Glass bottle food storage rice. 18 months and PET bottle 1 year.

 The first batches of sushi rice in the glass jars with the oxy absorber are still bug free,  I found a couple bottles on the last inspection bout 6 months ago and they were used in the dog food, although they could have been simply washed and eaten as the bugs were not too bad.  

I do eat rice with bugs in it.  I do not actually eat the bugs, rather the rice gets washed until the water runs clear, no bugs floating to the top and then it is pressure cooked.  

The only unusual thing with the glass jar rice is that it is yellowing a bit.  I do not think it is sunlight as the entire bottle has gone yellowish.  it still cooks up perfectly fine.  I opened a few jars and made rice as the rice I usually keep on rotation was used up.  I have the long term rice and the regular rotation rice.  As it makes no sense to waste a ton of resources long term storing rice when it gets used in a year.  Rice can easily do 20+ years if packed the way I did it according to the Mormons.

 My last batch of rice over a year ago that was stored in plastic 5 gallon PET water bottles along with a bunch of garbanzo beans was all well except for one jug.  I saw some bugs in it, likely because I did not put enough oxy absorber in it.  I dumped in another handful of absorber packs and all the bugs appear dead.  it is not a lot, just a few, so no worries, they will get washed out before eating.  

Lima beans on the other hand, I had a couple kilos of organic lima beans in a vacuum pack bag.  I cooked them up and unfortunately they are rock hard.  even after 90 min pressure cooking.  I will try the baking soda trick next time.  baking soda, pressure cook, rinse, boil in more water and rinse again.  The rinsing is not exactly necessary but these beans were VERY bitter. However the same beans I grew in the garden, from this seed, canned perfectly, and made the best beans and rice.  So good it only got me a couple months before all eaten.  

I am contemplating on going to a all hydroponics garden instead of the vertical garden.  I got such a weed problem in this stuff, it is driving me crazy.  I got all sorts of seeds that blew into the pots over the last year and it has taken over the garden.  A lot of soil and sand leaks out and it is a regular chore to wash all the dirt off the balcony.  

I have literally a decade supply of hydroponics nutrients stored away in glass jars that I got a couple years ago when the fertilizer shortages started.  I got a couple pumps, so not really a ton of expenses, other than modding the current racking and some plumbing.  I may even be able to use the pots I got now for that.  

More research is needed on this as the tech has advanced a lot in the last year.

Discount camo netting and hiding from the zoning inspector

 Years ago, I had a spot of land out in the middle of nowhere.  I had a idea to build a 20x20 foot concrete block dry cabin there.  Unfortunately that area was run by some awful zoning inspectors and required a working septic system in order to build.  Never mind that a water well was going to be 200+ feet down and outside my budget.  

The Zoning inspector even went so far as to fly airplanes around the county to look for RV's parked on private land in which to harrass.  

Which brought me to todays subject.  Last week I picked up some sun shade netting for the shop.  It was Very cheap, bout 10 bucks for a 9x19 foot square.  

It occurred to me that I could have parked a cheap RV trailer on my property, and hidden it from view both from air and the 2 leg thieves that run around the desert robbing peoples properties.  Likely in the years to come, if you are way out in the bush you will need to either put something underground, or camouflage it, to keep it from getting robbed or GOV harassment.  

For example, you got a 20 foot container out on your back 40.  You need to break up the silhouette, which includes the shadow it casts in the sun.  It also needs to blend in.  One cheap item you can use is old carpet.  Assuming it is near the surrounding land color or you give it a spray paint with the same colors are that area.  

A good way to color match is to take pictures of your area, print them out, and take those to the paint store to use as your paint swatches.  

Another is to take a picture of that area, blow it up to giant size, and print it on cheap tarp banner to cover your container/RV.  You just need the general pattern of the area and the colors.  Some blurry bushes, dirt and rocks printed on a banner will not look like anything special when viewed from afar.  I know this trick, because I heard it from someone who was doing that for some celebrities to disguise their properties from paparazzi.  

So assuming you do not have the cash to do a underground space, then this is the next option.  You could even set up a camo cheap garage awning to park your vehicle underneath as well.  Because it would kinda silly to go to all that work and then given away because your car is sitting out in the open.  

Camo netting also is good, but it is kinda expensive vs the other options unless you DIY.  

A sun shade net with some paint daubed on will also work in a pinch to hide your vehicle.  

Just cant get a day off lately

 The holiday weekend starts Thursday, but in reality it should have started Tuesday as I had damn near everything done already.

But then late Monday afternoon, client calls up, and we shipping out orders today.  Then another one calls up, stopping by to do more orders.  

Got laser cut parts arriving, got to fedex samples to other countries, and phone calls to other countries for other projects.  

Meanwhile hot as shit here, and it rained a few hours last night, so it is humid too.  

The business inbox has been blowing up with inquiries too.  Quite a change from 6 months ago when it was totally dead.  

Meanwhile I just want a proper nights rest, which I never seem to be getting since I started really snoring.  

Mister Donald Trump Kat has been so good at his job, I got him a intern.  He is unsure what to do with his intern.  The queen cat of the house, Miss Revlon, aka Queen Cleopatra is definitely not amused.

And yes those are hand woven rugs on the granite tiled floor of my house.