2018 The Year In Review - Part One

It's that time of year again to review the year. This may not be the best stuff or the worst stuff or the best photos but it's the significant stuff and it's the 2018 year in review (part one though you guys).

oh look who got a brand new 'puter. 27 inch imac 5k retina screen paid for with the blood sweat and tears of a thrice pronounced dead macbook that they gave me a LOT of credit for. Jenny needed this cuz she started her one year graphic design program at Shillington. Time to reinvent yourself lil' buddy.

of course more brewing happened

this piece was chosen for the Society of Illustrators annual show. it's the Fall entry into my high fashion women with giant breed dogs. I later saw that Borzoi's aren't a giant breed despite looking huge.

late March snow storm in prospect park.

we went all grain and the stove had to be on blast for 9 hrs for 2 batches and it set off the carbon monoxide detector in the last 30 min but it turned out to be the best beer we made 

 

I did 6 more of these croquet and ink people in 2018 and the series was chosen for the annual Society of Illustrators show.

Cormac arrives at my parent's house.

he's so cute he gets two photos.

this is what people should be gettin' crazy about, progress towards gettin' to Mars courtesy of spaceX's successful reusable rocket landing.

JP from Korea came for his honeymoon and we saw him for a few days.

built the little greenhouse I didn't have time to last year. Greenhouses don't do anything about how the nighttime temp dips too low for plants. It was a cold spring so a lot of seedlings died and had to be replaced with backup seedlings and it was a very bad start for a lot of plants and the death-knell for some 

oh look who i forced to get a new bike and upgrade to a road bike and now she likes it. Pretty sweet vintage schwinn from the self anointed best bike mechanic in new york via craigslist.

checked out Greenwood cemetery and its sweet, especially in the springtime with its ton of flowering trees.

went with adam and steven down to coney island to see about some honey. 5 gallons of honey, bought in the back of this electronics store in a very drug deal like fashion.

I was so chuffed for many months. My personal helms deep that I constructed. and then it happened. The squirrels learned they could chew through the bird netting and then it was over.

Still had an ok amount of garden bounting including a lot of greens, scallions, heirloom tomatoes, tons of cherry tomatoes, and the hops went through their initial year fine it seemed.

Shinto shrine in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

a trip upstate to hang and to make this horseshoes pit in prep for the 4th of july

Derek brought some little segways and we slap jousted on them and rode them around a lot and camped out and drank beer and did the Annual international alternative sports tournament of champions LLC working title

this time knife throwing was added as a competition and I won the title of the Great Throwdini.

hiking in ithaca.

hiking in the catskills and we had to take the olsen's dog with us. did it have a good time?

that horrible accident at 9th street and 5th ave. The driver later on was assaulted in jail and died by suicide eventually. 

Yoon visited this was some exhibition in the chelsea dia beacon

home improvements like replacing that g dang loud fan in the bathroom.

and of course the great polish butcher providing us with these golumpkis on thursdays and bread and kielbasa, cheese and meats, and more. What a neighborhood jewel.