Category: holiday

02/06/11 01:36 - ID#53557

Infringement Festival!

Deadline for submitting proposals for the 2011 Buffalo Infringement Festival is May 1.

The festival will be July 28-Aug. 7... it starts right after the NYS bar exam. Excellent timing. :-)

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Category: weather

02/05/11 11:14 - ID#53555

Beautiful snow...

But my neighbor is a freak, snowblowing his back deck at 11pm!

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: friends

02/04/11 04:31 - ID#53546

Qwirkle!

I finally bought my own copy of qwirkle! Got it at hyatt's. Thanks, (e:puddlediving), for letting me keep yours for so long. Next game purchase will be ticket to ride.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: friends

02/03/11 10:21 - ID#53539

Skye's blanket

I gave jennie 1/5 of the afghan at her shower... All that's left is edging and tucking in the ends. Soo much quicker than jill's!

(e:heidi,53500)

crochet

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Category: friends

02/01/11 09:55 - ID#53534

Make beer?

An (e:peep) suggested we make beer, since we like drinking it so much. Here's a recent display of game night beers. And cookies.

But this is what I picture when someone says beer-making...

Grain mill

Food scale

Five-gallon carboy with tap

A stack of books

Yards of plastic tubing

Kettle for cooking, copper tubing for cooling (we forget its proper name and the brewmaster is downstairs)

Basement sink - brewing was banned from upstairs after an explosion busted a dining room window and threw shards of glass into the newly plastered ceiling.

Hydrometer

Kegs and CO2 charger in 1965 GE fridge (freezer on the bottom - great item!! donated by Penn College, refurbished by Lou)

Chemicals and stuff

The stove caught on fire and has been replaced by a propane burner (probably from a turkey fryer)

I hear there are $100 kits available...

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Icicles at the office

Uncle Dudley and her new cocker spaniel puppy Jude. He's four months old.

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Category: home

02/01/11 09:34 - ID#53533

Spotlighting

So usually when you go wandering around the countryside here, you're spotlighting for deer. A and I went rig-spotting instead. We drove from Covington over to Troy, down to Canton, over 414 to Gleason, then towards Fall Brook through County Bridge. We were travelling on little snow covered back roads in my two-wheel drive Dakota.

We passed Fallbrook Road, where we had taken pix last April (e:heidi,51874) and I wanted A to turn around so we could head out towards the cemetery and the compressor station we saw last year.

As soon as he headed toward the berm, I knew we were stuck.

A nice couple comes up in their chevy truck, asked if we had chains. Nope, I don't keep chains in my truck. They say they're headed to the Legion just over the top of the hill and they'd ask if anyone had chains and could pull us out. Another truck stopped, "Got chains?" "Nope."

Next, a frack waste water truck stops. He's got chains and a thick Southern accent. Our local fire chief, who also owns a tow truck (and I have his # in my phone), pulled up behind us. I'm sure Shawn got a chuckle out of it.

A hooked up the chain.

And he towed us out. I should have tried video.

He wanted to tow us to the top of the hill but we said just out of the snow would be fine.

So yeah, irony abounds. Uncle Dudley thinks the out-of-state gas workers have been instructed to be nice to the locals whenever they have a chance.

[A says I should have gotten out and taken pix, the snow was really deep where we got stuck.]

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Category: home

01/31/11 07:04 - 14.ºF - ID#53522

Tree farm gas well

This is a picture of the gas well drilling rig in the backyard of the Zimmer Century Tree Farm on Cherry Flats Road in Covington, Pa.

Close up of the well

Baby trees

I have lots to say/write about this weekend, but I'm just doing a quick draft edit of photos (over 225) at the moment. I drove by this house five times in different lighting to get this shot.

Here's a map of permitted (green dots) and drilled (red stars) wells in PA.

Don't let this happen in NYS.

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Category: home

01/28/11 09:47 - 27.ºF - ID#53506

Houston pipe crew

A's new band playing at the wellsboro house, wellsboro, pa. I have been listening to his bands for 8 years now... This is the best one yet. Damn.

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Category: friends

01/26/11 10:18 - 28.ºF - ID#53500

Skye's blanket

My friend Jennie is in the process of adopting a beautiful baby girl and I'm going to the baby shower saturday. It seems unlikely that I'll manage to finish the afghan by then. :-( I have the middles done (five strips) and one round on all, plus two more rounds on one, leaving eight more rounds plus stitching them together and edging everything.The yarn isn't as awesome as Bodhi's last year, (e:heidi,51217) but it's very pretty. Yarn: Plymoth yarn encore 0450 & encore colorspun 7713. I got it at a shop in Snyder, Have Ewe Any Wool? Yarn Shop