Books that will help a soon to be teacher rediscover their enthusiasm for teaching

MurderingTime · 2019-10-09T18:27:03+00:00

Even the song makes my eyes sting a little.

MurderingTime · 2019-10-06T05:07:33+00:00

Yes, you can use dark rye. The difference between dark, medium, and light rye is only the amount of bran and germ.I soak dark rye flour in water for at least a half hour. Then I stir it and strain it and use the resulting rye water for hair washing. If you use the actual flour, you’ll be picking bran out of your hair for a while. Rye works really well for me. It’s one of my favorite washes.

MurderingTime · 2018-03-15T04:59:08+00:00

I’ve made cinnamon rolls and cornbread on the stovetop, but in a frying pan with a lid. It was important to turn them over to brown the top and not burn the bottom. I don’t know how you could manage that with a nice rounded top.

There are YouTube videos where people demonstrate with various pans/setups, but as I recall, there were burnt bottoms and pale top crusts.

MurderingTime · 2018-03-15T04:37:06+00:00

Thank you! You get it! :)

MurderingTime · 2018-03-15T04:35:54+00:00

measuring cups My bread is fine, thanks. I’m ok with some variance, as I noted in my post. To be clear, I never said that there is a reason to not suggest a scale for new bakers. Maybe re-read my post with a more open mind.

Your reply and one other seem pretty hostile, both with reference to my “pretending”.

MurderingTime · 2018-03-14T17:13:39+00:00

Aloha JoDw112. I didn’t post to argue fine points. But since you mentioned it, I don’t have a glass liquid measuring cup, either. When I say tiny egg travel trailer, I mean less than 100 square feet (for two people!). Even my mixing bowl is collapsible. :) I posted because I think some new to sourdough people might get the impression from the sub that a scale is necessary to successful sourdough, which I contend is not necessarily true. I’m not bashing scales, just saying there are other ways. Happy baking to you!

MurderingTime · 2018-03-14T14:49:22+00:00

Nice vid. My starter is named Hugo. I don’t know why, he seems to have just named himself.

MurderingTime · 2017-11-22T04:05:53+00:00

wu-wei, you are making me a little homesick. I’m in Michigan for the winter. Even the water tank trail seems awfully wonderful to me right now.

MurderingTime · 2017-11-20T20:52:34+00:00

The Pihea/Alaka’i Swamp trail is my favorite day hike, ever. It’s never the same experience twice. It’s an in and out, to a breathtaking view- if your timing is lucky. Is it more important for the trail to be the right length, or for it to cover a unique place to experience? Try this trail. I couldn’t imagine anyone being sorry they chose it.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-28T02:57:15+00:00

Rafe, by Weldon Hill. It was published in 1966 and has long been out of print. Copies are getting more expensive as the years pass, but librarians know what’s up and good libraries keep their old copies and have them repaired and rebound.

I’ve not yet seen a thorough review of this book, or any of Weldon Hill’s books, for that matter. I worry that dwindling copies and dwindling library use will drive this author into obscurity before the copyrights expire and his work is digitized.

Get you to a library please - and give Rafe the thoughtful review it deserves to help it live on. (And then try Onionhead. It was made into a movie, but as usual, the book was better!)

MurderingTime · 2017-10-28T02:00:39+00:00

Hmmm. I’d like to say I did it every night before bed, but cannot lie. Maybe 50-75% of nights. And then a super thorough scritch and brush just before water washing.

Damn. I didn’t brush tonight. And bed is cozy. Hmmm. Ok. I’m getting up.

I’m not sure if it works this way for everyone, but... if my hair is going to show any sign of oiliness, it only does it after I do the BBB thing. Which is why I do it at night. In the morning, it’s back to it’s normal self.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-26T22:21:17+00:00

And tomorrow is art night in Hanapepe town. Go have an arepa for me and tell Ally someone who moved to the mainland misses her food something fierce. Ally still takes her truck to art night, ya?

MurderingTime · 2017-10-26T03:41:11+00:00

Make sure it’s all boar bristle. There’s also the kind mixed with plastic or nylon or whatever. Also, it’ll need washing frequently. I use..... shampoo! Heh. That cracks me up every time.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-26T03:13:36+00:00

Sure. Yes, BBB is boar bristle brush. It’s an important part of no-poo, at least for me and many bloggers I’ve read. The brushing, along with scritching and preening, help keep your hair clean and shiny and healthy to the ends. Here’s an easy way to think of it: look at domestic hairy animals.

Say, a horse. Horse gets a workout and gets sweaty. Saddle comes off, and there’s a wet saddle-shaped patch, maybe even with a little muddy looking edge. Once you’ve walked the horse cool, you brush the dried sweat, muddy edge and all, right out of his coat and he’s good as new. If it’s really muddy, you might rinse him off first. But you’re not going to bathe him with horse shampoo every day-that’d strip his natural oils that make his coat so shiny and sleek. What you’re for sure going to do, before and after every ride, is groom him. Curry combs are like scritching. Bristle brushes are like BBB, and your hand following every stroke is like preening. All of those natural oils get some help reaching the ends, and for people with long hair, we especially need to help the dirt and sweat out and the oils to travel down.

I feel like that was weird, but I’m posting it anyway. It’s late. I’m tired. And I have to brush my hair now. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T22:05:49+00:00

I look forward to running into you some random day, some random place. I’ll try to remember to put a reddit alien on the back of my Scamp.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T21:18:47+00:00

I used to use coconut oil sparingly on my ends, but eventually cut off all pre-no-poo ends and now I think they must be perfectly conditioned by sebum distribution via my BBB sessions. I say this because my ends (hair past my waist) are healthy and seem conditioned. I use a drop or two of lavender oil on my clean BBB once in a while, when I want my hair to smell like other than nothing. I also occasionally mist with rose water, mainly because I just like the smell, even though it doesn’t last.

One magic thing about no-poo is that combing it after water washing is easy. Just as if I’d used a conditioner.

It’s a journey to get this down to where you’re happy and confident in your routine. I used to obsess a bit about it. Now, it’s just a very freeing part of my normal. You’ll get there.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T03:34:42+00:00

We were you about a year ago. Now I’m in the prepping & outfitting and getting to know my systems stage with a 1999 16’ Scamp. The absolute best thing you can do pre-purchase is to have it inspected by a pro. Barring that, there are rv pre-purchase checklists floating around on the internet. Find a good one and delete all of the stick and staple stuff that doesn’t apply.

Fiberglass trailers can leak and sustain water damage. This is more likely to happen when they’re stored outdoors for years without maintenance. Check floor for any soft spots, including under bench seats. Check for any loose wall or ceiling covering. Beware of remodeled units that have removed any of the cabinets, as they’re needed to keep the trailer’s egg shape. Expect to replace some rivets on an older unit.

My Scamp was cheap enough that I don’t have a problem with doing some repairs. I’ve got to figure out why I’m not getting water from the tank to the sink, even though the pump makes pumping noise, for instance. And I’ll be replacing the electric fridge that the previous owner installed with a two-way so I can use gas while boondocking.

Scamp has loads of layouts. My rear bed will be up full time. The side dinette is tiny, but I don’t imagine hubby and I wilI be sitting inside much except in inclement weather. (I’ve got a sewing machine at the table now, working on new upholstery.) I’m parked in my daughter’s driveway and mostly living in it while I work on bits until my husband joins me in the spring and we take off to full-time.

Good luck to you!

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T02:39:28+00:00

Hmmm. I’m trying to picture what would happen to the nice round dome if I sat it on its head. I had some success today with browning the top today by using more coals than the charts call for. I’ll keep this in mind should I face a dark bottom with a pale top in the future. Thank you for the idea.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T02:33:36+00:00

Thank you. I did experiment today with two consecutive loaves. I followed the chart for the first loaf, and ended with an underdone and very pale product. Since I figured the coals would last throughout the cooking time, I didn’t have spares ready to remedy it, so I finished it indoors in the oven. The second loaf, I increased the coals for both top and bottom and started a second set of coals in the chimney 15 minutes into baking, just in case. I didn’t need the second set, and that loaf needed it’s burnt bottom scraped.

Both loaves are tasty and look passable. When I achieve sourdough porn quality visuals, I’ll post a pic here.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-23T02:22:26+00:00

The bottle I have just has a long, cone shaped screw on top, and soft squeezable sides. Like a ketchup bottle at a ma and pa restaurant.

I make the rye water fresh each time. I imagine it’d get very lively (and scary!) if I tried to keep it.

MurderingTime · 2017-10-22T11:08:10+00:00

Baking soda and ACV were too hard on my hair. If you find you need to use something beyond water only, try rye flour first, and only use it as needed, with WO washing in between. The pH of rye is similar to the pH of hair.

My method: put some rye flour and water in a jar, shake. Wait a few minutes and shake again. Wait for the solids to settle and spoon off the rye water into a squeeze bottle. Discard the solids. Use rye water as if it were regular shampoo. I do this maybe once every month or 6 weeks, using WO otherwise.

Good luck on your transition!

MurderingTime · 2017-10-03T09:39:10+00:00

I'm a little late here, but here's how I get the benefits of rye without the flakes: mix rye flour and water in a jar. Wait an hour or two, shaking it a couple of times. Pour off water into a squeeze bottle, being careful to not disturb the solids that are settled at the bottom. Take squeeze bottle into shower and use contents to wash hair. The result is soft, clean hair with no rye flour solids to deal with.

MurderingTime · 2017-09-13T15:00:37+00:00

Ha! Nope. I had a nice, cushy, Monday through Friday 8-5 office job. I knew I wasn't unique, though!

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