What’s a good breakfast meat for your egg-and-cheese sandwich? Well, in the past, I’ve fried up tasty bacon, I’ve fried up single-packet Spam, I’ve even tested out scrapple. But the most recent attempt to create a tasty start to my morning came from New Jersey. Specifically, this product. What you see here is a processed…
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The Latch Hook Covered Bridge project as of January 1, 2025
Yep. I made plenty of progress on this latch hook rug project, this one composed from a covered bridge photo I took last October in Vermont. This blog post recaps where I started for this project. Honestly – the reason I’m even working on this project (and hoping I can complete it in time for…
Read MoreChuck’s 10 blog moments of 2024
Ah, 2024. It started off rough, had its high moments, and finished decently. And as today is the last day of the calendar year, so too is my day to recap and review ten important blog moments of the past twelve months. Let us review. In February, I survived major vascular surgery, which required 92…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: The Song-Poem of Jimmy Carter
Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. This was a President who truly embodied public service. Every family who now lives in a Habitat for Humanity home can thank Jimmy Carter’s commitment and generosity. And while he was President, he helped author the Camp David Accords, the groundbreaking peace plan between Israel and Egypt. And during his…
Read MoreJoseph Mastroianni fucked around. Now he’s going to find out.
A couple of months ago, I penned a blog on how local politician Joseph Mastrianni was caught on video taking his opponent’s campaign mail out of constituents’ mailboxes while he was on a door-to-door canvas for votes. You know … this blog. And surprisingly, Joseph Mastroianni continued his defiance even after the video footage went…
Read MoreWhat’s Up in the Neighborhood, December 28 2024
Good morning, blog readers, and once again it’s Saturday – the day when I take a break from the blog, and instead post links to the great blog posts and materials populated by those on my personal blogroll. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Read MoreThe KeyBank Cauldron
It’s cold in this area. Cue audience response – “How cold is it?” Well, it’s so cold, that the KeyBank office building on South Pearl Street in Albany has enough smoke / steam / cloud vapor over its roof, that it now looks like an Olympic torch. Or maybe a cauldron. Don’t believe me? Take…
Read MoreChuck’s 10 best photos of 2024
We’ve got macro photos this year. We’ve got Holiday Train photos this year. We’ve got a photo that took 93,000,000 miles to get to here. So … let’s share, shall we? What we have in today’s blog post are the ten photos that either won awards in Competition Season for me, or that I feel…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: Sleeping with Gretchen Peters
Thursday, December 20th, 1973. If Frank Osterman hadn’t arrived at Iverhill’s only late-night tavern, the 9N Bar and Grille, he might not have even volunteered for this delivery. Or was conscripted for the delivery. He wasn’t sure if there was a true delineation. “You gotta do me a favor,” the bartender said as Frank approached…
Read MoreA Holiday Miracle
Hey, remember last month when I chased the CPKC Holiday Train all over the Northeast? And blogged about it for a whole week? You know … photographed the train in Montreal, drove over and photographed the train in Sherbrooke, drove back down to photograph the train in Albany, then caught it in Menands, and in…
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