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Brian Bilbrey November 27, 2024

27 November 2024

Y'all, if you're in a place where you can or will celebrate a Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, please enjoy it! Family? Friends? Pets? Alone? All or any of those are a reason to give thanks each and every day, regardless of a specific date on the (Hallmark(tm)) calendar. So even without a holiday, have the best day you can. For us, we're going to be starting the day with blueberry scones (so Marcia tells me). We're baking a large, unpardoned turkey for the main course, and there will be some mashed potatoes, gravy, homemade cranberry sauce (just cranberries, water, sugar, and…

Brian Bilbrey May 17, 2020

17 May 2020

So, since we last were here together, we had several more overnight freezes. Sadly, at least one of them was a surprise. So one night I didn't tarp the garden beds, and everything died. Yup, all of it. So I started over. Rototilled again, raked it all out flat again, bought new plants again, and got ready to put them in the ground, again: We're not due for anything below 48F in the next ten days, so I expect that we're actually done with overnight frosts. (Famous last words). But the plants look good, and since I did that work…

Brian Bilbrey November 24, 2019

24 November 2019

After shopping and cleaning house today, we had wonderful home-made pizza AND watched Chicken Run. Now, instead of being able to concentrate on the world-shaking revelations that were to appear in this space, all I can do is type sentences that run on and on without any appearance of termination in sight, if indeed such sentences as typed could be said to have visual acuity of any sort at all. Nearly every damn political story I read. Disturbing. Politest word I can think of in the circumstances. I've got nothing else to say on the subject at this time. Warren.

Brian Bilbrey August 11, 2019

11 August 2019

Still busy, that is, and that's better than the alternative. Yesterday was given over mostly to food work - a new big batch of salsa, with only tomatoes out of the garden. Everything else came from the store, sadly. I roasted a pountd of coffee. I also made a batch of my potato/spicy sausage concoction, 10 meals worth. That'll see me through the week. Today: shopping, clean the shower, patching day for some systems at work, lunch, and lawn. And I'm a bit whacked. Time to get back to the office tomorrow, and spend the week recharging for the next…

Brian Bilbrey January 27, 2019

27 January 2019

Because they are, just sayin'... So I'm going to ignore all of that for the moment. Marcia did a bunch of wonderful baking and cooking, so for supper with friends Saturday night we had scratch made: crackers, focaccia (two kinds: rosemary and olive), pasta, and cake. Carb-loading for the gluten gluttons only? Yup. But super-tasty! The house got cleaned, too. Coffee from Kenya got roasted. And I did some intermittent remote work over the weekend, getting stuff done, which is good. Finally, I spent a bit of time playing around in Skyrim. Net result, there: I'm now the Arch Mage…