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I've been making demi-glace out beef bones for years. I get about 15 lbs bones from my local butcher. Roast them at 400 until they begin to brown (usually 60-90min). onion/celery/carrots/tomato paste until well browned. I mix it all together in a 4-gallon stew pot with cold water, add a bouquet garni of parsley, thyme, and bay leaf, and simmer all day. I drain all solids and the demi is chilled in the fridge overnight, and fat is removed. I then reduce it by half and chill again. It has the consistency of very firm gelatin, and color of coffee. I cut it into cubes and freeze.

Ok, this year the consistency was perfect, it has a great mouth-feel, but the flavor is not incredible. It seems hit-or-miss from year to year whether I get a deep rich umami flavor or a bland rich beef gravy flavor. Any ideas?

I've wanted a gas stove for years. Cooking on electric stove top sucks. I finally got a propane oven/stove and love the burners. Today I tried the oven for the first time. Roasting Beef bones for Demi Glace takes time 450F for 1.5 hours. About half way through, I'm realizing my kitchen is getting hot. Really hot. I put my hand behind the burners and it is 450F head pouring out of the vent. This is crazy! My electric oven was well insulated, and while it got warm after a time, I never remember it pouring out this kind of heat. Is this normal?

It's been awhile. Most stuff is coming back to me, but I'm having a few problems. First, my human companion keeps spooking the pronghorns. I need 2 for a quest and they are impossible to find. I found a few, crouched down with my bow, and my companion shouted out some random thing and the deer ran. Then, I found 2 more, and when I shot them, they puffed green smoke and turned into bison and attacked.

Is there any way to get the companions to be stealthy? He will crouch when I do, but seems to think there are enemies around so goes running around. I read that there was a glitch where pronghorns wouldn't spawn in certain areas. Is that true? I've finished about 6 side quests and liberated outposts while wandering around looking for these stupid deer...

My doctor of 30 years dumped most of her pts b/c she wants to only see rich folks. (look up concierge medicine) I'm looking for a Wellspan Dr. who listens and doesn't rush you out of the office. Most Wellspan MDs are not taking new patients. They are overloaded and rush you through. Does anybody have a great Dr?

My doctor of 30 years dumped most of her pts b/c she wants to only see rich folks. (look up concierge medicine) I'm looking for a Wellspan Dr. who listens and doesn't rush you out of the office. Most Wellspan MDs are not taking new patients. They are overloaded and rush you through. Does anybody have a great Dr?

I bought an item on the 31 May. I needed it fairly quickly, and this seller had the best price. The heading said ATTENTION: Seller on vacation until June 1. Shipping may be delayed " Since that was less than 12 hours from when I bought it, I thought "no problem". 2 days later I checked in to see if they had printed a label and the seller now has "Vacation until June 3rd. "

Can they do that? When I sell, I must ship within 24 hours. If a vacation date is posted, it means 24 hours after that date. How can they keep pushing back the vacation date?

I've been eating at the Famous for 30+ years. Always excellent always the same. The last time we went, the hot dogs were horrible. They were still natural casing hot dogs, but the flavor was off...almost like inferior cheap dogs. Anyone else notice this? Are they cost-cutting?

I live in a small town east of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The Appalachian mountains eastern border is aprox 20 miles west of us. I've lived here 30 years, and garden extensively, so I keep a strict record of each rainfall during the summer. I've watched frustratingly as literally 2 miles north and 1 mile south they are getting downpours, while we have blue skies. Harrisburg PA, 20 miles to the north averages about 3.2" -3.4" rain for July and the same for August. These usually happen over multiple events of 0.5"-1" each. Gettysburg 15 miles SW of me averages nearluy 4" rain for July and for August.

In contrast, the average for my property for July / August over the past 30 years is 0.5"-1.1" per month. These almost always occur as a localized downpour in 1 or 2 events. I've tried to determine the topography that causes this rain shadow, as the Appalachians stretch across the entire state, and yet, despite the track of the storm (SW to NE or even S to N), it nearly always splits a few miles from us and bypasses us.

I've tried to research other localized rain shadow areas but usually reported rainfall totals are NOT the actual totals from a town, but from the nearest city or airport, thus are inaccurate. If you check rainfall totals for my town, it inaccurately give much higher totals for the nearest airport 10 miles away.

Is there an accurate way to discover what is causing this phenomenon?

I live in a small town east of Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The Appalachian mountains eastern border is aprox 20 miles west of us. I've lived here 30 years, and garden extensively, so I keep a strict record of each rainfall during the summer. I've watched frustratingly as literally 2 miles north and 1 mile south they are getting downpours, while we have blue skies. Harrisburg PA, 20 miles to the north averages about 3.2" -3.4" rain for July and the same for August. These usually happen over multiple events of 0.5"-1" each. Gettysburg 15 miles SW of me averages nearluy 4" rain for July and for August.

In contrast, the average for my property for July / August over the past 30 years is 0.5"-1.1" per month. These almost always occur as a localized downpour in 1 or 2 events. I've tried to determine the topography that causes this rain shadow, as the Appalachians stretch across the entire state, and yet, despite the track of the storm (SW to NE or even S to N), it nearly always splits a few miles from us and bypasses us.

I've tried to research other localized rain shadow areas but usually reported rainfall totals are NOT the actual totals from a town, but from the nearest city or airport, thus are inaccurate. If you check rainfall totals for my town, it inaccurately give much higher totals for the nearest airport 10 miles away.

Is there an accurate way to discover what is causing this phenomenon?

I grew up in Carroll County MD. When they built Rt 795, people realized they could go from Westminster to Baltimore in record time. Carroll County handed out building permits to everyone. The farms were cut up into 1/2 acre lots, population in 1983 when they built the road was 100k, today it is almost double. Schools were overcrowded, roads were parking lots.

I moved to Adams county PA to get away from that nightmare. For the first 30 years I've lived here it has been careful with allowing growth. But the last 5 years, Reading township has handed out building permits to huge developers, allowing them to carve up the farmland into developments. Rt. 234 has become a nightmare to drive. Does nobody learn from other people's mistakes? They weren't going to give me a building permit for a greenhouse b/c "it would effect groundwater management, yet they put acres of houses and asphalt in these developments. What hypocrisy.

I had plumbed a hose bib using a brass compression fitting and brass olives (I know, copper are better) over 1/2" PVC pipe. Anyway it worked fine for 10 years. I had a split pipe right behind the bib due to zero degree temps and forgetting to disconnect a splitter. I took the compression fitting off, knocked the brass olive off the pipe, replaced the pipe, and now the olive won't go back on. I forget how I got it on the PVC in the first place- attempts at hammering or putting it in a vise just cut the pvc. It seems it is too small, but I literally just took it off the old PVC. Any suggestions (besides going out and buying a copper olive? )

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Inherited my grandfather's shotgun. It looks as if it has never been disassembled/cleaned since the 40's. I decided to do a deep clean and removed all of the parts to clean them. The locking bolt, firing pin, firing pin spring, and seer came out as a group, with the spring loaded holding the seer in place in the notch. (Picture 3 bottom center shows all of these pieces). it is VERY hard to compress the spring and get the seer wedged onto the firing pin, and manipulate it into the receiver. Is there a way to reassemble it without compressing the spring?

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