[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Three soaks and cooking in milk haven't brought good results. Not acidic, but adstringent. Acorn coffee isn't bad. It was too tempting to experiment with them as they sit right on my driveway and the equines would get too fat if they ate them. I'm not feral enough for them yet. Leather unfortunately needs a lot of moving about besides the soaking in tannines, as far as I know.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    As a feral Iberian still struggling with preparing acorns I might have to look into this new 'recipe' thing. Hope it's not just microwave recipes, which wasn't invented here yet. (Note to self: cooking acorns in milk makes milk coagulate?)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Wow, that is really appreciated! Thank you so much for taking the time and staying on it, from me and the water of my landscape! I'll check these out, really curious to dive into this. In the meantime I have been exploring the terraces on top of my house and found 5 water places in a landscape that seems completely dry after the hot summer, I'm beyond excited! I have also used natural granite to build a tiny water retention tank to extend the all year running source (just a trickle now, no good rain yet). Now it runs towards the garden lands and creates a moisture deposit closer to the surface that reaches longer into summer. Such good stuff, such low tech. Just me and a 'sacho'.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Is killing NPCs in games on the same level like this for you, or a different thing altogether?

    Not judging or against it, I kind of half agree but also find very difficult to define where I'd draw a line.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    When I just put a handful of berries in a stew - no, too much work. One just has to be a little careful when eating to not bite them. When adding them to a jam or make a medicinal syrup I run the cooked berries through a passe-vite (ricer in english?). This is my first year of making oxymel with the whole berries, I'll report on that.

    The hawthorn gives a bit of an uninviting impression at first, with it's thorns and the too-small berries with their pips but I had to start using it for its medicinal value and now I just love my hawthorns - all parts are edible, so if leaves get mixed into the berries when harvesting it's no problem, and nobody has to have the work to remove pips before cooking.

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  • Wunscherfüllungsmaschine (wunscherfuellungsmaschine.netlify.app)
     

    Sorry, just in German for the moment. This is the web presence of a wish fulfilling machine in Waldenburg, Switzerland. I'm not the inventor of the machine, but I have tested all the functions in real life and can confirm it works beautifully, because the inventor of the machine is a wonderful soul. If you have an urgent wish that doesn't harm others you are welcome to use the remote function! Remember, be careful what you wish for. If it worked consider supporting the inventor.

     

    DIY foot mechanism with USB - when my body couldn't do mouse clicks and certain key combinations anymore I built this contraption to be able to work with fewer keyboard and mouse interactions.

    Has moved with me several times, been heavily used and I still use it occasionally. I've always wanted to take it beyond prototype because it has been good and useful for me, but the DIY version out of plywood, duct tape, MDF, a slaughtered low budget mouse, some wire and a few 3d printed pieces has its charm.

    The buttons were adjusted for super-light toe taps - I didn't want to just offset the damage from my hands to my feet! I had bought a commercial footboard before with stupidly heavy pedals and wanted something better.

     

    I'll start: I love listening to the washing machine running. Relaxing, sounds like hard work I don't have to do. Looking forward to the clean clothes and nice smell! Sewing machine sound makes me all giddy. Sound of my 1988 car engine.

    I find chain saws and brushcutters extremely annoying. On some days in spring and autumn I can get quite grumpy about it, even though I rationally know they also save a lot of hard work.

    Recipes for the Disrooted (abyss.likesyou.org)
     

    Few of us have the privilege to have lived for generations in our current home. With every displacement we lose connection with the landscape around us. To help protect our home landscape, be it native, chosen or accidental, we should learn who lives around us, how the landscape around us works.

    I wrote a small guide with suggestions on how to connect with your landscape. More suggestions are very welcome.

     

    Wildfire got us. Two days burning. Firetrucks, airplanes, helicopters everywhere. They saved the villages and houses, all the bush and pasture went down. All the fence posts burned and will have to be replaced. I can't water my garden today and hope that it will survive till tomorrow, when I hopefully can get a new water tube out there, after everything stops smouldering.

    I took the animals to a safe place in time. Only the chickens got lost, I think. We will have to buy hay for the next months, all the standing hay went in the fire.

    Two times in the last days I thought my house was lost, and once I thought my partner was lost - moments of great tension and despair, and now I realize how exhausted I am, from the emotion as much as from the running about, carrying water. In the early afternoon I just collapsed and half-slept for a few hours - if I had tried to continue doing something I'd have put myself in danger.

    While I was writing this the undergrowth caught fire again, flames traveling towards my partners house. I heard the crackling, called the firemen and just waited in my house, and eventually even managed to recover enough energy to cook something. People must eat even when everything is on fire.

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    I found one of the chickens, but one was eaten by one of the dogs when trying to catch it again from where it had fled to (both animals were confused, shit happens). Everything around us has burned down, so we should be safe now. Tomorrow we will start to repair the damage. It is good to see how people work together through the crisis - local firefighting crews, firemen, neighbours and friends. Even the animals were mostly well behaved. We've had offers of help, and we feel we were lucky in all this. Nobody injured, no major damage.

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