She was a saint. And not in a religious way, but in the way that she was for everyone, and truly cared about us all. Rest in peace with your dear Carl, your memory will always be a blessing.
I’m in! I was actually already thinking about it as my best friend had a stroke last week and we’re thinking maybe french might help her communicate better. She studied french for years and lived in France as well. Hasn’t spoken it in years though. A good friend from Montreal will be visiting her in the hospital this week, going to try.
Yeah, thats us too. Though we do have our specialties. He’s curries and soups, I do BBQ and meats (though he does schnitzel!). He was vegan for years so thats why I skew towards meats lol.
Huh, I never really thought of just freezing them raw. I guess I figured they would go weird with freezing, but you’re cooking them anyways so I guess that doesn't matter. Thanks for the tip!
As other people mentioned the onions should last a long while if stored in a cool dry place. But if you do have a bunch going off at the same time try making a big batch of caramelized onions, then freeze them in ice cube trays. I do this every year and it’s a great addition to soups and stuff, adds great depth of flavour. Also makes a grilled cheese amazing.
Oooh, Hadestown and BG3! It would be so good! Like AC Odyssey but with more focus on the Gods and less on the wars, with more DND mechanics. I’m so down for that.
So, fun boat facts for you. A boat is never really waterproof, there’s always somewhere water will get in. And sometimes on purpose! If the boat has an inboard engine it will have a shaft and propellor connected to it off the transmission, or gear as it is also called. Where the shaft goes through the hull needs to be sealed, so there is a cutless bearing and a stuffing box. The cutless bearing is a bronze or composite tube with ridged rubber lining the inside. It will be inside a strut on the hull keeping the propellor shaft aligned on powerboats, and where the shaft enters the hull. The stuffing box (which is round) is a bronze tube with a bronze cap that screws on to it. This is connected to the shaft tube with hose. Inside the tube is space for a packing material. That material is called flax packing and is sold on a roll. You cut rings and stuff them in around the shaft and screw the cap on. The reason for all of this is that when the shaft is turning it generates heat. The cutless bearing and stuffing box allow a small amount of seawater in to cool the shaft. It will drip out the end and collect in the bilge (where the water was sloshing around in your friends boat). I found a few pics to show what I’m talking about.
There’s new technology now that has dripless seals and other types of packing. But generally this is whats going on on most boats put there. Sorry for the info dump!
My favourite sport is sailing, raced for many years. I’ve never been a fan of team sports but racing is different. Might be the possibility of death lol. I love swimming, raced competitively as a kid, but can’t handle the chemicals at the pools and the cold of the ocean so don’t do that very often. Climbing and bouldering are the next favourite, my husband and I climbed a lot before my daughter was born. She, with my husband, is getting into it now so I went with them and wrenched my shoulder quite badly so haven’t been able to get back.
I know I need to incorporate movement and strength training into my life more (would definitely help with not getting injured!). A comment below mentioned callisthenics so I’m going to look into that. Also yoga!
Absolutely! CBC has a free app called Mauril! It’s paid for by our tax dollars, might as well use it.
CBC has an app called Mauril! It’s free and govt funded!
She was a saint. And not in a religious way, but in the way that she was for everyone, and truly cared about us all. Rest in peace with your dear Carl, your memory will always be a blessing.
I’m in! I was actually already thinking about it as my best friend had a stroke last week and we’re thinking maybe french might help her communicate better. She studied french for years and lived in France as well. Hasn’t spoken it in years though. A good friend from Montreal will be visiting her in the hospital this week, going to try.
Yeah, thats us too. Though we do have our specialties. He’s curries and soups, I do BBQ and meats (though he does schnitzel!). He was vegan for years so thats why I skew towards meats lol.
Huh, I never really thought of just freezing them raw. I guess I figured they would go weird with freezing, but you’re cooking them anyways so I guess that doesn't matter. Thanks for the tip!
As other people mentioned the onions should last a long while if stored in a cool dry place. But if you do have a bunch going off at the same time try making a big batch of caramelized onions, then freeze them in ice cube trays. I do this every year and it’s a great addition to soups and stuff, adds great depth of flavour. Also makes a grilled cheese amazing.
Oooh, Hadestown and BG3! It would be so good! Like AC Odyssey but with more focus on the Gods and less on the wars, with more DND mechanics. I’m so down for that.
Oh hey, nice to see Ginger remembered here. I’m friends with one of the people that made the documentary about him, highly recommend watching it!
Too late, already got forked. Can’t remember which user but saw that in another thread.
Perchance peeerchaaance PERCHANCE!
Aww, I’m not on there. But I’m not really surprised, I don’t talk much.
He’s all flop, no bones.
So it’s not that he has the one braincell, he IS the one braincell.
I’ve got a cat named Diesel too! He was named in honour of a friends cat that passed. I see that this Diesel has also mastered the liquid flop state.
Aww, thanks! It’s not often I get to wax on about the stuff I know on Lemmy, so today was both our lucky days!
So, fun boat facts for you. A boat is never really waterproof, there’s always somewhere water will get in. And sometimes on purpose! If the boat has an inboard engine it will have a shaft and propellor connected to it off the transmission, or gear as it is also called. Where the shaft goes through the hull needs to be sealed, so there is a cutless bearing and a stuffing box. The cutless bearing is a bronze or composite tube with ridged rubber lining the inside. It will be inside a strut on the hull keeping the propellor shaft aligned on powerboats, and where the shaft enters the hull. The stuffing box (which is round) is a bronze tube with a bronze cap that screws on to it. This is connected to the shaft tube with hose. Inside the tube is space for a packing material. That material is called flax packing and is sold on a roll. You cut rings and stuff them in around the shaft and screw the cap on. The reason for all of this is that when the shaft is turning it generates heat. The cutless bearing and stuffing box allow a small amount of seawater in to cool the shaft. It will drip out the end and collect in the bilge (where the water was sloshing around in your friends boat). I found a few pics to show what I’m talking about.
There’s new technology now that has dripless seals and other types of packing. But generally this is whats going on on most boats put there. Sorry for the info dump!
Thank you for the rec on callisthenics! I will look into this.
My favourite sport is sailing, raced for many years. I’ve never been a fan of team sports but racing is different. Might be the possibility of death lol. I love swimming, raced competitively as a kid, but can’t handle the chemicals at the pools and the cold of the ocean so don’t do that very often. Climbing and bouldering are the next favourite, my husband and I climbed a lot before my daughter was born. She, with my husband, is getting into it now so I went with them and wrenched my shoulder quite badly so haven’t been able to get back.
I know I need to incorporate movement and strength training into my life more (would definitely help with not getting injured!). A comment below mentioned callisthenics so I’m going to look into that. Also yoga!
Lol, yes! I should post the pic I took of our guy the other night, not sure how he got himself in a knot.