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Nothing deceptive here

A yogurt maker we picked up at someone’s moving sale. A little slider for adjusting temperature, I guess?

Problem is, the slider only goes to the left as far as 3/4. It stops at the indicator light. Which is not why I took it apart, but…

…lo and behold, the slider is connected to nothing. Purely decorative. Unbelievable.

Well, duh.

I’ve settled in for not being a connoisseur. Cheap red wine here turns out to be very drinkable (white much more dubious) and if you ask me how it is, I won’t be saying the nose is decadent but not overdone with plum liqueur, Christmas cake, cedar, Chinese spices, licorice, tea leaves, tar and hot stones….pretty acidity and a long finish. Rather chewy and needs time.

Ain‘t it funny how the experts never mention the taste any non-drinker will identify most strongly: alcohol?

But I digress. I’ve never wondered about the name of the brand, Faisan. Probably a family name, right?

Only recently did I actually look at the label.

Guess what faisan means in Spanish?

Orgonics

It looks like I tossed a perfectly good Orgreenics omelet pan. Fact is, it was a perfectly good Ogreenics omelet pan for eight or nine years. Until it wasn’t. No matter how many “surefire” Youtube videos I watched and how many times I tried to season it, it just got stickier and stickier.

I cashed in some Disco (supermarket) points for a replacement, which isn’t perfect, but isn’t bad.

It’s been several weeks since I dumped this. I have almost no doubt it’s in somebody’s kitchen as I write this.

Hey you! A reminder!

Always work cartefully! Especially with the shirll!

We’ve awoken to frost several days in a row. I decided I should get organized and have a small toolbox in the house, so I don’t have to venture out to the barbacoa in nasty weather in order to get something simple done inside. Our local Emaus thrift store had just the ticket: full size pliers, cutters, and needle-nose pliers for just under USD 11.

I’ll go way out on a limb and speculate that perhaps they’re not the best quality, but for occasional use I expect they’ll work just fine.

A big-ish chunk of firewood

It was a bit of a trick getting it in there – the bed of coals was hot!

I never noticed the rust on the stove until I looked at this photo. But I’m pretty sure this is the stove’s 10th year of service, so it has certainly fared better than our first, that rusted out inside in three years (Ñuke was the brand, if you insist).