It has been a full winter month since the last Zekely Report so let's get to it!
This edition I am on this side of a very cold, snowy and surprisingly-entertaining February.
On the Last Episode...
I guess it has been a short February since the last episode. Looking back on the last edition, we were just diving into a long deep freeze with a hell of a lot of snow. You can see a little of said snow in this picture but you are probably wondering what's with all the gaming chairs in the back of the truck?
LANfest!
In a tradition that stretches back decades, the guys gathered from across the province with their computers to eat entirely too much food, drink entirely too much beer, and play way too many hours of computer games.
On the menu was pizza from scratch in the stone pizza oven. The pizzas only took 3 minutes to cook and we had a literal buffet of pizza ingredients which made for a fantastic pizza bar.
Never in all our dozens of LANfests have we had unrestricted access to so many different kinds of draft beer. Sure fridges full of craft beer and even a few that boasted a keg or 2 but never 7 taps of Stout, IPA, Amber, Non-alcoholic Golden Ale, Black Marzen, Chocolate Cherry stout, and guest amber. We finished off 4 kegs and took a run at the others.
Winter
It certainly was a cold and snowy month. There seemed to be a half dozen blizzards with no thaw in between 3 full weeks of -10 Celsius weather. People had ice dam issues on their roofs with so much snow, and every parking lot seemed half full of plowed snow.
The winter doesn't slow down farm operations, especially ones that supply high-quality Canadian Hay like www.newedenhay.com Still visiting the farm in the dead of winter and loading trucks of hay headed for the southern states before the stupid fucking tariff games start.
Music!
One of the cool things about winter is a few of the live music venues get a chance to warm up the soft season with live music. The summers are just too busy and profitable without having to bring in live acts so we have some good ones in Feb. This is a Janis Joplin tribute act that was more authentic than I imagined it could have been.
Same venue , different room and day though, we gathered for a little live DJ vinyl action. It was the 9-year anniversary show of the Revival Vinyl Society evening where you bring gems in your record collection to have played that night. There was even an awesome cake to commemorate the occasion.
Such a special gathering of all the cool kids who like to share music and the fantastic Mista D MCing the evening for the dancing music lovers.
Beer
Of course there was beer. Besides LANfest of course, we have resumed our weekly brewing sessions and presently have 200 litres of Amber, IPA, Cream Ale and Red ale fermenting now. If you are a fan of beer, be sure to check out #beersaturday every week as there are plenty of us on Hive and we are headed to week 402.
Until Next Time...
The sun has finally made an appearance after a long, grey, cold and snowy February. It holds a little warmth now and has gone down on another edition of the Monthly Zekely.
Here's to the oncoming spring!