Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use This . . . heat . . . is . . . unbearable. I know the Puerto Ricans are suffering, but man, this humidity is stultifying. I went to the produce site last night to work on my beds for just an hour, after sunset (from 7:00 to 8:00). In just an hour

Well, I felt the lecture could've gone a lot better, but that's probably just my arrogance expecting more out of me than my talent allows. No one killed himself to get out of listening to more, almost everyone came back after the break for Q&

Tonight's Handout Prepping, prepping, and prepping. Not much time for blogging, blogging, blogging. Below is tonight's handout for my "Catholic History in 30 Minutes" presentation at a local bar. My first dry run took me 90 minutes. I then got it down to 60

Jammed week: county fair yesterday, lecture series starting tomorrow. Just this video of the site, taken last weekend:

Miscellaneous Rambling Greatly enjoying: American Vandal, a new series on Netflix. I'm not proud that I'm enjoying it, but it really cracks me up for some reason. I detest the skies more and more. I normally question things like this, but if we're talking

> Men, young adults and rural residents increasingly say college isn't worth the cost https://t.co/5BigCmRMWJ > — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 10, 2017 [https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/907027191615156229]

Miscellany I planted my last bed for 2017 last night. I really enjoy "working the land," but it felt good to know I was done planting for 2017. At this point, I'll let the sprinklers and Max take over most of the work, while I settle

Brews You Can Use The unexpected hangover: the bane of my drinking existence. I had four small (one shot, not 1.5 shots) gin and tonics last night, then woke up at 1:00 with a pretty bad headache. I'm still dragging this morning, and I have meetings

Miscellaneous Rambling I've been looking at the best way to prep my land for next year's harvest. Coincidentally, I ran across this in-depth piece about restoring America's soil: Can American soil be brought back to life? [http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/

On my favorite reprobate: > Good essay on Kerouac: "I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” https://t.co/PBIxYB5pxn > — David Scott (@DScottLA) September 10, 2017 [https://twitter.com/DScottLA/status/906961256371724288]