grain bag turnin’
2007 July 1 · 12:11PM · Sunday
We didn’t have any fancy nylon grain steeping bags, so we bought some nylon pantyhose and cut it up into five grain bags. Here’s one in action!
the top portion on the pantyhose-grain bag
2007 July 1 · 12:17PM · Sunday
Chris adding the malt
2007 July 1 · 12:46PM · Sunday
Chris grinding anise with the boys
2007 July 1 · 1:44PM · Sunday
C Max and Martin are watching Chris crack the anise seeds.
C takes a turn cracking seeds
2007 July 1 · 1:44PM · Sunday
C’s cracking
2007 July 1 · 1:45PM · Sunday
the anise goes in
2007 July 1 · 1:52PM · Sunday
Stan and Baby
2007 July 1 · 1:52PM · Sunday
It was nice to have a little baby around again!
C watching the beer brew
2007 July 1 · 1:52PM · Sunday
Stan applying the airlock
2007 July 1 · 2:50PM · Sunday
the airlock, with bubbles
2007 July 1 · 2:51PM · Sunday
Marti takes a break from his magnet creation
2007 July 1 · 4:49PM · Sunday
Marti through the magnets
2007 July 1 · 4:49PM · Sunday
Marti through the magnets
2007 July 1 · 4:49PM · Sunday
Marti working on the magnets
2007 July 1 · 4:54PM · Sunday
Marti and the finished pyramid-thing
2007 July 1 · 4:54PM · Sunday
Ruby and the guys
2007 July 1 · 4:54PM · Sunday
Ruby’s got chocolate on her face from the delish tirmisu-flavor ice cream the Jordanovs brought.
Wow…it’s very eerie how much she looks like you when you were that age.
…..creepy music
Ruby and the guys
2007 July 1 · 4:54PM · Sunday
She’s making such a hilarious face — I coudln’t delete it, even though it’s kind weird!
Ruby and the guys
2007 July 1 · 4:55PM · Sunday
Stenly and Marti
2007 July 1 · 4:55PM · Sunday
our darling girl
2007 July 1 · 4:55PM · Sunday
Adorable goar! (As she calls herself.)
Chris watches the magnet construction
2007 July 1 · 4:55PM · Sunday
Jordanov men relaxin
2007 July 1 · 4:56PM · Sunday
Ruby, Stanislav, Martin
2007 July 1 · 4:56PM · Sunday
Ruby, Stanislav, Martin
2007 July 1 · 4:56PM · Sunday
Ruby relaxin with Stan
2007 July 1 · 4:57PM · Sunday
another Martin creation
2007 July 1 · 5:22PM · Sunday
C in motion
2007 July 1 · 5:22PM · Sunday
I don’t know how you managed to take this picture, but it’s fabulous.
everyone working together
2007 July 1 · 5:24PM · Sunday
That’s not me, it’s Stanislav’s wife Joanna.
Stanley, C, Marti, Joanna
2007 July 1 · 5:24PM · Sunday
metal ball in Ruby’s hand
2007 July 1 · 5:24PM · Sunday
Kind of sad this is the closest thing to a picture of me this week! Look closely at the reflection in the ball, above the big black dot that is the camera lense, there’s me!
Stanley, Ruby, Marti, Joanna
2007 July 1 · 5:24PM · Sunday
This Week’s Composite
2007 July 1, Sunday
This was the composite I made for the physical album. Missing me and Chris, but people really only care about the kids right :) There were pictures of Chris though I’m sure he would complain about his hair being goofy in that picture. There’s only one of me this week, … sort of …
Incidentally, I think this was the point around which I stopped making detailed weekly notes … too bad.
Chris’s officemate, Stanislav, brought over his newly arrived family (with their new arrival, Phillip, 3 months old), and we brewed our fourth batch of beer. We decided to go for another stout, and we were intrigued by the legends of a truly “beer” root beer. We don’t have sassafrass or sasparilla or wintergreen or any other the other ingredients only available in North America, so we went with one simple flavor addition: anise. Reminiscent of Virgil’s root beer (a fave), we thought this would be a good baby step towards true “beer” root-beer.