Month: March 2012
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mandate
Broccoli. I can’t open a newspaper, switch on the radio, or surf the internet without being reminded of the wisdom of supreme court justice Antonin Scalia, who wonders if the federal government will be forcing us all to buy broccoli soon. Gee, Mr. Scalia, would that really be so bad for anybody? Considering what the… Read.
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wakey-wakey
Boo has apparently come to the conclusion that we should not sleep in on Saturdays. Every weekday morning, I get out of bed at five o’clock, start the coffee pot, take a shower, eat breakfast. She doesn’t pay any attention at all to me then, but on Saturday mornings, starting as early as six o’clock,… Read.
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start
For your listening pleasure this Friday: Read.
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seeded
Planting season has arrived. It’s official when dinners go from being meticulously prepared over a period of hours and eaten long after sundown, to being deli-sliced pastrami and cheese sandwiches with a bag on chips on the side – still eaten after sundown, but now so that My Darling B can spend the last hour… Read.
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proscription
My physical therapist said I was well on the road to recovery from the tendenoidal impingement of my rotator cuff. He said it a lot better than I did, but maybe you get the idea anyway. And he said no more sleeping on my side, ever. He said it in such an offhand way, as… Read.
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spoo
Day three, and my first batch of beer is still fermenting like crazy. One the yeast gets going, there’s no stopping it until it eats up all the malt sugar, converting it into alcohol and carbon dioxide so enthusiastically that they thrash up a big head of foam. I pour the beer into a giant… Read.
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blink
And, in the blink of an eye, the weekend was over. For the first time in months we slept in late Saturday morning – didn’t get out of bed until almost eight o’clock! What a couple of hedonists we can be! After we’d cleared the cobwebs from our heads with a couple cups of coffee,… Read.
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brewing
I have brewed again. I wanted to start with a simple ale, a lawnmower beer for the early spring weather, so I googled spring ale and clicked through the results until I found a recipe that was meant to be a clone of Anchor Steam beer. I didn’t follow the recipe exactly. Why would I?… Read.
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fractional
I went to the store to buy PVC pipe, strap hangers and wall anchors, and I’m going to tell you all about it because I can’t sleep and I have to do something quiet as I while the hours away until morning or until I can fall asleep, whichever comes first. Buying the pipe was… Read.
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beer
The frame is finished, the formica countertop is tightly screwed down, and half the backboard is in place. It’s starting to look as if this is really going to happen. I didn’t do much to the bench tonight, just enough to say I’m still working on it. I added railings between the legs of the… Read.
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