For those of you not on Facebook, just letting you know that the family is moving from Kansas to Oregon. My wife got a job and will be going out in about a month, the rest of us when school is out and after the house sells. 

Yes, I know that I spend most of my time on facebook, but I do read here all the time ( Read more... )

Summer is about 2/3 done, currently we are in the rush to get 4H projects done for the county fair. This week I'll be pimping the zombie walk at the downtown sidewalk sale, in a month I'll be co-hosting a table at Crypticon for the various zombie walks in the area ( Read more... )

Wow, I really don't post much here anymore, just about everything is on facebook ( Read more... )

Today I used the electric smoker to do up a big pork butt, that along with the rest of the leftovers should keep us fed into next week. I must say that pork turned out excellent.

My back is killing me from all that shoveling. Sure hope we don't have any more snowfall for the rest of winter.

Got some snow today, about 10" or so. Got about 2/3 of the drive shoveled, I'll get the rest later since I'm not going anywhere today. Marz made corn beaf and cabbage for lunch, tomorrow I may see how well the electric smoker does in this weather (it looks pretty well insulated). We also have the makings for potato leek soup ( Read more... )

I want to play with my baguette recipe, but I also wanted to standardize it with my regular bread methodology. This involves converting grams to ounces. The original recipe was ( Read more... )

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Pari's fever appears to be gone today, lets hope it's just a cold that made a dramatic appearance. Time to get today started. 

Since Kiyan and Marz have recovered, Pari decided to run a fever today. The strep quick test came back negative, we'll see how she's doing tomorrow. After a week of being the plague house I'm not looking forward to a second week, so I'm hoping its' something that passes quickly ( Read more... )