Even more NERAX

Nope. Not here. Still at NERAX.

Still at NERAX

So tonight, you didn’t hear from me because this is the second night of NERAX.

First maple shoot

I guess this is the first weed of the year: a maple shoot. And I’m not going have time to pull it or any others for a few days, because NERAX started tonight. Let the insanity ensue.

Next stop on the spring train: Daffodils!

This clump of daffodils is starting to open the first flowers. I wonder if they’re really sure about it, though. One of them seems to be trying to sneak into the house.

First paragraphs

Since I’m still struggling with my current draft, I’d like to suggest a couple of links about beginnings. What got me thinking about this was a quote from Gabriel García Márquez on how the first paragraph contains the whole book: One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months […]

Turkeys got you down?

Look what the turkeys did to my collard plants! I don’t think I’ll be cooking any home-grown greens for a little while yet. I’ll survive. The collards will survive. Like crocus, they spring annually.

In which I resort to the all-purpose excuse

It’s really hard to type with a cat leaning on your hand. For one thing, you don’t want to disturb him because he purrs so sweetly. You don’t want to disturb yourself because the softness of his head feels so nice. And you don’t want to risk the wrath of claws. It’s not like a […]

The wrong deadline

Today was the deadline I set to find out how silly I could make a story, and the answer turns out to be: not very silly at all. Even when I set it, I knew perfectly well that I would be too distracted by the prospect of beer to get very far. Sometimes, I manage […]

Incomplete

As in, I have no complete thoughts tonight, and the wild turkeys haven’t come back. Is that good or bad?

In which I try to sell you some beer

The New England Real Ale eXhibition starts a week from tonight, so it’s past time for my annual attempt to explain why I think cask-conditioned beer is so special. “Cask-conditioned” is the awkward technical term for “the yeast is allowed to make the beer naturally bubbly right in the vessel from which it’s served.” It’s […]