Pearl Sutton

steward & bricolagier

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Chronic reader, creative dreamer, a LOT of hand skills to make things real, intense health issues that limit my activity, but not my creativity or dreams. Moved to southern Missouri with enough tools and junk to build a life that might work well with my health. One of god’s gigglers, I punctuate with smiley faces and exclamation points when I type, and smile and laugh a lot in real life. (Often at things no one else understands.) And I both curtsy at people (even when wearing grubby work clothes) and purr when hugged, both online and in real life. “Normal” is not a word that has ever been used for me.
Been organic gardening all my life, and bought 4 acres that I have designed from the ground up. Making it happen is being the most fun I have ever had in my life, the best 3D jigsaw puzzle ever! Reading Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was like coming home, ah, THERE I am! A reality where I can use all of my multifaceted talents and skills!
Dumpster diver, recycler, second hand store shopper, I tell people I am attracted to rust and lace. I have violated every warranty I have ever met, I’m a tool using animal, and I use my tools to modify everything in my world. And it only gets weirder...
Bricolage: something constructed or created from a diverse range of available things. Adding ier to a french word means one who does that activity. I am a bricolagier, the things I do are all made of a wide range of things that I have acquired from diverse places.

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Solar chimney thoughts

John C Daley wrote:She has details of the use of solar powered fans

Ah, got it. Yeah, that's a back up plan if I have to, I'd prefer it if it did it on it's own, thus the question about whether air moves in tubes with or without sunlight making a chimney effect.

5 days ago

low tech

Water bath bone broth?

I vote no also, I'd classify it as a meat, and meat needs pressure canning.
I'd say if you DO water bath it, put it in the fridge and use it very soon.

5 days ago

food preservation

Solar chimney thoughts

John C Daley wrote:Look at this girls work
https://www.solviva.com/

I have read her stuff before, it was quite a few years ago, I don't recall any of the info I have read the past 15 years anyplace saying whether the tubing works as circulation too. Did I miss it somewhere on her site?

5 days ago

low tech

Solar chimney thoughts

I remembered what I was thinking, or at least one thing, and sketched it (sorry, this computer doesn't do any graphical anything. :P )
My house design has clerestory windows, and light tubes facing the windows that go down to the basement to light it up. The basement is a LOT of thermal mass, hydronically heated and cooled, it's the main temperature control of the house. I'm wondering if it will be a good passive circulation for the house too, if the air will be going up the tubes, and the floor air on the first floor will drop down, and get circulated back up. If so, I'll design in a way to close off the airflow with glass in case I don't want it moving.

5 days ago

low tech

plants vs physics

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Depending on their velocity relative to you

(from a random meme)

6 days ago

meaningless drivel

Mother of Pearl

Update: Mom was cremated right after her death. She told us all long ago she wanted her ashes "everyplace."
At this point her ashes have been scattered:
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Florida
Virginia
Off the back of the USS Midway at San Diego
Hawaii
Wake Island
Guam
Philippines
Italy

Soon Missouri will be added and lord only knows where else we can get her! Her and dad always loved to travel and raised us traveling when we could and after they retired they did European tours and put a LOT of miles on an RV that went down into Mexico, up into Canada, and into Alaska, as well as all over the country.
She's still going places! That's what she wanted :D

6 days ago

meaningless drivel

Waterfalls: Odd window insulation that's working!

Leigh Tate wrote:I just tried this and it truly does make a difference!

As soon as I fitted it into the window frame, I could feel immediately that the air below the window wasn't as cold. Definitely recommended!

Yeah, it really does. I have them on every window in this house. I work barefoot, so I can instantly feel the change.

1 week ago

frugality

ALAS my computer has been laid to rest

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Ask around. You probably know someone who can determine if a fix is possible.

As well, the world is awash in perfectly good Windows 10 machines that can't be upgraded to Windows 11. And yes, they can still receive security updates until September 2026. After that, install Linux Mint!

Yeah, I paid 100.00 for one of those. And I have seen win 11 ewww :P

1 week ago

personal challenges

A lost skill, making coffee

Mike Barkley wrote:

My Dad worked for the folks who invented the percolator, Landers, Frary and Clark, the Universal was its brand name.

He told me about the great amount of testing that went into figuring out when the coffee was done, but not overdone.

The magic number they turned up was right around 150 degrees F.

Was making a fresh pot of coffee when I remembered this post. Since the boiling point of water is 212' Farenheit & a percolator needs boiling water to function how did that particular brand of percolator work? Seems magical or something. Might it be a typo & 250 was intended???

If I recall right (and I might not) the reason behind the flat flared part at the bottom is it increases the pressure in a small area, making the water in that small area boil at a lower temperature, enough to bounce it up the tube.

1 week ago

cooking