Not Easily Dispelled

Last year about this time I wrote about getting into the Christmas spirit by chopping up (actually chain sawing through) a birch tree.
As a reminder, this is what I did with part of that birch tree:
And you can see evidence here of what my sister-in-law did with the remainder of that birch tree:...

Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month. It’s a contest of sorts where people sign up to write a novel over the 30 days that hath November. You win bragging rights (and some discounts offered by contest sponsors) if your...

Over the past two years now (close to it anyway!), I’ve taken on a number of painting projects, including my coffee table.
I’m not sure how good I am at these painting projects.
No one compliments me.

Back in 2008, my aunt and my cousin (both through marriage – none of us would have bothered to pull off something like the following) compiled and published a cookbook of family recipes.
I’ve been glancing through those recipes.
Now, let me ask you this. How many of you have cookbooks with recipes that call for Crisco, cans of Veg-All, pig hocks (two recipes actually), or sea urchin? Okay, that last one was a joke recipe submitted by my brother Matt....