Author: doug

That’s funny, I don’t remember buying a cat statue for the living room. Oh, it’s Gandalf.

Today marks one year that our house has been powered by solar panels. They have produced around 6.5 MWh of power, roughly 105% of our electricity consumption over the same period. By fall we should have produced enough credit to sail through next winter without an electric bill.

Yellow is solar production, grey is our consumption, and red is the difference — negative on sunny days, positive on extra-cloudy days or when we run the ACs.

My father’s favorite ice cream, in honor of his passing, one year ago today.

Gandalf can’t even

A couple weeks ago when we had Bits Night, a piece of trotter bone fell into the charcoal fire, and I have been transferring it to new chimneys along with the previous partly-used charcoal ever since to see what happens. The bone is slowly disintegrating from the heat, but much more slowly than I thought it would. This bone was about the diameter of a finger.

You all are slipping. We turned quite a beer profit this Clambake. This isn’t even all of it.

Another Clambake is in the books. Here Jeff pays for his lobster.

Did you see Lis’s post today?  I discovered these three squirrel-chewed water bottles in the yard this evening. I guess even the squirrels are concerned with lead in Newton drinking water these days.

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I had some leftover gazpacho for lunch today. I was pretty surprised to find a smiley face on the surface after pouring it into the mug.