The Nine Carries is an awesome canoe route in the Saranac Lake region of the Adirondacks. I had the weekend available after other attempts at plan-making never really materialized. Without […]
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Cider #12
9/14/21 I rode my bike to Hannaford and picked a bunch of nice apples from the tree in front of the supermarket. I squeezed 3 gallons of juice from apples […]
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Hartford Marathon 2021
If you rewind three months, I had planned to train to run the race in two hours and fifty minutes which seemed ambitious after not running much, but when I started training […]
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Concord Grape Wine
9/22/21 J offered me some grapes from his backyard, he had a huge bumper crop of concord grapes with plenty to spare. So I headed over and picked a bunch […]
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Cider #11
9/5/21 I ground apples from N’s brother-in-law J/M’s tree in Burnt Hills. Great apples – tons of wonderful juice! Made a bunch of unpasteurized cider that M and I drank. […]
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Fixing a Green Swimming Pool
Every year halfway through the summer, pool maintenance gets really tough, and by the time August rolls around the pool is green, I’m exhausted, and we have the pool closed […]
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Lots of Rain = Mushrooms
I’ve been neglecting my mushroom hunting duties after having rain every day for many weeks. I finally went for a run with B and G and found at least five […]
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Cider 2020
This experiment involved leaving natural cider under an air lock for a few weeks and was not terribly successful but it had some mildly interesting results. I stored apples in […]
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Introducing... Pimple Frenzy!
I am very excited to announce the release of a new mobile game, called Pimple Frenzy. It’s playable on iPhone, iPad, Android, and ChromeOS devices! With the help of some […]
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