Imperfect Foods sells Vital Farms stuff. I’ve never ordered any. Thanks for the heads up.
OMG!! After Sunshine tore through her chocolate cake, she said to me “I’m gaining all of my weight back, don’t bake any more sweets”
Later that evening, she came to me and wanted me to make up a batch of brownies. They had barely cooled enough to get out of the pan when she ate one.
I just don’t understand… is there less calories in an item if you protest eating it, prior to consuming said brownie??
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Don’t apply logic to food cravings 
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We don’t refrigerate the current in-use butter. It lives in the butter bell on the counter. I do fridge the 12 or so pounds that I’m hoarding as against the arrival of Armageddon.
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THIS
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That’s my current logic and I have no desire to hear otherwise lalalalalalaI’mNotListening….
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I don’t refrigerate the current small slab I’m using. It stays in a glass butter container on the kitchen counter. The kitchen is below 70 degrees all winter anyway, and AC runs the rest of the time. The rest — nothing like you guys stash — lives in the freezer.
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So… what was it about? The banjo?
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My kitchen is on the west side of the house and in winter rarely hits 67 before 3 pm.
I was trying to speed up a dough ferment and with oven-light on, it was only about 74 in the oven, so I kicked the thermostat (over on the sun side of the house) from 68 to 70.
I stood there waiting for it to come on but instead over the next 30 seconds watched it say, “Oh, did I report ambient at 68? I meant 69… no, I meant 70…”.
Kicked it back to Run Program, watched it revert quickly back to reporting ambient at 68. Repeated with the same results, and then ripped it out of the wall. I’ve had its replacement ready for several weeks because the upstairs thermostat died a couple of weeks ago so I bought 2 at that time.
The old ones were designed mid-90s and play all kinds of energy-saving shenanigans (read: outright lying) with both heating and cooling.
The only problem with the newly installed thermostat is that the first owners of the house were too lazy to simply pop the thermostat off when painting the dining room…
(It wasn’t 79 degrees; it was warm from handling while I rewired it.)
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I have a programmable thermostat that I don’t program anymore, because I’m rarely out of the house. The backup battery died in it years ago.
You can scan the paint color now with an app to get a match. How do I know this? 
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Ours has an APP. Imagine the awesomeness of waking up in a freezing house and being able to crank up the heat… from BED. On your PHONE!
O tempora, o mores! 
My bedroom is at the tail end of the duct system. And has north windows. Which have been replaced. It’s always 6 degrees colder than the rest of the apartment. Oil-filled radiator space heater; they come with apostrophe now, but I just reach over …
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Our bedroom is the warmest room in the house, unfortunately.
Take a razor knife and just cut into the drywall paper, below the surface (section with color on it). Cut a 1.5" square and take it to Home Depot. They use a machine with some type of “eye” and it makes up the correct color.
When you fix the holes in the drywall, also fix the little square you cut out, primer, then paint. Done and Done!!
And yes, after refurbishing homes for almost 40 years – nothing surprises me anymore. If there is a shortcut, people will take it.
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I like a cold bedroom- except when I have to get out of bed, of course.
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I refer to my initial praise of the app
I’ve done that in other rooms (throughput the kitchen and up the same-colored stairway wall - see edit below). I pulled 4 patches from the hall down near the laundry (never brightly lit, so if my repairs were imperfect, NBD), and took them to all of Lowes, HD, Sherwin Williams, and Porter Paints.
None of the matches were very good matches. That was 20 years ago.
More recently (last 2 years) I’ve tried that in my son’s room (he knocked a hole in the wall pounding on it trying to get the dogs to stop barking - I walked him through the repair), and my daughter’s apartment repairing her dog’s damage (now my dog) as she was moving out.
Only went to 2 stores each those times, but same result - not good matches.
Feathering the repaint helps a fair bit especially for small repairs but for the larger repairs the mismatch was still pretty noticeable in bright light. So those became spots to hang paintings, until we finally got around to the kitchen remodel.
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The more extensive stuff was from right after we moved in. My FIL offered to spackle all the holes from the previous owners’ wall hangings while I would be at work the next day (for some reason they’d removed all the screws AND the drywall anchors).
I’d seen his work before but, not to give offense, explained that I did not want him to because most of the spots might be where we’d want to hang stuff.
I come home to find in his usual heavy-handed fashion he’d applied big patches of mud, like 5-inch diameter splotches (instead of just filling the holes), then applied paint in what he thought would be a good match.
I don’t anger readily but the first 2 words out of my mouth were G-Damnit!
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