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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Wild Grape Wine 2021
I picked a small amount of local wild concord grapes and fox grapes. I removed the good seeds from the stems, rinsed in a colander, mashed in a pot with […]
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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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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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Making Flour from Rye
I found some kind of grain growing alongside a new bike path in the area. Following some basic identification methods, it appears to be rye as best I can tell. […]
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Gardening 2020 - Updated
July 12 Unfortunately the rabbits slowly discovered the sweet peas and green beans. They decimated about 60 beautiful pea plants, and almost all of the green beans. They seemed to […]
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Grilled Day Lilies
I just discovered that the beautiful day lilies in my backyard make for good eats! I ate one raw the other day and it’s quite good! I read someone describe […]
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Red Elderberry Juice
I discovered several big red elderberry plants on my bike ride the other day. After a fair amount of reading, there is a lot of information out there about how […]
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