Unwritten Posts

I’ve fallen behind on many things this spring, including blog posts.

I know I owe a book-review post for the book(s) I’ve read for Green Bean’s May Bookworm Challenge.

I probably need to write a few more musing-type posts about my mental/emotional adjustments to the stresses I experienced last winter and on into the spring.

I’m *months* behind on my Riot for Austerity tallies.

But this morning I was reminded of another post I forgot to make, when someone found this blog by searching for “I can’t get my gamma seal lid on the bucket”.  During an Independence Days Challenge report last month, I’d described similar trouble when I bought some gamma seal lids and then attempted to install one on a storage bucket I already had.  The storage buckets were purpose-bought for food storage from a co-op from whom that would be the expected intended use.  The lids said they fit “almost all buckets between 3.5-7 gallons”.  My buckets were 4 gallons, comfortably within that range.  And yet.  Even so.  The lids would not fit.  The buckets were too small in diameter. 

This last month I ordered 5-gallon buckets from the verysame co-op, and lo and behold, whaddaya know.  The lids fit!  I didn’t even need the rubber mallet I’d been advised to use — the ring part of the lid was, first of all, quite apparently the same size as the bucket.  It fit easily over the rim.  I pushed down, used a bit of force, walked my hands around the edge, and *snap*!  The ring attached itself to the bucket lip.  So easy!  So obvious!  It’s now screamingly apparent that the other buckets were simply too small for these lids, but since I’d never done it before, I had no way of knowing what was within the “push harder, it will work” range and what was outside it.  Now I know. Hope that helps you too, mystery googler…