Friday, October 27, 2017

Some Summer Shots

Pinedale, Wyoming dinner by the lake!  Kathy and I having a great dinner and a great view.



Grand Junction, Colorado!





Me at Flaming Gorge, UT:)


Kathy watching the salmon run.


 Kathy in the vineyard.





Salt Lake, Utah

Friday, October 20, 2017

Saving on Coffee and Tea by going back to the basics!

Saving on Coffee and Tea by going back to the basics!

Today Kathy and I use 2 K cup makers one for coffee and one for her tea.  When we first got married in the 80's she often used tea bags or loose tea and I had just switch from a stove top percolator to a drip coffee maker.  Over the decades we switched to K-Cups.  Since coffee oil remains after a K-Cup is made it goes into the next cup "often" tea (I am often up first) which hurts the tea flavor, so we ended up buying two makers.  Now that we are down sizing to go full time RVing in another year I am coming back full circle (Kathy is considering it:)).


I would like to return to the basics, one stove top tea pot, tea bags and a simple coffee brewer like the one I an showing here. Got it and a pack of filters for it for under $5.00.  Of course you can use paper towels as filters in a pinch as well:) .  Plus a can of coffee which I can by for under $5.00.


Using this set up with a tea pot reduces the storage space we now use (2 K Cup units) by 75%, in an RV every bit helps.



Friday, October 13, 2017

Working on a Distiller for sea water

Working on a Sea Water a Distiller

 Cost three bucks at the Dollar store for the three bowls the red one is just over 11 inches.  Dirty water set in the bottom of the red bowl then the clear dome on top.


 After a few hours in the sun it is starting to distilling.


After four hours I got a quarter cup of clean distilled water.  I think I lost a maybe a quarter cup of the water back in the dirty water basin because of the flat top.


Here I stacked the three in each other for storage.  I figure the best results from this would be about a cup a day.   So back to the drawing board:)
I do know I can dig a hole on the beach.  Put a cup in the center and place a plastic clear sheet over the hole. Add a small weight in the middle over the cup or container and get freshwater this way as well.  I just want to try other ways:)

Friday, October 6, 2017

Making a Cookie Cutter

Making a cookie cutter and using my solar stove to cook some more red beans and rice to go with our crab and shrimp.



 I find it easy to make a cookie cutter and to add mushrooms to my morning eggs and cheese.


 Cut both ends off the can and remove the wrapper and you now have a great cutter:)