Friday, 14 June 2024
We are three meals in on our air fryer experiments…two of salmon filets, and one of tofu. We are (I am) trying to incorporate more fish/other meals in our diet, instead of terrestrial critter protein (including dairy).
One advantage of the air fryer, and I don’t understand how this happens, but there’s no fishy odor. Amazing.
No food photos; too messy. Very tasty, however.
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Yesterday, I did finish pressure-washing the front and back entry areas, and called that eeeee-nufff. [I ignored the sidewalk in front of the house; apologies, pedestrians.] I also summed the time spent pressure-washing over two days—6.5 hrs—whew! Today, I rested my back (which, truth be told, was basically okay, I think because of my irregular “Classical Stretch/Essentrics” workouts).
Friday, 7 June 2024
I had a vision for this photograph, and this is almost there…the leaf and flower shapes make an interesting, varying landscape.
Thursday, 6 June 2024
We got to chat long-distance with long-time friends who are on a round-the-world trip. They called from Old Corinth/Korinthos, in Greece. Wow! We’re so lucky! I think the last time we chatted they were in New Zealand.
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
I have needed to get these struggling rhubarb plants transplanted for years. I’m hoping to do it this fall. In the meantime, they need protection from the grass and other plants that suck away the moisture, provide too much shade, etc. So, the cardboard is my quickie barrier method weed control, in the style of NASmith, aka The Botanist.
Monday, 3 June 2024
This row of aged maples look like sentinels, protecting the garden. I like the visual vertical repetition of their trunks with the fence posts. The fence is necessary to discourage raccoons and deer, plus rabbits and skunks.
In today’s news, we did an assortment of chores, including mowing (by the Mowing Man) and making more rhubarb sauce (moi).
Title is the genus of each plant species mentioned.
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Studying the calendar, I realized we’re 42% of the way through 2024, yet I’m still trying to internalize that it is indeed 2024.
See that lupin to the right of center with the tipped over inflorescence? That’s rather like me, still trying to get with the program.
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Yellow goat’s beard. A Tragopogon species, either Tragopogon pratensis or Tragopogon dubius.
Dandelion, of course. A Taraxacum species, probably, Taraxacum officinale.
Both are in the Asteraceae family. Also, dandelions are apomictic, meaning the offspring are genetically identical to the parent—it’s an asexual reproduction without fertilization.
The other important number from today is thirty-four.
Saturday, 25 May 2024
This morning was dreary after night-rain, and I walked the beach in my rubber boots. I very much liked this contrasting dark-light sand at the shore, as well as the not-quite identical repeating pattern.
Our Sweet Neighbor joined us for dinner, and brought us flowers! I call them lilies-of-the-coffee-table. As you can see, the gloomy morning turned into a sunny rest-of-the-day.
Friday, 24 May 2024
These fisher-folk trolling on the lake reminded me of many paintings, like a Winslow Homer piece, although I think he did sea settings, not a lake like this.
This apple was just so beautiful I had to include a shot of it. Friends kept it through the winter wrapped in newspaper in a crate with many other apples in a cool spot. Some made it, some didn’t. This one is spectacular, and as firm and luscious as it was when it was put into storage.