Random thoughts from the moose cave.

so.

I brought 17 gallons of water home, and some blood worms.

gonna work on the fishes before I shut down the pond next month. clean tanks out, and filters. (ugh)

thought I'd lost both of my big snails to the ropefish, but one of 'em crawled up the wall today. (the other one was a no doubter... )

tossed him some green beans, and he's eating them very cautiously.

I prolly ought to toss some more worms in for the big meanie to eat so he leaves him alone...

when I wake up tomorrow, the weather is s'posed to morph into fall.

we need it...

We're morphing too -- until the weekend when it's supposed to get back up into the 90s.

I had a strange call last night... My neighbor called me to tell me that my status on FB bothered her. Huh? This is what I wrote:



She said she isn't willing to contemplate fall because that means winter is coming and she doesn't want me to write about fall-like temps. It's too depressing. I soon realized she wasn't kidding.

O...

K...

For my next trick I'll try to piss someone off by saying the sun is shining.

Mission complete.
Snow down to 800 meters. thats like 20 miles away from me

I aim to please, dp.

Welcome home!

tonight I am sandblasting. I hate it...

I will be finding little (fine OOO) grains of sand for a month.

trying to get as much done at one shot as I can, but my air compressor likes it just a bit less than I do.

hadda let it rest a spell. cool off and be quiet. I will hear it rattle in my sleep tonight. as I chew sand...

we'll switch to baking soda when I get all the underbody ready for undercoat and rust repair panels. gonna be a short weather window to get to where I wanna go.

gotta paint this one before I move all my stuff to the farm. won't be any painting done there till the makeover is all done. mebbe next summer. mebbe...

ok, a question for both of my readers...

I put some navy beans out to soak, not remembering that the next day was friday, the only day I have a dinner plan.

so It's now saturday, and they have been soaking for a day and a half.

can I still cook them?

I have more beans, but times are tight.

(getting sick is a bad thing, though...)

a little help...???

rinse them real well, set aside in fridge, cook them tomorrow.

but I got plans tomorrow.

can I put them in the freezer, and cook them tonight?

I wouldn't cook them until the day you plan to eat them but, again, rinse real well. but then, they could be cooked tonight and then into the fridge, should be good for several days.

now pinto beans, in my day I used to cook a pot full on sunday (big pot) and have a bowl every day for a week with corn bread (jiffy mix) or corn tortillas. I would add fresh diced onion to each bowlful as I prepared to eat (with some pepper sauce)

Keep them soaking but change the water. Also, they may not take as long to cook when you cook them so check them at the short end of the cooking time. You may find that they're less gaseous than usual too.

Are they worth recommending to last year's losing finalist in our annual Boxing-Day fart lighting competition so that she can give the champ a run for his money.

I'm a Heinz fan.

yeah ed, I dint work on any cars yet today, either...

and I lied.

they are great northern beans. (i went looking for good northern beans, but these did not cost any more, so...)

some smoked ham chunks and a onion. (gotta say it cajun... unyown...)

smells good...

great northern (white) beans are great in pasta. cheap healthy yummy meal. when the beans are done, just boil some pasta water, then smother the pasta with the beans (make it kinda soupy).

I got it workin' as a soup.

cornbread in the oven as we speak.

prolly gonna go take some out to smoky. his kid's been sickly.

the race is on...

I think I'm going to lose water here tomorrow.

and my funding has run almost dry for now. (working the wrestling thing tomorrow)

So I think I am going to try and move before the winter sets in. I was going to try and remodel as I could and move in the spring, but that isn't gonna work now.

Once I am moved and settled, I can focus most of my cash on working at getting healthier.

I got the old heating unit out of the cabin today. prolly a good thing I decided not to use it. there is evidence of fire around the sides of it. I think it woulda flamed me out.

So Ima go with an old country parlor stove. run it out the existing chimney. and the oil filled electric that I used last year to heat the house here. (no gas for a coupla years now.) the stove is kinda cool. I can heat my tea kettle on the burners on top...

the cabin will actually be an upgrade on a couple of levels, when I'm all done.
gonna have hot water for real showers, too.

gathering up all my brick to see if I have enough to make a hearth or not. and I have enough wood now to go all season.

and downsizing the bathroom to bare minimum. not a lot of space for that sort of thing.

I can start out in half of it, if I have to for now. but then I got no kitchen. and the fishes are gonna have to go live at the vw shop for now. even if I get the whole thing weather tight. they will not want to chance the heat going out until everything proves out. and he needs extra tanks now, so everybody wins.

we'll see how far I get before it snows...

Hang in there, moose face.

^^ what he said!

Good luck Rockhead.