Ezra

This in my nephew Ezra.

My brother stopped by tonight to move our porter over to a new container for the second stage of fermentation, and Kareah and Ezra were hanging out with us while we took the hour or so to sanitize everything and complete the transfer. I had such a good time. Caught up with Kareah about a few things........talked beer with Heath while we discussed how good this porter would be in another month.........but better than anything else was when Ezra grew restless and Kareah asked me to hold him for awhile while she took care of some things on the computer. This was unfortunate for Heath as it left him cleaning up most of the brewing equipment by himself but it turned out to be a great time for me, and hopefully Ezra.

I haven't gotten to develop much of a relationship with Ezra yet, mostly because he is so little and not really into the "Uncle Timmy" phase of his life where I get to watch him and wrestle him like I do with Corban and Chloe, but I think we had a good time tonight. I held him for probably twenty minutes or so and as he crawled all over me we sang and danced and tickled and just had a good old time. I felt like he finally recognized me and had that "this guy is OK" moment. So, this picture was a photo Kareah took while I was holding him, and it is my new desktop background.

Mmmm.........Sulawesi!

Growing fonder of coffee these days. Although, I must admit that for now I think I like the smell ten times better than the taste. Not to say that I don't like the taste. My cousin Darrell (the recent college graduate from the great University of North Texas! Congrats bro!) introduced me to a Starbucks coffee named Sulawesi. It's a bold that contains flavor profiles of fresh mushrooms and sweet molasses. I like it, but I can't say that I taste either mushrooms or molasses. I guess that my taste buds need some refining. The important thing is that it makes my morning experience better. In the pic is the bag of Sulawesi sitting by my favorite coffee/anything mug of all time that my brother got me from up northeast when he was on his honeymoon so many years ago. It is just the perfect style for me, handcrafted, with a fish on it, blue, green and brown in color, and holds a good amount of beverage.

In other related and unrelated happenings, I just got back from a glorious trip to Bayfield, Colorado that I took with my cousin Troy. We had a blast. I have many things to say about it, and probably some pictures too, but that will be for another day. Also, my brother and I just got done brewing our first batch of beer which is a hefe. It turned out better than we had expected, and inspired us to promptly brew another batch, so we did, but we went with a porter this time. It's currently fermenting. Check out our blog http://homebrewendeavors.blogspot.com/ to check up on it's progress. Heath is also writing some pretty interesting stuff on his http://expeditionbeer.blogspot.com/ blog that you should check out if you are interested in beer and the life of a father of three. Haha.