The pepper plants in the garden are starting to drip with red, and the Carrboro Farmers Market provides other varities, so I’m making a batch of hot sauce this weekend.
The pepper plants in the garden are starting to drip with red, and the Carrboro Farmers Market provides other varities, so I’m making a batch of hot sauce this weekend.
Our big gardenia bush finished with its flowers a couple of months ago, but we’ve had 2 late blooms this week. Nice surprise. I suppose it’s all the rain we’ve had, and the heat.
Tonight Anna, my oldest daughter, and I went to Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro to hear Blue Cactus.
“Well, I wouldn’t be made at a chocolate bar if they had one,” says Wade the cowboy in the show 1883. We’re rewatching it, and I must have missed that line the first time around. As a chocolate addict, I’m going to use that line next chance I get.
Erin and I have been rewatching Treme. Tonight we’re on the episode that pays tribute to Steve Earle’s character Harley. Such good music in this show, reminding us to get out more to listen to live music. Ep. 20: The Circle, Unbroken : A Blog Supreme : NPR
A long post (on my Zuiker Chronicles blog) about the cruise to Alaska and why I’m lucky to be married to Erin, who rings the bell and makes life and travel memorable.
What a great match between England and Germany. #euro2022
A pot of onions cooking slowly (for French onion soup later), and I’ve settled in to watch Euro 2022 England vs Germany.
Erin and I looked under the tarp at the pile of lumber that’s been drying for the last 3 years. We’ll use this slab of blackjack oak as temporary bar for Malia’s graduation party. The rest will become tables and counters in the new house.
Short post with latest version of MarsEdit to say thanks to @danielpunkass. I’ve been using MarsEdit for years, and all this week to draft a long blog post about the cruise to Alaska.
Good morning, Micro.blog community. Your advice, please: I need new voices & perspectives in my River of News. Please recommend bloggers, podcasters, others who regularly write about history, race, travel, food, science, books, ideas.
I’m feeling well today, glad to be past that COVID illness (though I presume I’m still positive, so still in quarantine and masking). Am eager to re-engage with the yard, the town, the world.
Tiny mushroom out in the woods. There is a pleasant breeze cooling the forest. Feels good to be outside.
COVID Chronicles: Still sequestered, still sucking honey-cherry lozenges. Checked my email to catch up on my friend Michael Ruhlman and his newsletter, saw his mention of a cooking drama called The Bear, so I’ve just binged all 8 episodes. Enjoyed it! #chicago
The July 25, 2022 issue of the New Yorker is doing as much (or more than) the ibuprofen and tissue box to get me through this COVID. Great articles about super yachts, narrative medicine, and the Volkswagen bus.
Fauna, too. This looks to be a katydid. (‘Wedding of the Bugs’ is one the most fun songs ever!)
Flora Funga out back.
I keep telling my wife that my purchase of notebooks and pencils is done, but then Blackwing went and made a new set of pencils featuring the Paper Girls comics book by Brian K. Vaughan, who was a college intern with me and childhood friend of Erin’s family. +12 pencils to come.
My post-vacation blog chronicles is delayed because I am possessed of Covid, shivering in bed but laughing at family text stream referencing Temple of Gozer from Ghostbusters. Glad I was vaxed and boosted prior to the cruise.
Enjoying good Seattle coffee (in sleepy Magnolia neighborhood) after a week at sea. Cruise to Alaska was much fun. Last night was a stop in Victoria, B.C. and was one of the best date nights ever: tapas and strolling and then drinks & dessert at trattoria, great sunset.
Still on the cruise ship, headed south back to Seattle. Much to report (when back home) about our few days in Alaska. Great weather, fun excursions, glaciers and whales and otters and eagles and bears!
On the Quantum of the Seas heading north to Alaska. On the pool deck giant screen this morning was a documentary about volcanologists rappelling into Benbow Crater on Ambrym Island (Vanuatu). Surreal to see that - I stood at the crater lip in 1999.
Arrived in Seattle late last night. Woke up this morning and looked out the hotel window (43rd floor) and there’s Mt Ranier floating. My goodness it is majestic.
As we construct a new house on the back lot, a variety of trucks have parked in front of our house. Today the power company is installing a new underground transformer and cables.
Box turtle crossing the driveway last night. 🐢
