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Brian Bilbrey December 17, 2018

17 December 2018

Almost nothing to report, other than the continuing deluge that is our weather this year. Over the weekend, we got ANOTHER 2.6" of rain, as measured in my back yard. And more rain due on Thursday and Friday. Lovely. We're up around 65-66" on the year, smack between the record-breaking DC and Baltimore totals. Marcia's been baking some wonderful things, and we also attended a fun Broadway Holiday production at Annapolis Shakespeare on Saturday evening. That was a total hoot, and there are two more of those to go, running in rep with their stellar production of A Christmas Carol.

Brian Bilbrey November 18, 2018

18 November 2018

Last week, Veteran's Day. This week: Thanksgiving. So, food coma pending. Just sayin' ... not that I can really do that, I'm on call this upcoming week. Still, we bought an actual full turkey for this week. In recent years past, we've only roasted a turkey breast. All in, it was a good week just past. I spent most of it puttering around in a BMW X2 M Sport. My car was in for servicing the headlights. They ended up replacing at least one of the assemblies, possibly both. Downside of computers and motors (in the headlights!!!). Had the car…

Brian Bilbrey September 23, 2018

23 September 2018

More rain. Seriously. And we live close enough to DC that the rain-hole that exists there shadows us a bit - we got just a bit over half of the 22 inches that BWI got in the same time span, and that's less than 30 minutes drive. We're at 15 inches in the last two months. That's four month's worth of annualized rainfall. And I'm tired of it. Oh, yeah... the app on the phone says each one of the next 24 hours has rain due, better than 50% chance. I count Fall as officially started on the first night…

Brian Bilbrey September 9, 2018

9 September 2018

We've been home from Maine for about 30 hours. It's been raining for approximately 36 of those hours. And I'm having fun with the french drains leading to the sump pump. I think one is mostly blocked ... AND I've got some grading issues along that side of the house. Sigh. Today I back-filled and improved some of the grading. I also extended a couple of gutter drains a lot further away from the house. Hope it helps while I figure out what the next move is. After all, there's rain in the forecast here for each of the next…

Brian Bilbrey August 15, 2018

15 August 2018

Busy times - I managed a fair bit of yardwork this last weekend, and we wrapped with Sunday at the Annapolis Shakespeare Company's August Cabaret Night, featuring Christine Asero. What a talented, lovely lady. From show tunes to her own country songs, she put on a hell of a show. Marcia got herself a pasta accessory for our Kitchen Aid stand mixer. She put it to good use yesterday: Marcia made the fettuccine pasta, we got the sauce out of a jar, adding sauteed chicken. A tomato from the garden, shared, and a serrano chili for me. Yum! Note to…