I offer absurdist edits of absurdist Heathcliff comics, make food, post political memes.

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • When I need to make flour or flour consistency out of something I will zip it through my spice grinder and then sift it through a fine mesh strainer. It’s important to make sure there is minimal moisture in the material. I’ll sometimes heat the source in an oven on low to dry it out before grinding.

    I use the grinder and strainer truck for powdered sugar, oat flour, chickpea flour, flax powder and other things that will go rancid in flour form before I can use them if I bought it pree ground.

    But I’m usually using no more than a half a cup in cases like that. Not enough to make a stack of oat flour tortillas.

    I don’t have a proper grain grinder but I do have a crusher. Rarely used but essential when I need it.



  • It is supposed to say something like “It isn’t safe to interact with fairy rings be they in the grass or in the sea” in Latin. But when you feed it back through the same translator in reverse it tells you that it is safe. I know just enough Latin to know that Google messed up the translation but not enough to fix it. And since this was about fairies I decided that they are probably playing a trick and decided to go with the flawed translation.

    After this I think everyone should try drawing a coral reef. It’s an exercise in textures. Maybe one day I’ll try it in color for a whole different lesson.




  • They get the cutting board scraps and occasional table scraps. I’m literally half a mile from the Feed & Seed and it’s even cheaper than Tractor Supply. The effort of creating alternate feed with consistent nutritional balance would be my wife’s task and she isn’t up for it.

    I have zero issues with GMO. I’d prefer peanut over soy based feed but that’s a big increase in costs. But, and this is crucial, if I attempt to interfere with my wife’s feeding preferences I will be destroyed.




  • Our problem isn’t nutrition. It’s that every bird we have is over two years old combined with the normal winter slowdown in production. We will be getting some fresh birds this spring.

    I’m not a fan of changing away from layer pellets. They provide balanced nutrition and necessary calcium. Very few people that brag about an alternative diet for chickens are still doing it six months later and they don’t post about how they went back because they count the brag about the hits and don’t report the failures.