Month: October 2009

Happy Halloween everyone! Hope you all have a safe trick-or-treating (or whatever it is you do) and thoroughly enjoy the day. And because it’s Halloween I couldn’t resist running a few of the various weird images I’ve posted over the years. Enjoy!

I was in our local Bend Bulletin today, in an article about seasonal beers. Nice article, mostly accurate, but I was very surprised by the amount of "screen time" I got, so to speak. I only spoke with the reporter for something like 10 minutes on the phone last week. This makes the third time… Continue reading I’ve been in the newspaper 3 times now. I think.

A few years back, Law & Order had an episode where the killer planted a body part in the wreckage of the World Trade Center so that the crime would be covered up, looking instead like collateral damage from 9/11. It almost worked (but didn’t, of course) and got me thinking that the same type… Continue reading A book I’d like to read

As a blogger who receives samples of products (mostly beer) and writes reviews of them, I read with interest this story that popped up on LATimes.com today: Bloggers must now disclose if they got paid to write a review. Basically, the Federal Trade Commission has revised their "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials… Continue reading Bloggers must disclose payments for reviews

This year, or the latter half, at least, has been a big harvest year for us. And one of the things that goes along with harvesting your own produce (or whatever) is the packaging and storage: you don’t want the stuff you picked to go bad. So there’s been a lot of freezing and canning… Continue reading The year of harvest

At my parents’ place in Alfalfa, they have a wild plum tree that produced fruit for (I believe) the first time ever this year. They were small, golden fruits that were terrifically sour as they grew, but ripened and turned a deep pink-purple and ended up being rather sweet. They picked a bunch of the… Continue reading Plum wine