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I live in a small town in Washington State, USA, with my wife, two sons, two dogs, a cat, and family nearby. I work at the local community college as an I.T. Specialist. In March of '02, we bought a 70-some year old house that needed a lot of work. When I'm not working on the house, I like to throw pots, be outside, and read a lot.

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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Long Weekend Recap

Looking back on it, sometimes the best plan is no plan at all. This past weekend we did absolutely nothing and it was everything it could have been. OK, while fun to say, that isn’t precisely true. We actually accomplished quite a bit. We just didn’t rush off for a long weekend of highly structured fun and travel related expense and stress like we usually do on the Memorial Day weekend.

Accomplishments:

  • The corn is in the ground – four varieties in about ten fifty foot rows. Corn baby!
  • I bottled five gallons of IPA and kegged a hefeweizen. Unfortunately I squirted about half of the remaining hef. onto the wall in the basement
  • Planted various beans, spuds, and tomatoes. The new plan this year for carrots is to plant the seeds in tubs that can be overturned and the carrots hosed off in the fall.
  • No running :( No progress upstairs :(:(
  • Came in comfortably high in the middle of the pack at a pistol match at the range
  • Went out to the studio and loaded the kiln – wedding season is upon us and I’ve got to get wedding bowls done for several friends. I’ve got some big steins in the works, too, that I’m excited about.

The weather has turned obscenely pleasant today - more torment for those who spent the holiday weekend huddled in tents at the coast no doubt. Tonight is swimming at the Y and then we are going to run the lake.

posted by Scott in Washington at 1:56 PM |

2 comment(s):

  • Regarding large steins: Danger. I thought this would be ideal too. But when you've got your own keg...the tiny cup is better. Then you have to get up to get beer more often, and thus, don't drink as much...

    You know corn cross-polinates right? You're probably going to have 10 rows of some mixed up looking corn. But that's good too.

    Congrats on the pistol match. Was it that type like your dad does? Off the hip, four targets thing?

    I need a review of Lord of War from ya...

    By Blogger Unknown, at 5/30/2006 03:24:00 PM  

  • Hey Keith,

    Yep, I moved my keg from the shed to the basement and got a smaller cup - good strategy.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin_shooting

    I tried to plant my corn so that the usually prevailing wind will blow across several varieties of sweet corn before reaching a red corn. It will be interesting to see where the red ends up.

    Lord of War:
    Great visuals, some cool effects, good acting and narration by Cage, the ending just sort of fell apart and then got moderately preachy I thought.

    By Blogger Scott in Washington, at 5/31/2006 11:42:00 AM  

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