The project du jour is freezing carrots. Carrots are not normally a strong crop for me but this year, for whatever reason, all the seeds I planted and the plants I thinned and replanted survived. So we ended up with hundreds of carrots. We use the most by shredding and making carrot salad but almost any other way you can deal with them is on our radar. One of our favorites is to add shredded carrots to pasta sauce. Sounds weird but very tasty. And this is the kind of project that works well in isolation – nothing better to do.
The project after the carrots is making our own hand sanitizer liquid. There was an article in the paper describing a method using aloe verde gel, isopropyl alcohol, and a few drops of essential oil or lemon juice. We have aloe plants growing all over the place with a couple really large ones in the garden. The ratio of aloe gel to alcohol is 1:4 with about 6 drops of lemon juice just in case you want to try it.
I’m gaining some level of confidence with the iPad and can now play sudoku or watch TV shows and movies that Tom has loaded. Before long I’ll be downloading new stuff myself. Right now I’m gaining confidence in my ability to use Google Maps to navigate. What I didn’t ever understand was that the “contact” application on my Mac was used in other applications such as google maps so I was quite sloppy in filling in the contact info. Because of that, I was unable to find addresses that were in the contact app – just incorrectly installed. I spent an hour or so yesterday going thru the Contacts to clean them up and get rid of contacts that no longer had any relevance. I’m going to try it out today letting the machine navigate us to Publix in Daytona. Of course we have a closer Publix but we’re in no rush and this lets me get some time messing with the maps app. And more time out and about. So this trip could be considered a
“double” essential – one to get food and one to get some experience with the iPad. And Nancy’s friend Esther bought her some quilting material the other day so we have to go by her house and pick it up. This will really give the navigator an essential test.
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