Scoakat's Blog

Preparation of the property line for the new fence had stalled since the last post, very much due to weather and my back.  Yesterday I got t...

Yesterday I completed getting the bulk of the plant matter out of the strip of the stump area by the fence, 4 five-gallon buckets full.  My ...

I made two rounds of baguettes last weekend, pizza dough, and an odd recipe for cool ranch corn bread.  The first round of baguettes were ma...

As the days grow longer and the temperatures are warmer I'm reminded of how I haven't really walked the neighborhood since starting ...

Happy Leap Day, everyone.  Not really a holiday, just novel in that it only comes about every 4 years, usually.  (Century years must be divi...

It appears our new neighbors moved in late last week, ready or not.  There's still workers over there every day and as I write now, but ...

I've been feeling much better this week but for continuing sniffles, since being sick the prior two weeks.  It's just been going aro...

Since the foot of snow we had earlier this month we spent the following week in a deep freeze.  Temperatures at and below 0ºF after all that...

For over a year now I've mostly made the classic baguette recipe from King Arthur Baking Company.  Every now and again I tried a differe...

I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning so looked out and saw it snowing, though less accumulation than before.  The snow petered out by 9 this mor...