"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken coop as a cathedra." - Frank Lloyd Wright

Pressure cooker FAIL

The day started with freezing rain and we never got above 35 degrees. Crazy.

The good news: tomorrow's low will be higher than today's high, and the cold snap will be officially over. Alas, the rain will begin tomorrow late afternoon and continue through the rest of the week, with about 3" by the time we get to Saturday.

Winter in Oregon.

I don't understand. A bunch of people from around the world are upset about pollution and climate change, so they go to Paris to protest a conference of govt. leaders meeting to discuss solutions to pollution and climate change. 

And while we're discussing imponderables: a crazy man who lives in a one-room shack without water or electricity, has been arrested for cruelty to animals, and who is estranged from all of his family goes on a shooting rampage at a PP clinic and, as someone opposed to abortion I'm to blame. 

OK, one more non sequitur. President Obama, in Paris for that summit on the environment said in his speech before the assembly that working together to save the planet is a rejection of the terrorists. 

Have I missed something here??

The truck's new radiator arrived today. It's still in the box and because I have to do the install outside it may stay there until next weekend, but that radiator and the axles that should arrive tomorrow will get the truck back to drivable condition. Still lots more bugs to sort out, but it will, in theory, be road worthy. 

At least six weeks ago I bought a new white rocker light switch and GFI outlet for the bathroom to replace the original ivory versions. Just got around to making that swap today, and that meant turning off the appropriate breaker on the panel. 

Note: the word appropriate in that previous sentence was unnecessary. It seems every light and outlet in MoHo is on that same 20a breaker with the possible exception of the kitchen lights which I didn't check. 

That 70's GFI outlet had to have been a first generation model. I've never seen anything like it, and I'm glad it's now in the trash. 

Pam made some really good mini-apple pies to take to church yesterday with some extras for me to have here at home. They're made out of a circle of dough about 4" across with some homemade apple pie filling in the middle, the dough then folded over like a taco shell, then pinch-sealed, and then baked. Really good! A two-bite apple pie. 

Have two or three; they're small. 

I need to start a book. I amy begin the first of the Poldark series Pam got, but I'm also thinking about getting some Charles Spurgeon. 

You know how sometimes your mouth says, "I want some ______."

I think my brain is telling me it wants some Spurgeon.