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Plain View #107 - part 2 - September 8, 2009 more »

I've never needed a blowoff tube until now. Brewed Saturday night. Old ale, a strong malty beer that won't be ready to drink for about 4 months. Sunday morning the airlock was already bubbling away. I love it when that happens. I notices a little wo… more »

Just wanted to share one of the pleasures of this summer. Most mornings I walk out to the back yard and check out the crops, finishing in my hops corner. I don't know if it's the relatively cool and damp summer we've been having, the fact that my hops… more »

Plain View #72 - June 22, 2007 - This show is missing in action. If anyone one has a copy, please send it my way. Thanks. Edit: The missing podcast has been found! Bufe summer school Hapkido demonstration The Beatitudes Last King of S… more »

Plain View #40 4/5/06 Matchstick Men Garden State Walk the Line Dead Hamster Other Nonsense subscribe more »

Plain View #38 3/30/06 Grizzly Man Dear Frankie The Olden Days Lent subscribe more »

Get your bible down. Here's this week's passages and commentary. more »

With a bag full of papers to sort and grade, I'm finding great motivation to do other things. So this afternoon I tackled the hall closet. Here are my findings, give or take. 20 hats (5 to Will, 5 to Maly, 1 for Grandma, 4 Adrian hats to school and… more »

Plain View #31 12/14/05 Our Belated Christmas New Year Show. Happy Easter everybody! No reply to last week's challenge Too much Christmas giving Intelligent design Matt, the drama queen Teacher gifts Brewing Satan Claus Bethan… more »

I'm reposting this because feedburner tells me noone has pulled this one down. Don't know if this is how it works or not. We'll see. Plain View #15 7/20/05 http://feeds.feedburner.com/searscast Recorded almost a week ago after a couple weeks o… more »

Plain View #14 7/1/05 http://feeds.feedburner.com/searscast This time I blame Filezilla. Anyway, here's the full length version of #14. more »

Bottled my clean-out-the-cupboard brew last night. The recipe is given below. I basically took inventory of what I had, pulled everything out for the mead and summer brew that I plan to make, gathered the remaining ingredients, and went to brewing. Th… more »

The farm stout and cider are really very good. I'm the only one who had any cider over the Christmas holiday (except for a friend I gave some to). I discovered another benifit of the cider the other night while kissing my wife. It makes your breath or… more »

Disclaimer: My cutest reader told me that while she thinks most of the material on my blog was pretty good, the entry about making my hard cider was very boring. To her way of thinking, noone cares if I added too much orange zest, what it tastes like,… more »

This afternoon I bottled 2 gallons of hard cider. Used some local cider, kind of local honey, and a bit of maple syrup some friends got me on a trip back east. When I opened the bucket prior to bottling, I noticed it smelled very orangy. It was then (… more »