Month: December 2013

I am trapped by the cat and can’t get up, thus the poor-quality cell phone picture.

My latest batch of homebrew is hanging out in the pantry because it’s too cold in the basement for the yeast to bottle-carbonate properly.

Chocolate chip, in its natural habitat.

One of these things is not like the others.  One of these things does not belong.

Those who have been to our house will recognize this as the bench in our foyer. We think Ferrous likes it because the radiator heats it from below.

The cats definitely get up on the stove at night.

Lis’s mom is working on a project involving an old 2×2-inch photo. I did enlargements of some details today using the macro lens.

This is the leftovers from the delicious, enormous (2 lb) ribeye steak we had for dinner tonight.

Somewhere in this box lies the blame for our lack of heat yesterday.

It would appear our heating boiler needs a new circulator pump.  Fortunately it’s not completely dead, but the house is very slow to warm up this evening.

The first snow of the season — a wet, nasty snow, but snow nonetheless — falls on Quincy Center.