Primarily beeswax. I also use the stubs of altar candles saved for me by some churches, and those are 55% beeswax. So I'd say they come out about 75% beeswax and 25% whatever else is in the altar candles. I also add a little stearic acid to increase burn time.
Quite appropriate. I see that I misunderstood initial reports about the associated death--it was on the person's way home, not at the altercation itself. But injury at the altercation could have been the cause; we shall hear in due course. ---Alan
Well, Alan, you didn't misunderstand so much as they didn't tell us last night that this happened on his way home. But, as you say, we'll see what the autopsy reveals. I'm thinking that even if it were due to a heart condition, the fight couldn't have helped.
Seen over Billings, Montana...part of our nuclear triad in the path of the balloon. Apparently what it may be collecting for information can also be gathered via satellites already in place.
Wil says, so can they also send a balloon over US airspace that has a bomb?
Hey! I just updated the photos out front so that they're today's photos instead of from last year. I made 12 pairs today, and will make more tomorrow, plus some votives! So much fun!!
Whooo hoooo!!! I have already started melting the wax! 😃👍
ReplyDeleteWhat kind or kinds of wax are used?
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Primarily beeswax. I also use the stubs of altar candles saved for me by some churches, and those are 55% beeswax. So I'd say they come out about 75% beeswax and 25% whatever else is in the altar candles. I also add a little stearic acid to increase burn time.
DeleteThat's roughly what I guessed.
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‘It’s a public health risk’: nurse decries infection control at US anti-abortion crisis center [Click]
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US pension funds are on the brink of implosion – and Wall Street is ignoring it [Click] A continuing story rather than news, it seems to me.
ReplyDeletePit find in Germany reveals how Neanderthals hunted huge elephants [Click] “125,000-year-old bones of 70 animals – each about three times the size of today’s Asian elephants – discovered near Halle.” Yes, elephants—not mammoths.
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Sunak refuses to even utter the word crisis. But how else to describe his first 100 days? [Click]
ReplyDeleteOhio man cleaning out late grandmother’s apartment shot dead by police [Click] No report of whether the decedent was the “wrong” color; if so he obviously had reasonable fear of being murdered by the police.
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Fans in the county where the fight broke out are banned from Middle School basketball games for the rest of the season
ReplyDeleteQuite appropriate. I see that I misunderstood initial reports about the associated death--it was on the person's way home, not at the altercation itself. But injury at the altercation could have been the cause; we shall hear in due course.
Delete---Alan
Well, Alan, you didn't misunderstand so much as they didn't tell us last night that this happened on his way home.
DeleteBut, as you say, we'll see what the autopsy reveals. I'm thinking that even if it were due to a heart condition, the fight couldn't have helped.
It might have been caused by a blow to the chest.
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Or to the head!
Deletehttps://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/us-tracking-china-spy-balloon/index.html
ReplyDeleteSeen over Billings, Montana...part of our nuclear triad in the path of the balloon. Apparently what it may be collecting for information can also be gathered via satellites already in place.
DeleteWil says, so can they also send a balloon over US airspace that has a bomb?
Link clickified [Click]
DeleteSeems incredibly anachronistic.
—Alan
Hey! I just updated the photos out front so that they're today's photos instead of from last year.
ReplyDeleteI made 12 pairs today, and will make more tomorrow, plus some votives! So much fun!!