I cheated!
10 years ago
I made a box cake today. Turned out pretty darn good for a box!! I'm not good at swirling the frosting either...
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Comments (7)Chad, Thanks again for your great idea to balance the height of the two windows. We will be using your idea if we go for the extra window in the kitchen. I say if, as we are now struggling a bit with how to rearrange things in the kitchen layout to give up the wall for the extra window. Hopefully we will find a kitchen layout solution that allows for the extra window. In the meantime, my second option is to buy a transom to go over the short window and put them in the laundry room. This window/transom would be over a table so the window alone is too high to be seen when seated. Do you have any tricks for after the fact for mulling a window and transom together? For example, with the top jam extension (sorry if that is not what it is called) for the window and lower jam extension for the transom can they somehow be joined into one jam? In other words, can we cut out one, and place one inbetween the two windows. I do apologize if this idea is crazy, but I wanted to see what the best solution would be for joining the two. BTW, our ceilings are just 8 foot for what it's worth. Carol...See MoreWas I cheated on my quartzite?
Comments (2)Hmm. Actual quartzite will not etch. If your stone is truly etching, then my first guess is that you got a "quartzite" that is actually marble or dolomitic marble. Many stoneyards don't even know the difference, so I don't know if that counts as cheating or as them just being clueless and passing their cluelessness on to you. As for the rock coming apart, that could happen with either quartzite or marble. As Green Designs mentioned, if a rock is dis-aggregating, that is a result of the rock not being "stuck together" very well. This can happen almost regardless of what the rock is made of. Some quartzites are not particularly well stuck together, some are perfect, and others are so well-cemented that they chip rather than fall apart. So that is a separate issue, independent of rock type. On the etching though, I'd do some further investigation. Do you have any leftover pieces you can put lemon juice on? Also, can you post an overall view of your countertop? It sort of looks like quartz sandstone to me. That would be the un-metamorphosed version of quartzite, and yes, that would have a tendency to disaggregate. However we have a quartz sandstone in our kitchen, so I am in favor of that rock, on principle. Hope this helps! Karin...See MoreComparison (Was I cheated out?)
Comments (6)True. And I did ask about the conditions for growing their Blushing Giants. My e-mails always went unanswered, so I assumed it was something of a trade secret. Nice Guttata. Pretty pretty. :) I bought my Blushing Giant because I saw the pic on RFI's site, too. The plant I got then was VERY similar to the one on site, and they showed me a second one to choose from which looked slightly different but had enough similarities for me to identify them as the same plant. The leaves were soft, like those possessed by an extremely well watered Streptophylla (I water mines every day.) The leaves, when old/damaged/or dry, crinkle in a certain noticeable way, and there are often large spaces between the base of the leaves. The base of the leaves also often have a dark cast the closer they are to the bottom. Perhaps my original photo isn't as sharp as I'd like to be (understatement) so I'd like to use other people's photos to illustrate. This photo of bertoxvx'd tumbler page shows a B.G. in fair detail. While my B.G. doesn't have such long leaves, I can see enough here to tell that they are indeed Blushing Giants. Same springy leaves, coloration, contours of leaves from tip down to the base. Grown (fairly) right side up the Blushing Giant will produce this shape. Positioned upside down and the leaves will try to point in the direction of the sun, sticking close to the body while the tips gradually bend over backwards in their quest to see the light. The result resembles something closer akin to a pine cone found on the floor. Not cute at all. When I received my second Giant a few months later I immediately had doubts. It's leaves were sturdy and fairly rigid; they weren't springy, nor were their color anything as dark as the above. I thought it resembled more an ehlersiana type. Later I would find I was right. This is what my second one looks exactly like in a detailed photo courtesy of wildsky.net. This is a Tillandsia Ty. Maybe it is hard to see, but there is hardly any open space between the leaves. It's leaves are VERY numerous and long, quite rigid at the base, and they terminate in easily sun burnt reddish/purple tassels. Its root base is a bit of a mess; about a dozen small leaves intermingle in perfect disharmony with the roots, so unlike the Blushing Giant (clean; no leaves obstruct the root base.) Growing this plant upside down or right side up doesn't seem to influence its shape in any noticeable form. I guess they are similar in appearance, but to me they are too different to be confused for the same....See MoreMy wife knows I'm cheating...
Comments (17)Okay, just had a peek. Indeed the lighter green one is clausa, just look at how it circles the 2-gallon pot, and there's a 'Ray of Hope' in front of it. Having said that I really should be referring to RoH as 'Rollercoaster Ride'. Why you ask? It's like this, I received it as RoH about 8 years ago or so but over the years it has gone from streaked to variegated and that makes it RR. Much better results than the 'Ice Age Trail' I received in the same shipment, it's pretty much all reverted back to 'Big Daddy'... Pieter...See More- 10 years ago
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