So if a homeowner

or a tenant

So a propertynowner has to take out insurance against
a tenant's negligence?

takes the family to Disneyland
for a week, someone has to be contracted

unless a friend or relative volunteers to do it for free

And in the tenant situation, it's the poor grunt
from the management company (presumably you in this
situation) who had to do it.

ML to look

into the house daily for that period in order for
insurance to cover leak damage?

Yes.

Does that clause obtain in insurance policies
written for places in less extreme climates?

Bonnie tells me about an incident where an interior
pipe managed to burst while she was out of the house
(many years ago), though the heating was set to a
vacanct setting of 55 (13).

Old pipes can leak or even burst without freezing. Elbows and tee
joints are the most vulnerable parts of the system.

And, the neighbor pointed out, the places where
valves are installed can be similarly troublesome.

What's the minimum safe vacancy setting for the
heat for an averagely-insulated house?

Up here mobile homes raised off the ground with wood blocking or
steel piles that have insulated floors and cold crawl spaces under
them are more vulnerable than homes built over basements. With

That makes sense. Could that be alleviated by extra
insulation, or is the barn door already open?

our severe weather I have to keep my furnace thermostat which is in
the living room in the centre of the house set to at least 66F
when it's close to -40 and windy outdoors, to keep the plumbing in
the insulated floor above 32 F. The most vulnerable spots are the

That's a big difference. Is there a way to improve
the R rating of the house as a whole?

ensuite bathroom at the end of the house far away from the furnace
and the kitchen sink which is directly below a window. My walls have
R20 insulation but a triple pane sealed window is only R4.5 and
therefore are a major heat loss location. If I leave water standing
in the sink overnight it will be very cold by morning.

So the far bathroom sink should perhaps be left
dripping in extreme weather.

Prudent but requires unimpaired and cooperative
neighbors.

They are always comparative because they expect help in return when
their place is vacant.

Makes sense.

I got tired of publishing the nasty ones after a while and purged
a whole bunch of ones with buckwheat, rye, caraway, herring and/or fermented beets in them.

It's doubtful that anyone would make any of them or
be interested anymore after a few typical examples.
I hope you've kept a few of the more amusing rejects
around for zingers

I purged my export file but they still exist in my main database.

foie gras [...] sauced with a reduction of an auslese
Gewurztraminer simmered with a ginger slice
I'm pretty sure the dish will taste good.

It probably would but it's pretty labour intensive for a small bite.

Modern gastronomy seems to be very labor intensive
with a lot of manual work per small bite. What I've
seen in kitchens bears out the massive restaurant
workforce that is depicted on the cooking shows.

I think that nonrandom taglines are the only way
to go and will read them under the assumption that
they are on some level intentionally placed.

Mine are planned, just as much as my recipes.

Beware those who say their taglines are random.

... A foodie will grill random fruits and vegetables for fun.

I don't call myself a foodie (hate that term) but will
grill random offal or buy it grilled just for kicks. I
really liked charcoal-braziered chicken intestines.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: White Sonoran Menudo - Menudo Blanco Sonorense
Categories: Mexican, Soups/stews
Yield: 8 servings

Jim Vorheis 2 lb Tripe
1 sm (about 2 lbs) beef or calf's 3/4 lb (4 1/2 to 5 cups) dried
-foot, split -hominy, cooked and
Horizontally and cut into 6 Flowered plus cooking
water
-pieces Topping:
1 sm Head of garlic, unpeeled and Crumbled chile piquin
-cut in half Finely chopped white
onion
Horizontally Roughly chopped
cilantro
1 md White onion, roughly sliced Lime quarters
1 tb Sea salt

Put the calf's food pieces, garlic, onion, and half the salt in a large
pan. Put the tripe on top with the remaining salt, cover the pan, and
cook
over very low heat so that is simmers for about 3 hours.

Strain the meat, reserving the broth, and cut the tripe into small
squares
~ about 1 1/2 inches. Remove the bones from the calf's foot and chop the
flesh roughly. Return the meats to the pan with the broth, the flowered
hominy, and the hominy cooking water. Taste for salt and continue cooking
over very low heat for 1 hour. Serve in deep bowls with flour tortillas,
passing around the toppings.

The Art of Mexican Cooking From the collection of Jim Vorheis

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Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

So if a homeowner

or a tenant

So a property owner has to take out insurance against
a tenant's negligence?

Actually insurance companies will not cover landlords against tenant
damage. A landlord's defenses are checking references carefully at
the outset, collecting the largest security deposit allowed by law
(one month's rent here) and then, as a last resort, use the courts
to recover expenses.

someone has to be contracted

JW > unless a friend or relative volunteers to do it for free

And in the tenant situation, it's the poor grunt
from the management company (presumably you in this
situation) who had to do it.

Nope. My leases spelled out that any absence longer than 48 hours
required regular house checks and I made them initial that clause.

When absentee landlords I worked for had no tenants I did do their
house checks and they were free as my fees were 10% of the rent
collected. So if there were no tenants or bad tenants in arrears I
worked for free.

Does that clause obtain in insurance policies
written for places in less extreme climates?

Nope. In rural Ontario my parent's insurance company didn't call for
house checks after they passed away and before I sold the place.
They merely surcharged me $50 per month for vacancy coverage after
the first mont's grace and cancelled the broken window coverage from
vandalism part of the policy. I guess that's a thing in rural parts
these days.

Up here mobile homes raised off the ground with wood blocking or
steel piles that have insulated floors and cold crawl spaces under
them are more vulnerable than homes built over basements.

That makes sense. Could that be alleviated by extra
insulation

Yes. One's pipes might survive 3 hours instead of 2 during heat or
power outages.

Is there a way to improve
the R rating of the house as a whole?

There certainly is. One can get 18" of attic insulation instead of
the standard 12", 8" walls with 2" of styrofoam instead of 6" with
just pink fiberglass, double the floor insulation and install triple
glazed instead of double glazed windows and along with a very high
efficiency furnace, an HRV system, on demand hot water and LED
lighting, reduce the heat and power bills by 50% but increase
construction costs by 20%. In this era of low mortgage rates and
escalating utility costs, doing the upgrades makes sense.

So the far bathroom sink should perhaps be left
dripping in extreme weather.

Nope. Unless the drip is fast enough to wreck your water bill, the
slow drip will eventually freeze the drain and sewer line solid. one
needs to shower, do a laundry or at least was the dishes with hot
water almost daily to flush out ice build up in drains up here.

Even without a drip, domestic sewer services can freeze over time
from the buildup of hoar frost that is created from water vapour
given off by the liquids flowing through the main line. When Roslind
is away on her trips I run her tub for a minimum of three minutes
every other day. just to keep that branch line open. The other
branch connects my bathroom, the laundry room and the kitchen
drain so it always gets regular use. If I screw up and forget the
steam truck charges $200 per hour, with a $200 minimum.



Cheers

Jim


... If you don't know that, you're not really Canadian

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