Category: Home Life
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The Joys of Summer
August is always a bittersweet time for me. The locusts start buzzing, the birds have mostly gone silent, the bees are frantically gathering as much as they can before the flowers die and the crops are harvested, and the hungry wasps search for new sources of food, such as unwitting people working in their garden…
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Life Lesson From a Tomato Pie
On Saturday I attempted to make pizza on the charcoal grill using a pizza stone. It was made from scratch, using 00 flour and a recipe I found online. The goal was to make a fresh tomato pie. The pizza on the left was my first attempt. It was doughy and undercooked. In other words,…
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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Last week for the Fourth of July, I made a peach pie with the last of the Georgia peaches we got from Ohio. The peaches were very ripe, which I thought would make for a delicious pie but turned the pie into a watery mess instead. The pie was good (I used a recipe found…
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Happy Birthday, America!
Today we celebrate our 249th year. This fourth kicks off the runup to our 250th birthday next year. It has already been 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which led to the formation of the U.S. Army in April. (That was commemorated with a parade in Washington that upset certain factions in…
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June
Hard to believe that June is now upon us! The sixth month of the year, meaning that we are approaching the halfway point of 2025 and we start to enter that proverbial back nine. Soon 2026 will be looming larger and larger. It seems the older one gets, the faster the years go by. For…
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Lawns
My change in life circumstances has led me to a new discovery. I actually like lawn mowing. For me, lawn mowing was always a boring activity. Melissa volunteered to do it after work, but with the free time I now have thanks to the Great Tech Layoffs, I have assumed that role here at the…