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Airlines are notorious for being fookers. I sent my son to high school in New Zealand. way back when the yen bought a lot of New Zealand dollars. Going there the first time, his English not so good, he had to get a connecting flight, possibly in Australia, I don't remember. It involved him...

Once on a flight back to the west, some organization was taking a bunch of Korean babies back to the US for adoption. The other passengers were helping to manage the kids, they were just infants. I remember holding one, they were so cute. One section of the plane turned into a nursery. The...

I know what you mean about long flights. After about three hours I start thinking that this is strange. :/: At least you can see if the ale tastes the same, once you arrive.

Doctors are inhibited by the systems that they work in as well. Standardized medicine is both good and potentially bad for patients. The profit incentive looms large.

No story, Jim, I was just wondering about it with so many of those birds around, so I looked it up. Very bitter taste, some say. Maybe being eat just about anything critters has something to do with it.

I learned that there are actually recipes for cooking and eating crow.

Sean, it's big time here, growing mushrooms in logs. They sell the plugs, or you can buy the logs already plugged. Oak is the species of log choice. I haven't done it, but it looks easy. You need a shady place and I think need to keep the logs moist. At jobs where we will be cutting Oak, it...

Just looking at those shrooms is pretty psychedelic, are those little lights on the outside? :lol: My neighbor had a business growing shitake mushrooms in his greenhouse, the same one that he uses to grow vegees now. He had them growing in plastic cups.

I knew guys that grew mushrooms in California, in garages or other out buildings. Are there other types of psychedelic mushrooms? i think steam was required or some deal, nothing I can recall about cows. It isn't hard to remember, i went to visit a friend unannounced once that was involved in...

Wonder if you could grow your own psilocybin in a greenhouse? Purely for scientific purposes, of course.

With a greenhouse you aren't getting rain water, and plants love rain water. Access to creeks or rivers is what is generally the source of water for greenhouses here, and having a very developed system to move water from them. A country with monsoons needs that to keep from floods as well. A...

That's a nice house, Leon. I don't normally see them with the cross bracing above and made from what looks like a steel box material in the photo, basically just curved pipes rom one side to another. Do you know what that would cost with the covering included? Must run some.

Leon, your comment made me remember, I see some houses that have what look like thick big black rubber bands, at intervals stretched from one side over the top to the other. A wind protectant no doubt. Places starting a bit north of here, where they get predictable heavy snow, when it might...

Zillions of them in this country, Leon, perhaps in HK as well? Pretty much the standard type greenhouse that people put up. My neighbor just had two crushed, they being too close together and the unusually heavy snow slid of and packed between them and pushed in the sides. Once the pipes get...

Good idea, Leon. I see asparagus and other vegees gown in a plastic sheet tunnel greenhouse, going to market way earlier than ones grown out in the open. Making them large enough that a tractor can get inside is a big plus. Have to be able to handle the snow load in your area as well, unless...

Something to build on. Lodge is nice stuff, a good range of pans and other things, and for camping. Amazon has some deals on them every now and then.

Yes, we recently purchased a pre-seasoned Lodge. Apparently they do it in some kind of huge ovens. i didn't think the pre-seasoning was so great, though. I did it again inside my wood stove.

I seem to recall that in the older days they would tell you to season with lard or cook a lot of bacon. Now it may not be so health fashionable to say that. I could see some lady suing Lodge cookware because her husband dropped dead.

Lard makes a better base for seasoning and early use of cast iron. Vegetable oil used instead dries. After the seasoning and a number of lard application, vegee oil seems to do the job better.

Seasoning cast iron, both in the oven or over a burner, which can be done too, is a good start to using a new one or when re-seasoning, but prolonged regular use (no wash) gives the best results of not sticking. Seasoning the back or lids is probably for the purpose of anti rust.