Title says it all. We will be on the MSC Grandiosa which I believe will dock at Lagosta. We’re interested in visiting Pueblo de Maíz and trying to gauge taxi prices.
Thanks for your help.
Had my first house finch! While she was snacking another I’ve never seen before appeared in the background. The AI didn’t identify it, anyone have any ideas?
I included a screen shot in the comments for a better look. It’s been raining and I guess the seeds are sticking to the poor finch’s beak.
I love how energetic the little tufted titmouses are. I’m not sure if this is a male or female but they are a messy little eater.
Also love the little woosh as they fly away 🥰
I know they’re controversial. But if you happen to be on one of the upcoming ovation cruises and you enjoy duck hunting, I’ll be leaving origami ducks (and maybe a few others, I make a mean unicorn) in unobtrusive public spaces.
They’re lightweight, easy to pack if you want to keep them and it’s not wasteful to throw them away if you don’t.
I do origami to relax/calm my anxiety and figured why not 🤷♀️
I do not claim to have drawn these, I used procreate and traced a bunch of different pictures together. We have a Halloween event every year for kids and I created these guys to be stickers we can hand out at our booth. The red splotches are our department logo because I don’t want to dox myself.
There’s also a “boy” version with a plain red baseball cap but I accidentally deleted that pic.
The pirate hat is because our booth theme is under the sea.
When it says to add oil to the pan, my oil always pools at the sides of the pan leaving a ring of un oiled pan in the center.
I thought maybe my stove was a little uneven so I took out my single counter burner and it does the same thing. Unless my entire kitchen is uneven then that can’t be it.
I have these pans https://a.co/d/0gsn9RHZ
Is it possible the pans are the issue since they’re non stick?
I’ll be in Juneau for about 12 hours on a cruise (Ovation). We’ve done whale watching there before and while I love it, my mom’s an ambulatory wheelchair user and has a hard time with the dock in Auke Bay so it really isn’t an option this time.
I personally would like to do a little hiking close to Juneau before I get her off the boat and am looking for recommendations and tips. I’d be going solo and likely early morning at like 8am. We’re visiting in September, are bears active during that time? Is the standard ‘make noise as you go’ sufficient? I mostly hike at home in Florida where alligators are the biggest danger and bears are only a slight possibility.
That said I’d LOVE to see some bears from a safe distance. We will be staying in Anchorage before the cruise and will be seeing them at the wildlife center and I know we’re more likely to see them in Hoonah and Skagway than Juneau but I’d like to be prepared : )
I would like to take my mom to Mendenhall’s visitor center. What’s the easiest way to get there without a tour? Is uber or Lyft a thing in Juneau? (Her wheelchair folds up like a stroller and fits in a trunk). I don’t really want to take a tour because I want to be able to take our time there and go at our own pace.
Finally, what are some other fun things I can do with her in Juneau? We are a big fan of museums, walking tours (especially ghost tours) and cultural experiences. My mom is very fascinated by the Tlingit culture and people and loves learning about them.
Thanks for reading this essay of a request if you made it this far and thanks for your suggestions in advance!
I’ve used Walmart pick up and delivery for years. It used to be that Walmart associates packed up the order and DoorDash just picked it up and dropped it off. Now it seems the dasher is also shopping for the order because it has the same interface that Instacart has, with a messaging feature and the ability to add items until they check out.
I picked a slot for 6am-8am delivery because I get home at 6am and also have a 9am appointment. It was an order of about 30 items, many of them duplicates (like 2 butters) or different varieties of the same thing (like 1 chicken broth, 1 beef broth).
The driver began shopping right at 6. It is 740 and there are still 5 items left to be shopped for. By the time this order gets here I won’t have time to grab it from the driveway and put it away before I have to hop on my telehealth appointment.
This is probably the third time it’s been a doordasher shopping for my Walmart order and each time there’s been problems. I wish they’d go back to the old way because it seemed to be a much smoother process.
We cruise September 11th, passport expires March 6th. Am I overthinking it by being anxious about this as it’s just shy of 6 months?
We are US citizens visiting Canada on an Alaskan cruise and Canada doesn’t require 6 months of validity for entry.
I don’t believe I have time to renew her passport and get it back on time at this point.
It’s Royal if that makes a difference.
Hey! Going on an Alaskan cruise out of Seward in September, we snagged tickets for the standard Coastal Classic class between Anchorage and Seward and I’m pretty stoked.
Noticed today that they have a few goldstar class tickets available but they’re almost $300 more total for the two of us.
For those who have been, is the extra cost really worth it? We’ve been to Alaska, this will be our fourth time now, but have never taken this train. My mom is getting up there in years so I want to make sure each trip we take is the best because who knows when it will be her last, you know?
But $300 covers a whole excursion or our gratuities and then some, or an Internet package etc.
Hello!
I rent my house and I want to hang some shelves in my bedroom. I’ve gotten away with just using standalone storage for a time but it’s a small house and clutter stresses me out.
My walls are hard and textured so command strips don’t typically work very well. They’re like, painted but with little bumps. My landlord painted it himself so I don’t know if the bumps were intentional.
I don’t know how to drill or anything, although I own some kind of drill I got off of amazon a few years ago. It’s pink 💁♀️ I have anxiety about drilling into a wall and electrocuting myself. I had a stud finder but it didn’t seem to work very well.
Any advice would be helpful. I’d really like to find some adhesive that will hold a shelf and work on lightly textured walls but I’d settle for a talk through on how to drill for some floating shelves.
We seem to get quite a few posts from people who have called 911.
We can’t tell you why something happened. We can’t tell you what should have happened. We can’t tell you anything about your 911 call because we are not your dispatcher, we are not at the agency you called.
Quite frankly it’s rude to come into a place where people of that profession go to vent and blow off steam and support each other and ask for us to armchair dispatch a situation that they’re likely not giving the full picture of.
It’s like walking into the break room at your local restaurant and demanding to know why a restaurant on the other side of town messed up your order.
It’s not a great pouch. It’s not even a *good* pouch. But it’s my first project I made through completion *and* I didn’t impale my thumb with the needle again.
If the caption wasn’t insufferable enough (why single Americans out when it’s a very specific cultural bread?), there were the comments too.
Link to reel: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU5pSyAgMdn/?igsh=ZXNwZzY2eWdndmh6
I am not a dumb person but I am an idiot in the kitchen.
I never learned to cook. My mom was a single mom who cooked by browning hamburger meat and added it to boxed Mac and cheese or popping in a stouffers lasagna.
Unfortunately, my mother is now disabled and we primarily ate out for a while but it’s expensive and makes my body feel bad so I’ve been trying to learn to cook for us and it’s been a *process*. Yesterdqy I burned garlic so bad it stuck to my non stick pan. This is all to give you an idea of how basic my cooking skills are.
I want to make *good* food. I want to make food that is satisfying to eat and use good ingredients. A lot of recipes call for freshly grated cheese.
I hate grating cheese. I was recently gifted a rotary cheese grater that suctions to the counter and it has greatly improved the grating experience. The one problem I am still stuck with is when I grate the cheese a decent amount of it misses the plate I am trying grate onto and ends up on the counter. How does one avoid sprinkling the counter with rotary grated cheese?
Also, I have learned that onions add a lot of flavor but I hate the texture. I read a tip that grating the onion into a paste gives you the flavor without the squishy onion pieces. I tried this today and I have never regretted a life choice so quickly and so passionately. My eyes still itch.
The tl;dr of it all is I’m looking for suggestions for how to grate cheese neatly and also how to add onion flavor without squishy onion pieces.
Thanks in advance.
This is the recipe I followed tonight for baked spaghetti to satisfy posting requirements:
FOR THE SAUCE:
1 medium yellow onion
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound lean ground beef
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 (32-ounce) jar marinara sauce (about 3 1/2 cups)
1/2 cup water
FOR ASSEMBLY:
8 ounces low-moisture mozzarella cheese (about 2 cups shredded)
2 ounces Parmesan cheese (3/4 cup freshly grated or 1/2 cup store-bought grated)
12 sprigs fresh parsley (about 1/3 medium bunch)
1 (15-ounce) container whole-milk ricotta cheese
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 pound dried spaghetti