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re: Making roux

Posted by mtcheral on 12/5/25 at 9:46 pm to
Holy cow! An hour and 15 mins?
It takes me roughly 15 mins on medium heat with a cup and a half of flour and a cup of oil. Just keep it stirring and when it gets good and dark add in veggies and keep stirring. It gets darker

re: Sentricon system for termites

Posted by mtcheral on 12/4/25 at 9:31 pm to
Depends on the size of your house but if you’re in BR, Armor Pest Control charged me $600 for a 2800 sq ft single story a couple years back. Good dude. Stay away from the big commercial companies. They all suck.

re: Hanging Christmas lights

Posted by mtcheral on 11/29/25 at 7:14 am to
What about using a company to set you with the permanent lights in your house? Then you never have to worry about them again.
The slightly bulging disc in your back is not causing you pain. Get that out of your head. Your weak back and core muscles and extra weight are causing back pain and when you lose the weight and strengthen your back it will be better, as you’ve already noticed.
Are you on any meds regularly or any new ones?

re: Sever's Disease

Posted by mtcheral on 11/10/25 at 6:39 pm to
Don’t put him in a boot and just let it sit for weeks. He needs to be getting out a few times a day to stretch and keep the ankle moving and do some strengthening.
Last one I had would create a cyclone effect if the strainer wasn’t in and would pull air very quickly.

re: Sever's Disease

Posted by mtcheral on 11/8/25 at 7:14 am to
Go see a physical therapist.

re: What to do with cottage cheese

Posted by mtcheral on 10/17/25 at 8:31 pm to
I eat it with some honey and cocoa powder my wife has for baking.

re: Lower back pain - what to do next

Posted by mtcheral on 10/12/25 at 2:10 pm to
Sounds like you just kept aggravating a strain. Muscle spasms can cause what you are feeling. Go to a PT and get some dry needling. If it doesn’t resolve the PT will send you to ortho.

re: Boron supplementation for free test

Posted by mtcheral on 10/10/25 at 3:42 am to
Hmmm. Wonder if this is why I’m up again right now. Bumped from 9 to 12 about 5 weeks ago and seems like that about the time sleep went downhill. I can crash at night tired but keep waking up wide awake early am well before I’m supposed to. Taking all in the am though. Going to go back to 6 a while and see what happens.

re: Herniated discs suck

Posted by mtcheral on 10/4/25 at 11:54 am to
Get a lumbar traction unit for home or inversion table. Do it daily.
You’re overthinking this. Just use the directions on the package. Why would they give you directions for their product that don’t work?
We were getting silt when we first moved in and our well guy cleaned the filter and changed the media. It helped a lot for a while then eventually started happening again. This time he changed something else with the filter flow and it’s been fine for like 6 months now. In Folsom also.

re: Atchafalaya update

Posted by mtcheral on 9/5/25 at 8:38 pm to
Played it Sunday. Course was really nice except the greens sucked.
You need to mobilize and strengthen your glutes. Your groin and adductors are just overworking and compensating when you do lunges which causes than to spasm.
I have a 21 ft NauticStar with a. Jack plate. I have gone plenty shallow plenty of times for reds.

Trailering a 21 ft is no issue. Eazy peazy. I just about drive like it isn’t even back there. And remember, shorter trailers can be harder to back up.
If you’re taking your kids out, get a 21-22 ft bay boat. I have a 21 ft and when a nasty squall pops up out of nowhere you’ll be glad you’ve got something safer than a 16 ft flat boat. I am careful about weather but still would have had many more pucker up events in a smaller boat with my kids.

Eta: but it’s also completely manageable to handle by yourself.

re: Bathroom remodel cost

Posted by mtcheral on 8/26/25 at 8:10 pm to
Not sure how big your bathroom is but mine isn’t big, maybe 10x13 if I remember correct. We had to rip out shower due to a leak so I did demo myself and the self contracted a plumber to move a drain and put in new rough in for fixtures and later install a freestanding tub and install tub and shower fixtures. Got tile guy to lay flooring tile and entire shower 3.5x4. Got glass folks for enclosure. All in 10k for that. We held off on vanity for now and will redo later. I estimate we can finish if for another 4K all in max and it will be all brand new, nice delta fixtures, etc.