A Different Kind of Lemon Meringue Pie

It being Thanksgiving I baked a lemon meringue pie. I’ve been doing that for many years…and for most of those years the results, while tasty, were pies whose lemon filling didn’t set up well. That changed a couple of years back when I found a recipe that explained the chemistry

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Calling Justice Alito!

You’re wanted in engineering! The rain sensor on my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 wireless weather station stopped reporting…right before the first major storm of the season. Of course :(. The unit is pretty well designed, except that in climates like California where most of the year is dry the

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Now That’s a Big Seal!

You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. On one of my motorcycle trips down the coast through San Simeon, I’d passed a beach whose parking lot was jammed with cars. Because the beach itself was jammed

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That Little Ranch in San Simeon

You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We’ve visited Hearst Castle several times over the years, but either the tours have gotten a lot better or our memories are totally shot, because the experience was much

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Cambria

You can click on most of the images to enlarge them. Full-size, high-resolution versions are available in our Google Photos album. We decided to take a quick trip to Hearst Castle before the winter rains set in. We’d been there before, many years ago, but barely remembered the trip. Rather

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Murphy Loves Water Heaters!

We had to replace our tankless water heater last June, and while the new unit (same make/model, a Navien NPE-24A2) works great, the hot water isn’t always instantly there when we want it. That’s probably because the installer set it to “intelligent” mode, where it tries to learn our usage

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