Are you ready for a garden update? Well here it comes. Buckle up. The hostas in the backyard are now out in full force. Every year we plant more hostas in the burm back there and its really starting to

The Divine Farce by Michael S.A. Graziano is a book that stays with you. Do you love existential horror? How about the feeling of dread that you sometime get when you ponder the afterlife? If you said

I still have a lot of photos from my trip to the Azores last year. I think I'll data dump them into a few posts starting with my leftovers from the city of Horta, which is on the Island of Faial. Here

I haven't been drinking a lot of beers lately. I find beer, and alcohol in general, really interrupts my sleep at night. Often after when I drink a beer, I'll wake up at like 3:00am and then stay wide

Preamable Here comes another book review. Are you tired of my book posts yet? Well, you'll just have to deal with it. Its what I have to discuss in life at the moment, and I'm almost caught up with the

Animal Farm is a classic novella written by George Orwell in 1945. Its a short read, written for young adults, and just a little over 100 pages. It can easily be read in a day or two or casually over a

I hit my goal of reading 12 books for the year with this one that was recommended to me by a fellow Hiver @riverflows. Its called Batavia's Graveyard by author Mike Dash. Actually I'm quite a ways past

Its taken me a long while to gather up enough random happenings to make a solid post out of it. I haven't been doing much these days other than reading and working. The weather has turned to spring though,

I have a new batch of beers for this weeks #Beersaturday. Today I'll be reviewing two of them, a farmhouse ale and a blond ale. Let's check them out. Legacy Canadian Farmhouse Ale Brewery: Legacy Brewing

The Yellow wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Its a short book but there's a certain impact that comes from reading it. When I say short I mean that its only around 30 pages and it can easily be read

I finished my next book for the year. It is called The Boyfirend by R. L. Stine. This is a teen fiction novel from the 90s that I read for fun, mainly just for nostalgia purposes and because it was a very

I'm always looking for new ways to photograph my beers for my #Beersaturday post. How about in my fireplace wood storage spot?!? It seemed like the perfect place for my pale ale with a woodlands creature

Preamable This week I finished reading a book called Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum. It was another very short novella of only 85 pages. This one could easily be read in a day or over a weekend, which makes

Its been a months since I've done a beer post. For this #Beersaturday ill be reviewing a smoked porter and a special pale ale. Let's get right into to it. Smoked Porter Brewery: Highlander Brewing Co Origin:

Introduction I completed my ninth book of the year last night. I'm well on my way to reaching my goal of reading 12 books for 2026. This one was a very short novella of only 100 pages. I actually completed

Today I have a collection of random photographs to show you. These are some windows, signs and some construction cranes that I saw in my travels. I also incljded two left over doors that missed in my last

I buy sardines quite a bit at home. I often eat them for lunch on weekends. They are a good source of protein, calcium and omega 3 fatty acids. They are healthy, easy and I have a brand that I actually

Death's End by Cixin Liu is the third and final book of the Rememberence of Earth's Past trilogy. The series includes The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and of course, Death's End. I completed the

Back in 2023 shortly after moving back from France, my wife and I went on vacation to our nations capital, Ottawa Ontario Canada. We had been used to traveling extensively while living in Europe and we

I finished another book today. This one was called I Who Have Never Known Men, by a Belgian author by the name Jaqueline Harpman. It was written in 1995 and in my opinion is an instant classic. I came