{"id":3537,"date":"2017-08-23T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2017-08-23T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T13:20:43","slug":"wednesday-23-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2017\/08\/23\/wednesday-23-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 23 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:16 –<\/strong><\/span> It was 67.9F (20C) when I took Colin out at 0645, partly cloudy.<\/p>\n

Barbara is leaving mid-afternoon to head down to Winston. She’ll have dinner with Frances and Al, stay with them tonight, and then head back tomorrow morning, making a Costco run on her way out of town. It’s WW&P for Colin and me.<\/p>\n

Our LTS food inventory is at steady-state now, so we don’t need much. I did ask Barbara to pick me up a case of six #10 cans of coffee, a two-pack of mayonnaise, and another case of Costco bottled water in gallons.<\/p>\n

Barbara just headed for the gym. When she returns, she’ll finish packing up the two dozen chemistry kits we assembled yesterday, and then label bottles for stuff we’re running out of. While she’s gone, I’ll make up solutions for those.<\/p>\n

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Email from Kathy, whom I hadn’t heard from in a month or so. All of the stuff they had on order has arrived, been checked in, and shelved. The propane tank and gas cooktop has been installed. She’s done her first pressure-canning run, canning up ten pounds of sausage that she bought on sale. Now she’s carefully watching the jars, halfway expecting the lids to pop or something.<\/p>\n

Mike has proposed a Cunning Plan, which Kathy thinks is just bizzare. He points out that they don’t have a cold cellar, and he’d like to build one in the basement by enclosing a small area, insulating it heavily, and building a refrigerator into the wall, pointed into the enclosed area. Kind of like a 21st-century version of an old ice-house.<\/p>\n

She asked my opinion. I told her that I’m not a refrigeration engineer, but it just might work. The refrigerator’s compressor would probably have to run for a couple of days to get the insulated area cooled down and there might be some problems with temperature differentials within the space, but keeping a well-insulated larger volume cool isn’t much different from keeping the interior of the refrigerator cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

09:16 – It was 67.9F (20C) when I took Colin out at 0645, partly cloudy.<\/p>\n

Barbara is leaving mid-afternoon to head down to Winston. She’ll have dinner with Frances and Al, stay with them tonight, and then head back tomorrow morning, making a Costco run on her way out of town. It’s WW&P for Colin and me.<\/p>\n

Our LTS food inventory is at steady-state now, so we don’t need much. I did ask Barbara to pick me up a case of six #10 cans of coffee,<\/p>\n

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