McCain's Corner

As a child I discovered the Norse Sagas and the Eddas.  They started me on the path, I still love them. The wisdom below, a suggestion f...

Current set of birds observed in or near my wee feeder in the last week or so.... House finch, Golden finch, Cardinal, mourning dove (actual...

Новости и вид из Dixie....

There is a common and widely held myth that Irish Coffee, that most wonderful of restoratives, was first created in the bar in Shan...

( this re-posted from an earlier article I wrote, posted today in honour of the fall of the Alamo; the Republic of Texas chose the Bonnie B...

the dark scented flake Gawith and Hoggarth's scented dark flake is comprised of Malawi dark fired leaf, which is slightly smoky, bu...

1792 tin SG 1792 is a dark fired leaf, Virginia and Kentucky tobaccos. A northwest England type tobacco, very strong, rich dark colour...

This a an India Pale Ale (IPA) review of six brews I enjoyed just the other day.  This review is in the category of just a regular beer dr...

‎'A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. B...

Christmas trees are late to the Western traditions.  They came in mid 1800s, prior to that, we, Southern folk and our people in the Ol...