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- May 27, 2014 - #home #garden

JR: Square Foot Gardening - The soil mixture must consist of 1/3 part compost, 1/3 part peat moss and 1/3 coarse vermiculite Before filling the box with soil, place a sheet of weed mat at the bottom. This will prevent weeds from growing. A suggested soil re... more>>
- May 27, 2014 - #home #garden

JR: JR : Gardening - Books : Lawns (Rodale's Organic Gardening Basics) Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables - Seasonal Recipes and Stories from A Community Supported Farm A Slice of Organic Life - review Toledo Talk article titled: Ten Mile Creek Farm... more>> 5 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #garden

JR: Notes - Wed, May 14, 2014 - DD had the week off from work. On this day, we birdwatched, shopped for beer supplies, and brewed beer. Birds around Home Bird observations around our home, mainly in the morning. NOPA - a BTNW - black-throated green warbler TEWA - a CSWA - a... more>> 5 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #bird #beer #toledo #business #blog_jr

JR: Brooklyn Brew Shop - Summer Wheat Instructions - (Their website with instructions would not function on either tablet. Copied instructions here, so that we can access them via tablet in kitchen.) - brewing instructions - pdf file I. The Mash Heat 2 quarts (1.9 liters) of water to 160F (71C)... more>> 5 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #howto #beverage #beer #home #blog_jr

JR: Notes - Sun, May 4, 2014 - Brewing beer, church, and interesting yard bird sightings, including a new yard bird. Brewing Beer We brewed another one gallon batch of beer, using the Grapefruit beer recipe from the Brooklyn Brewshop beer book. NOMO At 5:35 p.m., a Northe... more>> 1 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #bird #beer #religion #blog_jr

JR: Bottling our Imperial Stout - JP came over to help us bottle our first batch of beer, which we brewed at JP's brew party on Sun, Mar 30, 2014. During the teaching and bottling process that involves a lot of setup and cleaning, we sampled beers that DD and I bought the day before... more>> 1 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #beer #blog_jr

JR: Our 2013 produce garden plants - In 2012, I reluctantly replaced my swamp milkweed bed with a small, produce garden. In 2013, I expanded the garden by removing more lawn and removing some flowers from our main Oak Openings native flowers bed. These were the plants that we used in o... more>> 1 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #garden #food #blog_jr

JR: May 3, 2014 notes about our backyard Hermit Thrush - "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra (On Sat, May 3, I wrote this info down in my Field Notes notebook, but I don't think that I recorded it at JotHut.) At 10:47 a.m., I observed a Hermit Thrush foraging on our back lawn, near th... more>> 2 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #bird #home #nature #quote #blog_jr #todo

JR: At-home Birdwatching Notes for Mon morning, May 12, 2014 - At 8:03 a.m., Barney and I began birdwatching outside around our home. Observations: Ovenbird Warbler sang from the backyard. Nashville Warbler sang. Distant Carolina Wren sang. Three to four Tennessee Warblers sang around our home. At least t... more>> 6 min read
- May 27, 2014 - #home #bird #weather #blog_jr #todo

JR: Bird observations around our home - May 19, 2014 - Birds observed around our home today and in our neighborhood during my morning walk with my dog. AMRE BLBW BLPW CMWA NOPA TEWA - several SWTH REVI WAVI sounded like a PHVI sang INBU BAOR OROR SCTA GRCA RBGR #home - #bird
- May 19, 2014

JR: Making Pizza - These recipes make the "Margherita" style pizza. Each dough recipe makes four pizzas that are at least 10 to 12 inches in diameter. If using a rectangle baking stone instead of the more square-ish pizza stone, the pizza dough will be stretched into a... more>> 11 min read
- Apr 25, 2014 - #food #pizza #home #recipe #blog_jr

JR: Roasting coffee beans at home - Apparently, an air popcorn popper makes a decent home roaster for coffee beans. We'll try it out. [Sep 2013 update: This works well. Roast in the evening, outside. Let beans cool and rest uncovered inside at room temp. Grind and brew in the morning... more>> 10 min read
- Apr 18, 2014 - #home #recipe #coffee #beverage #blog_jr

JR: Land line phone usage - Apr 14, 2014 - ToledoTalk.com - Do you have a 'home' phone It seems that most responders do not have a land line phone at home, which is not a surprise. We still have a land line. It does not make long distant calls. It can receive long distant ca... more>> 1 min read
- Apr 15, 2014 - #home #technology #mobile #blog_jr

JR: Homemade Neapolitan-style pizza - Neopolitan Pizza This recipe was adapted from information found at This is a basic recipe for making the "Margherita" style pizza. This makes four pizzas that are at least 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Since I use a baking stone instead of a pizza ... more>> 16 min read
- Apr 15, 2014 - #food #pizza #home #recipe #blog_jr - replies: 1