Well, it's been a while, so i thought I'd give ya'll an updated profile. Recently, my wife, Aimee, won a beer brewing starter kit. This has led me to the need to drink lots and lots of beer in order to have enough bottles to put it in. Not a problem. I know, you can buy empties at the brew shop, but I just can't bring myself to buy bottles with no beer in them. Our first batch, the Okie Dokie Wheat will be ready around July 4; sounds like a good excuse for a party to me. My second attempt is a nut brown, one that I'm particularly excited about.
We also expanded our vegetable garden recently. The garlic we grew over the winter just finished curing and is mighty tasty. We've also been growing lettuce, endive, spinich, and other greens, and harvest a fresh salad every night. Tomatoes and various peppers just went in the ground a month or so ago and are doing quite nicely. All this organic gardening, that's right, no chems for us, led me to build a composter. I'm too impatient to wait a year or two for good compost, so I made a tumbler composter, which speeds up the process significantly. See my pics for images of the garden and composter.
My next step in self-sufficient sustainablity is making ice cream. Mmm, homemade ice cream. Just wish I had enough land to have a cow to produce the milk.
I still have the bike shop, www.celestialcycles.com ,and still play banjo for Tall Cotton. We play traditional bluegrass with a little bit of swing thrown into the mix. www.tallcottonstringband.com
Other hobbies of mine include but are not limited to: working on and cleaning my house, playing with my Border Collie, Molly & our two cats, Echo and Monroe, wearing the same thing I wore yesterday, building stuff, and doing things.
