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Skriven 2014-08-31 20:51:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 16434 av JOHN GUILLORY (1:396/60)
Ärende: Sugars
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Hi John,

-> I'll have to try a true gumbo some time then. What is the reasoning for
-> eggs to be in it?
 JG>    Makes the gumbo last longer...  Feeds more people and helps to have
 JG> left overs for the next day....   Especially when cooked in a large
 JG> 3-4 ft tall boiling pot that's probabl 2-3 ft wide round...

That sounds about as big as my uncle's chowder pot! It would feed Steve
and me for a month or more, even without the eggs. (G)


-> Can you put in any higher wattage bulbs?  We've got daylight bulbs in
-> thread to fabric with a much greater accuracy.

 JG>     When we first moved in the trailor, I'd jump on the chance to
 JG> change every bulb out to 100watts.  But, combination of knowing an
 JG> electrician tell me that anything over 60 watts  in a fixture that is
 JG> close to the
 JG> ceiling risk catching the ceiling on fire.  Any bulb over 60 watts in
 JG> a lamp with a lamp shade risk catching the lamp on fire... Then

OK, the fire risk is something to be considered. Maybe you need to try
the daylight bulbs.

 JG> the fact that in the process of being an extra class amateur radio
 JG> operator, I learned lots of formulas for calculating watts, amps,

We don't have that but do have a lot of electronics with several
computers, my sewing machines, microwave, etc.

 JG> etc.. Combine that with when the electrician we paid made the wiring
 JG> WORSE
 JG> than it was, and I had to go behind him and painfully figure out what
 JG> he did, fix it, to get the lights on in my office.... (boy was my wife

Somebody had reached his level of incompetance and nobody had done
anything about it.

 JG> mad when she realized what he did!) He messed up the lights and said
 JG> we
 JG> needed to re-wire the whole trailer... All I had to do is unhook the
 JG> one switch he thought he fixed and re-wire it properly and gosh darn
 JG> it, the rest of the house had power!  Unfortuantly, what I discovered
 JG> in the
 JG> process of finding what breaker controlled what...

Always nice to know.


 JG> My wife sews in the den where I play the xbox and sometimes the kids

Our girls are grown and gone, with kids of their own. We rent a small 3
bedroom house but have truned one of the bedrooms into sort of an
office, library and general catch all. Another bedroom is my sewing
studio. I keep a sewing machine and serger set up full time, with a
cutting table, storage units, etc. Three other sewing machines are
tucked away and brought out for specific puropses--embroidery, quilting
and travel/classes--primarily. The kitchen is an eat in one but also has
our chest freezer and the washer & dryer.

 JG> watch tv, sometimes one of the boys puts his xbox next to mine and
 JG> plays on another tv.  We've got 1 window air conditioner, 3 TV's
 JG> total, her
 JG> serger, straight stich, and embroidery machine, her laptop, 2 xboxes,
 JG> 1 router used as a switch to provide internet splitting to two xboxes
 JG> and a raspberry pi, the raspberry pi, sometimes my laptop.... My cell
 JG> phone charger, and a USB charger going to my turtle beach head phones

That's a lot of electrical stuff in one room! Our house has central heat
& air. We only have one tv that stays off more than on, but we do have a
lot of computer equipment. I do 99.99% of my computer work on a net
book, usually in the living room.

 JG> wife can hear the tv.  Whew!  When she turns on the iron, all it trips
 JG> the breakers, so she's learned to go to the dining room to iron!

I usually have a tabletop ironing board on my cutting table but bring
out the bigger board when I've got large amounts of yardage to press.
The Santa I sew for buys extra fabric whenever I make a shirt for him;
it usually ends up being about 6 yards which makes pressing on the big
board the way to go.

 JG> I really want to know why the heck some moron would wire 2 rooms on 1
 JG> 15 amp breaker then run about 5 rooms on another 15 amp breaker!  Had

Either the factory did it or somebody did it as an after market, either
way, it doesn't sound right.

 JG> with that in mind... Would you dare recommend adding another light, or
 JG> increasing the wattage to any bulb in any room of the house?
 JG> Strangely enough, the trailor lost power the other night temporarly
 JG> during the
 JG> rain and it kicked back on.  When it turned back on, I heard a click
 JG> in the utility room.  It tripped the breaker to the girls room and the
 JG> bathroom next to it.  She only had her TV, cable box, and air
 JG> conditioner on.  Why did IT trip, when I had my Xbox, TV, and the son
 JG> had his Xbox and TV on, and was watching TV in the den.  Our lights
 JG> came back on immediately and didn't trip... Go figure!

Strange goings on. How well is your kitchen wired? i'm presuming, since
we're total electric and the laundry area is in the kitchen, it's
probably the best wired in the house. I'm probably going to try to do
most of my cooking this week on small appliances that don't heat up the
kitchen too much as it's supposed to be in the 90s. I'll have to see
what can go into the crock pot, use the microwave, have some salads,
etc.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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