My candles are in four house windows. Good thing they are not real. There are no flames with these.
They flicker for 8 hours and then they are off for the rest of the day.
I was afraid the flickering would attract Car-E in my bedroom window. Luckily it didn’t. Both candle and cat are safe.
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I just ordered this book, The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. I wish I could buy a copy for everyone.
Here’s a reading I found on youtube.
It is heartwarming and can be read again and again.
Definitely not just for children, but for all ages.
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I’ve been waiting for America’s Test Kitchen on PBS to review can openers. I finally saw a review the other day and instantly bought their winner an EZ-DUZ-IT can opener for myself.
I’ve been using an old electric opener and fighting it every day when I opened cat food. It was always hard to place the can in the proper position, usually taking me 3 or 4 tries before it would actually turn and cut the can.
Since I have arthritis in my hands I need a bit of help opening cans with a manual model. In the past, I tried one that cut the side of the can, but that didn’t last long before the cutting blade wore out.
Here’s a video of the first can I opened with my new opener. Sorry, I said mixer at the end instead of an opener, but I didn’t want to do a retake and open a can I didn’t need. I figure you’d get the message.
The large handle for the crank made it easy to turn.
I will now use this opener from now on.
Thanks, America’s Test Kitchen for trying out a bunch of openers for me. This one cost around $12 on Amazon. I’m counting on it to hold up for years to come.
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I had the great idea of dehydrating regular sized marshmallows in my oven. I set the temp very low, loaded in the marshmallows, closed the door, and let them dehydrate.
It wasn’t long before I could smell burning marshmallows. I opened the door and found a disaster. My marshmallows didn’t dry. They melted and fell in gobs to the oven floor–no photo of disaster because I was too worried that I’d soon have a fire and too embarrassed.
No fire ensued. I caught the problem in time. It took a lot of work cleaning all the globs of white sweetness out of my oven.
Take this as a Public Service Announcement.
Do not try to dry regular size marshmallows in your oven! They melt.
A dedicated dehydrator does work.
To get crunchy, dry marshmallows, I set my Ninja air-fryer/dehydrator on dehydrate, set it for 4 hours and had success.
Once the machine stopped, I let the marshmallows cool before biting into their crisp, sweet whiteness.
This is better than waiting for Peeps to dry for months.
Just be careful how you try to dry your marshmallows. The small marshmallows will dry a lot faster.
Good luck with your marshmallow adventures.
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