u/TheBigJiz

I’ve been making my own from store bought starters for a long time. It’s super easy to do ok. To do well takes some practice.

I finally got a heritage strain of Bulgarian yogurt. To activate you need to go through a few generations. But once stable, you can get consistent amazing yogurt.

I didn’t expect it to be this much better… wow, yeah it is so much better than store cultures.

1 gallon of milk is around $4 here. Makes a Costco sized tub of super thick Greek yogurt.

The acid whey is 100% used in my house: bread, waffles, scones, marinades etc. a sub for buttermilk.

I pair it with a Craigslist special bread maker, and it’s really a great natural combo.

I haven’t bought baked goods in a long time in my efforts to use up the whey!

I grew up in a home where my mom’s daily driver was a 1957 Chevy Belair. Car shows were summer activities. Hot August nights were a staple.

Crank windows, no frills?! I’m fucking in!

I can’t wait to roll this thing up to my friend’s homes to brag, “Look it doesn’t even have a radio!” I’ll say with pure delight. We’re all dads in our 40’s.

I live in a city where car breakins are pretty common, I’m leaving this bitch open.

In two years, my twins will start driving. PERFECT! A two seater electric car! No friends can ride along. The biggest risk for teens driving is a car full of buddies (ask me how I know - I’ll miss you 93’ Century). No distractions, just you and the road.

So far, I’m leaning HARD to a fully blank slate.

The point of the game is to lie and you win if you lie the most convincingly.

The Bible is clear, all sin is equal. There’s always culpability even in thoughts of sin…

Lying is clearly a sin. Lying for fun or in a game is still a damning lie. If you sin for fun in a game, that’s equal to murdering your family in gods eyes, or even having sex just for fun… all sin deserves punishment.

I had a lot of fun yesterday falling down a history rabbit hole, so I decided to go for another round today. Started by researching the history of Jones cemetary, and ended up creating a history of Canyon Road in Portlnad.

This morning I heard about a project to find old apple trees planted over a hundred years ago, and identify and preserve them.

It got me thinking about my favorite old-ass trees I pick fruit from all season long at Raleigh Hills Park. I've often wondered who planted them and why... and more importantly, how they survived to be so giant and in some cases, clinging to life by a thread after generations.

Google and AI helped me paint a very cool picture of that park, area, local big names and the boom bust development cycle of Portland.

Ladd and Reed Farm Company owned it first. Of Ladd's addition fame. TIL William S. Ladd was a baron with banking, railroads and big land holdings. Including an agricultural estate that would be sold to...

The MAAC club! Bought it in the boom of the 1920s and made a championchip golf club. The clubhouse was designed by Morris Whitehouse (apparently a big deal, will look into him sometime later).

The Great Depression saw that opulance purchased by Priscilla Gable who started Gabel Country Day School. I knew that name from Catlin Gabel school! Apprently she started a very American Progressive school right there on the former grounds of a golf course where a new idea of going out and learning hands on vs in a classroom was pioneered!

Can you guess who the english teacher in the 1930s was? James Beard. Yes, that James Beard. Apparently some famous alumni are Vera Katz, Sadako Ogata.

By the 1950's the area was booming, and they needed a school. The district seized the Gabel campus with eminent domain and tried to get the newly merged school to expand into the property, but lost. Nothing like suburban rich family tea.

It became a public school park and swim center that it is today.

I reached out to THPRD asked them about the trees and harvesting fruit:

They don't have any historical records of the trees, but they'll dig into it asking senior staff if they can find anything. They also agreed, they were probably planted by the golf course or the school.

Yes, you can freely pick fruit at your own risk.

They haven't considered them for heritage tree designation yet, but thought it was an interesting idea and will bring it up at the next tree-focused staff meeting. They thought there could be quite a few across the district that might qualify.

Lastly, they maintain things follwing ANSI 300 standards and follow ISA reccomendations. The trees are in good hands.

I look forward to this fall, and eating some historic apples that some great people might have also enjoyed.

Second bad experience is enough.

Made an appointment with sales guy, with condition that I can do my lease return inspection and safety recall at the same time (ford).

“Sure no problem”

3 confirmations later via text and the service department has no record of an appointment and is slammed. Can’t get that annoying chore done today.

Go in, wait around trying to get someone’s attention for a while, only to find my salesperson is busy, at my appointment time. Couldn’t get my stuff done, so I told them I felt disrespected and why, and just left.

Do I need to call ford and ask for a new dealership to work with for my lease or am I stuck? I don’t need to spend energy on causing a fuss I just don’t want interaction or to spend any money there.