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Friday blew in hard
Mar. 7th, 2025 12:11 pmIt’s super windy, and I’m starting to wonder if yesterday’s bad mood and headache might have been related to the barometric pressure bouncing all over the place. Oh well! I asked R. to keep an eye on me today.
I’ve been thinking about how to avoid putting too many holes through that wall covering we are going to do in the pool room, and while I blogged about a couple ideas yesterday (floor to ceiling, that anchors to ceiling and stands on floor, or wall that limits wall pens to anchor points and stands on floor like a ladder rack), I came up with another one last night: No Drilling Required / Nie Wieder Bohren. They use a special adhesive, but I do not know how that will interact with the surface of the wall covering, and I also have some questions about weight limits (not doing grab bars, so not worried about that at any rate!). I think we need to do a mockup, where we install a sample on a wall, and then install the attachment points and rest a weight of some sort on it and check back in at a week / a month and see if anything has gone horribly wrong. We’ll still need to seal whatever we put on the attachment point, because if moisture gets in there, it can loosen the adhesive, but we at least won’t compromise the wall covering, which is a lot. Fingers crossed; I sent email to the builder.
I took another swing at making peanut butter. For round one, I just food processored some raw peanuts, and it took a while, so I added some oil and that helped but it still tasted really beany. I read a little about how to do this (online, duh) and so I roasted the raw peanuts and then food processored them and that helped a ton. However, still not as dark as I’m used to and still bean-i-er flavored than I’m used to, which points firmly in the direction of More Roasting Needed.
I find this absolutely hilarious, because of how this whole project got started, and the advice I received on FF along the way (from P, so it being hilariously not correct is expected. He’s a dear and he means well, but that doesn’t mean he knows anything about what he’s talking about). We tried the three ingredient cookie when it hit TikTok, and when randos online said you couldn’t use nuts you had to use commercial peanut butter I was like, LOL, no. And then I proceeded to make a ton of variations using the bulk nuts R. always has around for snacking on. Much yumminess ensued and also he started buying unsalted cashews because salted cashews from the bottom of the container resulted in cookies that were too salty even for him (he did eat them!).
Anyway. I never got around to making my own peanut butter, because at that specific point in time (harvest or coming out of pandemic or who knows what supply chain hell) it was hard to get organic valencia peanuts or their equivalent grown in the US. At least, at a reasonable price point! I could get cheaper unsalted valencia peanut butter of equivalent weight from Trader Joe’s. But now! Now I can get reasonable price point peanuts and I bought a big bag so Now Is the Time!
I’m learning, so I’m happy. Also, if there is a trend in my life, it is that Roasted Darker is definitely my preference.
ETA
No walk today, because we kept losing power on and off and we didn’t want to get nailed by something falling down on top of us. I did have a visit with M.
R. went through the paints and I listed the kids’ painting supplies. Then he went through the kids nail polish and tossed the dry ones and I listed that. I’m wondering if FB will bounce it on some kind of hygiene basis, but it seems like nail polish ought to be okay. We’ll see. The paint was immediately spoken for (pickup tomorrow). The guy with the clock wall came to pick up the Kikkerland clock, so that’s gone.
I listed the blue tool kit that I’ve had forever.
I took a plastic bin that freed up (one of the basket style ones) and replaced the lego tub in the closet that is holding hats and scarves. I’m trying to make sure that “holes” that open up around the house don’t start inviting new stuff into them. It’s going well, and it’s easier to see and use the stuff we are keeping, which is always nice.
I am recluttering as I go. I got rid of a ton of crappy scissors as part of the kids craft lots, so I ordered new kitchen shears (ours are terrible; they were a wedding present from someone who has since passed which made me reluctant to replace them but it’s past time) and new utility scissors.
I’ve been thinking about how to avoid putting too many holes through that wall covering we are going to do in the pool room, and while I blogged about a couple ideas yesterday (floor to ceiling, that anchors to ceiling and stands on floor, or wall that limits wall pens to anchor points and stands on floor like a ladder rack), I came up with another one last night: No Drilling Required / Nie Wieder Bohren. They use a special adhesive, but I do not know how that will interact with the surface of the wall covering, and I also have some questions about weight limits (not doing grab bars, so not worried about that at any rate!). I think we need to do a mockup, where we install a sample on a wall, and then install the attachment points and rest a weight of some sort on it and check back in at a week / a month and see if anything has gone horribly wrong. We’ll still need to seal whatever we put on the attachment point, because if moisture gets in there, it can loosen the adhesive, but we at least won’t compromise the wall covering, which is a lot. Fingers crossed; I sent email to the builder.
I took another swing at making peanut butter. For round one, I just food processored some raw peanuts, and it took a while, so I added some oil and that helped but it still tasted really beany. I read a little about how to do this (online, duh) and so I roasted the raw peanuts and then food processored them and that helped a ton. However, still not as dark as I’m used to and still bean-i-er flavored than I’m used to, which points firmly in the direction of More Roasting Needed.
I find this absolutely hilarious, because of how this whole project got started, and the advice I received on FF along the way (from P, so it being hilariously not correct is expected. He’s a dear and he means well, but that doesn’t mean he knows anything about what he’s talking about). We tried the three ingredient cookie when it hit TikTok, and when randos online said you couldn’t use nuts you had to use commercial peanut butter I was like, LOL, no. And then I proceeded to make a ton of variations using the bulk nuts R. always has around for snacking on. Much yumminess ensued and also he started buying unsalted cashews because salted cashews from the bottom of the container resulted in cookies that were too salty even for him (he did eat them!).
Anyway. I never got around to making my own peanut butter, because at that specific point in time (harvest or coming out of pandemic or who knows what supply chain hell) it was hard to get organic valencia peanuts or their equivalent grown in the US. At least, at a reasonable price point! I could get cheaper unsalted valencia peanut butter of equivalent weight from Trader Joe’s. But now! Now I can get reasonable price point peanuts and I bought a big bag so Now Is the Time!
I’m learning, so I’m happy. Also, if there is a trend in my life, it is that Roasted Darker is definitely my preference.
ETA
No walk today, because we kept losing power on and off and we didn’t want to get nailed by something falling down on top of us. I did have a visit with M.
R. went through the paints and I listed the kids’ painting supplies. Then he went through the kids nail polish and tossed the dry ones and I listed that. I’m wondering if FB will bounce it on some kind of hygiene basis, but it seems like nail polish ought to be okay. We’ll see. The paint was immediately spoken for (pickup tomorrow). The guy with the clock wall came to pick up the Kikkerland clock, so that’s gone.
I listed the blue tool kit that I’ve had forever.
I took a plastic bin that freed up (one of the basket style ones) and replaced the lego tub in the closet that is holding hats and scarves. I’m trying to make sure that “holes” that open up around the house don’t start inviting new stuff into them. It’s going well, and it’s easier to see and use the stuff we are keeping, which is always nice.
I am recluttering as I go. I got rid of a ton of crappy scissors as part of the kids craft lots, so I ordered new kitchen shears (ours are terrible; they were a wedding present from someone who has since passed which made me reluctant to replace them but it’s past time) and new utility scissors.