May 14, 2025
Life

Dehydrated Eggs

UPDATE: This did not go as planned. I was not able to get enough moisture out to get the eggs to grind into a powder. We get so many eggs that we cannot keep up with them. During the winter, we have none. I have tried water glassing some eggs and now I am going […]

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Water Glassing Eggs
Homesteading

Water Glassing Eggs

Too busy to write up a proper blog post but here is a page with instructions and a picture of the two dozen eggs I water glassed. Ask me in the winter how it came out.

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Compiling XTrackCAD for macOS
Computing

Compiling XTrackCAD for macOS

The official build instructions are located on the XTrkCAD Model RR Track Planner Wiki. These are my working instructions for building. I am still fine tuning these. Prerequisites Install Xcode. Install Xcode Command Line Tools. Install XQuartz. Install MacPorts. Install the following ports from the Terminal using the command sudo port install [portname] for each […]

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Fermented Carrots
Fermenting, Homesteading

Fermented Carrots

We made some fermented carrots a bit ago and they came out quite well. We followed the instructions from Farmhouse on Boone and added five crushed cloves of garlic. Today, I am trying it with a couple tablespoons of Ball Mixed Pickling Spice. Seems Ball is not producing this spice mix anymore. If it turns […]

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O Tannenbaum
Life

O Tannenbaum

Behind on decorating but got our tree on Thanksgiving weekend. Fixing lights was quite the chore. Think I need to go buy some strings after Christmas when they are marked down.

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