February 16th, 2010 — at play
Tomorrow at this time I’ll be waiting to board my flight to Las Vegas.
The reason I’m going is that there’s a “Meet & Greet” for weight loss surgery folks on Saturday/Sunday, and I decided to turn it in to a bit of a vacation. Heading out Wednesday, staying till Monday.
I’ll write about stuff I do afterwards, but thought I would jot down some stuff about what I’m planning on doing… well, just cause. Continue reading →
October 12th, 2009 — at play, cooking
Here’s another recipe from my old food site… I haven’t actually made this in awhile cause I haven’t done any group camp-outs lately, and it’s just waaaaay too much to make for just me at home. I’m going to have to come up with something like this for an at-home, post-wls treat one of these days though. And with apples really in season right now, I’ll have to work on that soon.
Among the various things I like to do, you can include camping. There have been weekends where I camp and I eat nothing but canned and other pre-prepared foods, and there have been weekends I whip up batches of chili and roast whole rabbits. There is just something about cooking over an open fire.
So, as one of my first camping based recipes, I figured I would share a dessert… cause that’s always the best part of the meal, right?
Apple crisp is an easy item to make, but ends up tasting like you slaved away at it. Continue reading →
June 24th, 2009 — at play
If you don’t know what this is about… sorry… I’ll have to explain it later.
For now, I just had to share it. Thanks LL.
May 24th, 2009 — at play
So I’m running some errands this morning, had to return something at Home Depot, figure I would get an oil change, and as I’m driving down White Bear Ave I see that Dave is working at CC Military Surplus. Figure I’d stop in and chat a few minutes about our upcoming paintball team boot camp weekend.
I shoulda known better. I walked out the proud owner of the new Tippmann TPX paintball pistol serial number 225. They had the holster as well, but no extra clips yet. I just bought the marker for now…. but I’m sure I’ll be getting the holster before long.
December 23rd, 2008 — at play
A few years back I was involved with a living-history/re-enactment group. Our focus was Scottish history during the early 1600’s, specifically a recruiting camp moving through Scotland recruiting for Gustavus Adolphus for what would later be known as the 30-Year War. We would put on demonstrations on what daily life was like during this period, from the military training down to the cooking of meals.
One of the demonstrations I did was for candle-making, primarily with bees wax, but I also used tallow a couple times. Below is something I wrote up based on my research, and would keep a few printed copies on hand to show to folks that expressed the interest. The following appears pretty much as I wrote it back in early 2005.
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October 25th, 2008 — at play
I decided to take a drive down the Mississippi River valley today. It’s bout one of the last good fall days. I ended up going down to Red Wing, cutting in to WI to follow along Lake Pepin going south and cutting back to MN in Wabasha.
It was a very nice drive… here’s a couple pictures, more on my photo site.
A sailboat at the dock in Red Wing
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