So I started all my meads the beginning of Feb. All three started happily farting away a few hours later. The loganberry and gooseberry are still going at it. The sweet cherry stalled out about a week ago. I bought some more yeast that is supposed to be good for restarting things. No luck. Nothing, nada. It's only a 3 gallon carboy and has ( Read more... )

Haven't posted in a very long time, but I thought I'd cut and paste what I put in my SCA LJ. Today I opted to stay home rather then deal with the idiots out on the ice. I rescheduled my lesson with my trainer for Saturday yesterday, so I don't feel bad about staying home and it won't kill Hen to have a day off ( Read more... )

If anyone is interested in reading what really happened on the Splendor and not all the media hype, I highly recommend reading John Heald's blog. He's the CD on the ship and is one of the very best in the business. As a self proclaimed 'cruise whore' I find it a very interesting read and am pleased to know that my life and safety is in the hands ( Read more... )

So I have at least two carboys that are looking for fillings. A third is potentially promised to be filled with a flavour of the winners choosing to be put into gift baskets. This leaves me with two more ( Read more... )

Today's wonderful weather has activated my nostalgia so I thought I'd post about it.

I remember so many wonderful things about being at The Lake. After camp we would go and get to spend at least 3 weeks in heaven before we had to go back and get ready for school.

( The Lake )

New entry up on my SCA journal. This one talks about my mead recipe and gives a brief description to the different "proper" names of varieties of meads.

http://z-nightshade.livejournal.com/1133.html

I registered with Harry Potter Ohio soon after I got home from War. I am STILL not given permission to get into the site. I heard that the admin just got married (while I was at War) and did the honeymoon thing. Ok, fine. I get that. Is it too much to ask that at some point in the 3 weeks since I registered that *someone* would get back to me ( Read more... )

Huskaldr wrote this awesome Viking poem about Simon. He was supposed to do it for the bardic roundhouse, but didn't get it done in time. I wanted to share it with you, my friends. Enjoy ( Read more... )

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/24/tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-logo-and-high-resolution-photosconcept-art/

We all know that I love Harry Potter. This should not be new information to anyone. So it also shouldn't surprise people when I have HP themed dreams. This one was but wasn't. The characters we but they weren't in the right bodies. Make seance ( Read more... )