Brunswick Stew

Brunswick Stew

The time honored recipe that I learned for Brunswick Stew involved 3 or 4 squirrels, a rabbit and maybe a possum (or some other roadkill). Or squirrel, rabbit and chicken at least. Needless to say, I scared a priest from New York (NYC) by explaining this before I...

Camera time and old friends

Camera time and old friends

Back in early late May/early June a friend from high school (ok, so we've probably known each other since elementary school dance classes) came for a few days to visit. We entertained ourselves one morning by wandering around with our cameras -- love this waterfall!...

testing embeds

I'd like this to be the full width of the post... alas that seems to be a problem if I use the Slideshare block. Seems ok if I use Slideshare shortcode to embed. Life of St....

Mailchimp rides again

Mailchimp rides again

I use Mailchimp on some other sites to get out updates from the blog function. Seems to work ok generating an email from an RSS feed. But, there are problems: the standard WordPress RSS doesn't send the featured images in the RSS feed. I like my images to show up in...

how to do post formats

I once studied to be an oceanographer… but alas I didn’t wind up working in that field. That doesn’t mean that the ocean is less fascinating to me. I just work with it differently.