There you go, all the anons who tell people to go and kill themselves. It’s pretty easy to find out your identity.
Reblog. Reblog. Spread this.
Damn. That is some Sherlock shit.
Reblogging for everyone who gets Anon!Harassment.
(Source: aguidetodeduction, via callmegallifreya)
The Bad Barrista - Caramel Mochachino
Any self-respecting barrista would be running away from this.
This is NOT how trained professionals would do it. This is how I do it.
Tools:
Method of boiling water.
1 handy heat source for same.
Large cup.
teaspoon.
Ingredients:
1 stick pre-prepared Mocha mix
1 stick pre-prepared caramel hot chocolate mix
1-2 tsp sugar
Water.
Method:
Start boiling water.
Open sticks and tip contents into cup.
Add sugar.
Blend dry ingredients with spoon.
Once water is boiled, half-fill cup with hot water.
Stir thoroughly. If you don’t you get crunchy sweet coffee clusters. Not nice.
Add milk to top it off.
Drink, and try not to bounce off the walls.
Pro barristers are doubtless going to (a) tell me I’m doing it wrong, volume optional or (b) tell me how they’d make one and invite me to try it.
Folks, this is something I have to make at home in order to keep myself awake during sleep dep episodes. In order to drive to your place of business, I’d have to make one before I go.
I am not a coffee person. I’m not that big on tea, either. When it comes to hot beverages, I’m a hot chocolate kinda gal. Which helps me sleep. When I need to stay awake, I take my coffee with heinous amounts of sweetening substances in order to overwhelm the bitterness. Hence, caramel mochachino.
Yes, it’s an abomination unto the rest of mankind. So was my earlier stimulant of choice: minties and fanta.
Compost Hint: Empty Your Mulch Bucket Often
Composting and mulching is a natural process involving organic waste. And as such, it is almost inevitable to attract… little visitors.
Insect visitors.
That lay eggs in your mulch bucket.
I don’t want to be too gross about things [hence the lack of instructional pictures] but I’ve been a little too busy, sore and tired to go empty the mulch bucket into the compost bin, these last few days.
That bit me in the butt.
Big time.
Let’s just say I found a fine crop of live fish bait in the making, writhing around in my kitchen scraps. Gross.
But here’s what to do if this happens to you.
DO NOT panic or reach for the bug spray. We’re keeping this organic and chemical free, remember?
DO take the mulch container outside as soon as humanly possible.
Add a layer of cellulose to keep the little visitors inside.
Tip the contents wholesale into your compost tumbler.
You will, at this stage, find a few reluctant hangers-on in the bottom of your container. Your options are:
a) Use a generous handful of cellulose to sweep the hangers-on out and tip that into your compost tumbler.
b) Use hot water to kill the hangers-on and clean and sterilise your container in one fell swoop.
c) Grab the chemicals and spray the living crap out of everything.
Note, I do not recommend option C.
I chose option A, as grass clippings are free and plentiful. And, as it turned out, pretty pleasant in the nasal department. A couple of stirs around with a really generous handful of dead grass and there was no trace of my unwelcome company.
And don’t worry about the little visitors ruining things inside the compost tumbler. Compost generates a LOT of heat, and the whole box and dice pretty much gets most of the sunshine all day. Most, if not all of the little visitors will have passed on by the afternoon.
It’s not a nice topic, I know, but it is almost inevitable. It has to be dealt with and this is the more eco-friendly way of doing so.
Final installment! For now, anyway.
Last steps of prepping the planters is to place a the cloth over the stones to prevent soil escaping the planter. You can also use any old rag that comes to hand, or dryer fluff if it doesn’t.
I put the lid back on to stop the local wildlife from stealing the cloth.
Why not just put cloth in the bottom, you may ask. Well, stones aid drainage and give water a path to escape. The plants I’m planning to put in those pots are ones that like dryer roots.
If you don’t like the idea of using rocks at all, try it with mesh and cloth [trust me, you NEED the mesh!] and share your results. I’d be interested to know the outcome.
Next step: Making soil.
You need a compost tumbler - they’re available in all sizes at big garden shops - a source of mulch, and a LOT of time.
Step 1: Gather household organic waste. Do not gather things like bones or plastics as they do not rot as easily as the rest of it. As a general rule, if it’s soft and goes rotten, it’s mulch/compost.
Step 2: If possible, gather lawn clippings. If not possible, any old source of cellulose will do. Old newspapers, shredded junk mail, you name it. You need cellulose to absorb the moisture from the other organic wastes.
Step 3: Place in tumbler and tumble. This is some lawn clippings I put in the previous day. As you can see, they still resemble lawn clippings.
Step 4: Add more. Often. In goes the assembled organic waste from today.
Compost takes a LOT of time. Most compost-tumblers I’ve seen have little grilles placed in their construction somewhere for the finished compost to fall out. Just place a convenient vessel underneath and you’re set to gather the compost when it’s ready.
We used an old kiddies’ wheelbarrow that was lying around neglected. You can use anything you please.
According to the instructions for my model, a proper compost can take as little as six days to create. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Compost is, in essence, a very rich soil that plants adore. If you’re planting carrots, you may want to mix in some bark-chip potting mix to prevent mutant carrots from forming.
Me, I don’t give a pink flying crap about getting mutant carrots. For me, that’s more carrot for the buck.
More on my little eco-garden when events dictate.
Welcome back, frugal freedom fighters. This post is showing you the basic preparations for a planter box, or set thereof.
The tools for today are some cheap plastic gutter mesh [the stuff you put in gutters to keep the leaves out] a pair of decent scissors [if you bought wire mesh, use side-cutters!] and the paperclip staples I showed you how to make last time.
Step 1: Measure the mesh to fit, but make sure it fits up the sides of the box a little way.
Step 2: Cut along the joins. You will notice that the mesh does not want to stay where it’s put and tends to spring back on you.
Step 3: Press mesh into shape and weigh it down.
Step 4: Say hello to my little friend. The long side allows you to position the other side for maximum mesh manipulation :D
Step 5: Position staple.
Step 6: Press into the foam. This will kill your fingertips after a while. Not literally, though.
Step 7: Repeat steps 5 and 6 everywhere you reckon you need to keep the mesh in check.
Step 8: Now do the other side.
Put a layer of rocks in the bottom, just enough to mostly cover it.
And now, a teaser. What am I planning to do with that old rag?
Stay tuned, freedom fighters!
I’ve learned some things about tumblr, now, so this is a two-parter. Should I make you wait for part 2? We’ll see.
I initially wanted the boxes and setup closer to the washing line [it made sense to me] but hubby put the whole box and dice on some bare-ish earth at the other corner of the house. As you can see from the tool set, it’s going to get weird.
If you don’t want to go to the bother of making staples, you can just use regular staples from your office stapler. I didn’t have any of those that worked, so I went with paperclips.
Creative geniuses will tell you the paperclip has over two thousand uses. This is one of them. And how to make it.
Step one, open a paperclip into a V.
Step two, cut the longest side in half.
Step three, flatten the rest of the paperclip.
Step four, cut the longest side in half. It’s preferable to do the cutting steps inside a walled container so the bits don’t go flying off into inconvenient places.
Step five, Voila! Three planter staples for the price of one paperclip.
Step six, now do all again until your hands are ready to croak.
Then I dragged everything outside, ready to make planter boxes.
Stay tuned for part 2, frugal freedom fighters!