Scoakat's Blog

Wednesday it snowed all day, and we wound up clearing the snow from that storm twice, my wife with the shovel and me with the snowblower, af...

A week ago our dishwasher died, the pump stopped working.  This one lasted almost exactly 7 years, and the one prior lasted only 5 years, bu...

King Arthur's 2025 Recipe of the Year For the second weekend in a row I made King Arthur's 2025 recipe of the year, a big and bubbly...

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...