A happy Thanksgiving

My need for chronology and my sense of timeliness had a war, and timeliness won. So here, grossly out of the space-time continuum, are Thanksgiving photos.

I didn’t get any post-worthy Thanksgiving-themed pictures (though there are some decent photos here), so I give you the aftermath:

Happy Thanksgiving! More from the foothills of the [...]

Sparging the mash

What’s wrong with this picture?

Allegra’s family at a beer tasting? For Allegra’s mother’s birthday? I think the world has turned upside down.

Then we spent the rest of the day creating complicated meals from scratch. All is right with the world.

But wait! There’s more! Allegra’s little brother is old enough to [...]

New York harvest

Matt and I spent the weekend in Knox, New York at his grandparents’ house, a.k.a Turtle Hill Farm. It was a 48-hour trip for me; for Matt it was a nice weekend wedged between two business trips.

Visiting Turtle Hill is truly a rural experience, at least for we D.C. urban-suburb types. There is not [...]

Hartley family reunion

We had a great time this past weekend at the Hartley family reunion in Princeton, North Carolina and got some great pictures we thought we’d share with everyone. Enjoy!