Old Crank
Old Crank's JournalAdvent Calendars
I'm in Germany and we are awash with Advent Calendars. From cheap to expensive. From small to large couples ones.
Here is one I saw at my local home improvement center. Hagebaumarkt.
It is tempting....
The cover
List of contents.
Evidently this is a yearly thing....
Roast duck for dinner
Stopped by a local bargain food store on Friday. They had fresh local duck in the meat case.
Perfect. Sunday dinner and at least one more.
Able to use my large for Europe oven the way I hoped. Duck on one side and the veggies roasting beside it.
The new kitchen, almost done.
A month or so ago I posted about the joys of moving and having to supply your own kitchen in Germany. I said I would include some pictures of before and after.
It is functional. I combined some of our 4 year old IKEA kitchen with new IKEA cabinets. Kept the dishwasher but replaced the 10 year old fridge and went with a large oven, 36 inches. Along with the same size induction cooktop. Since IKEA doesn't do 90 cm, (35.6 inches) I had to order a cabinet from an other vendor.
Left to do is wait for the missing part of the counter top.
Set up a support for the drawer rail for the under sink drawer.
Hook up the under cabinet LEDs
Install the panels under the cabinets
Install the backsplash material
And decide on how to handle the storage of spices.
Oven, hood and cooktop waiting. Door goes to our balcony.
Some of the bits in the barren space
Getting there.
The other way
Nearly done.
Other view.
Now to get used to everything being backwards from the last kitchen.
The extremely wealthy just don't care
They are burning carbon like there is no tomorrow while having a large say in how we will cut emissions into the atmosphere/
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
The data, produced by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment Institute ahead of the Cop30 climate summit, highlights the chasm between the carbon-guzzling rich, who are most responsible for the climate crisis, and the heat-vulnerable poor, who suffer the worst consequences.
At one end, the wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV.
At the other, a citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice.
In between, the average for everyone on the planet is 12kg a day, about as heavy as a standard car tyre.
Any cooking superstitions out there?
I have two.
The first is I can't close and put away the flour container before I have mixed the liquid into pancakes. I just know I will put in too much liquid and have to pull the flour out again.
The second is my French toast batter has to be made in an old Marie Calendar's pie tin. Mine is at least 20 years old and been used on 2 continents. Perfect for putting slice bread in the batter before the pan.
Piled carved stones on a rocky hill in Athens.
A few from the Parthenon in Athens. Glad we were there in the off season. Even so there were a good number of people. Ten years ago it was mobbed in September and teh temp was 95F plus. Still worth seeing. The scale is enormous. Currently doing renovations hence white areas where they have replaced or stabilized sections.
One that Lord Elgin missed.
A capital idea.
Athens mixed bag
Some shots I thought wouldn't fit elsewhere that I liked from Athens.
I will be posting some more from our trip.
Inside of an Orthodox church
Athens, Greece
Mrs. Crank and I spent 2 weeks in Greece a week ago. Boat and bike tour of some of the islands with a few days in Athens prior to the cruise and 4 days after driving around the Peloponnesian peninsula. It was good to relax and get my wife back after the cancer treatments. So here are some from the start of the trip.
Good morning Athens, actually Piraeus.
Theater detail, base of the Acropolis of Athens
Goodnight Athens
Spending this Sunday.
Working on the research part of my doctorate in IKEA kitchen assembly.
Wish me luck. Still missing one third of the counter top.
We go back to their help desk tomorrow to sort out the order. We got 2 deliveries, on we refused. Now we have some extra stuff and some missing stuff. We are combining older IKEA with new IKEA and a cabinet from another source. Plus a hood, induction range and oven from 2 other sources because I wanted a stove that will hold a goose or turkey.
Life is good.
Edit for a couple of typos.
Found in my grocery store parking lot
The MG F, 1999-2002
This was made by the Rover group. It is a mid engine rear drive convertible.
Probably 1.6 liter engine. Twin exhaust. It was quite popular, but Rover went belly up.
I just have no idea how you get to the engine for any service. The rear deck opens to the trunk.
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