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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Thoughts that keep me awake at night....
How long does it take a giraffe to throw up?

1 day ago

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jokes

On the day my son turned four, I told him I didn't recognize him. it was like I'd never seen him be four.

3 days ago

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jokes

The meteorologist who developed the Heat Index passed away yesterday.

He was 88, but felt like 95.

3 days ago

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Why ancient tribes needed autistic minds

Note the link in my signature
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
Worth reading my first two posts in that thread.

3 days ago

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Why ancient tribes needed autistic minds

This makes TOTAL sense to me. I'm on the spectrum, and this is the best way I have seen this expressed, and I have thought this for a LONG TIME.

3 days ago

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Food inventory management ?

If you only keep enough for a few weeks, just write the expiration date on the container in nice clear lettering, and rotate your stock as you use it, put the new stuff in back, use from the front.

I have tried inventorying my stock but I always fail at it. I have a lot though. I do date it all with sharpies so I can watch dates.

1 week ago

food preservation

Has anyone here pressure canned ground poultry?

Make sure it's in small pieces, not big chunks. Chunks are a problem. Under 3/4 inch cubed pieces, 1/2 inch is excellent. 1 inch headspace, 12-15 PSI for at least 90 minutes.
I do all kinds of ground up meat that way. No chunks. No blocks.
I add liquid to it, liquid + meat is excellent gravy base, add spices and thickener to it all and cook it down, pour over biscuits or mashed potatoes :D

1 week ago

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funny signs

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How to install metal roofing to reduce the noise factor?

Jay Angler wrote:

Pearl Sutton wrote:... The basic asphalt felt you put under a roof might be enough to dampen the bounce against the roof. Might be interesting to try. ...

I would say that old shingles are much thicker than a single layer of asphalt felt, and that even the felt comes in different thicknesses. I have heard that mass more than anything else, absorbs sound, so if shingles had to be removed, I would go for several layers of the thickest felt I could get, unless someone tells me they tried that and it didn't work.

Ah, I thought you were talking putting a whole new roof structure etc on.

D Nikolls wrote: I put a clicklock style standing seam metal roof on my new-to-me 1950s house, over a new 5/8" plywood roof deck. I like the clicklock as it is DIY friendly, unlike the crimped standing seam. Just needed basic tinsnips and a homemade bender to make the locking bend at the bottom.

I had to look them up. Yes the DIY type is the type I have used. hadn't heard it called clicklock. The basic cheap stuff from the big box stores, with ridges, that you put on. I know about the really old style and/or expensive type, never used it or dealt with it.

2 weeks ago

natural building

How to install metal roofing to reduce the noise factor?

" prevents the metal from vibrating like a drum, " that part makes me think a way to stop the noise might be to keep it from vibrating. The roofing on this rental has standing seams (and you put the screws through the STANDING SEAMS! NOT the flat parts! That's how you keep them from leaking!!) and normally you'd only put screws in every 4th one or so space 24 inches or so apart. Wonder what it would if you put screws at 12 inch spacing on every standing seam, and make it so it can't vibrate? The basic asphalt felt you put under a roof might be enough to dampen the bounce against the roof. Might be interesting to try. Screws are cheaper than anything else you can do to a roof.

Anyone got a shed with standing seams that could be tried on? Go up and add a bunch of screws, see what it does to the sound. Lots of us are interested in knowing.

2 weeks ago

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