Peter's stuff.
In my head at least. At gust the planters were going to be shelves from pvc or black iron pipe. I’m starting to think wood now. Do gestalty but not rigidly sized rectangles. All interjoined, but haphazard. Poor English.
I’m liking the idea as it’ll facilitate multiple sizes and shared of plants, I could build trails for the kittehs, whatever.
So I had to pop in to work for a few today, which totes interfered with our plans, but whatever. I get home, and the Wif was done for the day, so I make dinner.
Oven at 425. Add tots once heated, setting a timer for 15 minutes. Black beans (rinsed) in a pot on low heat. Slice tomatoes (loosing any seeds that are easy to get), Slice the other way now. Chunk up the onion. Grate the cheese.
At 15 minutes, pull out the tots, closing the oven (so we don’t lose all our good heat). At beans, onions and tomatoes (in that order). Slather the cheese all over everything. Put back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
Dinner. The Wif liked it. I spaced taking pictures…
After action:
Just made the Wif some peanut butter sandwich cookies. Everything is delicious but totally doesn’t look like the pictures. Think about building a cookie jig. Also, maybe use a burly syringe for fillings. There may be value for making macarones as well.
Beer. Oh how I love thee. What? Oh, yeah, follow-up. The red ale is smelling super bready, there’s detritus 4 inches above the liquid level, and the airlock, while not fouled, is funky. I should look at that tomorrow.
Further beer. I’ve started making the plans for electrifying my beer making. I need to start documenting that.
Side to side, of the older cat tree, I’m looking at 23″, and another 17″ to the window. Call it 40″ plus or minus, and I’ve got a 37″ piece of wood. Seems legit.
Now I cut wood.
The fourth, the fifth? No matter. It’s definitely the first boil over I’ve had.standing a foot away, reading a book, checking every couple pages, which for me is a pretty short interval. It’s stagnant, four ices from the top. It’s over the wall of the pot. Now I understand.
I just added all 12 pounds of make extract when I was only supposed to add 6. Off to an outstanding brew day.
I’m thinking when I such to grain and electric, that I might try making a huge teaball for my grains. Just thinking.
As part my “clean the Den of Inequity” program, I had an epiphany. Rather than move stuff around, I should just finish things. So I’m brewing beer. The title beer of this article to be exact.
Add is my prerogative, I began reading the instructions after the process had begun. In this case, I didn’t read that I was supposed to pour the specialty grains in before heating the water. So I’m supposed to be steeping the specialty grains until the water hits 170 or 20 minutes passes, whichever comes first. Instead I put the grains in at 150, got the temperature to nestle right around 161 and am going the full 20. Let’s see what else I can screw up. I did already start hydrating the yeast, so I’m on track for amazing.
I decided to turn them back on for now. I’m not sure why.
I’m thinking of how this will be built, along with what features it will have. (Think a wall mounted set off shelves with seems watering and plant lights in a vertical space for optimal crop density) (in the less than ideal space I’m working with).
The initial idea is either a wall mount or something going over the window. The wall is nice because any wall. The window is nice because window covering, insulation and free light. I’m assuming at the end of the day out will be the wall.at least for the first iteration. I fairly much have carte blanch in the Den of Inequity, so this might be where I start. Originally I was thinking having a water reservoir at the top and use solenoid valves to water, but now in thinking. If there’s any issue water goes downhill, water is heavy as [.. .] and off have to pour water at a height greater than the highest planter. I do have a bilge pump.
I’ll start doing some sketches over the next few days.