Well-maintained industrial ruins towered above while I waited in a socially distanced line at Mill City Farmers Market.
Category: Home Living
Search for Area Rugs
Started our search for area rugs.
SOS
Meat and gravy left over from Sunday dinner. SOS (sh*t on a shingle) is in our future.
Saving $17 Per Year
I’d missed this energy waster until today: on standby, a powered subwoofer was drawing 15 watts. Programmed a smart plug to only supply power when needed, saving about 130 kilowatt-hours ($17 in Minnesota) per year. Of course, I could just unplug it, but that’s no fun.
Evidence It’s Almost Summer
Almost summer: bacon sausages, focaccia, and cabbage (cooling off) on the Weber for the first time this year.
Metal Credit Card
Tin snips became a financial instrument for destroying metal credit cards.
Fresh Veggies
Much chopping ensued.
Bacon Sausages
Cycled right up to the counter of Sunshine Harvest Farm at the local farmers market to pick up a guilty pleasure: bacon sausages.
Tip-The-Freezer Week
Without the benefit of long trips to remind me to deal with ingredients lurking in the freezer, declared this week to be Tip-the-Freezer week. Tonight: pot pie with fresh pea pods, next in line for the wok. I previously prepared the pie filling in the wok
Annual Thumb Drive Ritual
Backed up all our files to an encrypted thumb drive which we’ll keep for ever. Files are backed up continuously, but I like to create a full snapshot of the data every now and then.