Going WAY off-topic here, but while checking out the pademelons on the 'Peed, I learned that they are predated by wedge-tailed eagles – surely one of the most bad-ass birds in the world. They hunt kangaroos! They attack hang gliders! Good lord.
Fake bamboo for the pole beans. Real bamboo was too short and too expensive, so I made my own. I also assumed my neighbors might whine about seeing a bunch of white pipe which is why I camouflaged them as bamboo.
3/4" schedule 40 PVC, $1.40 for a 10-foot length. I cut it down to 7 feet, then wrapped green garden twine around it every 1 foot. The knots were secured with a dab of gorilla glue.
Quarantine Hefeweizen is ready to consume. Hints of clove and banana (just look at it!). Open to suggestions for a name. So far I’m going with “Homebound Hefeweizen”.
Between bouts of depression-fueled news reading and optimistic sourdough baking, we decided to remodel the bathroom. A 3-day project that has stalled in week three, because of plumbing problems and despair.
Before: an ugly 100-year-old apartment bathroom.
We will not talk about how every step has spawned 3 more unexpected ones. Thank all the gods we have a neighborhood hardware store that carries parts for century-old stuff.
And now we have a leaking faucet and wrong sized pipes and are taking the weekend off. Plumbing-acquainted friends are being consulted again.
Someday I will have a spa-like bathroom. I have optimism - after all, I keep making sourdough breads that end up more like battle breads than edible sandwich makings, and I still make more.
But the wiring may be a little creative. For example, the lights in the loungeroom/kitchen are a 50/50 mix of edison screw and bayonet fittings, for no sensible reason.