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oregano

oregano

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  • oregano
    Fortunately Raley's (the local full service grocery store) was open for a few hours so I was able to get a precooked turkey breast. My mom is actually offering to put a little money towards a new generator now.
    oregano
    The local hawks and vultures had a half cooked turkey for Thanksgiving. :mad:
    :(:rolleyes: Of course the cheap old generator I have to use won't restart after refueling.
    oregano
    My mom will have a half dozen people with her, and my uncle has some chef training, so he will supervise cooking the turkey and tell my aunt how to prep stuffing and potatoes and the rest. They all really like each other so they always have a great Thanksgiving.
    oregano
    My generator will likely only have enough gas tank capability to run the oven for 40min or so, but the turkey will have to cook for twice that. I will have to switch it off halfway through, refuel it, and pray that it restarts.
    oregano
    The family members were cordial to each other, so it at least wasn't like some families where they yell and/or get passive aggressive at each other. But my dad would keep telling me, get in from the yard, sit down, and have a conversation with us, you owe it to us.
    oregano
    Bought a frozen turkey breast @ Safeway, heat-and-eat stuffing @ Rays (local supermarket chain), small pumpkin pie from Walmart of all places. Ready for a solo Thanksgiving, and am thankful for a solo Thanksgiving. I always hated Thanksgiving as a kid. I would be forced by my dad to participate in family conversations, which I hated.
    oregano
    is hating the fact that I haven't been able to get started on providing my own food due to my mouth issues. I wasn't able to harvest acorns this year, and now I see the oaks going into hibernation while driving to Yreka.
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    oregano
    oregano
    @tree: to prep acorns, you take off the "cap" then use a small hammer or rock to break the acorn into four pieces. (It does so naturally, you don't pound it.) Then you have to take off the hard outer shell with a knife.
    oregano
    oregano
    Then you have to mash down the inside nutmeat, in precolonizer times the Indigenes would use a mortar and pestle system, today everybody simply uses a blender. Then you cook the resulting mash with water until the bitter "tannin" is all leached out.
    oregano
    oregano
    Then you drain off the tannin-infused water. Then put the acorn meal in a bowl, grab a spoon, and bon appetit.
    oregano
    I got an email from an Ebay posting of mine asking if I was near "Phoenix". At first I said no, then I thought that he probably means the small town near Medford and not the big city. So I email again. After I send that, I look at the guy's profile. He's in Mesa, ARIZONA. I apologized. Sheesh I am stupid.
    S
    Slime_Punk
    If he can see your profile and that you're in another state, I'm going to say he's the one who needs to get it together. I would've assumed the same as you.
    oregano
    oregano
    I am selling a broken generator, the one that died last summer. My ad clearly says pickup only, and Ebay ads always list a seller's location. I clearly state in the ad that I can deliver along Interstate 5 between Eugene, Oregon, and Corning, California. Nobody can use a map anymore. Sheesh.
    oregano
    The best password manager is an index card box and a notepad. It is pretty difficult to hack, and costs very little. Paying through your butt for an online based password vault only to have it hacked and your social media accounts suddenly touting get rich scams is pretty stupid.
    Misty Avich
    Misty Avich
    Everything's best done on pen and paper. I miss those days.
    oregano
    I deliberately put too many blankets on me last night so I could sweat out the residual poisons left in my body from eating too much refined sugar last summer when I was in Sacramento. Last week I used citrate to cleanse my digestive system. I feel tired but less sick.
    oregano
    First real rainstorm of the season here. 1 inch of rain at my property according to the cheap rain gauge I found at a garage sale over the summer.

    oregano
    One of the few redeeming qualities of "the most horrible time of the year" is maple candy from Vermont!

    maple.webp


    Costs a fortune but well worth it. Yum! Buy it on Ebay since Amazon forces you to have it shipped from an Amazon warehouse.
    oregano
    My freezer takes too much electricity so I plan to use it as a "cool box" instead. I am going to learn how to preserve meat without freezing. I have a book on preserving food. People preserved food for thousands of years without electricity, but now the default is throw it in the freezer?
    elgat0verde
    elgat0verde
    Salted meat and some people lived in places where it got COLD so they didn't really need a freezer

    Smoking is another good way to preserve meat!

    Good luck!
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Is your freezer running constantly? In other words can you hear the sound of the mild rattle and buzzing coming from the compressor? Does it produce a lot of frost? A lot of freezers use around 100 Watts of electricity when going full tilt. Often it's because the thermostatic switch is faulty. Ours had this problem and I used a thermostatic smart switch to regulate it instead.
    BobbiSueEllen
    BobbiSueEllen
    The idea of eating thousands-years-old meat...I dunno, sounds dicey. Should I try that mastodon jerky? Or the 'dactyl delight?
    oregano
    One of the guy ropes on my wind turbine broke yesterday and now it is chunks of plastic on the ground. My mom is EXTREMELY angry, it was a $600 wind turbine. and the thing is, it never outputted very much power anyway, nowhere near my solar panels.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Might be time to repair it.
    oregano
    oregano
    It's too smashed up, sadly. Most of it was just plastic anyway. Also, recycling electric motors is illegal in California unless you have a certain business license such as a HVAC license, due to drug addicts ripping apart air conditioners, tearing out all the copper, then selling it to recyclers and using the money for their addictions.
    oregano
    The wind shifted and all the smoke from the fires along the northwest CA border poured into the Shasta Valley today. Visibility was about two miles. I had to go to the dump today, and the drive back on Interstate 5 over Anderson Summit is usually beautiful, but today it was just a featureless white smog.
    oregano
    is hoping that I will be able to go at least 7 days without interacting with another human being in person! Yay!
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    That does sound nice. I am burnt out on humans.
    oregano
    oregano
    I'm gonna have to go into Yreka on Tuesday to refill my Adderall, it turns out. But 4 days will be nice anyway.
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