So you were thinking about making your own Kombucha. The good news is that it really isn’t that hard once you know what you are doing. All you need is a couple of cups of Kombucha, a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast), tea, sugar, a glass jar to brew it in and something to put it in when you are done brewing it and waiting to drink it.
In the video below, Doc T shows you how easy it is. He also goes into bottling and flavoring the Kombucha after it is brewed.
When a tree comes down, it usually leaves behind a stump. These can be formidable foes. In this video we see how Doc T. took on a stump from a large pine tree that had blown over. Initial hopes for an easy solution did not pan out. The video below shows the battle that ensued using truck, chain, chainsaw, shovel, man and dog.
You know the drill. It is summer, it is hot. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a pool in the back yard.
Yes, yes it would.
Ah, floating in the pool
The easiest path to having a pool in the back yard is to buy one of the large inflatables that come with a pump for circulating the water. We did that last summer when the temperature hit 90 degrees and we happened to see one on sale at one of those bargain stores. We got a 18 foot pool that is 4 foot deep for about one fifth of the cost it normally goes for in stores. We set it up and had a few swims, then we drained it and packed it away.
This spring came along, and it was time to set it back up. No worries. We had all the parts, we had dried it and coated it with talcum powder so the pool wouldn’t stick to itself. It was ready to be put up. Since I now have this channel, I thought it would be a good time to share some of the things I did to overcome the few problems we encountered.
With these inflatable pools, there is a very large air bladder at the top that needs to be filled. That takes a little ingenuity, but that is what we are good at here at Puttin’ Up with Doc T. In this first video, we go over the filling of the air bladder.
In the second video, we show what happens when you are just a little bit short of having enough hose to have it reach the pool.
