Steel City Big Pour Yesterday was the 2nd annual Steel City Big Pour, "3 hours of beer, live art, and music" to benefit Construction Junction, Pittsburgh's nonprofit building material recycler. This year there were two 3-hour sessions, both of which were sold out at 1,000 tickets each – it was the hot ticket in town…
Hi neighbors…Now that my son finally got his internet turned on at his apartment in Brisbane, he's posted some more to his blog. Check it out – feel free to comment, so as to encourage him to continue 😉 Read and post comments
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For the long weekend, we decided to meet up with our old friends D&J (well, half-old / half-new) and camp on the Quehanna Trail in Elk County. We drove up Friday night and stayed over at their house, enjoying some homebrewed stout we brought along, with the great conversation and (literally) thousands of books. We…
So… the veggie email today said that the oblong brown or green thing is a spaghetti squash, so before I even picked up the box, I figured we would have time to cook that for dinner before going to the funeral home (for a neighbor). I got home after picking up the veggies at the…
Sidewalk grafitti In front of the FrogpondFarm house. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Frogpond logo Next we made our way through the herds of bicyclists to FrogpondFarm, Ontario's only certified organic winery – can you guess whose choice that was? 🙂 This was just about a polar opposite from Peller Estates – a little 10-acre plot, farmed by Heike and Jens, with a little photocopied leaflet containing…
Hillebrand restaurant patio It was almost noon by the time we finished our Peller surveys and champagne, so we chose to go to Hillebrand next, where D&E knew they had a nice restaurant. Very nice, in fact. Papardelle at Hillenbrand We were able to sit outside, and after the sun-dried tomato bread with…
Our hostess served us a delicious breakfast of salmon quiche, savory potato cakes, and balsamic-glazed garden tomatoes. We tried to work her espresso machine, but missed one of the instructions, so it was too watery – maybe next time we’ll make some with her stovetop Italian coffee maker (like ours). After breakfast, we headed to…
There are 2 cats at the B&B, but luckily they don't seem to be causing Al any allergic reactions. Maybe Canadian cats are different… 🙂 0823080851.jpg Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Where have the days gone? 