They look cute but are wicked mean creatures. Used to see them occasionally in Door County and we always gave them wide berth.

Quote from 1984 or Brave New World goes here.

I have an update!!

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The electrician came out. The landscape lights work, and they actually look great when on. The guy said the part that was worried about is just old and doesn’t look great but still functions so we’re leaving it as is. (Bc the alternative is probably totally disconnect and switch to solar stick lights)

So Instead of swapping out the lights that are there, we added a timer to the switch plate as per @wtg ‘s suggestion.

Yay!

I think we might actually be done with all the stuff we needed to when we closed on the house 😊

On the sit-com a patient mentioned a girlfriend who was manic-depressive and said that she was a heck of a lot of fun half the time. I thought that was hilarious. I was living with the woman who is now my former wife. She is manic depressive and that hit home.
I think that was the only show I was a fan of.

Salmon burgers and tofu in the air fryer. Beef, salmon, and lamb on the outdoor grill. Foreman grill is probably still in the oven drawer. Baked potatoes and sweet potatoes in the air fryer.

@Steve-Miller said in It's a miracle:

Sharon’s grandparents got their whole house replied after an incident like yours.

Their old galvanized plumbing system had nearly closed shut with corrosion over the years and then a bunch of sand got pumped in when a contractor hit the water main in the street.

Contractor’s insurance company paid to repipe the entire house in shiny new copper pipe!

Cool beans!

We have copper already, but I grew up in a house with galvanized pipe so I know the issues. A lot of the houses in the subdivision had already been replumbed, but my Mom sold it before hers needed it.

@wtg said in sharing video here?:

Once you've figured it out, could you post the steps in the Tips and Tricks thread

Do you mean figured out how to limit view-ability? That's not what I can't figure out. What I can't figure out is how to get back into my SK YT account. 😢

Re videos, when you upload a video to YT, you can select public, private and unlisted (as I recall). Only public videos are searchable. Private I think means you set who can see it (lie, based on email addresses). Unlisted means anyone with the link can see it (so you don't have to preset access) but it's not searchable. I always used unlisted for videos I shared on PW or WTF.

BTW I meant to give an update on this. Just fyi but if you're going to make it, please try to get Japanese mochiko, rather than some other glutinous rice flour. Mochiko comes in a box that looks like this:

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Mr SK made it with a different kind of glutinous rice flour this time, and he decided that it's better with actual mochiko.

Yep!

They do tumble off of bagels, but I still love them.

Poppy seeds are very common in Lithuanian dessert cuisine. Besides a poppy seed roll, we have a traditional Christmas Eve dish consisting of small leavened biscuits that have some poppy seeds. The biscuits are served soaked in a poppy seed milk. One of my favorite holiday foods. Christmas Eve isn't complete without it!

Poppy seed roll:

http://delightsofculinaria.com/poppy-seed-roll/

Kuciukai/slizikai:

https://myfoododyssey.com/2014/12/08/lithuanian-christmas-eve-biscuits-kuciukai-recipe/#more-3971

That was my first thought but I double checked and RFK Jr did post an apology on X. From everything I can discern, it really is his account.

https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1813198830281593269

A lot of other sources confirmed this and it's a day or two later and there has been no change regarding the story, so I'm certain the audio is authentic.

I agree the deepfake problem is very real.

@Steve-Miller Reminds me of the future premised in Brave New World so many years ago.

Big Al

Thank you!!

oh yeah, it looks like this except maybe with a little more of the top dough folded over but the fruit visible, as here:
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@Big_Al said in No hard feelings:

its premise that those who didn't succeed had only themselves to blame didn't jibe with my own experiences. He failed to acknowledge how outside parties contributed to his own rise.

He also fails to acknowledge problems that contribute to the hardships experienced by others.

I agree, his candidacy is quite alarming.

🤣

WaPo reported the cost at $100 million but who’s counting?

@Axtremus

My thoughts exactly.

😞