Wandering Around The Web

You never know where a thought may lead... I was reading my Facebook feed this morning and saw a post from Texas Music TV... https://youtu.be/q3zOYn6Ewgs When Pat mentioned that the song was from Jon Randall, It led me to a song I've loved for a while... Carolina Moon by Jon. Googling…

Texas Barbeque

https://youtu.be/lnRRDSYgdmw Aaron Franklin has become my goto person when it comes to improving my smoking of big chunks of meat... It was probably his use of a small backyard smoker in his video series that convince me to replace my old rusted out charbroiler with a Old Country. So far,…

Jason Strikes Again

I've been reading Jason Kottke's blog for as long as I can remember. Sometimes his posts resonate, sometimes I just skim on by. His post about John Lennon's Poster resonated. Peter Dean is a big Beatles fan. And so he set out to reproduce exactly -- from photographic evidence only --…

ACA… What Does It Do?

Now that the Supreme Court has declared the ACA to be constitutional I find most people still don't know what is in the law... I don't really know. My wife doesn't understand it. I know most of the folks I talk to don't. From the comments and email I get,…

Coffee Geekiness

I am always amazed when I stumble across a Coffee Geek. It makes my muses seem pretty pedestrian. I've been geeking out over coffee since yesterday, which is fun. The coolest thing I've been finding out about is vacuum-brewing or siphon- (also spelled "syphon-") brewing. There are a lot of…

Why Not?

At the end of a long weekend of unending fun...I built a gazebo, bar-b-qued for the family, updated  the software that runs my genealogy site (which managed to break it until I gave up and reinstalled it all and started all over), and all in all had a really good…

The National Parks: If You Missed It Last Night…

Watch it online now...But do it quick. They will only be online till Oct 9th. Episode 1 Episode One: "The Scripture of Nature" (1851–1890) The astonishing beauty of Yosemite Valley and the geyser wonderland of Yellowstone give birth to the radical idea of creating national parks for the enjoyment of…

Where Have the Bees Gone?

Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance. "Nature Deficit Disorder". Now there is a public health issue I can understand. I have been aware of being prone to the condition…