Author: doug

I made toffee today — dark & milk chocolate covered, salt & walnut toppings — for Christmas Eve with the Jews. It’s dangerously good. I think I want to forget I know how to make it.

I think our next home-improvement project will be the loft, which is the one part of the house where we really haven’t done anything.  This will be a project for once the weather turns nice and we’re spending more time on the porch than inside. I want to be ready, so here I’m drawing out some ideas.

The first day of winter was warm enough for me to open the porch.  Ferrous wasted no time in taking advantage of the situation.

It’s not often one can enjoy Massachuetts-grown citrus, especially in December. These fruits are from the citrus tree in my co-worker’s office. He’s harvested a few dozen over the last couple months.

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.