- It cost more to fill up my wife’s hatchback on Saturday as it did to fill up my full-size truck a year ago. At this rate, it might soon be cheaper to just hire a couple of big guys to carry my family around on their backs.
- My belief that all things I own should be made out of basalt or stainless steel was validated recently when we awoke to find the corner of our glass cooktop shattered and a crack starting to work its way across the surface.
- No idea how it happened. Nobody had cooked using that side of the stove in a while, and there wasn’t anything on the counter that could have been dropped on it.
- Wouldn’t you know it, but that particular model is no longer made, and the glass part needed to fix it is not available on the market.
- The ‘on-sale’ price for a new range was within striking range of making an extra house payment.
- Hey, it’s only money. Right?
- Two days after having new carpet installed in the basement, made necessary by the Great Laundry Room Flood of ’21, Louisville got between 3 and 5 inches of rain.
- There’s nothing more chilling than hearing your wife raving at the gods when she goes downstairs and discovers a 6-inch wide strip of wet carpet running along one entire side of the basement.
- Luckily, we caught it in time, dried the carpet, and had the pad replaced. Hey, it’s only money.
- I’m not sure if this indicates anything, but the coffee I like is no longer available in one pound bags. I have to either order a 12 ounce bag like Walmart sells at the price a 16 ounce bag used to go for, or I have to order a 32 ounce bag at a little more than double what a pound was going for a while back.
- The difference between me and Irish Woman – When the country ham she likes to get at the butcher shop hit $14 a pound, she complained about the cost while making a sandwich. When the roast beef I like hit $8 a pound, I quit buying roast beef.
- At those prices, it’s worth investing in a boar spear and telling the boy to go chase a pig out of the woods in my direction.
- Fortunately, my bologna has a first name, although its price tag is also ridiculous for what you get.
- Attempts to make home-made soda pop have been mixed.
- The root beer Boo and I made was quite tasty.
- The ginger beer, not so much. It’s OK and worth playing with the recipe to just make syrup to mix with club soda, but trying to make fermented ginger beer was an abject failure.
- We are, however, going to plant some ginger to see how well it grows around here.
- I was able to acquire an affordable, convenient room for LibertyCon in June. It’ll be good to see my tribe again.
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Musings
Posted by daddybear71 on March 6, 2022
https://daddybearsden.com/2022/03/06/musings-370/
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TC
/ March 7, 2022My first batch of ginger ale didn’t work BC I used chlorinated tap water. Then I used filtered water form the store and had good results.
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Old NFO
/ March 8, 2022Ah yes, the ‘joys’ of a basement… BTDT, sigh. And it will be great to see you at LC!
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Gramma
/ March 11, 2022DaddyBear- your back. I was beginning to get worried.
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