When life gives you leftover (home) canned peaches...

...make a quick peach crisp with whisky peach sauce  for Sunday breakfast.

Ready for nicer weather

I was looking through pictures & saw these from last summer.  Ahhhh, summer.  How I (mostly) miss you so (minus the 100 degree days that scorched everything in sight).

Well well well, check out these lovely flowers she grew just for me.  Yum yum yum.

Just gonna meander over here to check it out.  

 Dude, this yard is awesome.

 Oh, hey, it says "Beware of Dog."  I wonder if they care that we're eating their lawn?  Suckas.

 You bore me, dog.

 Heyyyy, is this a good shot?  There's no shadow across my face, right?  Does my butt look big?  Aren't I handsome?

Cheers to 2013

We've been absent...for awhile.  But we're back!  Wishing everyone a happy & healthy New Year.

Playing around with our new camera:

An (almost) empty 5 lb peanut butter container.  (Don't feel sorry for Brewer - he gets his dad's empty yogurt container almost every morning)

 Gotta work on the zoom.

  Opening their gifts.  :)

The First Week

Well I'm on to my third week now as assistant brewer at Black Tooth Brewery. I have to say I enjoy it more than I did my desk job. The atmosphere and the pace is easy and enjoyable. Though I have a long way to go to become a master brewer, I am getting familiar with the down and dirty work of a brewery and learning more every day. Below are a few pictures from my first week. (Not shown: the keg washer. I have spent many hours with the piece of machinery, and I have a feeling we're going to see much more of each other)

Pretty new tanks all in a row! I pulled all the protective coating off these tanks the first morning on the job.  I doesn't seem like it'd be too bad, but they are crammed in against the freezer wall forcing me to think like a contortionist.

20 gallon buckets of tired yeast pulled off the bottom of the fermentors

 

Milling grains for a 640 gallon batch of Amber.  The white pipe has an auger in it the carries the cracked barley to the brewhouse

Filling kegs in the walk-in-cooler from a different 640 gallon batch of Amber.  This is a time consuming (and cold) process.  Notice the lovely yellow pallet-jack.  I have become quite proficient with this thing, and this week I learn to run a forklift :) !!!

All in all, the job doesn't suck!

Well that's one way to simplify

 

Well that was fun. Or not. I'm ok. The truck is not ok (at least we hope that's the insurance adjuster's opinion). I will forever be thankful for modern technology & engineering - the guardrail that didn't budge when a truck slammed into it at 55 mph & stopped me from going over the bridge, the truck built to absorb impact & decrease chance of injury, the air bags deploying like a gunshot & preventing my face from meeting the steering wheel, & the seat belt that harnessed me to the seat & stopped me from bouncing around like a rag doll.
To the three gentlemen camping down the hill that heard the crash, called it in, & stayed with me until HP showed up: thank you. To the gentleman that stopoed to make sure I was ok: thank you. To Kentz & Lindsey, for being there: thank you. Nothing I say or do will suffice in expressing my thanks & gratitude for all of you.

Lessons of the day: most trucks function in RWD when not in 4WD. And nothing is worth being in a hurry.