Second virtual day, peanut butter
Feb. 24th, 2026 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutR. went out to the construction site. He brought a piece of Tile Tech back and it’s lovely (verde green). He got to do the Echo Hub location walkthrough. There has been a little confusion about this (JB thought I wanted the bigger Show everywhere, which I only wanted in the kitchen) but I think we have it all squared away now. Apparently, speaking of kitchens, that sub doesn’t normally do Emtek knobs, and JB has been trying to get him to either point us at knobs he is used to and he hasn’t been responsive, but then he turned around and said he’d order the Emtek ones after all. Which is fine. I was prepared to pull the knobs out of his scope and make them owner supplied and then either the sub or the main contractor could do the install, but this is also fine. There was a gate related PCO today that had to be pulled and modified because it had the Ring controller in it, which I do not want. I want a doorbell there for communicating with people who show up at the gate and want access but if we grant access, we’ll do it through the MyQ app, not Ring. The ring access controller appears to frustrate a lot of people and I just don’t need that in my life.
I had a delightful phone call with A. in the evening. While on the phone, I roasted a pound of (shelled) peanuts, removed the little papery skins, and then ran them through the food processor. I finally got this right — the resulting peanut butter is exactly what I wanted, and I got close the first time I tried it, failed the second time, but third time is apparently the charm. I think I did 350 degrees for 20 minutes for dry roasting the peanuts. It took a while to separate the little skins, but that’s fine, I was having a delightful phone conversation.
A. had another virtual day. It was a rough start, but I got her into dance class, and then she needed to do her hair, but she danced through her sadness and I stuck it out with her through the whole thing because it just didn’t seem right to leave her alone with the zoom. The rest of the classes were fine on zoom. I hope she’s back in person tomorrow, but I guess that will depend on the weather as a bit more snow is forecast. I’m hoping it is just a delayed start, which wouldn’t impact her at all, since her first thing is 12:30 lunch tomorrow.
Oh! And in the phone call with A., I learned about PharmaJet! Super cool, very Star Trek but reality!
I had a delightful phone call with A. in the evening. While on the phone, I roasted a pound of (shelled) peanuts, removed the little papery skins, and then ran them through the food processor. I finally got this right — the resulting peanut butter is exactly what I wanted, and I got close the first time I tried it, failed the second time, but third time is apparently the charm. I think I did 350 degrees for 20 minutes for dry roasting the peanuts. It took a while to separate the little skins, but that’s fine, I was having a delightful phone conversation.
A. had another virtual day. It was a rough start, but I got her into dance class, and then she needed to do her hair, but she danced through her sadness and I stuck it out with her through the whole thing because it just didn’t seem right to leave her alone with the zoom. The rest of the classes were fine on zoom. I hope she’s back in person tomorrow, but I guess that will depend on the weather as a bit more snow is forecast. I’m hoping it is just a delayed start, which wouldn’t impact her at all, since her first thing is 12:30 lunch tomorrow.
Oh! And in the phone call with A., I learned about PharmaJet! Super cool, very Star Trek but reality!