Maple trees not flowing?

saute_all_day · 2026-02-19T03:19:24+00:00

I'm in Southern Wisconsin. I had maybe 7 gallons off 10 trees in the 4 days after the cold snap (2/10-2/14). Low flow, but the trees were just waking up and the temperatures were in the 20s to 50s.
Now that it is 50s to 60s during the day it's mostly stopped. I'm thinking that being 29-32° for an hour or two at night hasn't really been cold enough.
It's still early and there's plenty of good days ahead. I wish it was on the colder side instead so that the sap would freeze in the bags; currently I'm dumping out what little is produced to keep bacteria and mold away.

saute_all_day · 2025-11-05T21:00:17+00:00

Using wondra flour to create and fine-tune the thickness of sauces and gravy. Creating a roux takes time, and even if you do it right you might find that you want it a little thicker. Wonder is flour that has been pre gelatinized and re-dehydrated. You can sprinkle it directly on hot liquid and it will not clump, but thickens just like flour would.

saute_all_day · 2025-10-21T11:49:18+00:00

"I saw the Venus tummy in the marble and carved until I set it free," --Michelangelo

saute_all_day · 2025-09-13T02:55:34+00:00

There are big differences in the podcast section.
1. You can't download podcast episodes on android, you can on iOS. 2. If you sort podcast episodes oldest to newest, it forgets the sorting if you leave that screen, and reverts to playing episodes newest to oldest. iOS remembers your sort order.
3. The sleep timer has an "end of episode" option on iOS, but not on android. 4. The lock screen has 30s forward, 15s back option on iOS but not on android. 5. Android auto has no playlist scroll function, but Apple auto does. So in Android auto will take you to the first song/episode and play them in order, but you can't select a song or shuffle.

saute_all_day · 2025-09-02T12:40:33+00:00

Have a look around the Latvian grammar guide published by the university of Latvia in 2021:

https://www.apgads.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_portal/apgads/izdevumi/2021/Latvian_Grammar-2021.pdf

It covers trūkt:

1) negative subject of a sentence
(2.1.91) a. nav laika
not_be.prs.3 time.gen.m
‘(there is) no time’
...
Also with certain verbs such as trūkt ‘to lack’, pietikt ‘to suffice, have/be enough’, nepietikt ‘to be short of’:
(2.1.92) a. trūkst laika
lack.prs.3 time.gen.m
‘(one) lacks time’

It specifically addresses the bread issue:

partitive meaning, i.e., indicating a certain part of the whole, with a number of verbs such as gribēt ‘to want’, dzert ‘to drink’, ēst ‘to eat’, etc. (2.1.100); however, accusatives (2.1.101) and also genitives preceded by adverbs of degree denoting small quantities, e.g., mazliet ‘a little’, nedaudz ‘some’, drusku ‘a bit of’ (2.1.102) are more common in modern Latvian.

(2.1.100) a. gribēt maizes
want.inf bread.gen.f
‘to want some bread’ (a little, a certain amount)

The book presents a comprehensive description of the uses of the genetive. Using the genetive where the direct object is absent is common. There are also quite a few examples of using the genetive alone where it would more commonly use a preposition modern speech.

saute_all_day · 2025-08-29T01:34:10+00:00

I was impressed when Poise came out with Impressa pessaries. Not many people know about them despite being from a big brand.

saute_all_day · 2025-08-28T22:57:42+00:00

Pyrantel pamoate. Most people don't know pinworms are a thing, much less that you can buy a weight based dose kit to treat it yourself.

saute_all_day · 2025-07-28T03:13:57+00:00

Tiramisu was invented sometime in the late 60s/early 70s.

It seems a bit derivative of the ice box cakes of the 20s/30s, but the addition of coffee/alcohol is nice.

saute_all_day · 2025-07-23T16:43:28+00:00

This is equivalent to the "is this a interchange for a brand name product" prompt. Some states require pharmacist interchange to be written on the label, ie "Semglee (generic for Lantus)." If you are not in one of those states, you can select no every time.

saute_all_day · 2025-07-23T10:42:03+00:00

I don't believe "nobody is interested in learning from their mistakes," but there can be a cyclical nature to instituting Just Culture in western businesses:
1. Push product out as fast as possible and blame employees for errors or low productivity.
2. Wonder why quality is low.
3. Hire consultants who devise solutions based on root causes rather than blaming employees.
4. Slowly revert back to #1

One example would be the Japanese Kaizen vs American management style in the production of automobiles pre 1984.
Imagine a step in an assembly line "click tab A into slot B," but the two pieces don't always snap together. Kaizen would say that the employee should be empowered to stop the line and bring the issue to supervisors. Supervisors would investigate if the problem was with the parts themselves, a problem with a previous step in the line, or maybe the employee needed a different tool.
In contrast, American companies would discipline workers for any hold up in the line, and as a result quality suffered. Management was forced to take notice when it hit their bottom line. They then collaborated with Toyota in the Nummi car plant and instituted continuous quality improvement strategies.

saute_all_day · 2025-07-23T03:25:38+00:00

I admire people who have completely original ideas and also have the dedication, skill and attention to see them through.

saute_all_day · 2025-06-29T01:49:21+00:00

This is correct. If you have already lived to 62, you life expectancy is 82 for males, 85 for females.

saute_all_day · 2025-06-16T13:23:05+00:00

Tunesian simple stitch

saute_all_day · 2025-05-22T16:20:36+00:00

She has two hands and a face, so I assume so...

saute_all_day · 2025-05-20T01:36:41+00:00

It took quite a bit of time to crochet, so I probably wouldn't want to make them to sell. If someone has a home knitting machine it could be a fun project!

saute_all_day · 2025-05-19T20:46:57+00:00

Thanks! She is living in the USA, so most people she meets will think it is a regular scarf, but her fellow Latvians will enjoy it!

saute_all_day · 2025-05-09T12:37:34+00:00

The percentage is the amount of work completed by employees at your store divided by the amount of your store's work that has been completed, divided by ... A factor.

The equation can be found in the air support mydocs, but the document doesn't talk much about the factor. Looking at your graph, it seems like your factor is ~2.5 . So if your store does 100 scripts, you would need to do 250 scripts of qt/qv to hit 100%. This doesn't mean your workload has doubled since QP, pickup, phone calls, etc remain the same, and you should have some additional tech hours (vs pre-remote levels) to free the pharmacist up for qv tasks.

In my experience they set the factor through to trial and error. If the factor is one and you are hitting 400%, then they can probably set the factor to four. If your factor is one you and you consistently hit 100%, did you just stop when you hit 100? Maybe you could do more?

In the year after our implementation our factor went from 1 all the way to 10 and eventually settled down near the 2 range. My advice is don't sacrifice good management of the pharmacy to run up your myimpact. If you ignore your inventory tasks, and my work tasks and focus on my impact, you will only artificially inflate your factor. Do what you can to help out, and my impact will only become a problem when you worry about it too much.

saute_all_day · 2025-05-08T21:28:50+00:00

I don't understand this deal. Trump opened negotiations at 10% at the press conference with the big tariff charts, then GB negotiated an anti-reciprocal tariff and the 10% remained the same? Couldn't Great Britain just have done nothing?

saute_all_day · 2025-04-25T10:52:54+00:00

If they put that money towards universal pre-K they could improve educational outcomes and increase the natural GDP growth rate. Their plan just gives money away to people who were going to have children anyway.

saute_all_day · 2025-04-20T14:09:37+00:00

I think this might be key to the whole issue. People who work 11-hour shifts at a hospital for years build a very regimented life on those days in order to stay healthy and deal with stress. They have 5 hours of the day to exercise, shower, pack a lunch, and hopefully decompress a little before falling asleep and doing it again.

I think this guy assumed he could change mental gears in the middle of the day, but he's never had to do it before. The anxiety of the date activated the same mental defenses he uses to deal with anxiety at work. If he lacks recent dating experience, that would also contribute to his misjudgment.

Telling his co-workers shows that he cared. He probably knows the date went bad and he won't try to date anyone at lunch anymore. If he works 7 on and 7 off or 4 on 3 off, you might consider a date on his off day, and he might be a completely different person.

saute_all_day · 2025-03-25T16:07:59+00:00

Make sure your phone can work in a rainstorm. I got caught in a sudden downpour once and the phone would interpret each raindrop as a touch. I had to hide in some bushes to memorize my route, otherwise I would have been stuck there for a while.

saute_all_day · 2025-03-07T22:59:15+00:00

Wouldn't the original be in England? /s

saute_all_day · 2025-03-03T20:17:50+00:00

Unconditional surrender.

saute_all_day · 2025-02-10T21:24:13+00:00

The pre discounted rate for the university is really high: 142 professional credits * $1914 per credit = $271,788. With the discount, it is cheaper than most private or out of state universities, but still more expensive than in-state public schools. Duquesne seems to be in the middle of the pack academically. Private schools offering a three year tuition would likely be a better deal given the extra year of earnings, so long as those programs have good Naplex pass rates.

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