Easy@Home Blood Pressure Monitor Review

Easy@Home Blood Pressure Monitor Review

 

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This is an easy to use home blood pressure monitor. I like it because I never could get the hang of reading blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer. However I think every at home medical kit – especially one for preppers needs the ability to read blood pressure. This one has a memory and give both a numerical reading and a color coded backlit screen to tell at a glance if your where you should be with blood pressure.

This comes in three sizes (large is shown) so be careful if you order one.  My kid likes playing doctor with it and this electronic Blood Pressure Monitor is simple enough a four year old can successfully use it on a cooperating adult.  I have to be careful though, as I have to hide the results from m wife as they are not as perfect readings as she would like.  However, my blood pressure is not too bad because I am a pretty calm guy.

I do recommend a manual blood pressure test kit containing a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer, but you would also need to develop the skill to actually read blood pressure with the manual tools.

This is a review of a product I got in exchange for evaluating it.

Cooking Bread in a Grill

Kitchen DIY: Cooking Bread in a Grill

Cooking Bread in a Grill
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One of the main reasons I write books like this is to help promote the notion that anyone can solve their problems with a little out of the box thinking. This article on cooking bread in a grill is just one example.

Most people think you have to have an oven to bake bread – not true – all you need is a source of steady and controllable heat. Bread can be baked anywhere you can get controlled heat

Once you learn how to separate requirements from results you will be surprised at how many ways you can see to get the job done. The big thing to remember with baking on a grill is that it is hottest near the flames, so elevate the bread (even if you need to improvise.

Cooking Bread in a Grill
Cooking Bread in a Grill

A grill thermometer is adequate for a good bread Another important thing to note is that to bake perfect bread you need to be able to control both time and temperature. Since most grill have a thermometer on them, you should have it under control, but you may need to add a thermometer, or experiment until you learn just the right sized fire for your recipe.

Depending on your grill you may need to bake on the top rack Rolls and buns will probably bake in 15 to 20 minutes and loaves will take 20 to 30 minutes depending on their size and the grill’s temperature. If you are making an entire meal – either to show off during a barbeque, or in some grid down emergency, timing is important.

Cook the bread before the meat. This allows the bread to cool, and grease from cooking meat makes the temperature unstable, and the smoke and soot from burning grease can stain your bread. Grills don’t circulate air as well as ovens do, which can lead to uneven heating. You may need to rotate your bread halfway through baking to have even cooking.

Grilled bread tastes wonderful There is also a tendency for flames to burn the bottom of the bread, so keep the flames low and the bread elevated on a rack.

Review on Quick Wholesome Foods

Quick Wholesome Foods

Book Review: Quick Wholesome Foods
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Book Review: Quick Wholesome Foods
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Quick Wholesome Foods is a complete how-to 65 minute DVD with innovative techniques that will take the guess work out of preparing healthy, basic delicious foods that the whole family will love in only minutes!

See step by step easy to follow techniques to make low-fat great tasting meals.

Five 15-minute mini classes on Bread, Gluten, Wheat, Beans and 3-minute cheeses made from Powdered Milk, even old powdered milk.

Excellent for home, church or neighborhood groups. We ve made it easy for you to use your basic stored foods.

FREE 28 page recipe booklet included

Alternatively, Amazon video has this online as a rent or buy Amazon video if you do not want to own an actual Quick Wholesome Foods DVD.  Click the top picture to order the video, and the picture below just to rent or buy it as an Amazon video.

Demolishing a Trailer with a Backhoe

 

Backhoe Demolishing a Trailer
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I wanted to tear down the trailer in a way that made good use of the lumber, but after almost two years of messing around, I decided to just do it.

The video above shows my backhoe demolishing a trailer.  This was so much easier than knocking boards with a sledgehammer.

Using the backhoe made this a lot more fun.  Additionally it was easier and took minutes instead of weeks.

I don’t have much more to do to finish cleaning the trailer up.

The stopping point now is removing the trash.  A burn permit helped with much of the wood that was not able to be salvaged, and the Sheetrock is being composted down to help amend my soil.

My dad and I also figured out the easiest way to take the deck off the metal frame.

Once the top is cleared off I will show that process.

I can’t wait until the trailer demolishing is completed, as I need the double wide gone before I can build the range and set up the sawmill in a semi-permanent location.

All in all I think a Backhoe Demolishing a Trailer is the way to go.  If I ever have to do this again, this is how I am going to do it.

Disconnecting a Trailer Marriage Wall

 

Disconnecting a Trailer Marriage Wall
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Disconnecting a Trailer Marriage Wall is not something that is easily found on the internet.

I know I searched for hours trying to find out how to do it.

Finally, I sucked up my fear of heights and got my big self up on a ladder and started tearing into things until I found the bolts that connected the two halves of the double wide together.

I looked at the problem with a view toward how these trailers are delivered.  Starting out, I knew that they come on site in two complete pieces.  I also knew that the top and bottom had to be easy to get to.

Common sense said the top cap of the shingles should have been installed after the two halves were bolted together.  I started there and found that the shingles at the top of the trailer were easy to pull up.

A thin piece of chip board sat under the shingles and this board was not nailed or anything.  Under that board was the bolts.

There were not a lot of bolts, but the were two different sizes and un equally spaced throughout the top of the marriage wall.

Once these bolts were removed, the two trailers were disconnected at the top.

There were still a lot of bolts under the trailer, but we never really got them all – I gave up and dug out the backhoe.