Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier

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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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Pressure canning in small jars

I'd say to use a lot of head space, that's the part small jars do badly.
To measure how much headspace you need to can safely: Take one of your old jars that you have used safely, fill it totally to the top with water, take out and keep enough water to leave a proper headspace in that jar. Pour the kept water into your small jar, that's the volume of headspace that you need to can it safely. Will it leave any space for food? I'm guessing no. Put that water into an 8 oz jar, that might leave enough for food.

16 hours ago

food preservation

jokes

How do you figure out what sex an ant is? Put it in water.
If it sinks it's a girl ant.
If it floats....

4 days ago

meaningless drivel

Hilarious, rib tickling memes

5 days ago

meaningless drivel

Deer Control?

I wonder if something along these lines would keep deer out of the garden?

6 days ago

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Crazy kitchen mistakes - what are yours?

Not as exciting as the previous posts, just a tired brain fart many years ago. I boiled up a pan of pasta, got the colander out of the cabinet, picked up the pan of boiling water and poured it into the colander, which, unfortunately, was on the counter, not in the sink. The floor didn't need that boiling water bath (nor did my bare feet!)

1 week ago

meaningless drivel

Home Depot classes

Copy of a post on X, no further details that I know.

BREAKING: Home Depot has started giving out free training to Americans who want to work in HVAC, carpentry, electricity, & construction.

The classes are self-paced and students will earn certifications they can use on their resumes.

THIS IS AWESOME!

It will be conventional construction, which I have problems with at best, but it's possibly worth looking into.

1 week ago

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Unapparent disability

Christopher Weeks wrote:I saw this and was reminded of this thread.

And some of us it shifts from day to day. I was just outside standing around talking to the neighbors. I have in the car right now my canes and a wheelchair. I didn't happen to need them to chat tonight. Some days I do. Hard for people to wrap their head around "it changes" when they are expecting only the top row of your chart.

1 week ago

personal care

Weird things cats have done

John F Dean wrote:Well, I spoke too soon. I should have waited for the final report. My Master Mouser walked up to the new tree this morning and said, “ Oh, I thought we were going to have both trees. I don’t know if we can use just this one.”

The problem is the solution, give them back the old one too.
I'm on the cat's side, MORE CAT TREES :D

2 weeks ago

meaningless drivel

funny signs

2 weeks ago

meaningless drivel

Fermenting commercially canned beets??

Tereza Okava wrote:I think you're spot on about adding a starter.
you might find this useful https://www.reddit.com/r/fermentation/comments/85uxsi/can_i_lacto_ferment_frozen_or_canned_vegetables/

Thank you, I got zero useful hits when I searched the net.

I am not sure about your probiotic starter. i have tried making yogurt with one and got some weird outcomes, but what could it hurt? you have the starter, you have the beets, try a wee batch and see what happens.
if you have anything else with live cultures, it would be worth trying. I do like the idea of adding cabbage leaves or whatever you have around to get things going.

What I have is just probiotic pills. I can do just flour as a starter, I'm just thinking to add a few more critters with a pill.
Nothing else with live cultures around.

2 weeks ago

fermentation