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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Truck stop dessert

It,s really whenever you feel like callig it but  when the truck stops that's all I need to know
This is my truck stop dessert
When going across country my tractor was set up the same as an RV
I could never see paying the high cost of over the counter prices for something that I could do myself 
And The  availability of a Walmart and other grocery stores along my route always helps out a lot
If you have more than one guest each one gets their own cup individually made with the same as the recipe below

Start out with 1fresh banana. (Do  not use canned fruit)
Slice it and put it in here.       (We almost  never leave the grocery store without one)
 Add 1 1/2.packets  Of  Quality dark sugar
Split the butter and add

Add half of syrup
I will add about five raspberries or five blueberries which ever you have you can use any non-canned fruit
Cook in your  microwave for about   75 seconds ((remember heat temperature difference))
When you see it starting to bubble let it bubble for about 8 to 10 seconds then take it out 
 After it's cooked 
You can add  your favorite yogurt.   (You can add ice cream but think of the health concerns)
You like something cold on it after you cook it try

Your  favorite fruit   On top        ( M & M are at your option)

From start to finish it might take you six minutes
Bananas are only .59. A pound and you're only using one
your yogat you can get that for about $.88 at any store
The rest of the stuff comes free just ask
Next time your going to a grocery store feel free to price check  something close to your creation


Monday, October 26, 2015

mesti jį į puodą

Well I got to thinking everybody around here have some kind of a cold or the flu and everything else and the best thing to do is to make chicken soup so we're going to make grandma's chicken soup 
Well her philosophy was     mesti jį į puodą     its food 
But I didn't know that at the time being a very very young boy living a sheltered life. In the countryside on the beach,,, I didn't realize where a lot of the stuff came from.  (I couldn't drink milk for two weeks after that visual)
My grandmother and grandfather had a real small city type farm maybe at acre farm just on the outskirts of the East Brockton raising chickens couple pig geese and ducks and goats and were always bartering in the neighborhood farms 
Now my grandmother and grandfather came over from Lithuania before the war and settled in the New World my grandfather could speak three languages my grandmother would only speak one didn't want to know any other
So wherever we went up to The city to visit my mother's grandparents it was always a big deal for mom and dad  (but for me it was kind of scary because I never know who would be missing this time in the yard )
my grandmother always always had a 3 gallon pot cooking on a cast-iron coal stove so when We got there I being the youngest was always elected to help grandma stuff pot
So she would cut up carrots and hand them to me and say  Yedte,,, mesti jį į puodą,,,and I look at her and laughed my brother had to tell me what she said,,,,, Tro it in the pot
Then she cut up some potatoes and again hand them to me and say  Yedte,,, mesti jį į puodą. Look at  my brother and he say throw it in the pot
That would go along with the cabbage turnips 
whatever grandma had to cook she would,,, mesti jį į puodą
That's kind of how we got Our saying Throw it in a pot

Well lets make some chicken soup starts out pretty good 5 potatoes Peel and slice and dice 
For big fat carrots clean and chop 
Five stocks of celery wash and chop


 One can stewed tomatoes drained (get in a pod is an option)


Now I have to fast forward to my mothermy mother was an excellent cook however she lacked basic disciplined measuring spices.  Her philosophy at some of this,, some of this,,some.of this or that 
So how much did you put in that's up to you where did you go,,, mesti jį į puodą

Seeing,as how I don't live on a farm,, we do have Wal (the farm)Mart just down the street so you go get two chicken boobs Wash them slice and dice them take three chicken or beef boullon cubes and put them in microwave for 35 seconds with a 1/4 cup boiled water 

Throw the chicken and  liquid in the skillet and 
sauté the chicken until cooked
When all that's done.    mesti jį į puodą.       See how fast it took you to learn Lithuanian


Set it on the low simmer go have something to drink,,,,come back in 2 hours
if the carrots are done 
proceed to the next step

I hope you're smart enough to have some nice Italian French bread and real butter 
(Not the crap that comes in a tub) 
Wine is at your option,,,,,, remember me telling you that we were Lithuanian,,  Lithuanians wouldn't be caught dead drinking wine ,,,,,,
but the two hours waiting time you had you should have finished vodka bottle by now
Enjoy

As my mother would do she would do the financial analysis like this 

4 potatoes.                          1.25
5 carrots.                             1.25      
5 celery stocks                      .80
1 stewed tomatoe soup.     1.25
2 chicken breasts.               3.25
                                                  = 7.80.      Got 7 meals out of pot at 1.11.  Per serving
Good job Jug-go

Saturday, October 17, 2015

KAP ( Kite Aerial photography ) let it blow

I have been waiting all summer for wind which here in Florida sucks except maybe for a. Hurricane but then that's too much wind 
I'm trying to set myself up for aerial photography so in order to do that looking over not many websites in the US
But I did find some in the Netherlands ( Europe) 
So basically what I've come across is a French design called a picavet  something it was invented back in the late 1887 for  aerial photography
Some history

The first kite aerial photographs were taken by British meteorologist Douglas Archibaldin 1887[and Arthur Batut in Labruguière (France) in 1888.[3][4]

Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave (inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884) and French Captain Saconney.

The famous kite image of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake was taken by an early pioneer in KAP, George Lawrence using a large panoramic camera and stabilizing rig he designed


The contraption is very simple and the concept is even simpler

So how does it work pretty sample you allow your kite to fly out to at least 100 feet attach the kite to a fixed object walk your line down until you find a good spot to attach the picavet and then you let it lift up then you can extend as much lying out as you feel comfortable with and that's it

Reverse the process to retrieve

However unlike the guy in this photo I would like to take a picture of the front of the Windmill  he's happy taken a photo of the back that's his thing

One of the things I want to say thank you to two websites that actually have more information then I can absorb so if you're thinking about building something  like this please visit these two sites

http://www.gentles.info/KAP/index.htm

http://andrewnewtonkap.blogspot.com/search/label/lines

Thank you guys for the informative emails and your websites


So following the plans that I picked up online I was able to come up with a similar but more modern contraption


I started out making a large one that  was 12 x 12 between pulleys but after receiving emails from KAP Enthusiast and builders from Europe I remodeled my plans after B as seen in the photo so now it is 12 x 4.5
You can hang almost any camera you like off of these type of units however I'm not about to put my Canon D 60 on this type of unit
The unit that you're looking at is a motorized set up
Which has servos to change the angle uptown right or left also it has a set up where you could view Wi-Fi to your Smart phone

The second rig here is a fixed position rig set up with the timer

What I'm going to hang is my Go-Pro 3  I managed to find an expensive one on eBay
The cost of making-this picavet was really inexpensive compared to buying them over-the-counter from Netherlands the wood I got for nothing which is Birch really hard the swivels I got from a kite board surf shop at eight dollars each as for the string it is 200 pound test for one of my sled kite 

The advantage of using a go Pro 3 is the fact that I could set it up as a time exposure to take pictures as a timers  anywhere from one every second to one every five minutes I'm thinking of setting it up at one every five seconds this seems to be what most photographers use
Now all I have to do is find the right wind and the right location and no airplanes
I'm really thinking that the beach would really be nice I just have to remember that there's a  advertising  banner  airplane that likes to fly up and down the beach 
Technically I'm not allowed to go over 400 feet vertically but I have equivalent of 1300 feet of 200 pound test kite line string so if that sucker ain,t flying we're going try for some altitude
There is one gentleman up on Cape Cod that let his out to 1200 feet so basically I may put another few feet on my 1300
Just to try to top that but I have to remember one thing I have to Real it in
So before I do that I think I'm going to have to build a special Winder if I do that that's going to be for a 2000 feet job  
One would be similar to the photo however it would have to be larger and attached to my truck or a stationary object
The set up that they use across the pond basically straps to your waist depending on the wind they have an attachment that will strapped to their car or a rock or post 
The vantage of using the body attachment would be to walk up or down the beach or where you think you're going to get good photography



    So somewhere along the line will get this all straightened out and get it to fly
Even so I'm not a rocket science i'm really hoping this will become a lot of fun so stay tuned

This is an added update 


I can't find anybody that has a 3-D printer I've managed to secure the plans for this type of revolving platform for my go Pro but to build it I haven't found anybody to do it one of the things it's going to be interesting I understand that Barnes & Noble's has a  mini maker fair
I never knew what they were until the other day when my son told me about it we're by his wife works for Barnes & Noble's it's a national thing and being in every Barnes & Noble's throughout the United States the first week in November so armed with that information there's going to be a people there that have that expertise knowledge to teach the younger kids with hands-on experience so they be our new better prepared scientis
So are armed with The software  I may be able to find somebody that might be able to help me make one
What it does  up there the windmill cups turn the gears which in turn allows the bottom portion of the apparatus to turn so therefore it makes one revolution now if I set my camera and one photo every five seconds I will probably overlap a bit but it's not that bad it should give a good panoramic view
My biggest problem is where I want to fly at which down by the beach legally I can only go for 100 however I do have 1300 feet on a Spool
My biggest problem is going to be the banner planes

I'm just hoping that 1300ft the dip shit can see this thing The private  airports only. 12 miles away so I'm going to take some time and talk to them

The kites a power sled at 5 x 8 mostly used for hanging laundry as well as dragon my little ass across the beach
Although in Europe it seems like a lot of people use a rok type kite 
The history lesson 
In Japanese  a KAKU  is a kite with corners. ROK  is the word for the number six 
The one that I have is too finicky to set up,,,, it just looks pretty by itself
 Although it is a one-of-a-kind design by gentleman up on the Oregon coast
I'm looking to inquire a real Japanese KAKU






Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Sometimes you just need a different perspective

K

Well due to the fact that we have one driver out sick actually been out sick for the month which leaves me as the only driver now
                            in case you ever wonder how I feel
                                                          see photo below
                                                  That sums it up pretty good


That's how I feel after a 12 hour Dragon ass day 
The only happy side $$$$$$$$$$$