Picture time

I haven't posted any photos in a long time, and I had just started getting back into taking pictures recently, so I thought I would put some up. The first batch is from Aaron's first batch of home-made beer. He got a Mr. Beer brewing kit for Christmas from my sister, and it was ready to bottle today - I chronicled the procedure:

Here is the little "keg" that the first batch brewed in. It sat in the closet for a couple of weeks so the yeast could do its thing, and then sat on the counter for another week or so to settle down.


The supplies - cleaning solution, sugar for secondary fermentation in the bottle, caps, and the capper


Gotta make sure those bottles are clean!


Then you have to put the sugar in for fermenting and making the beer fizzy.


Fill'er up!


Cap it


And now you have tons of bottles of warm, flat beer!


They'll hang out in the closet for another couple of weeks, getting all fizzed up, then we can put them in the fridge, and Aaron will have plenty of beer to drink. I want to try making an apple cider next time. Mmmm!

As it's been getting colder and colder outside, I've been wanting to knit some more. For Christmas, I made Mom and Aaron scarves.

The first two are Mom's, just before I mailed them off to Wyoming:



The next is Aaron's scarf - it's wavy!



And next is the scarf I am currently working on for myself. It's a braided cable scarf, and I'm almost halfway done with it. Cabling is a lot of fun, and keeps you interested and paying attention to the pattern, but I make more mistakes while cabling than I do most things for just that reason.




And, just for fun, here's a couple of pictures of Odin, wedging himself under the laptop, as he loves to do.



That's it for now!