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Tried solar-roasting some sunflower seeds, aaaand I sort of lost track of time and over-cooked them a little....
Kay fine, a lot. I burnt them 😬.
For fun, we measured the heat in the stove and no wonder! Readout was 217°C(422.6°F).
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"To think like a mountain means to have a complete appreciation for the profound interconnectedness of the elements in the ecosystems. It is an ecological exercise using the intricate web of the natural environment rather than thinking as an isolated individual." Ive posted this before(i rly like it), but im sharing it again cause I just saw it on my bird journal while updating it :>. Waking up to the sound of eagles screeching, and to the sight of pigeon guillemots paddling in the water next to the boat ^____^... A very good day on the water today. No drama what-so-ever. Left Victoria at 10h30, arrived in Tsehum Harbour in Sidney at exactly 16h00. Usually we always forget to close, stow, or take out something, but we left the dock and had zero fuck-ups. That is rare. Fuck I'm tired. Sailing is very draining. Found enough energy though to cycle into downtown Sidney for some vegan faux-fish(tofu+nori) and chips. Been using a Pentel Fudepen(筆ペン, Japanese brush pen) lately to ink comics, and love the result! Easy to do thick and thin. I love dip pens, but there's something about using a brush that is just so pleasant ^_^. Evidently, I make a lot of mistakes that I have to correct digitally. Hopefully I'll make fewer as I get used to it. Someone in the marina gave away a weighted blanket. Those things are so freakin' heavy...! Even when dry, I tried folding it to put it away and it was so hard XD...  Threw the heavy bundle in the quarter berth, near the back of the boat. We're a bit heavy in the bow atm so it'll maybe help to correct that XD!  @rek Weighted blankets are extremely good. Basically cancels before-sleep anxiety for me. I don't struggle with that anymore but it's also just a fall-asleep accelerator. Just be mindful about how you fold your shoulders.
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  @rek btw the family on the ketch moored behind me asked me about my solar stove last night while I was cleaning up, they're HELLA enthused about it and I was sad to have to tell them that I haven't gotten to try mine yet - BUT I told them to visit 100r.co and also to hit you two up next time they see you on this dock. so heads up that you might get pinged for an IRL chat about these adventures :) the result: https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/110346250694057921 Success! Now the baguette is cooling down, while I threw the other half of the recipe to cook outside. Once the first baguette is cool we'll give it a taste and let you all know how it was, texture wise. Finished stitching the cover for the mini bimini we put together last week. This re-uses old bits of sunbrella pieces from our former (torn)canvas dodger, and the piece that used to snap over the windows. It's not a perfect perfect fit(worked with what I had), but at least it'll keep us a bit more cool when steering this summer, and it means we can extend the life of the bit of sunbrella we already had on hand. This is the thread that shows the frame we put together: A note: this is just to shield us from the sun, and to act as a platform for a very lightweight solar panel. We nicknamed it 'the roll cage'(sometimes we think ourselves funny) but it is far from indestructible :>. A sturdier design would be through-bolted(pipes and deck), and its something we plan to do once we re-install a hard panel overtop, or if the boat wanders into rougher waters. In the film 180° South, Yvon Chouinard says something about how the goal of planning a journey(and spending a lot of time in it afterward) is to effect a sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process, say by taking shortcuts, or by paying your way through(like some moneyed ppl do climbing Everest), you're an asshole when you start out, and you're an asshole when you get back. The process matters more than the end goal, and skipping that seems insane to me. Makes me think of people sailing south to Mexico, then having their boat shipped back up the coast later by container ship. Or of rich yacht owners who have crew sail their boat to exotic locations and flying in to spend time aboard, while doing no maintenance, no planning, no nothing.
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@rek i've been soooooo affected this season, been feeling all down and shit. took a look at the graph for birch pollen in the region and my down vibes coincides 1:1 with the massive release of this season's birch buddies
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Warmer times means more trips up the mast! Removed the old halogen spreader lights yesterday, and ran a new light and wiring for the steaming light :>.
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Drew this a long time ago... "Different ways to sit." What's your favorite way to sit? I'm definitely #4 from the left :>.
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 This is cute. I'm mostly first and last, with a lot of variations of this ( --> ) mixed in. You might have to re-draw it? As I was crafting my previous response, my cat came over to model another one, which is basically "Last + Cat". Everytime I say I'm gonna stop adding characters to my website header... I add another one :>. Added the third character from the left. About time I added a sweater dog~! All my header characters are designs that I use a lot in general in my art. Stumbled on probably the worst captcha ever today (worse ive encountered anyhow). @rek it's might not even be real meat. it might be what some ML AI thing generated that it thinks looks like meat, and you're telling it whether or not it's plausible. lots of the image captcha stuff now is no longer real photographs, it's generated AI images and you're helping to train it. exception: if you see road/driving stuff, it's probably real. since the car and mapping companies want that data.  A friend gave us his old oven mitts when he moved out of his boat last year. I cut them up, combined, and re-stitched them into a sort of tea cosy for our percolator(which we use as a kettle). Added this to a page on my website along with other small sewing projects that involve reusing/repurposing existing items.
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 Not the best time of year to ferment things (veggies aren't cheap), but we need to stock up on preserves now if we want to have enough food stores for the summer :>. 3xjars of turnips and beets We still have about 7 jars from last fall that we still haven't eaten :>. *edit for context: we spend time away from cities in the summer, and finding good food while sailing can be difficult.
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 @rek What OS do you run on that? What do you think of the PineTab 2? I'm looking for tablet linux with OpenGL ES 3+ and still struggling! Tablets make more sense because you can replace the keyboard independently... the ideal would be tablet screen, Pi 4, batterypack and tablet keyboard! Has anyone invented the tablet display without computer inside... hm, which cable would that use? |
Thank you to @klardotsh for lending us the temp measuring tool!
@rek Grind them and make coffee, who knows, it might be the next big thing!