My, New to Me, Drying Rack;
I've been eyeing this beauty for years now. It came from Al's Junk Heap (DH). It's the top of an old cattle hay ring. ITS STAINLESS STEEL, so he says. He helped me dig it in to my newly established flower/herb/Mimi veggie garden. I just planted clematis on either side in hopes that it will grow up the sides. I hung some Costco baskets that I had. Then laid a foot path in the center of the stone that I got for free last year, for the taking at a stone yard that lets me go into their graveyard and take what I want (I have 4 pallets of marble, granite, and soapstone scraps for outdoor projects) DH did the hard digging :)
I can string a line across in a pinch and hang out a small load.
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Comments (7)Denise, that armadillo post is a great one!! Leave it to Florida crackers to deal with these critters (although most of them are probably transplants now.) There was one I have to share. Please don't get offended. It's just a joke that I couldn't stop belly-laughing at. RE: How did you get rid of an armadillo? * Posted by loufloralcityz9 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 1, 10 at 16:07 If you put a half pound of black powder in a baggie, insert a wick and tie it off with a bread tie. Then drop that into the 45 degree angle tube, wad up a couple of your hubby's old 'T' shirts and tamp that down at the bottom, tape the wick a couple places to the inside top of the tube leaving 2 or 3 inches sticking out, then add the worms. When you see the armadillo inside the tube poke him with a sharp stick so he will ball up, light the fuse and stand back a few feet and block your ears. That will launch the sucker clear across town and your neighbors will think it was only the kids shooting off fireworks again since it is so near the 4th of July. NOTE: There may be some puzzlement why it rained worms during the night right after the thunder clap. hope this helps, Lou Hopefully, everyone is laughing so hard that they'll forget to hate me. Sherry...See MoreMy Fabulous New Pot Rack!
Comments (18)Love the mockup! I like the single bar look. You are in good company.. Our kitchen remodel was part of our whole house rebuild and I spent way more time for the kitchen than the rest of the house. I mocked up each of the layout iterations with empty packing cartons and had a written script of use cases (morning breakfast rush, evening dinner with family, party with friends who like to help, family get togethers with family who does not help but likes to hover closeby, jam making session, summer outdoor party to test traffic from kitchen to courtyard, etc.) to test the layout. My DD loved it! DH was in awe at this side of me (he has never seen me in professional capacity) and occasionally thought I was nuts like when I measured 45deg angles to figure out if the ergonomic countertop height was 33 or 34 in. And when I did arm measurements for the main users of the kitchen to figure out the "mise en place". There was minor rebellion when I sought to measure the inverted V for ventilation(Kaseki is to blame)... from all 5 burners. We had props that we "borrowed" from real kitchen (cereal boxes, old knifes, dishes, furniture, printed labels). It came home to me when I was grocery shopping with a friend and the guy in the produce come over very excited and spoke to me in rapid Spanish and was pointing to the back. The assistant manager walked over and explained that he had saved empty cartons for me in the back alley :) oh and when the cabinets arrived, DD ran over excitedly announcing that the men are bringing the "real kitchen" :) If we are TKO in a public forum, then at home, you can only imagine..phew.. It was good to get this off the chest:)...See MoreHelp me ditch the drying rack!
Comments (58)I don't but good and/sharp knives in DW. Not good for steel and the blades can slice/damage the coating on the DW racks. We just swapped out an old (still running) fast DW for a modern, slow one. I tend to wash large bowls, cast iron, pots, and Le Creuset by hand and let air dry, hand dry, sometimes put them next to or onto the woodstove. After pans have drained even a bit, they are easy to quickly dry w a cotton towel. Sometimes I set them atop the stove if the oven is on. Pipied, those ss bowls won't dry very well in that position. IDEA: if they have loops or rings, temporarily hang them from under-counter cup hooks. You can set up a small fan or a ceramic heater on low. But really, buy a dozen quality cotton dish towels and bite the bullet. Play a mental game, or chat with your young helper for the five minutes or less in which you'll be drying. I can think of some Rube Goldberg systems if you really can't hand dry, but want that stuff of the counter.... 1. Hang each item from your clothes line after you've bought some steel line and marine snaps. 2. Have a custom made wooden rack made up with large castors. Place the pots, pans, bowls on this. Wheel it into a room where you've set up a huge industrial fan......See MoreMy DC adaptors finally arrived from China. New rack fans!
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I have a rose bush on either side of the clematis that are supposed to be easy keepers. In a few years I hope it fills in. Actually on the far side of the ring I want to put a clothes line. Years ago I had an umbrella type and that worked ok and a small footprint. Now I was thinking of the long lines stretched between 2 post. In the old days when inlaws lived here, the line was where the flower garden is now.
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