Category: Skills

Whether you consider bacon a breakfast staple or basic food group, I think we would all agree that just about everything goes better with bacon! In all of its salty, smoky, and porky goodness, bacon is something that speaks to our inner hunter-gatherer.

Why make your own?

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to try more craft beers!

I especially wanted to try more hometown and regional brews, –those craft beers from Virginia.

As I thought more about this goal, I thought it would be cool to award myself some sort of merit badge, maybe one for every five new craft beers? I have yet to find something that might pass as a cool looking craft beer merit badge. That is something I will continue to look for!

I have been shopping around for a new compact camera that would stand up to outdoor elements. You know, the rain, the cold, getting wet and so on.

The camera I have now is the Pentax Optio WG-2. I purchased it some time ago, –but I have not been happy with the image quality of this camera.

I am a point-and-shoot guy. Getting a shot of that big fish my buddy caught or maybe a deer spied along a riverbank, there is not much time to tinker with settings. It has been a set-and-forget, on automatic, letting the camera figure out what to do.

I got to thinking about the mention of the dehydrator in my recent post on Healthy Homemade Dog Treats.

I thought I probably should expand on that a bit.

If you do not already own a dehydrator, the following are some been-there-done-that notes I have on the topic. So whether your interests are drying some of that backyard garden bounty, mid-day healthy snacks such as homemade beef jerky, or prepping for the zombie apocalypse, you are sure to find some helpful tips.

A somewhat humorous and maybe all too familiar look at homeowner weekend project activities.

Midge has her seemingly endless list of projects that she wants to knock out. What that really means is that her list of projects are projects that somehow involve me. It is amusing that my own to-do projects list does not involve her.

Those never-ending streams of home improvement shows do not help at all! The hosts all seem to manage to knock out their major projects and renovations in 30 minutes or less. Tile a bathroom, replace a kitchen sink, paint a room, — yep, just 30 minutes from beginning to end, including those commercials!

What she doesn’t see is that behind-the-scenes crew of construction professionals, support crews, and video editing workstations, — doing all the work.