It was bound to happen: making bread and drinking beer leads to making beer. They aren’t that different, bread and beer. One’s liquid and both are delicious. My wife got me a beer-making kit from Brooklyn Brew Shop. The flavor:…
Making Beer, Part One
Posted in Baking, Products Tagged with: beer, brewing, CH, home brewing, mash, wheat, wheat beer, wort
Follow Your Nose
Have you ever really stepped out your front door with no destination? No plans of how to get there, what route, traffic, how long it will take, arrival time, do I have my keys, do I have my phone OH…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: biking, expeditions, follow your nose, number two, softball
Sometimes We Just Need Ice Cream
Sometimes you’re beat down enough that you begin to forget yourself. It’s the long apogee on the backside of the moon, the lessening curve of a parabolic swing from joy to sorrow, the moment when the sun has finally set…
Why Yes, That is a “Huevo”
Five points for the first reader who can place that quote. Now then, where was I? Yes, we were talking about chickens some days ago and how we’d yet to see an egg. This weekend we got one, precious as…
A Winter Play
Let’s start with a confusing image and work towards the inescapable conclusion. There’s an animatronic dog wrapped in tin foil, cotton balls strewn about, and a dog with angel wings. Got it yet? Me neither, let’s keep going. …
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: CH, child harbat, hello kitty, performance art, plays, theater
I Was Born by the River, In a Little Tent…
…and ohhhh just like that river I’ve been runnin’ ever since. Sorry, got a bit of Sam Cooke in my head. If you’re interested, Seal does a fantastic cover of this song. People have been born by the calm waters…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: change is gonna come, everything tears, hiking, hiking with children, mission trails regional park, Sam Cooke, Seal, visitor center
The Great Chicken Adventure
First there was one chicken, Ducky. She was given to us by a friend who’s chickens were pecking poor Ducky to bits while she molted and recovered from a possum bite. The life of a chicken isn’t kind, my friends.…
Posted in Gardening Tagged with: americauna, backyard chickens, CH, chickens, coop, eggs, hens, laying eggs, scratch
Little Girls and Tea Parties
Where does it come from, the compelling urge for young girls to act as Victorian social hosts? Child Harbat hasn’t seen Downtown Abbey yet she adores a china tea set she got for Christmas and has hosted several soirees at…
Unstructured Time
What was my favorite part about last weekend? It was the unstructured time I spent in the garden with Number Two as he found Items of Interest and explored. Once you get in the habit of “things to be done”…
Posted in Gardening, Parenting, Writing Tagged with: character, garden, manu chao, number two, playing, productivity, time
Finding Your Roots
In elementary school we were encouraged to wear the ethnic costume of our ancestors. This is the true measure of how ours is a country of immigrants–everyone can always say they are from somewhere else, with the exception of the…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: ancestry, bagpipes, Balmoral, CH, heritage, kilt, MacPherson, Robertson, scottish, smallpipes
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