recently I bought a pair of men's cargo garden trousers. In a cheap supermarket (Lidl). 100% cotton! I only have to make them shorter.

Jay Angler wrote:Coydon Wallham wrote:

...On the canvas, the 12oz "duck" cotton canvas I bought for the yurt and used on the Longhaus has kept water from leaking through the main sections, but does wick through where the support poles (uni rafters) touch the fabric, resulting in drips here and there...

If you could score enough old 100% wool blankets and sew them together to make a cover for your frame that the canvas then went over, I wonder if that would solve the drip problem? It might make it worse? It would pad the tarp where it goes over the wood, and it might hold the water long enough for it to dry rather than drip.

It would require experimentation... Some yurts are made of felted wool with animal hides over them. However, I think those ones are in a fairly dry environment.

Reaction not from experience with wool tents ... My thought is that the rain water will stay on top of the wool blanket, and (if the wet weather goes on long enough) then finally will creep through the blanket and will start to drip.
I do know (from long ago) large canvas army tents. Most rain drops glide off the canvas. I think canvas is much better for a tent-like construction than wool blanket. If you really want to use wool (for insulation), then put a layer of canvas over it. Modern yurts have canvas over the felt, like in the past they had animal hides.

Carla Burke wrote:Do you have more savory apple recipes, Inge?

It'll take some time to translate from Dutch to English.  I don't always have the time ... Please have patience.

Here too: October is for planting garlic.

Robert Ray wrote:I saw this the other day. 1/2 potatoes and 1/2 apples boiled, once soft, coarsely mash. While the potato/apples are boiling caramelize one large onion with butter. Serve the mashed mixture with the caramelized onions on top. Sounds good, haven't tried it yet.

Yes, that's about the same as the traditional Dutch 'Hete bliksem'. But then the recipe states that you use one sweet apple and one sour/tart apple (for more people more apples, but always half/half). Apples and potatoes go all together in the same pot to boil in some water with a pinch of salt. Probably the parts of one of the apples with remain recognisable, while the other totally falls apart. So be careful not to throw away the water (put it in a tea glass to drink).

Traditionally this 'Hete bliksem' is served with baked small cubes of lard (fat bacon), or with baked minced meat (or a mix of both). I think caramelized onions are a good choice too.

... and even stranger: now I wrote this last post and looked again ... it was there, on top of the list!

John Weiland wrote:Adding a bump post to this thread for an odd reason.  After posting the immediate above entry over the weekend, I thought it strange that it was not in the 'most recent' list on the Forum.  I considered it might be a temporary glitch, so let it rest a day.  The next day (Sunday I think....) it still was not to be seen (by me) in the 'Most Recent' column of the Permies.com Forum.  I PM'd the OP of this thread and inquired as to whether or not she was able to see the thread in that 'Most Recent' list and she affirmed that it was there.  But I still am unable to see this thread appearing in the 'Most Recent' list going back several days.  Is there something I may have done that would 'hide' the thread from my view?....Some accidental keystroke or combination of trackpad movements?  In order to type this current entry, I needed to either search on the title, find it in my profile, or look through the 'Like' notifications ..... which I could then click on to access the post.  Thoughts?  Thanks!.....    and now to see if what I'm currently posting shows up in the 'Most Recent' list!.....I can't stand the suspense!! ;-)

Edit: Nope....still not visible.  Have I somehow injured or offended the space-time continuum?? ;-?

Hi John. It's strange: now I have the same problem! I can't find the Garden Picture Exchange anymore in the list!

Carla Burke wrote:All these lovely apple recipes are wonderful - but we tend to leave out a LOT of people, in them, who struggle with weight, blood sugar, and other health issues. So, just for the sake of including us, these I must admit, I've not tried yet, but they're on my radar, for some time in the very near future:
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Hi Carla. There are plenty of ways to include apples in a meal: with mashed potatoes or pumpkin, with red beets in a salad, baked apple slices to add to several dishes ...  All without sugar, and low fat.
If you don't know how, or you can't find recipes in English, I'll translate a few (from Dutch).

This thread came in my 'daily-ish'. I did not yet read everything. Of course sock-puppets were already mentioned (shown in a photograph), but the 'sock-lady' I made is different ...

Here's Veronica. She was made of one whole sock and one sock with a large hole.
As far as I remember I never lost a sock in the washing machine. Most of my socks I knitted myself and I wash them by hand (because they're wool). I have a few pairs of thinner socks, they go in the laundry, And when they have a hole they are 'upcycled' instead of darned.

Thekla McDaniels wrote:...

A rug pulled up in the corner and covering a rolled up towel are working well at one of the doors.

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This sort-of reminded me that in the past (I mean the 1960s and '70s) I have seen this (several times, it might have been in the house of a friend or family member), a small rug directly at the door and somewhat pulled up at the underside of the door. Of course back then I didn't understand the reason ...