More posts about buildings and food

There is a very disturbing crack in the brickwork of our apartment, at the corner of the building where our bedroom is. You would think that a building that's been here since the '40s would have done all the settling it was going to do already, wouldn't you? I'm trying to figure out if a vehicle or other large object could have actually struck the building and caused that (when we weren't home or something).

I haven't seen the Pillar of Terrible Light recently. I suspect it will begin recurring when we get close to equinox; at least, the setting sun will be at about the same angle to the architecture as it was when it was showing up the last time. Not looking forward to that, much as I'm eager for the Harvest cycle to be fully underway (and for the heat to break).

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I'm still getting used to the new bread machine. Its rise cycles are shorter than I'm used to, by about twenty minutes each. I'm not sure if I need to compensate by adding more yeast, or if I just need to default to the longer cycle. (On the previous machine, a long cycle was 3 hours 40 minutes, and a short cycle was 2 hours 30 minutes, for a 1.5 lb. loaf. On this one, the long cycle is 3 hours 5 minutes and the short cycle is 2 hours 10 minutes.) On the other hand, this one does a much more thorough kneading than the old one.

A recipe, just because:

( Pasta with summer vegetable cream sauce )

More posts about buildings and food

There is a very disturbing crack in the brickwork of our apartment, at the corner of the building where our bedroom is. You would think that a building that's been here since the '40s would have done all the settling it was going to do already, wouldn't you? I'm trying to figure out if a vehicle or other large object could have actually struck the building and caused that (when we weren't home or something).

I haven't seen the Pillar of Terrible Light recently. I suspect it will begin recurring when we get close to equinox; at least, the setting sun will be at about the same angle to the architecture as it was when it was showing up the last time. Not looking forward to that, much as I'm eager for the Harvest cycle to be fully underway (and for the heat to break).

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I'm still getting used to the new bread machine. Its rise cycles are shorter than I'm used to, by about twenty minutes each. I'm not sure if I need to compensate by adding more yeast, or if I just need to default to the longer cycle. (On the previous machine, a long cycle was 3 hours 40 minutes, and a short cycle was 2 hours 30 minutes, for a 1.5 lb. loaf. On this one, the long cycle is 3 hours 5 minutes and the short cycle is 2 hours 10 minutes.) On the other hand, this one does a much more thorough kneading than the old one.

A recipe, just because:

( Pasta with summer vegetable cream sauce )