After an inspirational thread over at uplandjournal.com, I decided to try to make my own hard cider which is simply pure apple cider, sugar and yeast which is allowed to ferment for a period of time with the yeast turning to sugars into alcohol. For my first batch I used Simply Apple which I found in my local Acme and a pound of table sugar. For the second batch, I used Trader Joe's pure apple juice and a pound of brown sugar. The two results are extremely different in color, hopefully the taste will be noticeable.

Hey everyone, I posted some pictures in the gallery of our first hunt of 09. My cousin and I headed to Powderbourne which is in Montgomery County to work the dogs a little bit before the season starts. Tucker did well, he was pretty much exactly where I expected him to be. He encountered a total of 4 birds, worked 2 very well, busted 1 and 1 was a wild flush. I was also able to shoot a pheasant over my cousin's 14 year old brittany, Bert. It was a great day and a fun time even though everything was still very green, lush and extremely wet. Here's 1 pic, the rest are in the gallery:

Pretty much the same as the past couple nights, working on whoa

I'm definitely making progress and I'm hoping to move off leash in the near future. I'm now at the point of jogging, giving the command and dropping the leash. He occasionally makes minor mistakes but it's great to see him putting it together. Click the title of this post to see a video from last night:

This is a very interesting video regarding the housing mess and subprime market

I was playing around with my scanner tonight and was wondering if I could setup a live feed so that I could broadcast the audio on the internet. Turns out it was extremely easy, I hooked the scanner to my audio card using a cable I had laying around, registered at www.scanamerica.us and in about 10 minutes my feed was up and running.

If you follow this link:

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=2263

you'll go to all of the live feeds to Delaware County, PA. Mine is labeled "Delaware County Fire" and you can listen to it whenever I have it online.

Here's a quick one tonight, taking one inside, in a hallway off leash

I finally dedicated some time and put the rest of our Costa Rica pics up in the photo album.

After a log of messing around I was finally able to get the photo gallery installed. I put up a few pics and will hopefully be post more as I have time. There's a link at the top to access the gallery.

- Kevin