wacky1980

bout ta get legless mate!

it's 5 o'clock in GBR. close enough!

right? i mean, it's a holiday AND it's my birthday. i think it's probably fine.

a friend brought me two bottles of zombie dust this morning as a bday gift. it's not too early to enjoy one of them, right?

i'm not 100% on this, but it sounds like the middle boy is watching mlp music videos on his tablet. i'm afraid to go look.

How about 3 1/2 out of 24? That's like, 15th percentile. Pretty bad, in case you didn't do math good.

that's a hard yes.

you can make small batch (<6 gallons) wine with equipment starter kits that also run around $100. i've never tried it, but i assume it would be cheaper than beer for the ingredients since you're already supplying the grapes. just yeast and sugar and maybe some finings? not sure. one of the great things about beer and wine making is that there's a massive online resource for them. reddit is great, obviously, but there are multiple communities dedicated to the craft, online swap shops for equipment and recipes, and free and easy access to professionals for just about anything you'd need to ask.

we've been in high 80s/low 90s for the last month, but there was a cold front that pushed thru tuesday and dropped our highs by about 10 degrees for a few days. we're back up to 90s today. thanks for checking out the bar! we're constricted to a very small space so we don't have room for a kitchen or anything else that takes up much room. that's part of the reason we're doing the beer garden. there's enough room over there to go as big as we please.

the high yesterday was only like 80. and we got rained out anyways, so oh well. did get to meet with the contractor and finalize design on the stage enclosure, so that's good. he might get started next week if i can get the concrete finished up.

leaving work in 2 minutes. breaking for about an hour, then going back up to the beer garden to do concrete work for one more agonizing evening.

a horsefly's wings are not significantly longer than its thorax. a cicada's wings are.

the kids like to hold the mantis...es...manti...too. we get a lot of tiny ones on the plants in the summer, like 1/2" long. sometimes we'll get a big brown one. they're pretty cool. the one in that picture was the mantis of fertility. it hung out on our back porch with us all evening while we got plastered on red wine sangria. i got the wife knocked up later that night, shortly after we had given up on trying for almost 2 years.

but what about this cute little guy? he was such a cute little guy.

traditionally speaking, "many" is a number greater than zero. didn't know if you knew that.

i don't know if they have the ability to bite. they never bit me in all my years.

they leave their shells all over the place around here. sometimes we'll find a live one hanging out on a tree or in the grass. the boys like to pick them up and let 'em crawl around on their hands.

it was a cicada. fucking deal with it.

they can be any color, basically. and they change colors as they age.

not brown, btw

pig feet and chicken feet too, yes. really the only feet i'm ok with belong to pets and baby humans. but anyone over age 6, nope.