Favre vs. Beer

Who is that handsome looking chap on the left on the top left photo.

What? That's ME?? Oh My!

WHEN will they EVER learn to type!! And it's a newspaper for God sake!
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We're in the house looking at the garden and stuff and hear in hushed shouts Millie! Millie!

Looking out the window we see our neighbors dog squatting on our yard taking a HUGE dump!! I wish I had my camera, it would have been handy as I see Milo on his perch watching Millie dump - he is smiling!

Neighbor cleans up the mess and takes a bucket of water and washes away the smeary evidence. We smile as ammo has just been given to us if we ever need it.
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Have you guys seen all the little toads on the ground? I saw like 10 of them this weekend - the size of my little finger nail!! OR, were they just large mosquitoes bloated with blood! I'm not laying on the ground for a while.

But seriously - I saw a bunch of them just hopping around in the yard. Is my garden a TOAD Garden? And speaking of toad gardens. Sort of hard for a butterfly yesterday with 30mph winds!! Saturday we watched little white ones fly in from the west, circle both gardens and then get blown away by the prevailing westerlies!

And Rhonda - WE SAW YOU!!! Yea - while you are looking down at our house and laughing, we are driving past your house. Should have stopped in but we were in a rush.
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Favre - I'm not even going to attempt to come up with a solution AND, I'm not even going to bother trying to figure out where I stand on this whole thing. It makes my head hurt and it's a no win deal. I'm ambivalent on the entire situation. I'm not going to waste my brain cells on creating a thought process.

The problem is that this situation is SO complicated I can not just come up with a feeling. First I would have to think about it and weight all the facts and then once all the facts were known I would have to look at the problem from each of the over 100 different ways things could work out and then weight THEM against each other.

And while I'm doing THAT I COULD be thinking about beer.

And once THAT thought process shows itself, Favre vs. Beer, beer is the winner. Beer is MUCH easier to think about. Trying to figure out how many Homebrew Bittering Units (HBU) I put in my latest brew in the final 10 minutes of the boil is WAY more interesting then trying to figure out the Favre situation.

BTW - HBU = multiply percent alpha acid in the hops by the number of ounces. This is SO much fun I love it.

Speaking of beer. My NEXT beer will be an American Amber (like Kurth Amber). The Cannery Wine and Hops Shop (Sun Prairie) did not have the ingredients I needed. But they are young and are going to order. I also joined a class on homebrewing - I feel I know what I'm doing but tips and suggestions are always nice.

I did not know that the area has one of the nations largest homebrewing clubs.

DJ thinks this is a new hobby but in reality this is a continuation of a life long pursuit. I started fermenting things in High School with balloon wine in my closet. My parents made wine and I took up the fermenting hobby and even reached the "picking my own grapes" stage of making undrinkable wine.

I hated waiting a year for the results, beer? I was not a big beer fan until I found micro brews. Bud Light? Yuck! Who wants to spend the time make Bud!

I've ordered two 25,000 gallon stainless steal fermenting tanks for the basement. I hope DJ will not mind! She THINKS the cement patio is for a patio. No, it's the first section of a large driveway for trucks hauling equipment!


OH - I forgot - we're watching Big Brother 10. Yea - I said it!!
Nuff Said
Cheers
Rod