The weather was dry and the winds were low for the first time on a weekend night in some time, so Friday evening I had my first official fire of the year. It had been a busy day and evening, so...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/fridays-fire-and-todays-plantings.html
Yesterday was a beautiful day; sunny, breezy, warm and the second day of the year with windows wide open. Clouds started moving in about the time I took these pictures, and it's overcast and ra...
I believe I mentioned that our street is due to be reconstructed this year, and that I had some issues with their plans. For the first time, I spoke to the City Council during their meeting ton...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/street-reconstruction.html
The fence installers left me two pickets from the back fence that they removed in the corner and replaced with new, plus 8 new pickets. This gave me an idea to build a small section of fence be...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/more-new-fence.html
Our new cedar fence was installed yesterday with few issues. In fact, they were done by noon, a couple hours before the daylight very noticeably dimmed due to the partial eclipse we had here. W...
The last thing to do before having the fence installed was to move the firewood, and we dumped it to the ground this afternoon. We put down a tarp with cardboard on top of it to try and pre...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/final-fence-prep.html
It started snowing by 2:00 this afternoon, a heavy, wet, accumulating snow. It's due to snow through tomorrow and into Thursday morning, per the forecast. I called the fence place this aft...
Preparation of the property line for the new fence had stalled since the last post, very much due to weather and my back. Yesterday I got the call, they want to install it on Wednesday and I th...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/yesterday-and-today-ii-more-fence-prep.html
Yesterday I completed getting the bulk of the plant matter out of the strip of the stump area by the fence, 4 five-gallon buckets full. My back is definitely tight and sore, but I've had it lot...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/yesterday-and-today.html
I made two rounds of baguettes last weekend, pizza dough, and an odd recipe for cool ranch corn bread. The first round of baguettes were marred by the gold non-stick surface of the baking pan ...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/baking-and-fence.html
As the days grow longer and the temperatures are warmer I'm reminded of how I haven't really walked the neighborhood since starting my new job. Winter temperatures and very active work days se...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/all-that-and-cheese-pennies.html
Happy Leap Day, everyone. Not really a holiday, just novel in that it only comes about every 4 years, usually. (Century years must be divisible by 400 to have this extra day.) Today would h...
It appears our new neighbors moved in late last week, ready or not. There's still workers over there every day and as I write now, but not yesterday so I'm thinking they just wanted one quiet d...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-t-t-follow-ups.html
I've been feeling much better this week but for continuing sniffles, since being sick the prior two weeks. It's just been going around as I've heard of several others being sick. It's no fun,...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/february-this-and-thats.html
Since the foot of snow we had earlier this month we spent the following week in a deep freeze. Temperatures at and below 0ºF after all that snow and with little or no sun contributed to snow-...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/weather-sickness-and-livestreams.html
For over a year now I've mostly made the classic baguette recipe from King Arthur Baking Company. Every now and again I tried a different baguette recipe, but some were better than others and ...
I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning so looked out and saw it snowing, though less accumulation than before. The snow petered out by 9 this morning, so about 9:30 we went out to clean it up again.�...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/wfw-part-4-final.html
I went out again about 7:00 and cleared around another 4 inches, making my guesstimate be 9 inches so far. Keep in mind we had some inches on the ground before this started. The tracks you se...
About a half an hour ago, just before I cleared snow for the first time. There was about 5 inches so far, about 7 hours in and over 12 hours to go yet. I'll have to clear at least once more t...
Well, winter finally caught up to us. We got about 8 inches of snow on Tuesday and about 2-3 inches overnight last night. There has been a white blanket on everything - and every branch of e...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/winter-freakin-wonderland.html
Happy New Year! I don't know if I'll be up for it so I'm writing this from the past and scheduling this for just after midnight. By the way, Sunday's date was 123123, but mostly only in this...
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If you know me then you'll know I've not been happy with my job in a pretty long time. New management came in after the beginning of the pandemic and there were many changes, not all for the be...
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you had a great weekend and are having a good day today doing what you wish with those you want to be with. Or anything close to that is still pretty dang go...
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Happy Winter Solstice, 2023. Finally the days will begin to get longer, though winter has barely begun for us. We've had a taste of snow and really cold, but mostly have been a bit warmer ...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/solstice-firepit.html
Apparently, this checklist has been trending on social media of some sort, I read about it on a website. Similar to the '50 Bands I've Seen Live' trend that I posted back in the first year of...
http://scoakatsblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/concert-checklist-trend.html