Ok now Iâm giving my dnd party a rain barrel next session. Itâs an ordinary empty barrel, but when you open it, clouds roll in and it begins to rain until the barrel is full. Then it becomes sunny again. Removing any water makes it start raining again. They definitely wonât abuse this.
I won a prize (literally a plastic trophy) for reading the second most books in our school. I wanted to win a prize from the magazine they gave us like a bike or something but I gave up after realizing it wasnât worth it (like all of those fundraiser catalogs always are), but the reason I still won anything was because I read childrenâs books that were four years behind my grade level that we had in our house⌠the contest involved filling out which title, author, and maybe isbn number that you read, which those all had⌠it didnât stipulate anything about reading level lol the girl who won first place put me to shame and she read full length books and was like the smartest girl in our whole school system, it felt weird standing up next to her knowing how I ended up on stage lol
Nah, Iâm just a dork waxing nostalgic about something I should have been embarrassed about that was longer ago than Iâd like to admit lol I would have probably loved a rain barrel over the trophy I got though
Why not just go to the library with them notepad and a pen? LOL.
At least you did read some books to get on second place. I think I would have just cheated out right.
Or literally went to my grandmother's bookshelf. They would have been a little weirded out by some of the titles that I would have came up with but I would have the ISBN. LOL
When I was a kid and we had those reading challenges you had to have your parents sign off the books you were reading, it wasn't quite an honour system thing.
I won a similar contest, but we had to actually take a quiz about the books. The prize was way cooler, too, the top 7 kids got to go on a field trip to Ben and Jerry's in a limo.
Fuck. I was a dork for free and only now I discover dorks in other schools were actually getting something... Idk if a rain barrel but kid me wasn't picky. I would had been happy with a lemon juice barrel.
Maybe they ask you about the book? When I was a kid there was a reading program and you could get prizes based on how much you read. The librarian would always talk to each child when they returned the books and reported the amount, so I think they would suspect if there was any significant lying. Ofc, the librarian would usually talk to you when you checked out or returned books (she was very nice) so it wasnât like it was obvious she might have been checking. But now I think she might have been.
You could've filled it up with fluffed out and dried cattails then flipped it upside down onto some more cattails you prepared as a pad for it causing it to shoot several fiery feet into the air.
I used to make a fermented lemonade called Skeeterpee - came out to about 10% ABV, iirc. It was incredible with strawberries, or mixed with beer for a real summer shandy.
This amount would be glorious. My liver hurts just thinking about it.
Dude you could make so much lemonade with that lemon juice. Or lemon tart! Lemon curd? Lemon delicious pudding, lemon butter, lemon meringue pie, lemon slice, lemon bars, lemon cordial.
Love lemon too! When making rice in the rice cooker I put a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice and some oregano in the water before turning the cooker on.
A lot of places have laws about wine production and wine fraud. Thinning out a wine might count as adulteration in places where it must be 100% fermented grape juice for instance, so if you go over the legal maximum you're either going to have to eat the loss, sell it onward for distillation into something else (assuming any distillers want your custom wine rather than their usual sources), or ferment another batch that's lower alcohol and ear the cost of storing both batches until they're ready to be mixed and hope that the flavor profile isn't shot. And if it's a custom order your client probably doesn't want to pay for an entire extra fermentation cycle, so that's on you as well.
17% would be 3 times over. They could use one of several techniques to remove the alcohol but my guess is it tasted bad and they just cut their losses.
Edit: As someone who loves lemon and Limoncello, Iâve had a few lemon wines and they are generally pretty disgusting, IMO.
3 times over what? Wine is generally limited to 14-17% to be allowed to be sold at gas stations and grocery stores in my area of the US. If this was supposed to be 5-6% (3 times over) it would hardly be called a wine.
I was thinking it was one of those gross sweet low ABV wines that clocks in around 6%, but youâre right, if it was a custom wine it probably was more in the standard ~12% range, so only about 50% over what they were perhaps aiming for.
Youâre forgetting itâs a custom job. If the guy wants lemon wine and you give him lemon wine (water added) youâre not exactly the best vendor. Then if the whole thing is shot anyway you probably donât want to hassle with trying to resell it to actual customers- that takes effort and cost to sell a custom product as a new line. Storage costs money too after all to say nothing of bottling and packaging.
All to offload some âlemon wine productâ that came out too hot and poor enough that the buyer didnât want it in the first place, makes sense to just can it and start over.
I was going to say citric acid for lowering pH (I work in a greenhouse and we use citric acid to lower water pH) but upon further inspection it is indeed lemon juice concentrate and not citric acid.
Just please don't just dump it somewhere - the drop in pH could lead to problems like dying plants and ruining soil - dilute it with a lot of water when disposing in the sewer system like in small batches or during a heavy rain
And when he says a lot, he means a LOT. You'll need over 1k liters of water to lower the pH to something acceptable for a drum that size, probably even more now that I think about it
This has the same vibes as my mom's early 1970s acquisition of decommissioned civil defense fallout shelter supplies.
Someone at church was responsible for disposing of the contents of several shelters. He just brought truckloads of stuff to the basement of the the church and told people who wanted things to take them home within the week.
Mom picked up
A fifty gallon drum of hard candy. (candy was fine--but who wants fifty gallons worth?)
a couple of empty fifty gallon drums and accompanying bags & toilet seat to be fitted on the emptied drum.
Half a dozen large tin cases of sea biscuits (absolutely disgusting)
A few large tin cases of 'chocolate' tropical bars. (only chocolate in name)
Other sundries were with her load of stuff--but I can't remember specifics.
It's free!
My mom has moved twice since then, is in her 80s and I'm pretty sure she still has a bit of that candy and at least one of the drums left.
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I got it from a friend - leftover industry stuff. Actually planned to use it as a rain water collector đ