I have a well-stocked bar. I enjoy a drink after dinner or watching a hockey game on TV, but I soon get bored with my choices. So I decided to try my hand at making infused liquor. For Christmas a…
Sheds – Why I Need More of Them
So. People have stuff. By and large, people have more stuff than they have room to keep the stuff. So the choice is simple: 1) Get rid of stuff 2) Build sheds to house the stuff that you can’t bear…
Habanero Pepper Barbeque Sauce
I’m a pepper nut. But I’m not too nuts. I plant things that are useful. My current pepper patch has about 50 plants, and the current line up is as follows: Jalapeno – A workhorse pepper that is useful for…
Easy Jalapeno Poppers
The Jalapeno Deluge I typically plant about 10 jalapeno pepper plants. Half are “regular” and half are “giant”. I start getting them by the boatload in early August, and usually slice and pickle them. But sometimes, there’s not enough to…
Biking out of the Pandemic – Ebikes on the C&O Canal Towpath – Williamsport to Harper’s Ferry
Last fall my wife and I made a big purchase. We bought two Aventon Pace 500 e-bikes from Biketek in Pittsbugh. Since then, we’ve put on about 400 miles. But we’d never taken them somewhere overnight until now. We…
Biking Out of the Pandemic – Great Allegheny Passage – Day 4 – Meyersdale to Cumberland
Our final day on the GAP trail started like the others, trying to find someplace to eat breakfast. We rolled down the hill to Donges Drive In and Motel, where we had a hardy breakfast to get us (finally) to…
Biking Out of the Pandemic – Great Allegheny Passage – Day 3 – Confluence to Meyersdale
Day 3 – Confluence to Meyersdale By Day 3, we were seasoned veterans of the the trail. Our backsides were getting calloused. And we were ready for anything. Good thing as the next 32 miles to Meyersdale was all uphill.…
Biking out of the Pandemic – Great Allegheny Passage – Day 2 – Connellsville to Confluence
Day 2 – Connellsville to Confluence After tackling our longest distance of 38 miles on Day 1, the worry was could we get ourselves back on our bikes the very next morning? Luckily, the second day was our shortest distance,…
Biking out of the Pandemic – Great Allegheny Passage – Day 1 – Greenock to Connellsville
Day 1 – Greenock to Connellsville It seemed like a good idea at the time. Look at the lowest elevation change, and do the most miles on that day. So we decided to go from Greenock (my house) to Connellsville,…
Biking Out of the Pandemic – Great Allegheny Passage – Pittsburgh to Cumberland
Greenock to Cumberland – A Four Day Odyssey Leaving the great pandemic behind is going to take work. Things won’t just fall back into the same care-free ways without us taking some serious action. This bike trip was such a…