Category: hobby
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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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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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phoenix
Two and a half years? It’s been two and a half years since I’ve tried brewing beer? A man with priorities as screwed up as that should not be allowed to consider himself a home brewer. I hang my head in shame, wondering what the hell I’ve been doing with my life, and offer these Read.
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casemod
What I’ve always wanted is to have a model train layout like the old-timers used to have: A tangled pile of spaghetti in a small corner of the basement with simple block control from a master control panel that has lots and lots of switches with toggles as thick as your thumb and a throttle Read.
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dinah
To give you an idea what’s been going on along the Lost Continent Railway, here’s an overhead shot of the layout. Compare with April 4, 2011. In my spare time this weekend, between washing clothes and tending to a plumbing emergency, I laid twenty-four feet of track; made templates to build four of the switches Read.
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choo-choo
I bought a diesel engine choo-choo at the train show last weekend and it’s taken me until tonight to finally put it on the track and run it back and forth. With that lack of commitment I have to ask myself: Do I really deserve this? But after listening to that engine purr and watching Read.
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broken
I’ve just come home from my annual trip to the Madison model train show, where I was doing a pretty good job of sticking to my promise to myself not to spend a lot of dough in spite of all the tempting toys. In a room as big as two football fields, I found a Read.
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ullage
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