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4 March 2013
Say What? Getting ready for a long ride, I wondered for the umpty-bumpth time what "DuoFlow" meant on my Specialized bike bottles. So I went to the sewing room and DuckDuckGoed "DuoFlow". The first hit was for a "sport bottle" that bragged that it would fall apart if exposed to the sun. *** It was nearly four in the afternoon when I got back. For a while there I was thinking that I wasn't as tired as I was after I rode the Aldi loop, but all of a sudden it's nap time. [housewifery snipped] 5 March 2013 [housewifery snipped] Ride Report Today a major snowfall is scheduled --starting about ten minutes ago, but so far no sign except for an overcast sky and what fell during the night-- and yesterday was sunny with a high at or above freezing, so I postponed the Monday wash and went for a long ride. I got caught out by winter twice. Three times, if you count being too cold to want to get off and read my map. My plan was to go around the south end of the lake, inspect the new roundabout on Zimmer Road, and come back by way of Avilla on Lake street -- Avilla is the only store in town where I can buy plain Baggies, and my current roll is noticeably thinner than it was when I bought it several months ago. The return from Avilla would bring me near Warsaw Health Foods, where I can buy corn flour, and three places where I can buy salad. It worked out pretty much as planned. Though I have Duegi cycling shoes, I bought a pair of black oxfords just for wearing on the bike. I do most of my riding inside the city limits, where I frequently get off and walk, where the streets are level enough that cleats don't do much good, and where I have to put my left foot down often enough to wear out a cleat that can no longer be replaced. But this time, I planned to ride somewhat undulating roads out where the stop signs are miles apart, so I wore the Duegis and put the oxfords in my pannier. While dressing, I noticed my enormous collection of newspaper bags and reflected that it hadn't been cold enough for the bread-bag trick all winter. The bread-bag trick is that when you put a windbreaker on over your jersey, you put a plastic bag on over your shoes. It makes a marvelous difference in how warm your feet stay, and though the bag doesn't breath, the condensation is all on the bag, which is well separated from your feet. (And it doesn't condense much because feet don't sweat much.) The thought of using the trick on a day that was warmer than many of the days I've been out never entered my head. Along about 225S, when my toes were aching pretty good, I remembered that the Duegi shoes are full of ventilation holes. I had plenty of grocery bags in my pannier --they don't fit as well as newspaper bags, but they work-- but I hadn't brought wool gaiters to hold them in place Just to make it aggravating, when I went out to the garage to check the spelling of Duegi, I remembered that I have an old faded-but-functional pair of fleece-lined cycling shoes. Starting at the beginning, I rolled down Boys City Drive intending to cut through the Chicago Boys' Club on Heritage Trail. About halfway there, I remembered that walkways don't get plowed, but continued on to look. What I could see of the walkway *had* been cleared. A streak of piled snow separated it from Boys City, but I could draisine through a narrow path from the parking lot to the Trail. Dare I, while wearing cleats, bet that that would be the only place there was snow in my path? On my way to the crossing, I saw that way down just before a curve hid the Trail, there was another patch of snow. Fearing that it got worse from there to Roy Street, I kept straight, following the Union Street leg of the Heritage Trail to Chestnut, where I climbed the hill and blundered through to King's Highway/Pierceton Road, which I followed to Packerton Road and eventually got onto my original route. At the intersection of 200S and County Farm, I was reluctant to continue straight without first consulting my map (and I was, I confess, somewhat less enthusiastic about wandering through the countryside than I'd been before going around three sides of a trapezoid to avoid Heritage Trail), so I turned onto County Farm and followed it to Union Street, which is the way I go to Dr. Hollar's office. Attempting to cut through Boggs Industrial Park to Zimmer Road, I found myself in a residential area instead. At Letter and Tippecanoe -- the street sign and the map I carry on my bike said it was Letter; Google Maps and the Chamber of Commerce map agree that it was Reader. Well where-ever it was, I got off the bike, changed my shoes, consulted the map, and discovered that I was only a few yards from Lake Street. Dollar store, gun shop, lunch at Penguin Point, and Avilla is just around the corner. In addition to the Baggies, I bought a bag of "chili and lemon fried potatoes" and a container of crema, helpfully glossed as "sour cream". The one I chose was darker than the plain, as if a hint of caramel had been mixed in, and the adjective modifying "crema" reminded me of "almond", so I thought it was a dessert sauce. In natural light the color is a faint pink, and the crema has a very subtle taste of chili. The lemon-chili chips are very good dipped in it. I think it would also be very good on Annette the Great Dane's oat cakes, but I didn't want to bake biscuits on a day when I'm making pizza (not to mention that by the time I thought of it, waiting for the oven to heat and biscuits to bake would have made for a *very* late lunch) so I made a rolled-oat pancake for lunch, and the crema *was* very good on it. Once again, I took a lap around the jail before finding Owen's West. I know quite well that Owen's extends from Center Street to Market Street, but I always look for it on Main. Bought salad and a bag of shredded mozzarella. Served both at supper tonight. And I've already mentioned the stop at Warsaw Health Foods, where I didn't buy oat bran. Home well before four; I didn't note either departure or return precisely. I noticed a lot of fresh streaks of molasses on the streets during the last leg of the tour. Living in the future! You can't salt streets on the day before. /Ride Report [housewifery snipped] The snowfall developed nicely late in the day. No wind that we've noticed; great heaps of snow on the raised beds and patio furniture. Spouse left the patio lights on in case someone looks at his IP cams during the night. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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On Mar 6, 5:15*pm, Joy Beeson wrote:
4 March 2013 And I've already mentioned the stop at Warsaw Health Foods, where I didn't buy oat bran. Do you not have oatmeal, not rolled oats, to make porridge? Seems to be very good at pulling heavy-metals IME. Same thing seems to occur when mashing malt for brewing beer. Any metal tang which occurs in extract brews is non-existent in mashed brews despite not filtering or otherwise treating the water first. I mostly use bottled spring-water to make porridge, teas, soups etc. Tap water (soft, acid surface water) here is atrocious for heavy-metal loading. |
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Banana bites
Most of three over-ripe bananas, mashed. Honey to taste, stirred into the bananas with the masher. Lick & wash masher. Two eggs, beaten into the banana mixture with a spoon. One cup oat bran, stirred into the wet ingredients. One cup red-wheat flour, not stirred but left floating. Two teaspoons baking powder, on top of the flour. One-half teaspoon salt (more or less according to taste) on top of the baking powder. Beat thoroughly and divide into two dozen generously-buttered muffinlet cups. Use real butter. (If none is available, use salad oil.) Bake at 350F (moderate). Probably half an hour, start checking after fifteen minutes. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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On Mar 21, 6:59*am, Joy Beeson wrote:
Banana bites Most of three over-ripe bananas, mashed. Honey to taste, stirred into the bananas with the masher. Lick & wash masher. Two eggs, beaten into the banana mixture with a spoon. One cup oat bran, stirred into the wet ingredients. One cup red-wheat flour, not stirred but left floating. Two teaspoons baking powder, on top of the flour. One-half teaspoon salt (more or less according to taste) on top of the baking powder. Beat thoroughly and divide into two dozen generously-buttered * * * * muffinlet cups. *Use real butter. *(If none is available, * * * * use salad oil.) Bake at 350F (moderate). * Probably half an hour, start checking after * * * * fifteen minutes. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net Interesting recipe. I did mange to find some yummy on the go feed bars by Fabulous Bakin' Boys, their Apple 'n Oat, but don't seem to be available right now.. Have to track them down, or make my own. I don't know about that red-wheat flour in your recipe and it doesn't seem to be a good time for bananas. I got some dried banana chips but they are coated in a sickly confection, I might try washing the junk off. Thinking on about the oat bran, it is indigestible so it is the part which pulls the heavy metals. Been having black pudding and brose for breakfast. The brose made with medium oatmeal, Bovril and buttercream, it's tops. Have to get myself some bran too and clean out my grey and cold legs. Buttered leeks with a little raw carrot for dinner. No-one will put me off the butter, nor make me stray from the natural herbs. I wouldn't be bothering with the oatmeal only I keep missing out on the good fruit. Two big pomegranates and 6 kiwi-fruit was the only ripe stuff at last shop. I've 2 dozen kiwi which are going to take another 2 weeks to soften. Plums are poor but edible from other week, Grapefruit OK, boat-apples are not ripening. I should have looked around for oranges, they disappear fast as they are best value right now. |
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