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Your Weather 2025 post from Yesterday fits very well with today's weather here –– Today! We visited 2 parks this morning and took a nice walk in one of them, under a blue sky & bright sun. DW and I were both using canes as she is recovering from a foot problem but did quite well. It was...

@Shades-of-Oregon ..?

A screenshot?

Officially, this neck of the woods remains in severe drought and borders exceptional. The recent rainy weather was quite a contrast to the Summer. I have already said how, looking back about a month, our temperatures have been moderated. A change may be on tap. Thirty year averages show that...

And, yes @SPedigrees points to the night sky with zero moonlight for tonight :hide. Well, we are experiencing a Sunny morning and I am having a cup of Coffee :thumbsup.

I learned a new word this morning: nyctophile. Someone who  loves the night is a nyctophile. I think that I will try to forget it. By the first day of December, our sunset will come before 4pm. We will have less than 9 hours of daylight daily, this week. And, we are still a month from the...

My one attempt with sauerkraut was a failure. The same with pickles. In the refrigerator pickled cucumbers worked but the recipe was too salty. Dad was in charge of beer making for 10 years and it all worked well. I suppose that my wine making was a success but it didn't evolve in the intended...

It must have been about 40 years ago. Research may not have been possible with the revenuers showing up in every glen and hollow.

Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena

I did set up a still, once. Using a pressure cooker, it was quite simple & easy (altho, probably not safe). I used some very mediocre, homemade grape wine. The result was terrible ! Something that I might have tried was distilling it twice. Of course, storing it in an oak cask should have...

I learned recently that sweet potatoes are used for alcohol production. Oh boy, really ? My wine making experience was supposedly geared to growing and making use of a garden product. No, I didn't want to use grapes since there is so much availability, variety and sophistication in that...

That could serve as a very simple tool for distilled products!

❤️ @SPedigrees A couple of years ago, I read about the very early use of wild barley as food for humans. It now seems that there is genetic evidence that it was domesticated in 3 different locations, Middle East, Asia and Africa. Really, I have no knowledge of when beer making shows up in...

But, we would never have had .. . as abundant a supply of .. . beer!