On 28 Nov 2019, apam said the following...

Normally it's terrible.

But I have found this brew called furphy's which isn't to bad.

What think you fellow australians, and other people who drink australian beer?

Well, if there's an oatmeal stout I'm up for trying it ;)

I just love that gritty, dark, thick and bitter stuff :)

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On 28 Nov 2019, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Lagunitas is a local (not-so, anymore) micro-brewery that released

I actually like some of their stuff, and Mad River brewing has a couple that aren't bad either.

I'm not generally a microbrewery appreciating person (always pricey), but one
I do really like a lot that is local is Steelhead - can't remember the
brewery though.


Speaking locally, I'm actually about 15 miles from Mad River itself on the
36, at least, once I drive out several miles with my chainsaw through all the snow-felled trees and eventually make it to the pavement on 36.

I'm only just now recovering from that Thanksgiving whopper of a snow storm - buried waste deep in snow and it stuck hard, without running water for four days (Yes I had gallon jugs of potable water at the ready), and then last
night there were only small patches of snow here and there as the rains have been melting it.

When it snows hard, I lose communication - it's like the snow packed into the hundred foot trees that surround my cabin is acting like a Faraday cage or something.

I went almost six weeks last winter without seeing a single human being, and when I did it occurred to me that I had actually been talking to myself for a bout a week before that lolz.

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tallship wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I'm only just now recovering from that Thanksgiving whopper of a snow storm - buried waste deep in snow and it stuck hard, without running
water for four days (Yes I had gallon jugs of potable water at the
ready), and then last night there were only small patches of snow here
and there as the rains have been melting it.

My family and I were going to go to our cabin around Donner Summit; it
turned out that the storms dumped close to a foot of snow every day that
week, and power didn't come back on until the friday morning after Thanksgiving.

Getting a cabin up from 20 degrees F with only a wood stove is a
challenge...

Hopefully it'll make a nice base for skiing this Christmas.


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On 08 Dec 2019, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Getting a cabin up from 20 degrees F with only a wood stove is a challenge...

Oh yes indeed, and in the early spring it's just the worst if your wood gets wet. Right now it's 69 degrees inside and 39 outside. That doesn't seem very cold for about two minutes and then you run back inside.

Firing up the furnace in the dead of winter and warming everything up from scratch is an artform that requires both time and patience. The furnace I've got will *eventually* get it as warm as you like, but that could take a few hours, and then there's a point where it just seems to runaway, somewhere around the 78 or so if you keep packing wood in once you have a good base of coals.

Last February was rather brutal, I spent most of my time in bed bundled up watching .mp4's and sleeping. Then, wake up within 4hrs, pack the furnace, maybe fix something to eat, and then back to watching movies on the laptop in bed.... rinse and repeat.

But if you let that furnace go out and it gets back down to the 20s or low 30s... it's miserable until you get it going again.

Donner pass... Hm, I would think that would be some good skiing, but I'd
still rather enjoy the snow on television or through a window lolz :)

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tallship wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Last February was rather brutal, I spent most of my time in bed bundled
up watching .mp4's and sleeping. Then, wake up within 4hrs, pack the furnace, maybe fix something to eat, and then back to watching movies
on the laptop in bed.... rinse and repeat.

But if you let that furnace go out and it gets back down to the 20s or
low 30s... it's miserable until you get it going again.

Wood pellets are my new friend - it's easy to stoke, more fuel per area than firewood, and easy to add. 20 pounds is something like $10 around here, so
we stock up in the flatlands before heading up to the mountains, where
they're more expensive.


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