Anne Miller

I am looking for suggestions/ideas on how to refresh the air in a closed bathroom.

Must be non-electric

No candles

Does not take up a  lot of space.

What do you say when you see a stunned ghost buster catch a ghoul?

He's a little confused but he's got the spirit.

I bought myself a new toy and I love it.  I hated the big huge Instant Pot I got a few years ago for Christmas.

New toy is a Instant Pot 3qt Mini:

My first attempt was two leg quarters,  seasoning, 1 cup water then cooked for15 min on the pressure cycle.  Took the chicken out and added sliced potato and a onion cut in quarters, 1 cup water then cooked for 5 min on pressure cycle.  Took the potatoes and onions out and added 1 cup rice, 1 cup water then pressed the Rice cycle.

The rice setting was pre-set for the amount of rice.  I had to cook the rice for two cycles and it turn out perfect.


Honey Chicken

1/4 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup honey, 2 tsp minced garlic, 1/3 cup chicken broth, 1/4 tsp black pepper (mix together), 2 boneless chicken breasts, 2 tsp cornstarch.

Brown chicken on Saute. Removed chicken: de-glazed with a little water maybe 3 tsp, then added sauce to pot, Replaced chicken in pot, closed lid: pressured for 10 minutes. Quick release, removed chicken add cornstarch mixed with water to thicken sauce. Spoon over chicken.

John F Dean wrote:What would be the “dangers” of making wine if fruit juices are used?

That is what I was going to suggest. Most Kombucha has a low alcohol content though if adding fruit juice that is naturally sweet I feel the end product will have more of an alcohol content.

Commercial kombucha, at least one I looked at was made with black tea, green tea and kiwi juice then fermented.  After that process apple juice was added.  I assume so the alcohol content would be low enough to be sold as non-alcoholic.

If there is any place that is a place where folks are concerned about there health I would suspect that Green Belt, West Virginia would be that place.

Even though you have not seen any animal might not mean that they are not there.  Stealth mode ...

We did not know the amount of wildlife we had until we put a pan of water on the patio.

Some like foxes come even though they cannot reach the water.  I assume the fox can smell the water and is drawn to it.

I have a spot where I have been feeding the wildlife since 2013 and I have never seen the wildlife, yet the food disappears.

Yes, every little dropping helps.  Mother Natures way of giving treats to her children.

Unfortunately, the wildlife also fertilizes places that we might not appreciate.

Like the raccoon who like to fertilize any mats we might have outside.  I always wonder if he/she was a pet that was trained to pee pads ....

Thomas Schendel wrote:I think the OP means something more sophisticated than simple chop & drop, since after this procedure, wood chips are addded and everything is repeated again.

Did you go to that link?

And so that done in the link for the BB, with the exception as Paul Wheaton explains  to use twigs and brush picked up from around the property:

Something similar to this?

Chop and Drop is a technique where you cut unwanted plants and use the cuttings as a smothering mulch on other unwanted plants - while simultaneously mulching around desired plants.

https://permies.com/wiki/98575/Chop-Drop-PEP-BB-gardening

Maybe the sticks were in the wrong place for the tendril to find the stick so it kept searching.  Just my guess ...