I started this with very little hope as a beginner. It grew into a seedling pretty quickly but then the growth stagnated and they weren't vining around my trellis for a while. I ended up helping them out a little by easing the tops underneath gently and they took off
We had our second checkup since the visit to the emergency vet on Monday night. They drew some more blood and told us her levels look perfect. They did not need to do another subcutaneous fluid treatment and we don't need to come back until her next regular checkup. The gabapentin we gave her worked like a charm the tech said she was great during her exam. I am so grateful to all the vets and technicians that worked with Louise and I plan to drop off a substantially large gift basket to my vet's office this week
Henry gets to pick whatever he wanted from Gold's shop for his birthday in a dream. What would you have picked?
I've been experimenting with my starter lately and I have them in 2 jars. One jar was 20 g starter, 40 g water and 40 g flour, the other was 20 g starter, 60 g flour and 40 g water. I know stiffer starters hold their shape better but is there any real benefit? My 1:3:2 definitely looks a lot better than my extremely sad looking 1:2:2. It 100% dropped by this point because I was observing a decent amount of activity before going to bed
My first attempt absolutely sucked and yesterday I decided to try again. I ended up having to decrease my starter amount to 100 from 150 because I didn't have enough and it ended up making it a bit more reliable. The first one overproofed and I barely noticed until it was too late. I didn't have a lame so I used my sharpest knife and two loaf pans on top of each other. I decided to go with AP flour at the top because we have to go shopping and ran out of rice the other day otherwise I would have blended some
First set of stretch and folds was actually easier than I expected. Should I be scraping the sides of the container? I'm using a rice storage container I had empty because it's all I had that was straight sided
I woke up to drink some water last night and couldn't resist snapping this photo at around 4 am. I did a little experiment because I had some extra jars and I was curious about my feeding schedule. I added 50 grams of starter into both jars and the rose one was just a 1:1:1 feeding of 50 each. I did a 1:2:2 for the clear jar and I was hoping it would keep its peak until morning. Both used about 15% rye and the rest breas flour. The 1:2:2 had already fallen about an inch and a half by morning. How much should I feed it if I want to use it by morning? I usually feed at around 7:30-8:30 pm. I haven't put my starter in the fridge although I know most people do when their starter is active. I actually kind of like feeding it every day but I do plan to put it in the fridge eventually
On a whim I decided to finally use him for the first time to make bagels. That was a great decision
I've seen so many mixed opinions on ratio. Some people suggest the traditional 1:1:1, others suggest 1:2:2 or even 1:3:3 which I know is mostly for lengthening the rising process. I've been intrigued by the 1:3:2 ratio does anyone have any experience with it? I read that it makes your sourdough more tangy and sour when baked but it apparently is also supposed to help strengthen your starter
-edit- for clarification 3 would be the flour, 2 is the water. I know some people order it differently
Meet Voldoughmort aka Yeast That Must Not Rise My starter is about 3-4 weeks old now and I'm pretty sure it's not ready to raise a loaf yet BUT I was wondering if it was okay to use the discard in some other recipes (not bread related). I'm currently feeding 100 and 100 with 50 grams of starter. He has been steadily doubling for weeks now but because of my slightly inconsistent feeding amounts I've been hesitant to use any
This was very satisfying to do after strictly using cups :)
Need advice because I have literally no clue what I'm doing at this point. My starter is 13 days old and I'm almost positive not matured. Up until yesterday I wasn't measuring my starter after discard and before feeding. It seemed fine but I was told that I needed a quarter cup starter, quarter cup water and half a cup of flour so that's what I did. Before I did this my starter was still rising by the time I was going to bed. Yesterday I was going to bed and it already started falling. Today it smelled like acetone which I read means it's hungry and eating the food too fast. Should I be feeding more in proportion? I feed every morning between 8:30-9 am. I have yet to get a scale so I've been scooping and leveling my flour to try to make it more accurate. I also think I might need to clean my current jars so I need to find another jar ASAP. Other than that though it seems perfectly fine just small smaller than I used to have it
I'm assuming this is normal but I just needed to ask. My starter rose a LOT yesterday. It is now 9 days old. I put stickies to see how much it rose per hour. It rose a lot slower the day before and yesterday it was already higher than it was at the same time the previous day. I woke up in the morning to see that it fell back down. Does this just mean it's hungry? For clarification I'm not looking for a peak starter just yet. I know my starter is very young I'm just trying to see if it's normal that it fell so much
The phrase "man's best friend" was coined in 1870 after a speech by lawyer George Graham Vest. He was hired in 1869 to represent Charles Burden in a case known as Burden v. Hornsby. The client's hound was killed by a sheep farmer by the name of Hornsby. The farmer had previously notified Burden of his intention to shoot any dog he finds on his property. He sued for damages equaling to $150 which was the maximum he could sue for at the time. During the trila Vest said he would "win the case or apologize to every dog in Missouri".
This is a piece of the surviving transcript of the closing speech
"Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.
Gentlemen of the jury: A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.
If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death."
Vest won the case and Burden received $50 from the ordeal. A bust of the dog sits outside the Missouri Supreme Court containing a summation of Vest's speech "dog is man's best friend". So if you've ever wondered who you had to thank for that asinine quote I hereby give you your answer
I finally found a group that allows politics although this isn't necessarily politic related. For context I am an eastern European living in the United States for most of my life, I have family scattered across Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. A girl I knew in high school that I follow on social media went to Ukraine to visit her family in Kyiv. The daytime posts were fine and casual then at night is when I started to get a little annoyed. For additional context this girl is Ukrainian but has literally never posted a single thing about the Ukrainian war since it started. Now all of a sudden she's posting the most pick me main character stories I've ever seen in my life. She's claiming after one night that she's going to get PTSD when she comes back to the US, she's typing stuff like "why did my mom bring me here I want to go home I'm gonna die pray for me" followed by a bunch of Kyiv related attacks from other social media users as well as a screenshot from every single air raid siren she's ever received. Every time she shared a video of an attack that was taken by someone else on social media she would say stuff like "oh that was a block from my house" or "that store was a few blocks from where I am now". Now don't get me wrong I'm not here to minimize trauma or fear because I do believe there is a genuine aspect to her post. My problem with this is that she came to Ukraine and basically adopted the entire four year Ukrainian trauma onto herself like "look we're the same now". If you've ever followed a Ukrainian on social media you'll see a different tone of posting even when the war first broke out and people weren't used to spending nights in bomb shelters yet. There was a lot less complaining and a lot more information being put out there. People might post one photo of a crowded train station at night and leave it at that instead of sympathy farming. Does anyone else kind of get where I'm coming from? My husband is wondering why it bothers me so much but I've been diligently following this war for years. I've helped in any way I can from a distance and two years ago I even helped my mom make part of the uniform. Her friend worked with an organization that helped provide material for their summer uniform as well as in some cases even finished uniforms I donated in March as often as I could and even supported the Ukranian merchants at festivals. For clarification this isn't to say that I'm more invested than her or I'm better than her in anyway. I just feel like it's in such poor taste to do what she did, like she used the collective trauma of the Ukrainian people for her own personal gratification. Open to comments and questions
Most of the US is currently suffering under a heat warning so I decided to check the temperature for the whole country (I live in Northeastern US). I checked Tucson and apparently it's going to be well over 100 all week. What is it like over there with the constant heat?
Please enjoy these derpy photos of my cat from a few days ago 😂
It's been a rough few years for us Eastern Europeans. My heart feels heavy as I get ready to finally frame this beautiful piece that I stitched back in 2024
Pattern from Etsy by AuthorEmbroideDesign
How risky would it be to return back to Belarus to renew my passport after it expired last year? Currently living in the US and I renewed back in 2015. My only concern is my public "anti Lukashenko stance" propaganda on social media from a few years ago. My childhood best friend was imprisoned in 2021 following the protests and they found her through social media