YellowKing wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 1:32 pm
When I first had "real" maple syrup I was taken aback by how thin it was. It was excellent after I got used to it but after years of consuming the cheap stuff it was quite a shock.
Maple syrup is made by distilling and distilling and distilling over and over again. I'm not sure what the ratio between starting product and ending product is, but it's several orders of magnitude. Entire forests are emptied just for a shipment of pure maple syrup.
It starts out thin, but shouldn't be too thin by the time it's bottled. It's not honey, but it's not pure sap either.
My mother fed us corn syrup on our pancakes. I still haven't forgiven her, and she's been gone for years now. My kids get real maple syrup. They don't seem to care. My kids suck.
GreenGoo wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 4:28 pm
I'm not sure what the ratio between starting product and ending product is, but it's several orders of magnitude.
The "Rule of 86" in sugar making states that at 1% sugar concentration you would need to collect and reduce, on average, 86 gallons of raw sap to make one gallon of finished syrup.
Slow heat to evaporate until 80:1 is what my family has always done, so about five gallons to a cup. Or more practically, a 20 gallon collection pale yields around a quart after "cooking" down on a low heat plate of sort (an oil drum set up to allow slow burning logs or sitting on a wood burning furnace). And still 80:1 is much more "watery" than we think of when we think of modern syrup.
Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:42 pm
I tried to starve you out by lidding the trash cans but you ate part of my home instead...out ya go!
It didn't work because they weren't there for the food. They were there for the shelter - the free food was just a bonus. As the weather warms up, you'll see less of them. Next fall when it gets cold again, they'll be back.
Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:42 pm
I tried to starve you out by lidding the trash cans but you ate part of my home instead...out ya go!
It didn't work because they weren't there for the food. They were there for the shelter - the free food was just a bonus. As the weather warms up, you'll see less of them. Next fall when it gets cold again, they'll be back.
Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:42 pm
Thats it! These mice have chewed up something of my late wife. They have to go....and I cant find my 3 traps..argh. Them doing cpr was cute but ill make sure theres no one left to use it on mwahahaa..cough cough..sry....they must go though. They are chewing stuff I want to keep. They are chewing in my ceiling now..this has to stop. I dont want me or my little old dog getting a disease either. Sry cute little furry creatures. I tried to starve you out by lidding the trash cans but you ate part of my home instead...out ya go!
Daehawk wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:53 am
Well Ive been trying to starve some mice out of my home. they've been here months but they seem to be more and making a mess of things. So Ive been lidding the kitchen garbage and putting a box over my bedroom one so no food is available to them. Been doing it a few days. Seems to be working. Seen less. I cant stand to just outright kill anything. im hoping they move on.
Tonight i see a little semi baby one..not a baby but not grown making their way through the house towards me in the bed room. Its a little one. I see it start to try to get a piece of dry food off the carpet edge where my dog ate. I feel sry for it so i stick my hand down. it actually came over to me and put their little front feet on my hand and tested my finger to see if its edible lol.
Then I broke off a tiny piece of saltine cracker. it took it gently from my fingers. Now I feel awful about trying to starve them out. im such a wussy when it comes to little animals no matter their type.
ive seen them come from the kitchen to in here before..they actually hop not run.
Daehawk, I've no doubt Smoove can paint you a far more vivid picture than the following, but the truth is undeniable: mice are vermin, pure and simple. Disabuse yourself of any romanticized notions of cuddly, cute, and furry anthropomorphic companions ASAP:
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." — P. J. O'Rourke
Fardaza wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:56 am
I've been there once. Butchart Gardens is a year-round beautiful site to visit.
The whole area of Vancouver is incredibly beautiful though!
Thanks. It certainly does look beautiful in pictures. He's currently living in Vancouver but we might well see about visiting Vancouver Island where they lived for years and still own a house/Airbnb.
Mouse got into my Funyums! Those little bastards! Wheres my gun??
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Daehawk wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:55 am
Mouse got into my Funyums! Those little bastards! Wheres my gun??
They got that, too.
Let them keep the Funyums.
Nooo they have defiled the sacred Funyums. They must be purged. Thus begins the Funyum wars.
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Ofion has been serving the tobaccoindustry since 25 years and has managed to established very sound reputation in the industry in terms of supplies and services.
Gluten free. Freed glutens. So where do these freed glutens go? Is there a agency that manages them now? Do they just drift away on the wind? What happens to a gluten if it becomes old or injured? then what?
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Daehawk wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:55 am
Mouse got into my Funyums!
Funyuns
like "onion" with an F
I figured it was just some obscure junk food I hadn't heard of before. Daehawk brings up such things with some regularity.
I found Funyuns at the grocery store today and was briefly tempted to try them, but they're too highly processed for my tastes...enriched corn meal, corn oil, salt, and trace amounts of various flavoring agents including onion powder, sugar, corn starch, corn flour, hydrolyzed corn protein, and maltodextrin (made from corn). Every red-blooded American is duty-bound to eat corn, and I do like corn nuts. But those are just corn, sunflower oil, and salt.
The first Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2025 lasted for minutes and was caught on camera. The photos were later shared with research institutions dedicated to the study of Scotland’s Loch Ness.
Black Lives definitely Matter Lorini!
Also: There are three ways to not tell the truth: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Funny how photos of it haven't gotten better in 50 years.
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I kind of thought Nessie had been relegated to essentially "nothing to see here" status after the big DNA sweep they did, but I guess you gotta keep those tourist dollars coming in somehow.
Also I'd be curious to see a size reference to that photo, as to me it looks like an otter. Otter sightings have been the source of a lot of modern Nessie sightings.
You'zins haven't changed in the 25+ years Ive known ya. Still crazy and funny and caring.
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I grew up in a tiny town, technically a village, in upstate New York. In January a fire caused by a charging device took out a good chunk of Main Street despite efforts of over 200 firefighters over 9+ hours. 5 businesses destroyed and about 3% of the population lost their homes.
I was up visiting my mom there in October, happy to see the place doing so well. Now she’s hearing rumors that nobody plans to rebuild.
I haven’t lived there since I graduated high school 36 years ago but it still makes me sad. My mom has lived there most of her life. Her apartment is like a half mile away and fine. She’s more upset that they aren’t planning to rebuild than she was about the fire. It’s just sad.
YellowKing wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 10:25 am
Also I'd be curious to see a size reference to that photo, as to me it looks like an otter. Otter sightings have been the source of a lot of modern Nessie sightings.
Yeah. Something seems very zoomed-in about the water texture.
According to The Post, a witness recently noticed a “black mass” in the so-called monster’s home, aka the Scottish Highlands. The individual snapped and submitted a photo of their findings to the Loch Ness Centre in Inverness, marking the first potential sighting of 2025—and one of the most unique and clear spottings of all time.
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I remember them doing a sonar and dive thing in the 90s for some show. Wasn't any life in the loch. Nothing that something that big could live on anyways.
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Daehawk wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:15 pm
Nothing that something that big could live on anyways.
Yeah. And for such a large creature and its ancestors to have survived for millions of years, the lake would have to be teeming with life, and its shores would be littered with Nessie bones.
coopasonic wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 12:13 pm
I grew up in a tiny town, technically a village, in upstate New York. In January a fire caused by a charging device took out a good chunk of Main Street despite efforts of over 200 firefighters over 9+ hours. 5 businesses destroyed and about 3% of the population lost their homes.
I was up visiting my mom there in October, happy to see the place doing so well. Now she’s hearing rumors that nobody plans to rebuild.
I haven’t lived there since I graduated high school 36 years ago but it still makes me sad. My mom has lived there most of her life. Her apartment is like a half mile away and fine. She’s more upset that they aren’t planning to rebuild than she was about the fire. It’s just sad.
Sorry to hear it Coop. Maybe some of them will change their minds and build again. Small towns have a hard time keeping young people and businesses.
Climate has spoiled me with early dry warm days the past few years. Spring can't get here fast enough. I really seem to be in the dumps with really low energy and activity levels (except for anxiety energy without a good outlet) since January at least, and I need a catalyst to get me out of it. I think that catalyst will be getting outside and even weather in the low 40s has been a major excuse to hunker down.
