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In my exploration of baking I am looking for other versions of bread pudding. I have found a great base recipe and made a banana rum raisin variant. That got me thinking that there are likely other tasty fruit and alcohol combinations I should explore….
Southern Comfort and Peaches was one suggested…
What are [...]
Every other Friday Miss McTastic gets the day off and we’ve decided to use that time to explore one of the more remote areas of Tampa Bay. So this past Friday Miss McTastic and I headed up to Tarpon Springs and found out that in Tarpon Springs its all about the sponges. [...]
A trip to Atlanta this past weekend let me take part in the only Red Bull Soap Box Race this year. I was again working with the OceanWatch Productions crew and like past events had a great time.
The plan for the weekend was:
drive to Atlanta Thursday Night
Prep for the race on Friday
work the start [...]
With the exception of several miles of I-75 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan this weekend’s journey has let me travel along the length of the Interstate from one terminus in Miami to my northern most point in Grayling, Michigan.
This weekend I left Saint Petersburg, Florida and headed up to visit my friend Maria in [...]
My first visit to Paris was an amazing time! For all of you that have been asking for photos you will find many at the end so scroll onward.
I was a little nervous about going to Paris, (Language barrier mainly), but he prospect of the food excited me. Shelley had not been to Paris either [...]
I have accepted a position in New York City and will be moving to Brooklyn later this week! (You should picture me dancing about bubbling with excitement as you hear those words) For those of you that hadn't heard it is a recent development... less than a week since the offer. So there has been a frantic pace of apartment hunting with this Clinton Hill duplex the front runner: I am also tempted by high rise living.. something about a corner apartment on the 40 somethingith floor of a mid-town building..... So I'm furiously packing and trying to remember ...
Over the US Thanksgiving Day weekend I finally had the opportunity to catch up on Lost. I've made it through seasons 4 & 5 and am now working on season 1, with 2-3 to follow. Present Theories: Jacob is the father trying to raise his child. A loose parallel of Christian and Jack. The Island is a prison: Jacob and "friend" are in the prison. Jacob is a warden whos "powers" can escape the island. I've come up with a list of questions for which I'd like to find answers: How is Jin hopping thorough time in Season 4 with the other Island persons but ...
I finally made my way to Tampa Bay's water's edge to catch a sunrise. I liked it more than the sunsets... There felt more of an activity about at least with the birds and the dolphins. Pelicans and seagulls were swooping about and the dolphins were friskily feeding. Aside from a lone tug boat heading out to the Gulf of Mexico there was little human activity seen on the water. I had also forgotten how long it takes for the sun to cross the horizon once the eastern sky begins to lighten. I was ...
