Chuck Grimmett

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  • I’ve come to my senses and I threw away my Apple boxes this morning. AMA.

  • Huh, apparently it is “unwieldy”, not “unwieldly”. No l before the y. I’ve gotten this wrong for 25 years.

  • Superglue bottle leaked and I almost glued four of my fingers together. That stuff is no joke.

  • Tied eight more flies tonight. All Futsū kebari. Five with thread bodies in various colors (my favorite combo was cream thread and grizzly hackle), three with wool yarn bodies (Shetland Spindrift Paprika) and grizzly hackle. I also used some size 12, some 14, and some 16 hooks.

  • Ugh, looks like my Twitter blocks and keyword mutes no longer work. Why do I even use that app?

  • Trying my hand at tying flies. Here are my first two, with brown rooster hackle and brown sewing thread. Trying to get the basics down: Keeping tension while wrapping, lashing on feathers, and whip finishing.

  • While playing Duplos with Charlie, I made a Marimekko house.

  • Organizing my jumbled mess of flies from five different containers.

  • Tonight’s drink is the Elusive Dreams. I infused the pineapple rum via sous vide, made the banana liqueur, and used cassia chips for the cinnamon syrup. Garnished with his & hers nasturtiums from the garden.

  • When I was younger I never read the local newspaper, preferring the NYT, WSJ, and FT. Now I’m the exact opposite. I always open and go through the weekly roundup email from the Peekskill Herald and mostly ignore the big newspapers.

  • Went out for BBQ tonight. I got Charlie some pulled chicken, but he surprised me and ate most of my brisket instead. I’m excited to have a little BBQ buddy!

  • Made some Haitian pikliz.

  • We made pizza sauce with our garden tomatoes.

  • The early makings of banana liqueur. Macerated banana with Demerara sugar in the bag to make banana syrup, peels with dark rum in the jar. Will strain and combine both in a couple days and dilute with water.

  • Hamilton Pot Still Black Rum is incredible in a Jungle Bird.

  • Unbelievably this is the first tiki drink we’ve made all summer. Jungle Bird.

  • Cooled from 90s to 60s, so having some Old Forester 1910 tonight. Feels like fall.

  • Currently reading:

    • The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey (physical book)
    • Paradise (Expeditionary Force Book 3) by Craig Alanson (audio book)

    On deck:

    • The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (ebook) – Multiple friends have mentioned this.
    • Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (ebook) – I’ve been wanting to try Discworld for a while!

  • I just queried my email archive for “unsubscribe”, then selected all and hit delete. YOLO.

  • A snoozing bumble bee 🐝💤