about this site

Tue, 2006-10-17 08:58 — Jason

Defay.org is simply a web site to share ideas and meet people with common interests. While the founders of the site share the defay surname, there are others who do not. defay.org is not limited to family members or people with the defay surname. It is an open community site.

If you've got a bit of DeFay in you, and you would like to know how we all relate to one another, please read my family genealogy blog.  Or for info about me, read my min-bio.

What will I find at defay.org?

Thomas' second letter to his City Councilman and the response

Wed, 2012-03-28 20:57 — Jason

Dear Mr. Gloria,

This is Thomas DeFay. I live at 1234 Felton Street in San Diego.

I watch interesting shows on KPBS television. I learn about animals on Wild Kratts. I learn about words on Word Girl and reading from Super Why. I think it would be great to have a PBS Kids - Go amusement park in San Diego. There could be a Wild Kratts exhibit and everyone could learn about animals and meet real Wild Kratts and go on a ride called Flying Tortuga. I hope you will talk to developers about my idea. I think it will make money for San Diego.

Sincerely,

Thomas DeFay

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Thomas' first day of flight school

Sun, 2011-07-17 10:06 — Jason
On a recent Southwest flight from Sacramento to San Diego, the captain invited Thomas to come check out the cockpit.  It was so cool when we were 30,000 feet over LA & Thomas got his first flight lesson.  He looks pretty confident to me!

Home brew setup

Sun, 2011-07-10 10:28 — Jason
Here's a picture of my backyard home brewing setup at the start of a beautiful brew day in July
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I've got a March pump behind the 20g Blichmann kettle that I use to move the hot liquids around.  On the day I took this picture, I was getting ready to brew a 10g Belgian Tripple based on the original made at the Westmalle Trappist monastery. This is my first attempt at a Belgian style beer and I adapted the recipe from Sean Paxton's blog.

Bottling Day

Sat, 2010-09-18 10:29 — Jason

Today was bottling day for two batches of ale I recently cooked up.  Here's a picture of my backyard bottling setup


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I use a light weight folding plastic table from CostCo to hold everything.  I use one ice chest to hold sterilizer & soak my bottles and caps in there & pull them out and line them up on the right as I fill.  I stick a sterile cap on each bottle so they keep things from falling into the bottles and I don't have to search for them when it's time to cap.

Home brewin

Sat, 2010-07-10 18:47 — Jason

Amy got me a home brew kit for Xmas & I've been busy making beer ever since.  I've made about 10 batches of beer, starting with a kit so I could follow a simple couple of steps to learn how to make beer. 


Since my first kit batch, an Imperial Ale by LD Carlson, I've taken a class at my local brew shop and made an Amber Ale, Red Wine from a kit, a Fat Tire clone brew (twice), hard cider, a dry hopped American Ale, and Apricot Ale with a wheat beer base. 


Today I'm brewing my first IPA (India Pale Ale) and used a program called BeerSmith to come up with my own recipie (based on a local IPA I recently enjoyed). 


The hard cider and apricot ale were both disasters, but everything else has turned out pretty well.  I've got high hopes for my IPA (recipie here).

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