Musings

Potluck tonight. All good, as usual, with an outstanding tart cherry pie for dessert. Superlative.

The meal was followed by a peek at the stunning sunset.

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My sweetie took me out to lunch at our favorite place in Manistique. I like it because I can order a whitefish dinner (with salad bar that includes…tahdah…pickled beets…yum) and The Guru likes it because he can order an all-day omelette.

We lunched out because the morning weather was overcast and damp, and not good for mowing, which is almost always (and in this case) Job#1 upon cottage arrival. As the afternoon went on, the wind dried the grass (mostly), and the sun came out—yay. And we mowed about half of the grass—not the total grass, but the grass that we mow. …honoring (AKA bowing to) the tyranny of mowing….

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How many marketing whizzes does it take to come up with a silly name for a fruit with a blotchy rind?

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Strawberries verge on the sacred around here. This is the sixth one I ate from today’s supermarket specimens. The interesting thing is the first five had little strawberry flavor (as is typical), but this one had enough that I could almost imagine it approached being sun-ripened.

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Detroit style is what? Extra oily? Dunno. Is there Grand Rapids style, too?

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Tada. It’s May. That means we’ve begun the countdown to leaving to head north. Wooopeee.

And that means I’ve begun to amass necessities and other miscellaney that we take with us rather than buying up there. Specialty items, you might call them—flavors that aren’t for sale in Newberry or Manistique or even at Meijer further away.

BTW, that BBQ sauce is too sweet for me, but mixed about 50-50 with a sauce we can get up there, which is too vinegar-sharp: near perfection. Further BTW, I also make a fine BBQ sauce from scratch….

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So, I made veggie Thai curry tonight, and trimmed it with basil…of course, from the plant that needed (shall we say) shaping. It’s the first garden output of 2026!

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Think about the meaning of that line between Raspb… and Mous… Cak…. What other flavorings are there for this except raspberry? Not a selling point for me! Also, the first ingredient is “cake mix.” [Did not touch container; definitely did not purchase.]

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I do like the jagged edges and the silver tint of cardoon vegetation. Cardoons are Cynara cardunculus. Although today planted in this area as ornamentals, in colonial days they were planted for food…stems mostly I think, but perhaps also the buds.

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Proof I can get mandarins in focus. Yup, we got another bag today.

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