My new Merkur razor, blade safe, and blades.
Simple things are best. That maxim applies to razors, too, I discovered. I have been increasingly annoyed at the increasingly expensive Mach 3 Turbo razor blades I’ve been buying lately. Then I ran across a post on Cool Tools touting the superior shave of a German-made double-edge [...]
Archive for February 17th, 2008
That was a close shave
Posted in simple things, tagged classic shaving, double edge razor, gillette, merkur razor, razor, shaving, simple things, simplify, wet shaving on February 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Bread: the good, the bad, the ugly
Posted in food, tagged baking, bread, french bread, homemade bread, no knead bread, whole wheat on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The good. The bad. Ugly is next.
We’re baking our own bread now. Mostly out of self-defense because there are no bakeries, not even a Panera, less than 50-miles away. This may be the white bread capital of the world, at least to look at the grocery bread section. We found a really good recipe in [...]
First snow of the year
Posted in projects, weather, tagged backyard, edens path, garden, raised beds, snow, square foot garden, weather on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
View of the backyard covered with snow.
Last Thursday it snowed. Actually, snow started falling Wednesday night after church and continued until we had a little over an inch. Not much, but it was the first snowfall of the year, so everybody was excited. School was cancelled, kids made small snowmen, and it was a lot [...]
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