The Zednik throat slash was a horrible incident, but what a fantastic photograph by Bill Wippert. Not all moments captured are good, and this one so clearly shows the shock and horror of the people sitting near where it happened.
It’s Maple Weekend, when you can venture out to my neck of the woods and tour some sugar shacks, sample maple products, attend pancake breakfasts, and of course purchase all the maple products you want! We ventured out to three establishments. First stop was Kirsch’s Sugar House. This was actually the first time that any…
Monday was Ariella’s preschool open house/orientation. Of course I snapped a few photos… Today was the first official day of preschool – no parents! You can see how concerned Ariella was about this… Of course she was fine with the whole experience. And now she can finally tell people that she does something other…
For Easter I made four 2kg batches of sausage – two for the smoker, one fresh batch for the grill, and a batch of breakfast sausage links (not shown). It was my first time using curing salts and smoking the sausage at a lower temp (160-180 F) than normal smoking temps. It was a tasty experiment, I…
The News had a story on the “triple play” packages being offered by your local communications companies. The triple play is the bundling of a home phone service, TV, and internet all by the same provider for a theoretically better price. I say “theoretically” because while the price is almost certainly always better than if…
Thanks… to our good friend Chris for successfully organizing a Sabres outing – and breaking his streak of the team losing whenever he goes to a game! Thanks… to Jeremy and company for making the drive up to Buffalo for the game! Thanks… to Duff’s for 100 delectable wings. Thanks… to the return of the…
Decided to take a walk up the road tonight with my camera, knowing there were some huge hay bales that looked like they might be an interesting subject. Turns out, Ariella was the more interesting subject, but the hay bales made a nice backdrop. This one took a bit of photoshopping, as I really didn’t…