Tag: gin

  • Making sense of a 103 degree day.

    Today was hot.  The first really hot one of the summer—103 to be specific.  Just to keep things interesting, the power also went out for a couple of hours.  Well, not surprisingly B wanted something refreshing to combat the ill effects of such a concatentation of circumstances.  I got to browsing through Dale Degroff’s (of…

  • The Monkey Gland

    B here. When absinthe became legal again in the U.S.  last year, M was overjoyed. I–less so. I remembered sipping from my mom’s Pernod when I was little, and the anise taste was nasty in my book. Plus, what sane person wants to drink a libation containing wormwood? M did. I broke down and offered…