Scoakat's Blog

I had my first fire pit of the season on Friday night.  I was out there early, well before dark, as I didn't want to be out there very l...

Yesterday morning, shortly before I had to leave for work, we had to scramble to get my car out of the garage and her van into the driveway....

Slowly but surely spring is springing around here.  While no trees have leaves yet, there are buds, some plants are coming up and the grass ...

When I got home Friday afternoon I found myself surprised that I saw plants starting to come up.  It's been a relatively mild winter and...

The porch warms quite nicely on sunny days during spring and fall.  The cats love the warmth and access again while we welcome the warmth in...

Boy, this focaccia bread is super good.  It came out of the oven about noon today and is already gone. I might make a couple batches of che...

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...