Category: cast iron guy

  • Short: Friday Fires

    Long work days, short cool evenings. I had my phone in one hand and an axe in the other (metaphorically speaking, of course) as Friday’s quitting time slipped into view. The benefit of (still) working from home is that I can check the laptop for rogue, last-minute emails even while I heat up the backyard

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  • Short: Pour Over Coffee

    Maybe it was obvious, but those little coffee pods had their moment… and that moment has passed. At least, it has for me… And maybe it’s also obvious, but picking up a cheap little pour over cone (for roughly half the cost of a box of pods) has me making my afternoon cup in a

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  • new old older

    young green leaves, rooted intorough hewn stump, anchored uponrich forest soil, draped acrosscragged heavy stone, wedged alongancient sweeping mountains, jutting fromshifting geological faults, slipping aroundrevolving green orb, floating invast mysterious universe – bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each week to be creative, and to post some fiction, poetry, art or prose. Writing

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  • Strip This Pan, Part One

    My big ol’ twenty inch reversible grill has developed some pitting over the summer and I’ve been contemplating the pros and cons of various methods to strip a pan down to bare metal and start the seasoning process from scratch. 1. A self-cleaning oven on clean mode heats up the pan hot enough to incinerate

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  • Daily Goals (and Such)

    Back in January of this year I decided to re-invigorate a habit that I’d been neglecting for a long time, and start writing more frequently. You’re reading the results of that effort right now: after more than eight months of daily (with a small break for summer fun) blogging resulting in over two hundred posts

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