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2025-04-20 19:42

Posted on 2025-04-20
by Philip Brewer
A dog lying on the floor
Ashley during cocktail hour.
A dog with her snout in your face
Ashley one second after someone says, “Well, I think we’ve reached the end of cocktail hour…”
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged Ashley, cocktail hour, dog, dog pictures, Photography

2024-12-23 11:13

Posted on 2024-12-23
by Philip Brewer

My most active period of the day this year was at 5:00 PM. This is when we wrap up cocktail hour, and I take Ashley out for her last walk of the day. The evening walk is actually shorter than her morning walks, but it’s got a nice, crisp start time:

Graph of my average daily activity levels, showing a morning peak and then a slightly higher but very narrow evening peak
Posted on 2024-12-23
by Philip Brewer
in Fitness | Tagged cocktail hour, dog, walking

2024-06-11 16:26

Posted on 2024-06-11
by Philip Brewer

Jackie got some pineapple juice for some cocktail or another, so I seized the opportunity to make us each a Zenaida Dove. (Hers has a bonus Luxardo cherry.)

Picture of Jackie with both our cocktails in the foreground
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged cocktail, cocktail hour, cocktails, jackie, zenaida dove

2024-05-10 17:48

Posted on 2024-05-10
by Philip Brewer

A Manhattan for Jackie. “I’m only in it for the cherries,” says she.

Posted in News, Photography | Tagged cocktail hour, jackie, Manhattan, Photography

2024-02-08 07:46

Posted on 2024-02-08
by Philip Brewer

I did make my bluevardier last night. It was kinda sweet. Not a surprise, as triple sec is sweeter than sweet vermouth. I usually make boulevardiers replacing half the Campari with Aperol. I’ll not do that, and see if that gets the balance closer.

It is pretty though:

Cocktail in a glass on a coaster with an ice sphere
Posted in News | Tagged bourbon, cocktail, cocktail hour, cocktails

2024-02-07 10:34

Posted on 2024-02-07
by Philip Brewer

I have invented a (I think) new cocktail: the bluevardier! It’s a boulevardier, except that the sweet vermouth is replaced with blue curacao.

I’ll make one for cocktail hour and post a picture!

Posted on 2024-02-07
by Philip Brewer
in News | Tagged bourbon, cocktail, cocktail hour, cocktails | 1 Comment

2023-01-01

Posted on 2023-01-01
by Philip Brewer

Ashley, Jackie with a martini, and my beer.

Posted in News, Photography | Tagged Ashley, beer, cocktail hour, dog, dog pictures, jackie

2021-06-05 18:24

Posted on 2021-06-05
by Philip Brewer

Stopped for the night on the road to visit @limako. I’ve got the Brew Dog Elvis Juice and @jackieLbrewer has the 7th Son Humulus Nimbus. Missing online cocktail hour, so cheers!

Posted in News | Tagged beer, cocktail hour, travel

2021-05-04 17:03

Posted on 2021-05-04
by Philip Brewer

Found our second silver mint julep glass, polished it up, and made mint juleps for @jackieLbrewer and myself.

Just the thing for on-line cocktail hour with the fam.

Posted in News, Photography | Tagged cocktail hour, mint julep

Great Lakes Breeze cocktail

Posted on 2020-06-13
by Philip Brewer
In a shaker mix with ice:

4 parts cheap gin
1 part cheap triple sec
1 splash cranberry juice concentrate

Shake until cold, pour over ice, top with grapefruit juice.
Posted in News, Photography | Tagged cocktail, cocktail hour, great lakes breeze, jackie, sea breeze

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I write science fiction and fantasy stories.

I speak Esperanto, and use it to communicate internationally. Esperantistoj, legu mian esperantan hejmpaĝon.

For a while I taught Taiji.

For eleven years I was a senior writer at Wise Bread, writing about personal finance and frugality.

Before that I spent a quarter-century as a software engineer.

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