Spectre’s Sayings

Last Saturday, we finished putting on the mud sills, and installed one of the beams (the one under the front bedroom). On Monday, the concrete crew installed the drainage tile, poured and trowled the concrete floor of the basement and of the garage, and backfilled around most of the foundation. They cut the garage floor and installed the basement window wells on Tuesday. My father framed up the landing for the stairway and the support wall in the basement on Wednesday. Yesterday and today, he got that wall up and put in the other beams. Tomorrow, me and a bunch of relatives are putting in the floor joists.

Below are pictures of the progress up through Monday.

Samuel Adams Black Lager is a pretty interesting beer. It’s made from roasted malts and it is lightly hopped. It poured a nice dark color with a decent head. The aroma was somewhat sweet. I was able to detect a taste of chocolate, which was overlaid by a subtle smokey flavor. It kind of reminded me of a porter, but there were differences.

When you held the glass up to the light, you could see tell by the quality of the copper glow that it was a filtered beer.

It’s a good beer, especially for wintertime. The chocolate taste does it credit. It’s not my favorite Sam Adams beer, but it’s not bad. I would drink it again.

This would be a cool gift for a 5-year-old.

Today is the Feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle, brother to St. Peter, and the first to tell his brother about the Lord.

Happy Feast Day!

The text of the Pope’s new Encyclical Letter “Spe salvi”.