Sunday Morning

Good work on the diet so far! I've lost over 30lbs since January. No official diet, just doing the low carb bit cuz it WORKS. Keep up the good work, you'll reach your goal before you know it!
Regards, GF.

 

I need to get back to low carb and eating less, but more often. And get more exercise. Need to work off about 5-10 lbs.

Probably should replace the tires on the bikes and check out the extended Rail to Trails. They paved a section from our town limits and I wonder how far it's paved.

 

This Sunday morning is dawning a bit cloudy, but warm. The weatherman is calling for some rain today, and we could really use it.

With it being mothers day, it will likely be a day for traveling. I might get a bit of gardening done if I'm lucky and I get after it early.

Breakfast will come first, though. My wife loves pancakes and bacon, so, I'll need to get working on that pretty soon. I have no Idea what will be on the dinner table tonight, other than some asparagus from the garden. It's starting to come on strong and it's my wife's favorite, so..........

I hope everyone has a great mother's day.

 

Working this morning, having a cup of Earl Grey tea & running Storm Stories. Later it will be CBS Sunday Morning, they'll be doing a couple of things for Mothers' Day. Happy Mothers' Day to all you moms out there! After work I'll be grillin' & chillin' with a beer in one hand & BBQ tongs in the other. Hope everybody has a great day!
Regards, GF.

 

Easy peasy - made 2G of Edwort's apfelwein.

 

For the first time in a long time I DVRed "Sunday Morning" on CBS

 

:rockin:

Edit: I showed SWMBO your post and her reply is that she made Breast Milk and walked away. I BOUGHT her Doughnuts, Flowers, Ice Cream, and we're going out to dinner...

I like pancakes and bacon tho...

 

Hard to follow that up. Mother's day is difficult at times.

Swmbo requested the fruit of my farmers market from yesterday. Fresh pasta with ramps and morreles.

No pics of the finished product... It disappeared to quickly.

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covered my greenhouses with plastic and started some seeds

 

Snow Saturday.... 80+F today.... I'm not sure what to do... I keep looking up

 

Good Sunday morning to all out in HBT land. I awoke to a grey and overcast sky and temps. in the low 60's. The rain gauge is reading 3/4" of rain that fell while I was in dream land and I never heard a thing. Today's forecast calls for sunny and 75*. What more could one ask for?

I stopped at my LHBS and picked up the grains for another batch of my house rye yesterday afternoon, so that is begging me to be brewed. While at the LHBS I met a fellow that is a brewer at on of the local craft breweries and learned that even though he brews all week long for a living, he still has a half barrel brewery at home! I'm jealous!

But first there must be breakfast, and bacon and eggs is sounding pretty good to me right about now. I might even fry up some taters to go along with them! :rockin:

I'd like to give a shout out to Austin for bringing us the . :rockin:

I hope everyone enjoys whatever this Sunday might bring their way.

 

mashing in an APA batch 61 for me

enjoy the day

S_M

 

WOW! Forgot it was Sunday!

Testing out my new recirculating BIAB rig today with a 25 min mash of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout 10 gal clone!

Then a member of my brew club will join me in the afternoon for a Pliny the Elder 10 gal clone! If the recirculation worked and OG was hit, I'll give this one a 25 min recirculating spin too. Clone wanted 75 min mash... wtf...

All day beer. All day clone. All day good times. Goat!

Don't forget to tape Sunday Morning.

2 hours left at work I think I'm going to watch Pink Floyd's The Wall :rockin:

Weight update: Down 2 more lbs this week. Things have slowed down but slow and steady. Cutting back on beer has helped... and when I do slam one back now:

 

It was wet & drippy overnight, now the rain has stopped & the clouds are spilling over the mountains like a slow motion waterfall & flowing through the valleys like a slow, lazy river. I'll be starting a bilberry wine after work, along with making breakfast & doing laundry; though I think I might take a little drive & watch more cloud movement before I get productive. Just had a look outside & there are 3 deer noshing on the bushes by the front door. Starbuck's coffee, clouds & deer, now that's a good morning.
Hope everybody has a great Sunday!
Regards, GF.

 

Started my day with a mug of coffee, dropped the misses off at the airport for her work trip to San Diego, took the kids for daughter's softball pictures, then went shopping. Not much on the agenda for the day, so looking forward to relaxing and maybe getting a few things done around the house.

 

I'm trying to get motivated to clean up some stuff in the brewery so I can check for FG on my Irish red. Might have to bottle it up? Feelin like a lazy Sunday myself.

 

About to throw a few racks of ribs on the grill in preparation for the family gathering this afternoon. Other than that, I plan on taking it easy.

 

Coffee on a gorgeous morning. Just dropped 16# of pork shoulder on the grill/smoker for the deck party today. Have a turkey breast and other things in the wings for later. Ready for a run to offset the eating and drinking.

 

a start to a very nice day here in Upstate New York

getting ready to put in my garden and fill my greenhouses with peppers, eggplants and tomatoes

all the best and enjoy the day

S_M

 

Gotta run to home Depot shortly and get some stuff for gardening, get a wet vac to deal with sewer issues, get a plumber to come, and hopefully plant a couple rhizomes I picked up yesterday. Might try and get a brew session in too.

 

Had back surgery Thursday. So my Sunday will consist of being drugged up on painkillers and muscle relaxers. Also means I won't be brewing anytime soon.

 

I'm wore out just reading your list!

 

Taking the motorcycle up to the Beacon farmers market to try and get my hands on some Plan Bee, then bottling 2.5 gallons of IPA in the afternoon. Seems like it's going to be a beautiful day in the Hudson Valley.

 

Just put the little one down for her nap and finished breakfast. On tap for today yard work, yard work, and more yard work. If there is any energy left, i finish painting the basement.
If i get this all done, tomorrow is a lazy brew day.

Long live the

 

Going to bed about 11am to pick up two extra shifts over the holiday... there is something about working for holiday pay that I really like... I often think about this when I'm on holiday pay and using the restroom.

Stay safe everyone.

 

Wow, you all have way too much energy or something. I work Sunday mornings and haven't done anything close to some of you on your time off. The good news is Sundays are my Fridays, so my energy level should pick up shortly.

 

Just got to work. Puting in 8 hours of double time. It feeds the familly and pays for booze.

 

Hahaha. Got the trip done, nasty stuff wet vac'd out of the basement shower, and now enjoying a cappuccino. Just realized I have a few more errands to run before I can tackle some yard work. Many beers will be destroyed in a bit.

 

Watched some 50's hot rod movies till lunch time, then to a couple stores for bbq tomorrow.

 

I hear the sounds of alarm clocks going off across the world... First thing - coffee... Then HBT.

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This Sunday night will be spent fasting. I have an upper GI diagnostic to do at the hospital Monday morning to see if I have a hiatal hernia... *shrug*

Hope you guys bbq or something!

 

Once again Sunday morning rolls around cold and cloudy. A cold front pushed through during the night and dropped about a 1/4" of much needed rain. Along with the rain that fell the temps fell from the mid 80's to 51* F right now, and the weatherman claims that may be as warm as it gets today. At least we are in much better shape than the folks in Texas. I'll be sending more prayers their way today.

I have had plans with the wife to go to the, not so local, flea market today since early in the week. We're still going to go, but will need to dress a bit warmer than we thought we might. We haven't been in a number of years and with a new grand baby and our tendency toward hoarding, I'm sure we will come home with some treasure or another. Hopefully I can find some kind of brewing equipment in the masses or junk. I see guy's on here post about finding corny's, or brew pots, or some other wondrous bauble for next to nothing all the time. My turn has to come one of these days. I have a batch of my house rye pale ale that needs to be bottled, hopefully I'll find a complete kegging system for just a couple of bucks, who knows.

As always, at least around our house, Sunday starts with breakfast. I might actually chase the moths away from my wallet and take the wife out to breakfast this morning. I generally do all the breakfast cooking and she does the dishes. Stopping for breakfast will save us a little time. It's just really hard to go and pay to eat someone else's eggs when I have a dozen laying hens running around the back yard and a pile of eggs clogging up my beer fridge. Yes, it's true, eggs in the beer fridge! Oh the horror!

I hope that all have an enjoyable Sunday, and pray for those affected by the storms in Texas.

 

Better to be an upper GI than a lower! Good luck with your test.

The misses is working yet again this weekend, so I'll be finding something to do with the kids today. Probably tackle some laundry, brew up some beer, drink some beer, and keg/bottle and remake some apfelwein.

 

Finally a Sunday I like. I am off today and got to sleep in. I usually work Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Its tough getting up @ 4:30 when you get home @ 9. I slept in and made a good breakfast and enjoyed every bit of it.

 

The sun is rising over the finger lakes region of western New York, into some light billowy clouds. It's cold for a late spring morning, 37*F. At least it's not raining. The weatherman claims it will turn into a warm and sunny Sunday, let's hope he is right.

Last Sunday, my wife and I traveled the 80 mile round trip to the closest flea market, only to find it rained out. We are going to give it another try again today and hope for better results. I'm still hoping to find a brewing bargain in the masses of junk hauled there every Sunday. First, there must be breakfast, and sausage gravy, biscuits, home fries, eggs over easy, and some strong black coffee sounds like a winner this morning.

I hope all have a wonderful day today.

 

Letting mama sleep in a bit today and gave the baby her bottle downstairs. Then she was happy to sit on my lap and play for a bit. After 15 min of blowing bubbles, making faces, and giggling she remembered that she has toys on the floor to play with...
So soon she won't be having the bottle anymore, and of course playing on daddy's lap won't be cool.
Of course as soon as I wrote that last line she looks up and blows some more bubbles to me.

 

Listening to Sinatra's All the Way from 1961 while I get that coffee in me.

After a trip to Home Depot or Lowe's for more screws, I'll head out to finish the railing on my back deck, and then maybe spend some time in the garden.

My heart's set on brewing a porter, but there's just too many other things I need to do.

 

If you are anything like me it is never just one trip. That or that one box of screws turns into a box of screws, a pack of #2 philips tips, a new ratcheting screwdriver, a pneumatic nail gun, a case of nails for said nail gun, a bunch of lumber, and the intention of building a new shed...
Needless to say I am not allowed to go to Lowes unsupervised any more. Sadly, that leads to more trips for the box of screws that we forgot...

 

Big day in the shed.

I'm going to being drilling out my freezer fermenter to install two taps and co2 lines. The exciting part is that I'm going through the walls! I've read about cooling a hot fridge to find lines, using baking soda, etc.. but its still going to be an adventure and I'm not sure how many beers I need before I get started...

Kegging 10 gal of Pliny the Elder Clone later. I didn't rush anything this batch. Full primary, full secondary with dry hops, and I'll not be force carbing, just letting it go and do its thing. I'll then bottle it for competition in July and condition it.

Club is having a tasting tonight. 5 beers are on the schedule but I think I might stop by and pick up some microbrews from the beer cave and surprise them with a few curve balls.

Have a great Sunday!

 

I'm not doin a damn thing today, except relaxing and drinkin some beer.

 

Working again. Seem to do this every sunday but the double time is worth it. At least it quiet cause most people aren't here to bother me.