Musings

Seems weird to salute a dead saint with green beer. The beer part makes sense (alcohol is pretty darned festive!), but the green part is idiosyncratic—for sure!

Or otherworldly?

One almond tree, now planted…been a long time since I planted a tree….

It replaces an oak that was one small portion of the capital improvements Atlanta underwent prior to the Olympics. That tree was just coming into its own, and was de-branched (and would never have recovered and looked good) by the oak that took out one corner of the house in May 2008 (longer story here).

Now we water weekly, and wait….

First daffodils (at a neighbors’ in a protected place).

I see on our census form, which arrived today, that we are to predict the future—that is, how many people will be sheltering in our house on April Fool’s Day. Maybe we’re supposed to wait, but I’m guessing the mailing schedule people have no idea how much semi-junque mail piles up at this house, so that within about three days the form will be deeply buried beneath other need-to-do-something-with-this papers.

We got a lot of laughs out of these candles that relit time and time again!

These are architectural details decorating the patio posts of a restaurant fronting the street in our neighborhood near the post office. (How many phrases is that?)

I’ve noticed that the light comes early in the morning, and I’m going to miss it, probably for weeks. We’ll see if I experience the discombobulation I usually do in the wake of the time change….

Hail, hail…. Excitement surrounded us today…. (Since there’s no scale, those are roughly marble-sized, or musket-ball sized.)

Today’s the day for early deciders to plunk down their credit cards and order a TD—stands for “that device,” my now-lame attempt at avoiding a problematic Apple product name (shhhh—iPad). Apparently, Apple had so many orders that briefly it became our country’s third largest company, on the basis of market capitalization (after Exxon & The Empire of Bill Gates).

Okay, yes, we plunked!

The daffodils are coming!

For the first time, I made the Asian chicken salad recipe tonight with Chinese black vinegar rather than balsamic.

It’s still simmering, so I’m not sure whether it’ll taste different. I do know the simmer mixture looks the same, though—deep black-brown!

Hmm. And I have the cilantro and green onion for the topper this time, too!

From fall 2007, out west—not here, today.

Off and on today, I forced myself into an anti-gloom mood, although the rain beating on the roof tended to draw me back to that place….

Apparently at least one variation of the phrase “nice weather for ducks” (this is my dad’s version) dates back to the early nineteenth century and was used by Dickens in 1840….

I suspect you’re probably bored with hearing about rainfall patterns, but I have one more comment: Australia has been in a drought—dry, dusty, drought. Lately, though: rain. Lots of it some places.

Around here: sunny this morning…overcast by late afternoon. Rain, They Say, incoming in the wee hours—just in time for Garbage Day.

Compare this view with how it was back in mid-January, and you’ll see that there are two new vertical elements under construction—I’m guessing they’re bridge supports. (Oh, and the creek-edge ice and snow have disappeared.) Notice how they’re right at the edge of the property, just beyond the blacktop parking lot.

I’m standing by to see what this area becomes. It’s downstream of the BotGarden….

I’ll also note that the (original) Midtown Ru San’s sets out a better sushi lunch buffet than the Caroline Street location….