Salsa: the secret for everything.

Not gonna hide it. Salsa is the way. Salsa is love. Salsa is life. Got it? Good. I’m not just referring to food here. And yes, I use salsa to liven up a lot of dishes. It’s fast, simple, gets you most of your veggies for one meal, doesn’t require a fridge to store, and…

Five meal tips if you don’t have a fridge

Food uncertainty can strike anywhere, anyone, anytime. And in this particular time of heightened costs and inflation (it’s 2022 as of this post), sometimes you need to stretch your budget and expectations a little. Even if you aren’t suffering pangs of hunger, these “recipes” can help stretch your food budget or even just add a…

No warping just a little checking

Hey, folks. Nothing like a long break to make you question whether you’re motivated to keep woodworking or not.  A brief update: I’ve taken a new job which has the benefit of allowing me to afford new things and materials, but the drawback of not enough time to do anything after work is done. I…

PVC, the WWE, and me

One of the problems I have always had with using hand tools is me.  My cuts, specifically.  They never end up straight.  Now, I know that there are things to be done afterwards to clean up the cut, and I am ok with that.  But it helps if you start straight to end up straight. You…

Copper Tiki Time

I was inspired by a post I saw on Pintrest to create a Tiki torch out of copper pipe.  It was when I was almost done with the torch, and referred back to the source project list, that I realized I had done a step that the original didn’t do: I had soldered the torch…

Resolved: time has passed

I’ll make this one quick, due to the late nature of the time I’m writing this.  (Yes, there are several layers of puns in this statement.) I normally don’t do New Year’s Resolutions.  For one, it’s kind of presumptuous to think you’ll know everything you need to change and begin it on day one of…