You are here: Home / Techno And some shopping! Apologies. I worked hard to make sure there would be content here the whole time we were traveling, and now that we’re back on the Farm I’ve let things slip. Beginning this afternoon with Mrs. Kuusamo’s Finnish Salad, and continuing through to Friday with Finnish Cardamon Bread (in the bread maker) I’ve
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You may have been thinking that I’ve been away from Big Food for a few days. Not so! I have spent a number of hours behind the scenes. About a week ago I got a notification that Big Food had hit the 80% limit on the 40GB of storage my plan has and if I
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I saw the blog odometer roll over to 6999 the other day, took a screen shot, and then forgot about it until I was cleaning up my screen shots just now. ‘They’ say most blogs don’t last more than three month. And without wasting time to figure out if
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And good morning to you, too! Things are amiss in my little kingdom. I have the WooCommerce plugin installed at Miss Missy’s School. I have a funny and engaging little short story from what I’m calling “The Times Before Miss Missy’s School” series ready to go. I thought I might try to generate some spare
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I’d just like to pass along a couple of thoughts this afternoon. First, this coming Sunday I will turn one year younger than standard retirement age. Should be a good day, though I long ago retired from my day job to become a lady of leisure with nothing better to do than blog. I have
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and I still haven’t figured out what’s going on with the structure of the blog. Sorry. But let’s see if we can generate some content, shall we? Big Food Recipe: Creative Cooking Chocolate Wines Cookies Recipe: Chocolate Cheese Drop Cookies Stretching the Food Dollar This is a very old post, still in converted blogspot format,
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Thanks for the feedback on Saturday’s The Week in Pictures post! It was much appreciated. I have concluded that I need to update the blog’s theme. I see it’s no longer available for download, which leads me to conclude that (some of?) the problems I am having are theme-related. If I knew what I was
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Almost a year ago! Looking through last February’s posts I saw the photo of the old truck stuck in the snow that had several inches of ice underneath. What fun! Daryl couldn’t even get me out with his tractor. 4WD was acting up. Finally it kicked into 4W low and took right off. Coming along
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You’re welcome! h/t wallybaloo and Stephan Pastis/Pearls Before Swine
I am astonished that as old as I am, I had never heard of The Turbo Encabulator until yesterday. H/t @53old This is some funny stuff.
New Printer! Pleasantly surprised. Mr. Big Food asked me on the 23rd what I wanted for Christmas. A laser printer! I am published now, and all published authors should have a laser printer. So I looked and found the one I wanted and then started searching the usual joints. February delivery was the best I
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This cracked me up. I tried to get a screen shot of it but wasn’t able. This is a page in a Word doc with the inserted photo. You know how Word makes up a caption, based on what it “thinks” your photo is? “A picture of a bear” That’s right. Word thinks Missy is
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The comments section is down at my early morning favorite blog. Fortunately, we have a back up Gab group. But @DaveinMA doesn’t think we should be taking any chances.
No idea where this originally came from, what the methodology was, or if it’s true or not but I laughed.
Not in a million years. Not even with clues. … Power went out. Not only did it upset my turn on low / turn on high slow cooker schemes for two slow cookers, it finally and seriously ticked me off. And you know what ticked me off even more? That the email address on the
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since I’ve skipped a day blogging. Yesterday was busy– on top of everything else, it was Marica Cooks Thursday! Today is much quieter.
a short series reposted from @Marica on Gab. Part 1 here, 2 here. If I had kids, I’d make a list of the electronics they regularly use that can be powered by power banks, figure out how much capacity each one needs to stay up and running for some definite period of time, make sure
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A short series reposted from @Marica on Gab. Part 1 here. Power banks are excellent additions to your common sense preps. They keep devices, headphones, cameras, rechargeable lanterns and flashlights, and your NOAA weather radio up and running when the power goes out and the batteries start to fade. They come in a variety of
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Mr. Big Food will be teaching class from the Bunkhouse today. There is some worry that as it warms up out there– 23* already!– and ice on trees and lines starts to melt we may loose power. This is my (embarrassingly dusty) Jackery 240 Power Station. 240 watt hours of stored electricity. I have the
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