The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Alaskan, I think the 12 foot hole is the most labor intensive part. Anyway, that wouldn't work at our cottage, the deepest soil we have there is maybe a meter (yard). It's mostly solid granite. The best soil we have there is where 60 years of human waste has been dumped, next to the outhouse. Don't know if I wanted to grow anything edible in that though...

Deb, I make a slightly modified quiche crust:

100g butter
125ml water
4 dl flour
1-2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar

It's a bit lighter than the normal, and I like the consistency better.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Oh! oooh!

I vote concrete with floor drain!

But WAIT! you live where scorpions and snakes and such are gonna crawl right up into your kitchen from that floor drain. NOPE, LOCK EM OUT!

here in town we find at least four scorpions per year... usually under my sons Pillow. Those are paper thin and can go through cracks small as paper. Cant keep them out. Besides the drain will have a screen on it... LOL.

Here our snakes are a bit bigger than most indoor plumbing pipes. When my neighbor worked on my yard about a year ago he killed two Rattlesnakes both as big around as your forearm and about five feet long. He said they were full of eggs. I asked him what he did with them... He said he had them marinating in Teryaki sauce... LOL. He skinned them and stretched the skin to dry.

The only thing I do is take a good look in my shoes before I put them on.... Gloves too. one time I was working in a machine shop as a machine operator.... Went out to lunch came back and stuck my gloves on Dang there was a metal chip inside poking my finger.....

when I pulled my hand out this was chewing on the tip of my finger



Camel Spider... those mandables Yes mandables open four ways and he was glommed on my finger for dinner. I shook my hand to get him off and you should have seen the Mexicans run.... Yep Camel Spider, they are not only indigenous to the middle east... they are indigenous here... different strain but Camel Spider none the less. Wind Scorpion is also another name for them.

Not spider but in the family not venomous but they use digestive juices to liquify their food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae

I think someone planted it in my glove. I was one of two women who worked in this machine shop... back in the day where women were only just starting out in male dominated fields. No biggie I can take a joke with the rest of them.... Joke was on them when I flipped the thing off deep into the machine shop... Someone had to go find it... LOL.

Me and creepy crawlys have a pretty good relationship. The only thing I cant stand are maggots and grubs...

here is my favorite spider picture

Jumping spider


Tell me he aint cute.... LOL

deb

 

[ozexpat]

Oh! oooh!

I vote concrete with floor drain!

But WAIT! you live where scorpions and snakes and such are gonna crawl right up into your kitchen from that floor drain. NOPE, LOCK EM OUT!

i am seeing a trend in fear towards little critters here

 

[perchie.girl]

Alaskan, I think the 12 foot hole is the most labor intensive part. Anyway, that wouldn't work at our cottage, the deepest soil we have there is maybe a meter (yard). It's mostly solid granite. The best soil we have there is where 60 years of human waste has been dumped, next to the outhouse. Don't know if I wanted to grow anything edible in that though...

Deb, I make a slightly modified quiche crust:

100g butter
125ml water
4 dl flour
1-2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar

It's a bit lighter than the normal, and I like the consistency better.

I wish I was a baker... I used those Crescent rolls you get in the grocery store the kind you whack on the counter to open.


I now know they have the same thing in sheets...

deb

 

[vehve]

Deb, that crust is super easy, just measure everything in a bowl, knead together and press into a buttered pie tin.

 

[vehve]

Oz, ever meet anyone who is delighted to get stung, bitten or chewed on by the creepy crawlies?

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks Linda, I will.

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, ever meet anyone who is delighted to get stung, bitten or chewed on by the creepy crawlies?

No but you are the one with "exposed" toilet paper and floor drains should have an s trap that is full of water so they should not allow scorpions.

If that's the case then no showers either.

 

[vehve]

Oz, true... but our creepy crawlies aren't too bad. Mainly it's the flying ones that I dislike (like the disgusting elk flies again this weekend), our spiders and other crawling things are harmless. A water lock on a drain is a must in my opinion too, otherwise it will start to smell.

 

[vehve]

Well, here it is then. The Cold Folks Home.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/921630/the-cold-folks-home