After my research on making peelable hard boiled eggs, I did a few experiments.

First I tried the salt theory. One dozen eggs separated it into two groups of 6 and, in two pots, I performed the standard method with one pot having added salt. Nearly two tablespoons for the 6 eggs. I can report that there was absolutely no difference in their peelability.

The second experiment was to take 6 eggs with the store pull date of March 2 and 6 eggs with the pull date of March 20th. This experiment I performed on March 18th. I boiled them using the standard method (a Sharpie(tm) writes on eggs and it doesn’t come off through boiling, by the way). Here, I notice a difference. The older eggs were easier to peel than the newer eggs. Not a lot easier, but it was noticeable.

One data point.

One the north side of my house is an old limb from a cherry tree. No sun, only damp and ,yes, you can tell which side faces north.

Spring is starting to happen here in the Willamette Valley. Some parts of the country are under snow and floods but here, in a milder place, the cherry trees are blooming.

A local church (St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Orthodox Church) which supports the Ukrainian and Polish community here in town, hand makes and sells perogies and other Ukrainian/Polish foods. They do this every Saturday to support the remodel of the church. This Saturday, I took the whole family for food from the old country. Pictures are available.

I have moved some web hosting to Dreamhost (very pleased, by the way) but one irritation is the lack of all of the libxml2 tools. In particular, the fact that xsltproc is not installed.

Derived from these excellent instructions on Installing an XSLT processor, here are the instructions for creating a version of xsltproc for use on DreamHost.
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Saturday night I was invited to a game of the Portland Lumberjacks — our local. professional lacrosse team. Not a winning team by any measure (they did lose this game) but thye manage to fill a stadium. Someone said they attracted more than the hockey games.

One reason for the invite was to watch someone I know as the team mascot. Someone is actually in those costumes. And he loves his job.

More pictures in the album.