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Use an infrared camera. They have become common and will show the cool spot of water. They also work the other way and can show heat leaks through the same holes.

You have a roof problem or leaky pipe. Solve the moisture, solve the mold. Too bad so much cellulose is used in home building, wood frames and paper sheets over gypsum wall board, because moisture seems inevitable.

grammar naughtzees! Old high school student complaint.

The symbol for the sound of silence?

Baby ferns remind me of mornings. The way you can uncurl from a warm bed into a really good streeetch to start your day.

daffs are gone here. Now it's the time of ferns.

...and more to come. A weatherguy was showing some stats where the number of reported 'nados is near the Alabama annual high mark already but then said some might get connected into longer tracks which would lower the number. I wonder where weather watching ranks against all other Alabama sports?

Today's word is "Yarden". This is to differentiate between "Garden and "Garden" which are both currently mis-used to denote landscaping and vegetable growing areas of activity. Guess what Yarden means yet? I saw this morning that the New York Times is saying that "Synswer" is TWOTD, to...

It was very warm and snapped off to the lower 20s in early spring. That nipped most of the buds. Even the roses are just now coming out.

We call those tulip magnolia sometimes. Alas they and the daffy have bloomed and faded already down here.

Its real.

Or weed eater projectiles.....

I went to a biker party at Eagle River. I was just a fresh out of high school grunt but had made friends with a carpenter on the jobsite for the Eagle River school. Is it still still there from 1984? Anyway he and some equipment guys had dug a pond out big enough to float a wood fired sauna he...

There be megalopolises. North Carolina is part of a big one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Atlantic_megaregion

I know its heresy but I wonder if big sites like TEMU have seeds. I doubt they would be organized about it but their vendors might.

Common plastics like epoxy around hot things can be a problem. Around 200 degrees they fail. They weaken well before boiling though. Hot water over time is a slow cooker. The silicones and so forth found in the kitchen work against this problem and there are high heat resistant sealants that...

Use 1 lbs bag of dried peas for the correct paste texture.

And that taste is special imo. It has a history too. https://recipes.net/side-dish/beans/pleasing-bollos-recipe/ Mine are 1 lbs dried bag 1 spoon salt 1 spoon garlic and 1 cowhorn pepper. Fry a teaspoon sized ball of the dough which you ran through a food processer after soaking and cleaning...

I am always trying to get a handle on longer term future weather, and this article was published Monday, making me wonder if anybody can point to a relation to weather in the 70 year cycle being discussed. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01112-z

There is a caulking mastic product called Dow 995. It comes in white, is stickier than polyurethane if that is possible, is both a structural and impact resistant adhesive we use to make hurricane resistant coatings stay put on glass while storms seek to destroy the walls. It is expensive for a...