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I bottled my beer this past Monday.  It is currently sitting in my basement carbonating.
Bottling was definitely the most labor intensive process.  I began it as soon as I got home from work by boiling some water and putting bottles in the oven to sterilize them.  It takes about an hour in the oven at [...]

It’s only natural that after getting fresh produce from our CSA for several weeks, after the beginning of the harvests from our garden and after being put on a medically prescribed low-carb diet that my world is beginning to revolve around salads.
For a while, I have been a connoisseur of restaurant salads. [...]

We’ve started to get some rain in Atlanta and, while we’re still in a severe drought, it’s been good for the plants. We were able to harvest quite a bit today–tomatoes, peppers, and green beans–and we’ve also noticed a substantial increase in quantity from the CSA. This is part of what it means [...]

This past Saturday, I brewed beer for the first time. Susannah and I had talked about getting a home brew kit since Christmas (as a gift) and we finally got it just a few weeks ago.
For my first brew, I used an extract kit with specialty grains. So, it wasn’t a full on [...]

Why are all computer books awful?  I wondered this today after nearly falling asleep reading Learning Python.  I was gathering interesting tidbits from the text, but I didn’t want to read it.  My brain knew that it didn’t need most of the information on the page, but I felt compelled to look carefully, in case [...]

It’s not often that my high school gets a prominent mention in the Boston Globe sports section.  So when I saw this article today, I read it with interest.  The article is about Jack McGeary, a graduating senior, who will likely be picked in the first round of the MLB draft.  It’s an interesting look [...]

We’ve recently joined a CSA (community supported agriculture) here in Atlanta. The basic arrangement is that we pay in advance to a local farm (in this case Riverview Farms) and, in return, we get fresh produce once a week which we pick up at our local community garden. The cost is $25 per [...]