2017 Recap

2017 seems to have been a light year

Things Done:
January

• Family Christmas Gathering mit viel schnee

February

•  Flagship Brewery, stopped in to write Post Cards to our so-called representatives.

March
April

• Zion Fair with Car Show, NY
• Eldest's Wedding Anniversary Party at Blue, NY
• Stone Crop Garden Alpine Plant Sale, NY
• Bear Mountain Perkins Overlook, NY

May

• Cousin Gathering
• Greg Proops at The Bell House, NY

June

• British Car Day at  Red Mill Museum Village, NJ
• 9th Annual Polish Festival at Snug Harbour, NY

July

• Travis Parade 
• Le Tour
• Started replacing Lump's right side frame

August

• Trip to California, LA to SF and back, PCH2017.
• A play, In and Of itself, NYC

Sepetember

• WestFest, NYC
•  Really replaced Lump's right sideframe.

October

• MIG Welding classes at Makerspace.

November

• A Full House Thanksgiving
• A Family Wedding at The Imperia
• Changed Lump's glow plugs.

December

• Vickie and Nickie's Holiday Sleigh Ride, The Duplex, NYC
• Local Tree Lighting
• Terracotta Warriors, Franklin Institute, Philly 
• King Solomon Hicks Quartet at Shanghai Jazz, NJ

Garden:
Of the Plans for 2017, not much happened to plan.

• Hydrangea did bloom this year, so it stayed
• Did not remove Red Twig Dogwood
• Grew hops, harvested hops, smelled hops, yup Hoppy.
• Rebuilt the Compost enclosure.
• shifted garden beds to make room for drainage pipes, still need leveling
• Planted 120 cloves of garlic, October 28.  11 large heads and 5 small heads.
• Of the possible additions from the Garden Plans, this was the only new addition plant added, a new Coral Bell.

 Lost a bunch of plants in 2017, some from the winter and some just didn't make it through the year.

Beers in the Fridge:
Posted on 38 beers last year. Not counting any duplicates or beers I usually purchase. So as a rough estimate, last year I may have drank somewhere around 14(38*4*12/128) to 21(38*6*12/128) gallons of beer.
(a beer*beersPerPack*ozPerBeer/ozPerGallon)

Good food and good times had in 2017:

• Coles Dock Side, NY
• Inca's Grill Peruvian Kitchen, NY
• Old Bay Restaurant, NJ
• J.J. Biddings, NJ
• Chris's Restaurant Polish Food, NY
• Sayori Sushi, NY, we still call it Osaka
• Forest Thai, NY
• Thai Rocks, NY
• D'jeet, NJ

Most memorable drink of 2017, a Bourbon Brulee at Embers Restaurant in Arroyo Grande, CA
Most memorable bar of 2017, Smugglers Cove Rum Bar, San Francisco.