Ginger Ale Experiment

   Sunday afternoon I embarked on an experiment in making home-made ginger-ale. It involved putting sugar, diced ginger, lemon juice, yeast and water in a jug and letting it sit for "two to three days." Fortunately we had all the ingediants on hand (including home grown lemons), and used my 2 liter Stone Brewery growler for the jug. In "two to three days" we'll find out if it worked.

   Also on Sunday afternoon I sat outside reading this book I bought while waiting for the Peace Corps meeting to start the day before (it was in a Borders) -- The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland. I like it because it appears to be a relatively straightforward retelling of them which only departs from Snorri Sturluson's works (considered the most definitive) when other versions of the saga have a better version of the segment or Snorri's version clearly doesn't make sense. And there are ample end-notes explaining such things.
   And it was quite pleasant out in the evening. Temperature was perfect. Chicken kept trying to peck my toes though.

   Also on the subject of the chicken, I think she's decided its her goal in life to try to sneak into the house. If the door is EVER left open even a crack she turns her attention to trying to get in. Usually she does this by what appears to be a comically bad attempt at being sneaky -- she walks towards the door in a kind of meandering zig-zag as if she's not actually heading towards it. Occasionally she stops for a moment or two as if that will make us lose interest in watching her.
   Occasionally she's made it in and we suddenly realize "hey.. where's the chicken?!" Our big fear about this is that of course chickens have no bowel control and.. yeah. Though she hasn't done THAT in the house yet once we found her eating the catfood -- while the cat fearfully looking on from a few feet away.