My Friday is jinxed. Or at least my ability to install new fonts is. Why? It's not a complicated process.
I found an old deck of tarot cards.
I need to purchase some new fabric and more flash cards. I used to have an old set for the Arabic alphabet, but I don't know where they've gone. I did find the deck I got at Huang Shan in Anhui. They have pictures of the mountain and captions like "Huangshan magic world" and "Erect double peaks."
Mark and I inherited a little grill, thanks to Sarah and Joe. Sunday we'll go buy some charcol. Anyone have charcol advice?
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why are you buying new fabric? i like your new profile pic. have fun grilling. i miss you.
Use the kind of charcoal that doesn't need kindling, you can just light it with matches. I think it's called self-lighting charcoal or something like that (though now that I write it out, that doesn't sound right. Self-lighting charcoal?) It's much easier to get the fire going with that stuff.
I don't know if it has an environmental impact worse than regular charcoal. If it does, please ignore my advice.
1)Buy regular charcoal and charcoal lighter fluid.
2)Stack the charcoal in a cone shape.
3)Douse coals with fluid and let it soak for a couple minutes.
4)Spray a little more fluid and light carefully.
5)When the majority of the coals are grey spread them out so they all turn grey.
*It takes about a half hour for the coals to turn grey.
Thanks for the advice y'all. I will research the benefits of self-lighting vs regular charcaol. I'm all excited about being able to do stuff like...um, smoke fish, but first I have to deal with the charcoal.
RE fabric. I collect it, not as much as you do, Jessica, but I have stashes of it hidden away for the day I get a sewing machine again.
i don't really collect it. i just drool over it. though after foursquare i will have lots of scraps of various things; i can make a quilt perhaps.
mmmm smoked fish!
The Crowley Deck is the only deck.
you won't need fluid is you get a charcoal chimney, which i use often. you dump a whack of charcoal in the chimney (they are maybe 18" high) put some old paper beneath it, lite the papers and come back in 20 minutes. then dump-n-grill.
then again, i may be a tad late on this subject.
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