A day late, and a bit more than a dollar short. We missed the storms this evening by attending the ASC Cabaret - lovely. Weekend: yardwork, getting a bunch of stuff done, but just one bed fully prepared, planted, and protected from the wrascally wrabbits. * * * DoD reports no casualties in the last week. Ciao!
Continue reading...Busy week and weekend past. The week brought us our heaviest snow of the season, on the first day of Spring. Here's a shot from my drive home last Wednesday, midday: Much of the weekend went to house cleaning and associated chores - we have a house guest arriving shortly. I also roasted some more of the Guatemala Pico Mayor Gesha from Sweet Maria's. Lovely stuff, and it wouldn't do to run out because I'll be brewing more than usual, perhaps. I also did some more glue-ups on the new jig I built last weekend: We march in spirit with…
Continue reading...Missed Sunday, sorry. Busy as all get out. Details forthcoming. See y'all later.
Continue reading...Work. Chores. A bit of Barrett-Jackson from Las Vegas. And there goes the week and the weekend. Seriously. The cars are clean, the lawn is mowed, the coffee is roasted, the roaster is clean, now, too, and most of the work has gone well. But with patching, there was a lot of that to go around. There are only four more chances for you to see Much Ado About Nothing at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company, though, so get your ass over there and show them some love. * * * DoD reported no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!
Continue reading...Hullo. Happity Labor Day, for US visitors. Happy first post in the final one third (not "two thirds"... sigh) of the year, for everyone else. Hurray for a three day weekend. I've celebrated by not checking email at all (for work), which means several hundred emails, mostly system generated, tomorrow. Oh, well. Not much else to report - we went out fishing for a bit, but catching wasn't on the menu. Otherwise a lovely weekend. * * * Our condolences to the family and friends of Staff Sgt. Emil Rivera-Lopez, who was declared deceased on Aug. 31 as a result…
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