Doug's Project 365

This smiley face appeared in the foam atop the wort while brewing a Belgian Tripel with Nate today.  I take it as a good sign, and will call the completed beer Happy Monk.

I did our 22 pound CSA turkey proud, if I do say so myself.

Marla and Nate and Lis made a beautiful and delicious challah for Thanksgiving dinner.

I bought a new lens for our upcoming trip. It’s a macro lens, making the kind of closeup shots you’ve seen here in the past much easier. Today’s main picture is as close as it will go by itself (1:1):

 
Today’s bonus picture is this 85mm lens with a 35mm lens reversed in front of it, leading to a magnification of 2.4x, without the vignetting that affected my earlier shots using stacked lenses.

Our turkey had an innard (still attached) I’ve never seen before, one that leads me to believe it’s a hen not a tom.

 
I’m pretty sure that’s the ovaries.

I cooked a middle-eastern-themed feast for dinner tonight.  From left to right that’s homemade hummus, homemade baked kibbee, and falafel from a mix. Served with salad, pita, and a beer, the result was delicious.

Who puts a computer mouse in a geocache?

I’m playing around with Google TV for work. It’s amazing how much of a day that can burn when you’re a big old computer geek.

“Hey, do you hear a marching band?” “Oh yeah, that’s right, it’s Veteran’s day!”

We get most of our eggs from the farm that does our meat CSA.  They put a variety of sizes in each carton, rather than sorting into the traditional medium, large, x-large, etc. This can be an issue for baking, so I generally weigh & sort the eggs. You’ll note the largest (88 grams) is twice the weight of the smallest!