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Mar. 17th, 2024 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kihouTried my hand at an experimental Battenberg, one of my favorite English cakes. It didn't rise properly (maybe my baking soda/powder are too old? or I didn't cream my butter properly?) and I manifestly need more practice working with marzipan. It was still tasty though!
I also did some carpentry to fix our Little Free Library. The kit we got had the post in two pieces you screwed together to save on shipping, and turns out that's not the most structural approach, so sometime during the renovations it broke and fell. I got a new cedar post at Arlington Coal and Lumber and then discovered that not all cedar 4 x 4 posts have the same actual finished dimensions. Whoops! But I put in a bit of a shim to fill the gap and it seems to work okay, so I'll call that a phoenix.
I also did some carpentry to fix our Little Free Library. The kit we got had the post in two pieces you screwed together to save on shipping, and turns out that's not the most structural approach, so sometime during the renovations it broke and fell. I got a new cedar post at Arlington Coal and Lumber and then discovered that not all cedar 4 x 4 posts have the same actual finished dimensions. Whoops! But I put in a bit of a shim to fill the gap and it seems to work okay, so I'll call that a phoenix.
