Paul's Journal

10/26/2014 23:14 #59519

Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens
Category: pittsburgh

We went to the pittsburgh botanical gardens last week. Like everything else we did it Pittsburgh it just makes me want to move there.

metalpeter - 11/02/14 18:58
Nice Photos in those it seems to have a different feel if that makes any sense the Buffalo one

tinypliny - 10/26/14 23:41
These are SUCH lovely pictures!!

And since you are contrasting - how is Pittsburgh's botanical garden better than Buffalo's? :)

10/26/2014 23:07 #59515

Pumpkin Carving
Category: halloween

We hosted a pumpkin carving extravaganza on Saturday night. This year we have a lot of variable size pumpkins instead of one monolithic one. I miss the big one but it still looks cute. They did a great job.

tinypliny - 10/26/14 23:54
V cool pumpkins :)

tinypliny - 10/26/14 23:41
V. cool!

10/26/2014 23:00 #59512

Merry Christmas Bottle Collectors
Category:

I got tired of waiting for someone to pick them up as they piled up in the back hall and decided to free them into the world of outdoor bottle collection. Some happy poor person is going to have a full shopping cart. Can we write this off as giving to charity?

metalpeter - 11/02/14 19:00
Oh looks like drinking those was a lot of fun ..... Some people do not like to put them out cause it encourages people to like look for them or come on your property ... But if you put them out when they pick up recycling they vanish and wow that is a lot and that is a good thing ....

tinypliny - 10/26/14 23:55
that's a lot of booze through your collective systems.

10/26/2014 22:58 #59511

Homemade Fruit Rollups?
Category: food

Last weekend at the Clinton Bailey Market I got some concord grapes and made fruit Rollups out of them.

I manually removed the seeds, then blended the remains into a puree. Then I added a black plum, and some chopped apple to thicken it up. Purréed it some more and then cooked it down till it thickened. I added a bit of sugar, a cinnamon stick and almond extract.

Then I poured the hot paste onto a sheet of parchment paper and put it in the oven on dehydrate mode.

After it was dry I threw it in the freezer with the paper which made it real easy to get off the paper.

It's definately worth trying.

sina - 11/01/14 14:59
IS this like "lavashak"? :::link::: :::link::: :::link:::

joe - 10/27/14 00:07
So good though

tinypliny - 10/26/14 23:56
So much work!! :)

10/26/2014 22:52 #59510

Dusty Furnace
Category: cleaning

We spent the entire day cleaning the house for the party on Friday. While cleaning the vents I saw the furnace grates are patented for 1875. I wonder when they were made.