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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Culture Club: A crock full of soyogurt
As mentioned a couple of days ago, I recently decided that I wanted to try making yogurt at home. Specifically, yogurt that The Girl would eat (nondairy). I started looking around for yogurt makers on the web, but then ran across a variety of recipes for making yogurt in a crock pot. Well, sweet. I gots me one of those.
It was surprisingly easy. Step one: buy some soy milk. In my case, I purchased a half-gallon of Silk Organic Unsweetened Soy Milk ($3.48 at my store), plus a single-serving cup of some vanilla soy yogurt with active cultures (I could not find plain). Total cost: about $4.50. For what will be about 1 1/2 quarts of yogurt after draining some of the whey and allowing for some evaporation.
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Friday Music Day: HPR and Stetson
It went well. I noticed HPR fading a few times but nothing too bad.
Stetson played a new song with Sarah Neufeld (the opener) that was so many different kinds of awesome.
Oh, and a new Bobby Bare Jr CD showed up in the mail!
April 18, 2014: Minnesota Sports
The Twins won their first series with the Jays in sixteen tries. The Wild also played a playoff game into overtime that hadn't finished at the time I set up this post. I hope it ended well.
...never mind. I just watched it end.
Happy Birthday–April 18
Frank Navin (1871)
Sam Crawford (1880)
Duffy Lewis (1888)
Jack Scott (1892)
Steve Blass (1942)
Mike Paul (1945)
Doug Flynn (1951)
Bobby Castillo (1955)
Rich Bordi (1959)
Jim Eisenreich (1959)
Dennis Rasmussen (1959)
Steve Dunn (1970)
Rico Brogna (1970)
Brian Buscher (1981)
Miguel Cabrera (1983)
Billy Butler (1986)
Frank Navin was the owner of the Detroit Tigers from 1908-1935.
Rich Bordi was drafted by Minnesota in the fifth round in 1977, but did not sign.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to Mrs. CarterHayes.
2014 Game 15: Blue Jays at Twins, again
If the Twins win tonight, it will be the first time they're over .500 since May 13 last year. Honestly, I would have expected it to have been longer.
Game Recap #14: Big-Inning Boys 7, Hitless Wonders 0
Well, that was kind of fun.
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Game 14: Toronto Blue Jays vs. Minnesota Twins (Game 1)
The locals lucked out with their fantastic weather and gave us to a two-spot today. Our young gun squares off against their veteran Dickey.
Toronto Blue Jays vs. Minnesota Twins
(8-6) (6-7)
Target Field
1 Twins Way
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
1:10 PM CT
Game Previews
Baseball-Reference
MLB
Yahoo! Sports
Probable Starting Pitchers
Robert Allen Dickey
1-2, 5.30
v.
Kyle Benjamin Gibson
2-0, 1.59
Minor Details: Games of April 16
A Red Wings comeback falls short. A Miracle comeback succeeds! Scott Diamond's struggles continue.
April 17, 2014: Negativity
Sometimes I think about leaving social media altogether, outside of places like this.