Hi, Bev

French Chicken in a Pot a la Cook's Illustrated. Never made it before but I felt like not cutting the chicken up and I had enough of the ingredients on hand for a credible attempt.

It's been cleared, btw. Not only was the Sell By date tomorrow, it smelled fine when I opened the packaging and chicken usually starts to smell icky to me before it's officially bad. I'll tweet if I end up with food poisoning.

Hil, your students, I just don't know.

t tacklehugs Bev

That's all I've got.

I've also got one who keeps telling me that he needs to use a calculator because he has a disability. I tell him that I'll let him use a calculator as soon as I see the paperwork from Disability Support Services. This has been going on for pretty much the entire semester, and he just submitted a request for a calculator for the final, and still hasn't gotten me that paperwork. I've emailed DSS to ask what to do about that one.

Has anyone been watching Greensburg on the Green Planet channel? Documentry on the town in Kansas that was leveled by F5 tornado, and is rebuilding green.

I've watched it a few times -- I don't get that channel here, but my parents do, and I've watched it a few times when I was visiting them.

Oof!

Moving is crazy, you know? But kinda fun.

I keep telling myself.

It makes me wanna build a green home. Granted, I already wanted to do that, but it's neat to see some different construction methods/ideas. If only I had cash and land.

Are you at the new place now, Bev?

Hi, Bev!

Yeah, if I had the money, I think I'd use one of the zero/global warming polyurethanes along with grancrete (concrete created with magnesium based cement that has much lower GHC impact than Portland cement). You end up with a superinsulated super air tight house, that will use much less energy to operate but that also has low impact in creation - total plastic only slightly more than the plastic or fiberglass used in insulating a normal house, low impact cement has less impact than even sustainably harvested wood.