So what is the perfect loaf anyway?
It only has 4 ingredients: flour, water, yeast, and salt. Okay… maybe 6 if you use sugar and butter. You can mix it in a bread machine or electric mixer and bake it in a regular pan you already own. It’s not fancy… no braids… no slashes from that fancy lame you learned to use by watching hours of YouTube videos.Continue reading
I recently had a conversation with someone who assumed hydroponic gardening was a bit more tedious than traditional growing. It isn’t, but there is one teensy problem for folks just starting out — the instructions that ship with boxed gardens and those beginner DIY videos are really meant to get 90% of new growers from point A to point B as quickly as possible with the assumption that conditions are perfect, nothing will go wrong and covering the bare minimum of details is good enough.
Here’s what they don’t tell you…
Canned biscuits, a few pantry staples and 20 minutes are all it takes to make these sticky buns.Continue reading
Remember when we started handing out participation trophies? Remember when grief counselors on college campuses were handing out teddy bears to comfort students who under other circumstance would have been considered adults? Remember when protesters were allowed to burn down cities because their rage was justified? Remember when organizations run by liberals and activists held company meetings where employees cried because they didn’t like the results of an election?Continue reading
I recently built a Printer-box enclosure for my Prusa i3 MK3S. My mantra is go big or go home, so I went for the whole package with low-voltage LED’s, exhaust fan, 4Gb Raspberry Pi 4B, Logitech C920 camera and modular control panel. My electronics skills are weak at best, so I followed a combination of the printer-box wiring diagrams and Colin Hill’s awesome videos.Continue reading
TL;DR This trip has been on my bucket list for a few years. If you’ve never been, I’d highly recommend you plan on changing that. So far, it’s one of my favorite adventures and I’d definitely do it again.
Tom and I aren’t really into glitzy cruise ship vacations — we’re more get off the beaten path, mingle with the locals travelers. So when we decided we were going to do this, we knew we’d spend a lot of time on the road.
Since you can’t drive to Juneau, we flew in to spend a couple of days, flew to Glacier Bay and back, then flew to Anchorage where we picked up a Wrangler that would stay with us for the rest of the trip. From Anchorage, we drove to Kennicott, Fairbanks, Denali and back to Anchorage with a few short side trips to Talkeetna and Girdwood. 17 days and we could have probably spent another day or two.
I’ve always made my chili from scratch because those seasoning packets you buy in the grocery store are pretty underwhelming. Last night, I was tired, the spice rack was low on a few items… but I did have two packets of Old El Paso. I doctored it up and it was pretty close to my home made.Continue reading