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Incredible! The temperature reached normal for this time of the year for the second time this winter. I even have the outside door open. It's 61° (16.111 C) and so sunny it's actually bright outside. This doesn't bode well for the phenomenologists who claim the Earth is getting warmer because of carbonized heat.
It doesn't matter if the glaciers disappear and the dinosaurs die. They didn't have houses and air conditioning. Humans do. It doesn't matter if the other animals die off. We have each other. Homo sapiens always turn to cannibalism when the going gets rough. Just like the other species. How does getting a good education stop the great unwashed from eating you when they get hungry and roam the Earth looking for tender meat to eat?
Sprouts apparently don't grow so fast when the ambient temps are not amenable to the process. I only heat the one bedroom that has my computer in it in my house, and don't heat that room after I go to bed. Since I've gathered the jars and the screen lids and a fairly large sampling of sprouting seeds, I gotta do it to see if I can get it to happen for me like it happens for the people with the youtube videos.
As a beginner and newbie at sprouting, I've proceeded to line up about 6 wide-mouth quart jars that have a couple of tablespoons of seeds in each of them. I soaked them all overnight, poured that soaking water out, rinsed them thoroughly with fresh water, and then drained them to sit and germinate in a sunny window.
The lentil seeds I set to sprouting about a week ago are not really developing as fast as I've been led to believe they would be. I've been particularly influence by the youtube videos that demonstrated what needs to happen to grow sprouts. There were a number of videos taken of how the sprouting happens in slow motion.
The video on sprouting lentils I watched showed that dumping the sprouts with the hulls sticking out like little wings into a bowl of tepid water, and the hulls would separate and float to the top where they could easily be removed. I put them in the water, but the hulls stuck to the sprouts. I drained them again, put them back in the screen covered quart jar, and hope they'll grow some more and I can get them hulls off more easily.
I bought a ready-made container of alfalfa sprouts at the grocery store basically to see as a model for what the seeds I'm trying to sprout should look like when enough is enow. When I removed the plastic top and grabbed some of the sprouts to taste them, they filled the container up more solidly than I thought they would. I expected them to be more flimsy.
The only way I could think of to eat these alfalfa sprouts was to make a sandwich with whole grain bread. I swabbed some mayonnaise on the bread, placed a neat pile of sprouts on the bread and took a bite. They tasted real good. I was a little surprised as how crisp they were for chewing. They didn't break down with a couple of chews, but I had to chew them like real food to make them palatable enough swallow.
Later, as I returned my focus to how the sprouts were faring in my belly, I realized that the one sprout sandwich gave me a pleasant feeling of being full that lasted a couple of hours. That's very satisfying to me. I got lousy eating habits. I just shovel whatever food I got into my belly until it feel stuffed, and stop. Not having to eat so much to get that feeling works for me.
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
