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I am beginning to obsess about coffee.. in a really GOOD way.

Anyone else here into coffee as a hobby?
I am starting to get into it more too.

I want to roast my own beans.
My wife and I are coffee junkies.
We roast our own beans now too.

It’s everything you’d dream of it being. Total freshness.

Hey I was wondering how many of you have actually tried brewing a Ginger Beer?

I just finished one as follows:
1 1/2 lb of Ginger *peeled and sliced*
1 tspn Cream tartar
5 cloves
1 lb of sugar
total 3 gallon on water

Put 1 gallon of water in a large stock pot, bring to a rolling boil. Put sugar and Tartar and cloves into the boil. Cut back heat to half of that, to a Simmer and put all of the Ginger into the pot. Cover and let simmer for 20 minutes, Cut off heat and let Steep for 1 hour.

don’t have a basement, but I’ve done a few at work before.

use some spray paint to mark out where you want your walls and sleep on it a few days to make sure that’s where you want everything and the room sizes are good. A whole lot easier to change it before you start framing.

2" rigid foam glued to the walls, with all seams taped, then stick framing (with batt insulation if you want it nice and toasty down there).

if you have the head room, 1.5" rigid foam on the floor, with all seams taped, then 1/2 ply wood over top of that will give you a nice stable insulated floor.

I’ve never made bbq’ed ribs
I can try to google recipes, but OT always comes through with the best shit

so post up how you guys cook them, in details please

I’d like em wet, no dry recipes

that’s a negative

I’ve seen stoves with a middle grill portion on FoodTV. The middle portion is just like a gas grill and they cooked meet directly on it.

Do stoves with grills exist for home use? Or does that just exist in FoodTV land since they’re on a set? I’m shopping for a stove/oven and it would rock if I could get one.
My girlfriend in college had one. It was really nice but can’t remember what brand it was. I’ll have to look into it. The owners of the house she rented renovated the house and put it in but I imagine it was somewhat pricey.

Just bought a condo and it needs a good cleaning. Smokers lived there and you can smell the smoke as soon as you walk in.

Should I rent a good machine and do it myself OR pay Stanley Steemer and have them do it? I priced Stanley Steemer and it’s $251 to clean and deoderize all the carpet in the place. I’ve been trying to price machine rental but I can’t find any prices online.

The place has two floors. I want to do the stairs but I don’t know if rental machines come with attachments to do them.

We live on a hill, and over the years a great portion of dirt has been washed away on the downhill side of our house. We recently had a very large amount of dirt dumped there, and I need to keep it there.

I didn’t plan for this, so I haven’t been saving for this project. I really don’t think I have the money to do something fancy right now, but I figured if I could find something cheap (railroad logs?), I could always add fancy bricks in front of it later.

Any suggestions or tips are welcomed!

Hello. I just wanted to share a little story about my experience with my cat and different wet food choices (cliffs at the end).

I have a farm cat named Toto that my boyfriend has had since she was born. This cat’s mother was huge and in turn, Toto is also huge. Toto is an indoor cat, so she doesn’t have much activity. Two years ago, my boyfriend and I moved in and now Toto lives in our new house.

For Toto’s whole life, she was fed Friskie’s wet food. She would not eat dry food, according to my boyfriend. For the first year, we were feeding her Friskies, but we noticed that she was just getting too fat and we were worried for her health. So we started to buy different diet foods and giving them a try for a few weeks at a time. Toto seemed very receptive to all forms of wet and dry food. At one point, we bought some holistic food that had carrots and potatoes. Toto would stare at us for a few minutes before eating that stuff, as if to say "seriously, wtf". Regardless of what we tried or how much we played with her, she was lazy, fatigued, and getting fatter and fatter.

Does anyone know approximately how much it might cost to redo the firebox inside a fireplace? I’m buying a house in northern NJ and the brick inside the fireplace has a lot of cracks in it. Someone pointed out that replacing the cracked bricks will loosen the rest of them, so I’m wondering how much I’m in for to get the whole thing redone.

I’m just talking about inside the firebox itself up to the damper leading to the flue, not the chimney or the outside of the fireplace.
There has to be a way to replace single bricks… Can’t just replace an entire brick fireplace if one gets cracked in an accident or something.

I’ve been using a Chase with an 8.99 fixed…which just jumped to 11.99%. I’ve never missed any payments and I have an approximate score of 725. I’m looking for a card with a low, fixed APR. What cards are you guys using?
lol yeah dude don’t complain

I have one at 24.99% that I’m trying to pay off. Never was late or missed. Long story why it’s that high but it won’t be an issue for much longer.

Other than that 15% is a good number to aim for in GENERAL. Obviously you can get 0% transfer or 0% introductory for a year or 20% with tons of "perks/benefits".