There are many of us who are disabled and can fully relate to your situation! I can't do anything that would require standing up or kneeling down. If it can't be done sitting at a table, it just won't get done. But there are plenty of wonderful smaller scale projects that can keep you busy. Best of all, they don't require a lot of room for storage either! It's all about working smarter rather than harder. Not a lot of problem for a creative mind to come up with some wonderful ideas. Thanks so much for sharing your site! I love the natural birdbath, the teapots (especially that Miss Piggy!), the dripping birdbath (great idea to keep the water moving to discourage mosquitoes), and the potting benches (wonderful way to use an old sink). I hope you plan to stick around this time so that we can see more of your work! jiju, what a horrible ordeal you went through! I can relate to the tiny space for gardening. I find that a lot of my garden junk needs to hang. I hope you post some of your GJ ideas for tiny spaces.

They are In my yard, too, but aren't a bother. I hope they are living somewhere else than your personal space. The honey bee population seems to be making a comeback, the population had declined due to a parasite that was causing colony collapse disorder.

Thank-you for the explanation about the scaling on the website. I'm sorry I maligned a fictive editor! I was just trying to make the amounts match and thought the second addition was an error too. :) If there had been a single measure of honey and the directions had said "half of the honey" it would have been clearer and worked better on the scaling. Oh, well. Scaling a recipe you've never made can be dangerous even if you think through every ingredient. My mother's challah recipe, which I've made the most, and made for decades, makes three loaves, and it's much better to make three loaves and freeze two than to try to make it work for a single loaf. One thing to remember in baking bread is that recipes often fail the first time you make them, especially while you're developing expertise. There are so many variations in flour, kitchen climate and oven climate, that a recipe is really a starting point, not an absolute. I'd also follow the recipe exactly once to get a better idea of what it's supposed to be before changing the ingredients. After that, remember that when you make changes, you're not following the recipe, and you're relying on some very precise chemical and biological reactions not to care. Keep in mind that you're making an experiment, not a recipe, and that there are things that may be going wrong. I've been doing that almost weekly for the last year, and learning a lot from it about what reactions such changes bring, It's fun! But if your point is to make a good recipe and have a good loaf of bread, do start by actually making the recipe. I have all kinds of ideas of how to proceed and tried writing them out, but I realized I'm not expert enough to make them make sense. It sounds like it might be overrisen, underbaked, or perhaps baked at too low a temperature. Do you have an oven thermometer? Re soaking, if you're trying to adjust the nutrients of the whole wheat, you should do at least 8 hrs. and with some acid (I found a jar of vitamin C crystals easy to find and use a pinch of that, but normal kitchens acids will work). Adding extra liquid for it might have required a little extra baking too. I've found that even if a soaker seems very dry, when I mix everything together, it's fully hydrated and doesn't need an addition of water. This is true even when I knead the ingredients together by hand. My best advice is to decide on a few small adjustments, try again, and see what happens. :)

On another flight the child behind me was almost constantly kicking the back of my seat. His mother did notice and several times and said "Don't kick the back of the seat, its not very nice" the kids response each time was to kick the back of my seat more violently and more frequently for a minute or two. And the mother's response was nothing. Then later at the end of the flight, the flight attendant came by a couple of times and asked the child "Are you done with that glass? I can take it." To which the child petulantly responded "No! I want it!" Which is fine. However the last time the attendant said "You have to give the glass to me now, so I can finish the final sweep of the cabin." Which is a command, not a request. Again the child petulantly responded, "No! I want it!", pulling away as the attendant reached for it. Which is not fine, and in fact refusal to comply with the directions of a flight attendant is a violation of federal law. The attendant explained she needed to finish the final sweep of the cabin before the pilot was allowed to land, the mother tried to talk and coax and wheedle and bargain with the child for about 30 seconds, the child's response was to kick the mother, kick my seat, scream some more, and squirm to prevent the glass from being taken. At that point I undid my seat belt, stood up, reach over the back of the seat, and plucked the glass from the child's hands, and handed it to the flight attendant. She thanked me, and finished the going through the last few rows of the cabin, reported in, and within 30 seconds the pilot started the final parts of the landing process. Meanwhile the mother is ranting at me about touching her kid, (I didn't touch him), defending her complete lack of parenting, and threatening to file a complaint with the airline about me or file assault charges against me. The worst of it though is a burly moron from the row behind her took up her cause, joined in with verbally attacking me, and then even proceeded to follow me through the terminal, asserting he was a lawyer, threatening to file charges on her behalf, and threatening to assault me to see how I liked it. So to answer the original posting, when I stop giving a child "a pass" for their bad behavior, is certainly when the child's behavior is breaking federal law, and (very slightly) endangering everyone around them.