Vertical hydroponic garden

Check! Will get it to solar and add fish later.


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Lots of little projects

This one is still under wraps.


Aquaponic garden start.


Aidan and I bottled Mugato Stout. Bare feet bonus.

Balsam root on the High Drive trails

A parade this morning...

With maintenance needed on the brush and medic trucks this morning, and the PL needed to go out on calls with, it was a convoy this morning with everyone in the station driving to the shop.

The great night crawler migration

We are back from Palm Springs. Liked it a lot.  But nothing beats riding your bike in the rain to work the day after our return. To top it off, the streets were full of night crawlers crossing (to get to the other side). No worms like this in the desert, except for the sandworms of Arakis. SHAI-HULUD!

Brewing and memories of brewing past!

Ike was home from college and helped me make a nice coffee and choco stout last week. We used hops from the garden too. I am going to bottle this stuff in 750ml bottles as opposed to kegging. Something nice about having the portability of bottles. And a bigger bottle encourages sharing.

That's five gallons of beer we have going there. Ike is a big kid.

Of course, he didn't used to be.

In the top picture, you can see that I have already started my garden - eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and squash.  I think the squash is getting ready to blossom. May have started them too early.

In other beer making and just making overall, I made my brother Joe a Big Sky Brewing baseball cap:

And then I made myself a fishing hat:

The fishing has been slow, the little that I have been out, but the crocheting has been a good time. Standby for the debut of the survival fez.

Grocery pilgrim refuge

Just about every day, Sarah and I walk down to the store to figure out what to make for dinner. The day before yesterday, we were checking out at the cash register and we could see a wall of water and wind outside. We tried waiting out the storm by the door. When we made it break for it, the hail started falling pretty hard.

We took shelter in Benniditos and had a beer and watched the storm pass. Nice! The walk home was in the sun.