You can even get (tobacco) smoking pipes decorated using urushi. It's made me wonder about the temperature stability, as a pipe can (but ideally shouldn't) get fairly hot.
Tsuge is a good brand to search for if you want to see exanples. Cost-wise such pipes start around the two hundred US mark.
Was about to leave a similar comment. A lot of this was pretty neutral, some of it heart-warming, and there isn't a lot of evidence of negativity here.
And I loved the little illustrations, all in all it felt like someone who took effort to make their environment prettier.
We didn't have space for an orchard, but we did have space for a single combination tree.
A combination tree is rootstock with multiple apple varieties grafted on to it, often designed so that the different varieties can pollinate each other. Our specific tree has Chehalis, Honeycrisp, Beni Shogun Fuji and Jonagold varieties on it.
Other ways to grow apples in a limited space are columnar apples (they grow fruit close to the trunk and are nearly vertical) and dwarf rootstock.
Scarlet Sentinel, Golden Sentinel, and Urban Tasty are popular columnar varieties.
For rootstock their are specialized rootstock nurseries - and rootstock determines the size of the final tree more than the grafted variety does.
M27 (Super Dwarf) is an extremely compact rootstock that can be used to grow apples in containers, as the tree will max out around 2m. Bud 9 and B10 dwarf are also small, but will grow to around 3.5m.
If you want rootstock that will live around a century, you probably need Antonovka Standard, which will grow to about 7m.
Part of this is a problem of quantification and immediacy.
Extra time spent doing the work well is easier to quantify as a cost than some issues down the line.
Low quality costs money, but only in time, and it's hard to pin down an exact cost. How much of an outage was caused by a quality shortcut? What percentage of our morale issues are caused by working with bad code? And how much, exactly, do those issues cost us? Was some specific quality compromise one of the straws that help break the camel's back?
Much harder questions, and the causes are often not clearly linked to their effects.
Combine that with the human predilection for shortsightedness and our dislike of delayed gratification and you have a system that is stacked against quality.
Giving someone in need some food lestens suffering. That lestening of suffering is an observable and easily mentally modeled outcome rooted in the mundane world.
Acting so that we decrease suffering, increase wellbeing, and otherwise reduce harm is moral in and of itself without any higher source.
I've made this, but I have also used burnt honey as an adjunct in making imperial stouts.
It adds a toasted marshmallow note that goes very well with the roasted barley flavour.
One thing interesting thing is that boiling and burning honey attracts bees; I took to doing so at night and still bees would get into the house. These were African honey bees so may be a species thing, as they have a different temperament than other honey bees.
I remember that one university in my previous home town cross-bred Italian and African honeybees in an attempt to make a more docile bee.