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those autumn vibes
There is a pale soft mist floating upon the grass this chilly October morning. I realize that is has been nearly a year since I wrote here, and in the meantime I have complicated our little relationship—a transaction that should be simpler—by adding and twisting and doing things that were never going to work without
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Just A Re-introduction
The Cast Iron Guy was my pandemic project. I needed an optimistic moment in every day, something thru with to look out onto a crazy world and find something solid and reliable. If you’ve come here looking for in depth cast iron cooking advice, or one of those guys who uses electrolysis to do amazing
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Fire Smoke
We’ve been routinely waking up to the smell of campfire, and not in a good way. Last year I had this idea of creating a video series to accompany this site, and I actually produced a couple early episodes, where I would have a sit around a campfire — maybe in my backyard, maybe in
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garden boxing
I take a few months off blogging and, woops! There goes all the news and activities piling up. I upended my vegetable garden. Well, not literally, I guess. When we moved into the house I was resolute on the idea of devoting a chunk of the yard to a vegetable garden. It was a family
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daily
December 31 of 31 December-ish posts Oh, rich. Coming from the guy who couldn’t manage a daily post in December, huh? Daily? One word that sums up your theme for 2023. Daily. Yes. That’s it. It’s New Years Eve. Again. And rolling into 2023 leaving 2022 behind I got to thinking of how I want to spend





