craig howard

I once got my neighbor lady pretty good.
She gets up and goes to work pretty early in the morning.
She turned on the car and of course the radio was at full blast and the wipers were on. That woke her up.
She shut that down, grabbed the steering wheel and felt the butter applied to the back of it.
Good thing there was a dry wash rag on the dash.
When she grabbed the rag, underneath it was a note saying:
HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY.

If you add some mass to it, there is less chance of burning the syrup.
The most critical time is right near when it's done.
This is my first year making syrup and my first 2 attempts could have gone worse if I didn't have the mass to give off a
sustained low heat toward the end.

Some Dell laptops have docking stations.
So when you get home you set it on the dock and it is connected to your monitor, mouse etc.

My old Dell Latitude E6430 business class can come with a docking station and has a CD player.
I've found that business class laptops are so much better than others.
Mine can still be upgraded to windows 11 according to the computer repair place I bought it from.
Sometimes repair shops have their favorite old tech laptop that they sell refurbished.
I got mine years ago and it works great. Went in recently to ask some questions and when he saw what kind of laptop I had he was still raving about how fast it is.

My stews are made with what I have at the time.
Always garlic.
I still have scallions growing in a bucket. Pulled them before the big freeze and put them in a bucket with dirt still on.
I mulched the heck out of my carrot crop and have them fresh in the middle of winter now, just got to uncover them and dig.
I still have potatoes in the bottom of the bucket so some of those.
I might start frying the tatos and carrots in butter like suggested, before adding.
From the freezer: sweet corn and red peppers.
Got some dried golden oyster mushrooms from the back yard.
Just a couple dried cheyanne peppers from my garden.
Throw in some red lentils to kind of make it less watery.
Did some work for a guy who raises good pork so I added that to the last one. Doesn't have to be beef to be stew right?

I add other stuff to the bowl after it's served: Salt, black or white pepper, nutritional yeast.
I am sort of surprised that others listed worcestershire. It's one of my gotos. Since Rupert Murdoch bought into heinz/lea and perrin.
I've been enjoying Portandia worsestershire sauce from azure standard, it's a little chunky, so shake it up before pouring.

When you mix citric acid with these alkalis,
does it foam up?

I can tell you what not to try to put clay on.
Dry wall plaster.
They put up dry wall and taped the seems and used the plaster over the tape. Sanded it smooth.
All the clay fell off where the plaster was.
I think because the surface was powdery. The clay stuck to the surface powder and it didn't hold well to what was underneath it.

Sooo maybe flax seed oil? It has been used as a paint base before.
I didn't say linseed oil because it has some solvents,... but has basically the same purpose.
That might make the clay stick.

I have 4 utube channels.
One for outing my local city council for their abuse of power.
One for my fixing and building things channel.
One with my name to link to from here.
And one for anonymity posting strange things.

Got to get used to doing things with one hand, while filming with the other.

I've thought about using a car scissor jack and windshield wiper motor to open windows and doors.

No they had a tapered head and I used a countersink bit to keep them below the surface.
It is screwing into some end grain on the sides and that isn't holding as well on all of them but it just keeps going.

I haven't tried building one with the longer, skinnier and straighter cross-country skis yet.
And I haven't taken it down the sledding hill yet, maybe this winter.

Thanks for the link.
I really think it works so well going over big drifts by making the front a little wider than the rest.

If you want to make one that long you chould try cross country skis.
They are longer and are straight.
Maybe with downhill skis for the front angled ones.
If you build one post a picture here.