Scoakat's Blog

2014 Alabama Ice Around this time in 2014 my wife and I visited my Mom at the winter condo where they were staying on the shore of the Gulf...

On Friday it got up to 50ºF, while today and tomorrow will hover just above and below 0ºF. Before last winter I got a warming pad for the ca...

Well, time to break the seal with the first new post of 2025.  The holidays have come and gone, and we've settled back into daily life h...

  Good luck to us all, we're going to need it.  Let's hope his visions don't come to fruition. Party (enjoy your freedoms) while...

Happy Holiday, everyone.   I'm not sure exactly what I'll do today, but it likely won't be much.  I do have some tedious tasks t...

The winter solstice arrived early this morning, hours before I got up.  For several years now I've been having a fire on this day, in co...

Two batches of baguettes yesterday. Flatbread made today. A fresh batch of pizza sauce made. And not made today, but homemade pizza dough fr...

It was -2ºF (-19ºC) when I got up this morning, and I believe we only got up to around 10ºF (-12ºC) this afternoon.  It was damn cold, the c...

Yesterday they installed two No Parking signs near the top of our street and the next one over.  Today they installed more down both streets...

Happy Thanksgiving weekend, everyone.  A much needed 4 days off from work here. I wasn't feeling the best yesterday, but I traveled down...