@larrypf.bsky.social

@larrypf.bsky.social

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Engineer, writer, inventor, (non-gun-oriented) prepper, cook. Seeker of lost humanity; if found *please* help revive it! A literal rocket scientist (aeronautical engineer.) Maker (mostly mechatronics), solopreneur, bootstrapper, proto-founder.

A rusted horseshoe, roughly 4.5"wide x 4.5" long, with the heads of two nails embedded.
A sea urchin wearing a cowboy hat.
Mushroom Barley soup showing the barley at just the right doneness for me, basically al-dente.
Cartoon by Matt Groening, "Bongo's Dreamhouse" is full of tropes: a shark-filled moat, a garage+cool/finned car, a robot-chef, games, a satellite dish, a fireman's pole, pool, and a helicopter pad.
A plate of nachos with a side of Chilli Colorado+beans cooked separately.
A 30 cm. skillet full of eggs scrambled with turkey breakfast sausage and half an onion. Also a wooden spatula I bought for this pan.
A pale lavender and a vibrant magenta lilac in front of a white-blossoming tree on a gentle, grassy slope. A rooster is barely visible behind and left.
A bowl filled with salad greens, veggies, croutons and my homemade garlicky Bleu cheese dressing.
A 30 cm skillet full of a cashew chicken stir-fry.
An omelette filling half of a large (12") skillet. Minor cosmetic damage from the flip.
A 9x13 pan full of chicken pasta Alfredo with asparagus and mushrooms with the extra cheese browned to perfection.
Twelve brown eggs on my kitchen counter, 8 broken into bowls. Salt and pepper just to their right.
Pizza in the slightly-odd-shaped pan from my air-fryer. As yet uncut. Eight slices worth.
Pizza via my air-fryer, topped with hot Italian sausage, mushrooms, more mushrooms, onions and olives.
A stovetop covered with: a big pot of marinara, a bowl of ricotta+Parm, a skillet full of sausage and ground bison, and lastly a big roasting pan.
Savory cornbread with chopped bacon, roasted garlic, and sage. Takes almost twice the oven time in case iron but worth it!
-4 outside, 68 F inside.
A well-topped pizza in the odd-shaped pan from my air fryer
Two white-tail does in the snow, photographed from our kitchen window
A huge pan of meat/cheese/veggie lasagna fills my turkey roaster. Veggies are zucchini and basil.
Two large pots with lids sitting atop a flat-toped wood stove. A modest fire is visible through the stove's glass door.
Cornbread baked in a cast-iron skillet cooling on our stovetop.
(Photographed through a window): our side yard, grass still greenish, a big woodpile, two white tailed deer grazing in the twilight.
A mother hen and her chicks, foraging by our woodpile.
A wood stove with its first fire in years!
An old-school soldering iron, vintage ~1950s, much like the one I inherited from my dad and started using in the 1970s. Massive wattage and no closed-loop temperature control.
Vertumnus is an oil painting produced by the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1591 that consists of multiple fruits, vegetables and flowers that come together to create a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
A big pan on a white stovetop; the pan is full of chicken thighs, rice, tomatoes, chiles, onions and peas.
The pizza fills the rectangle-with-bulges shaped pan that came with my air fryer.
A ready-to-bake pizza fills the oddly-shaped pan for my air-fryer. I almost forgot the olives!