Cams up, cams down, cams up..........

Been a fun two weeks with the cameras.
So far the power has been out twice, and our (wifes) new dog has decided to EAT my cat5 wire going to one of my computers. Now, I love cats. And I do run an animal hospital, and I am married to a Veterinarian. So, I will not say one bad thing about DOGSSSSSSSSSSS.
So, I guess I will stop talking at this time about them.

Not much new going on. Been working hard at home and work. Tryin' to get things done. The beer brewing has dropped a bit, but hope to pick it up again. Just need to order a few things. I do have about 45 Lbs. of honey on hand, so I see a few meads being done soon!
My boy has a birthday coming up in Oct. and I really hope some family can make it. I can't wait till he is older, I have my eye on some great lego's. (for him.........not me.......)I miss the 800 to 1000 piece lego kits. And they have some Star Wars kits out!!!!
Anyway, thought I would write something.... If only to say I did.
B

Irish Red anyone?

The water man has delivered 6 jugs of spring water to me. (I know, it is just tap water from some other city), but I do use it to brew and drink. Soooooo, I believe I will brew a batch Tuesday. Also need to rack two beers to the secondary carboys. I am sure to run out my kegs before these beers are ready to keg, but that's ok. Drink too much anyway.
I have a video capture device, a few cameras, and about everything I need to get a 7th. camera up and running. Problem is they don't have the best angle. To put one in the kitchen or Dining room might need a wide angle cam. And if I am on cam, a really WIDE angle.
Been playin' with face book. It is sad to see I have no friends.....
B

Small Changes under way

Have made some small changes to the site. Nothing the two of you might notice, but I was wanting to add, change, or fix some problems. Nothing big yet.Just changing the layout of this blog, adding links to cams that are planned, and tryin' to do something with the front page. I did manage to add a picture, but some might miss it because it takes a little to long to load.
I still can't figure out why the blog link from the site sometimes puts a %20 on the end..? This takes you to a page that says the blog doesn't exist. But it isn't like I am typing out a great novel here, so I guess it doesn't matter.
The cams have been a little dead as of late. Well, more so then normal. The kids have went back to school!!!!!!!! wooooo hoooooo. So we are not around much. I pick up the girl at 2:40 pm then the boy at 3 to 3:30. The wife takes the girl to school at 7:30am, then I leave with the boy at 8:40am or so. Then I am off to work.
Speaking of work. Money is getting tight. With the cost of gas, too many competitors, and I guess bad mojo, we are having a hard time. Not sure what to do at this point. Besides find a rich person who likes animals and wants to toss about $780,000.00 my way?!
Anyway, the cams are still running, I am still brewin' beer, and I hope to have two or three more cams up before the end of the month, year? Who knows.
See ya.....

3rd. Brew day this month

Had a chance to brew today and jumped on it.
Brewed up a Pale Ale. A big hoppy pale ale that is. Put 5 oz. of different hops in this one. The smell that was coming out of the pot was wonderfullllllll. I used..........

1 OZ. COLUMBUS (60MIN)
1 OZ. GLACIER (15MIN)
1 OZ. CASCADE (10MIN)
.5 OZ. CASCADE (2MIN)
.5 OZ. STERLING (2 MIN)
.5 OZ. CASCADE (FLAME OUT)
.5 OZ. STERLING (FLAME OUT)

The last two hop additions called for dry hopping. I hate dry hopping. It does get some nice hop smell into the beer, but I hate trying to transfer beer when it has an once or more of hops hanging around in it. So I added them at flame out instead. Will still get a good bit of aroma out of these hops.
Still looking to get my new Beverage-Air running. Just need to order the fan, and some new gas and beer lines. Money is getting very tight, and if I do get this thing running I will then want to fill it with 15.5 gallons of beer. Well, that will cost me also, so I am in no big hurry. I could just brew more and more. I have a hard time keeping 4 kegs of homebrew on tap. I doubt I could keep up if I wanted eight beers on tap!

Brew day, again

After not brewin' for the last month or two, I made my second batch this week. It was an EPA. That being an Extra Pale Ale. It went well, a full 5 gallon boil. Three oz. of Cascade hops went into it. Not enough hops, but it should be good.
If I can get to the store in the AM, I will try to pick up 21 pounds of fruit and make my big ass mead. 21 pounds of fruit, and 21 pounds of honey. This will be BIG!

The porch camera is now up. I finally ran the wires for it and drilled a second hole in our floor. I love the IR camera on the porch and back door. Lets me see in the dark and make sure people aren't coming to my house at night.

Like I need this.

Just picked up a kegerator. I couldn't pass up the deal. All it needs is a good cleanin', and a new condenser fan. Will run about $68 dollars for a new fan, or might be able to find a used one for less. I can then use this fridge for a 15.5 gallon keg, two pony kegs ,four of my kegs, or to lager in.

Need to make a crap load of changes around here. Didn't think life was going to be this way. And I can't seem to fix anything anymore. So, I will try to fix the only thing I can, myself.

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Well, I wanted to brew today. I done went and got all my stuff out.(English?)(hillbilly?) And decided to boil some water in the keg to clean it out good. Even dropped in my chiller into the water to get it good and clean. That is when I found out I was out of gas. NOT that gas, I have plenty. BUT I don't have enough propane.Here I have three gas tanks, and only has a little gas left. I did get everything clean, but not sure if I can brew today. IF the wife gets home soon, I might run and get some gas. But it is almost 6pm.So who knows.
I might need to put it off till Wednesday night....
Gotta say, I can't control anything anymore, but I can drink... Doesn't help anything, but at this point, I don't care.
B