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That does sound familiar, but early in the trades we used it to seal forced air ducts. I've also heard it called 100mph tape. Do you know how it got that name?

Does it expire/die? I bought about 20 packs of ec1118 and stuck them in the butter shelf in the fridge, but it's been a couple months. How long will they be viable?

I mixed the strawberry mead with my mango wine for a strawberry mango creation. WOW! It was excellent.

Still very sweet nearly 2 months later, pitched yeast again and 3 treatments of 1oz of nutrients, and low alcohol content. Measurement is 1.050, barely any progress. It seemed active when it was going for the first week, then basically stalled. Is it a lost cause at this point, nearly 2 months...

I didn't get a picture of measurements, but 10 gallons measured 0.95, a hearty 18%. 18 bottles of strawberry and 17 bottles of blueberry.

I finished my last house battery last night. What a nightmare, but i'm glad it's done. 90kwh of power in total.

That's big, these were barely 8-10" long. Cleaned and gutted and a rod run up the middle and over the fire for a bit. I'm not even sure thhey were all the way cooked half hte time. My mother called the fish brain food. You had to be smart enough to not eat the bones or you'd get real sick from...

I did the same thing. I was pretty bad at scaling, ended up eating a lot of scales. We had a little river, took a handful of frozen corn. neighbor kid and i would ride our bikes down. Walk through a field of itch weed. Any time it touched your skin it would start itching immediately. Made it to...

What did you catch? I used to fish a lot as a youth, and i cooked and ate what I caught, but it wasn't very good.

25/27 eggs hatched. Vaccinated for marek's, now they're sitting in the tub. I'll admit i was not confident going in. But now that it's done, I feel a lot better about it.

Guard cat.

You shall not pass.

Good to know, thanks. Having seen marek's disease wipe out entire flocks, and all my birds vaccinated against it from the hatchery, i figure it's probably a good idea. The vaccine is temperamental though. It's only viable for an hour after rehydration so you have to move quickly.

It looks like I'm in a bit of a pickle. Hatch day is friday. My kids graduation is saturday about 3 hours away so i'll be gone pretty much the whole day. This is my first time hatching chicks, so I'm not entirely sure what to expect. Sure I've watched so many youtubes on it, but until you've...

I took one of my recent meads, which was a bit on the dry side, with one of my mango wines, which was a bit on the sweet side, and I mixed them 50/50. Also 5 carb tablets on the mango. The result is pretty ideal.