The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

1.5 gallons of stewed tomatoes about to come out of the pressure canner, and just started rendering wax from last weekend.
Hopefully I'll have some time to sew today, but I think I'll have to also go shopping for my girls' camping trip next Friday (down to Vermont) and start packing, instead.

 

[bobbi-j]

Good Morning, Old Folks!
Just popping in to wish you all a wonderful day! After church today, I’ll be packing the camper for a trip with DH to northern MN for a few days. One last hurrah before school starts next week.

Oh, and we’re also going to help a friend move a piano.

Have a happy!

 

[chickadoodles]

Sounds like ya'll had a nice trip Bruce.

Good morning Chris.

Scg how do you melt your bees wax?
I watched a video on YouTube and they melted it in a double boiler. Is that how you do it.
Does it separate easily from the little bits of honey pretty easy?
I want to melt down this wax comb left empty here.

 

[getaclue]

bobbi-j, the trip sounds lovely. Enjoy! Good luck with moving the piano. Be careful.

 

[chrisb01]

Good Morning, Old Folks!
Just popping in to wish you all a wonderful day! After church today, I’ll be packing the camper for a trip with DH to northern MN for a few days. One last hurrah before school starts next week.

Oh, and we’re also going to help a friend move a piano.

Have a happy!

Watch your back with that piano, they are ffnng heavy.. I have one in my living room, a permanent fixture, lol.. Someone will move it after I die, I'm sure..

Enjoy your vaca, have a lot of fun..

 

[bobbi-j]

bobbi-j, the trip sounds lovely. Enjoy! Good luck with moving the piano. Be careful.

By “we”, I actually mean DH - I’m on the supervisory committtee. “We” helped this friend’s brother move a different piano out of the same house 6 months ago.

 

[chickadoodles]

Have fun Bobbi sounds like a nice trip. I hope all goes well with moving the piano.

 

[ronott1]

Quilting for money changes it for me .No longer enjoyable .I won't get the machine. Too much money.

Never been there but will check it out.
You coming back through this area? I would love to take y'all to dinner .

Money is a reward as is doing something for charity. The feeling you get by providing something for another person. Purchasing the new sewing machine can be an investment paid for by that feeling of doing good.

 

[1muttsfan]

Lots of people have stuff that does nothing but give them pleasure. Ask my BF, that is why we have 6 boats

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Sounds like ya'll had a nice trip Bruce.

Good morning Chris.

Scg how do you melt your bees wax?
I watched a video on YouTube and they melted it in a double boiler. Is that how you do it.
Does it separate easily from the little bits of honey pretty easy?
I want to melt down this wax comb left empty here.

I'm pretty low-tech and cheap but it works.
I found some old pots at the town dump in the swap shed. You do not want to use pots that you will use for food, ever. Or utensils.
I made a double boiler out of the 2 old pots. Note that you can also do this in boiling water in just one pot and then let it all cool, and crack it out, but then I feel like I have to double boil it again to get it into a usable brick because this method makes it really thin.
Anyway, once it is all melted, I pour it into the mold, but you should strain it. While the old honey will sink to the bottom and the wax will float on top, the dead bees and stuff also get caught up in it, and you need to strain it to get a pretty brick. I use cheesecloth most of the time, it works the best, but if I don't have any, I will use pantyhose (probably about the only thing I've used pantyhose for in the last 25 years).
Once it's strained, cool it. I shove it in the fridge. Crack the wax out, the bottom will still be liquid, that's the old honey that didn't completely drain. It doesn't take long to harden.
You can save the crap you drained, I think it's called sluggum and it can be used as firestarter.
After a few years you may have multiple bricks, and you can just melt and pour them into one "mold." I tend to use plastic take out containers. Once cooled they just crack right out.

Money is a reward as is doing something for charity. The feeling you get by providing something for another person. Purchasing the new sewing machine can be an investment paid for by that feeling of doing good.

Yes, but I'm very fiscally responsible and this is so anti-me. I spent almost this much on my car 9 years ago. That just seems absurd to me.