Brews You Can Use It's hard to write about drinking when I'm on a self-imposed alcohol ban that would make a Baptist proud. Until I get over this dehydration, I can't drink. One drink pretty much puts me on my back with exhaustion

Rambling Well, given the way this season has gone, I guess it's only a matter of time until this beast makes an appearance at the produce site: "The giant hogweed is hard to miss. The monstrous plant towers up to 15 feet tall, with a crown of

A salute: > Timothy Matlack (May 28, 1736 ”“ April 14, 1826) was a brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War. Secretary of Pennsylvania during the war, and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1780, he became one of

Miscellaneous Rambling I'm afraid it's going to take a long time to convince me of this: "Compulsive video-game playing could be mental health problem." Link [https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-compulsive-video-game-mental-health-problem.html] . And even if they

Miscellaneous Rambling: Garden I'm back from my first summer vacation. It was short, just four days with the in-laws at Michigan's largest inland lake, Houghton Lake. It's not my favorite outing of the year, but I have a great set of in-laws

> Flowers are coming in nicely pic.twitter.com/4d2lWKKLUW [https://t.co/4d2lWKKLUW] > — MAXimum Greens (@GreensMaximum) June 30, 2018 [https://twitter.com/GreensMaximum/status/1013083727679901696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

BYCU I guess berry liqueurs are in high demand right now, but they're pricey. This site offers a plausible-looking recipe [https://www.starkbros.com/growing-guide/article/handcrafted-berry-liqueur-recipe] . Our first raspberries of the year are coming in, and the black raspberries that dot our

I've started following this guy. He's Tweeting about a profound problem that doesn't get nearly enough discussion: > 21 USC §§331, 333, 343 & 21 CFR §164.110(a) make it a federal crime to sell mixed nuts containing fewer than

From the Notebooks Russia came to Christianity late, in 988, but it came to philosophy even later, not producing its own original philosopher until the eighteenth century: Gregory Skovoroda (1722-1794). At the age of 43, Skovoroda, the self-proclaimed “Russian Socrates,” became a strannik, a wanderer, who spent the

The Stranger is a description of the last days of the narrator, a man named Mersault. Mersault is the mature Holden Caulfield. He goes through his life with little thought of others; primarily because he gives little thought to himself. He just goes about and lets the events of life