The goldenrod along our gravel lane makes me slow the drive up to the house and savor the moment.
Early to the Carrboro Farmers Market, coming away with 20 pounds of tomatoes for canning and 20 pounds of grapes for juice. Thought of @ron at sight of big pile of long beans.
Stayed home today to attend to some family needs. Went for a short run, then a walk in our woods. Saw a hawk swoop low, later a black snake, its flickering tongue smelling my sweat. Came in for a shower and a refreshing glass of soda water with roselle syrup.
At the Carrboro Farmers Market yesterday, I bought scuppernong grapes, yellow tomatoes, roselle calyxes, a cedar bluebird house, goat cheese, rye bread, an almond sour-cherry babka. Grapes now cooked down to 2 quart jars of juice ready for the Thanksgiving meal.
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man:
At Levi’s bar, we were given cups of something cold and orange and alcoholic. Mr. Romer, in a comparable act of generosity, then offered Levi his email address. He would happily write a recommendation for grad school, he said. Levi, floored, went in for another hug.
Very interesting article. Read it on the front patio as a pileated woodpecker and blue jays called from the trees above.
Erin will soon be home from the county animal shelter, where she’s exchanging the rooster for a kitten. Rooster will probably go to a good farm, rathern than my pot for coq au vin.
Our backyard chickens includes a buff laced Polish that developed into a rooster. We’d prefer not to keep it but can’t find a taker, so I’ll be sharpening the knife later today.
Spent the night at River and Twine tiny house hotel in Rocky Mount, NC and sampled brews at the Rocky Mount Mills microbrewery incubator.
The Shape of Everything: What to Do When You See Something Sketchy at the Climbing Gym - another good lesson to speak up.
Getting to know NetNewsWire, testing the Share button: Julia Evans: Get your work recognized: write a brag document
Time to get serious about blogging again, so I’m making sure MarsEdit is configured on all of my various Macs.
Making a batch of hot sauce, per recipe by Cathy Barrow. Last few years did this inside and family was coughing from fumes. So it’s an outside project this time. Roasted chiles on the BioLite stove yesterday. Cooking today on grill, will puree with Vitamix under carport.
Been silent, focused on family. We took our eldest child to college today, happy to see her grown & ready for this new chapter but sad that our little Anna is away. Later, Oliver & I bonded in the Lego store, filling a container with hundreds of loose pieces.
I am sitting solo on the patio of Walking Man Brewing in Stevenson, Washington enjoying good beer, thinking about the importance of family, friends, community, health, relaxation.
Finding shelter from the winds.
Sunday morning relaxation with cherry hand pies and the paper. Sat and talked with Erin about the world as I looked through window at dragonflies above the flower garden, feasting from a cloud of gnats. A hummingbird buzzed in, butterflies danced around.
Odd, posted a note but it’s gone and lost. Anyway, I noticed Micro.bog MacOs app now gives option of seeing a post in a browser. Nice addition. Thanks, @manton
Just seeing that the Micro.blog app on MacOs now gives me the option a post’s page in a browser. Nice new feature, @manton - thanks!
Went to a friend’s birthday party, and met his father, who had served in U.S. State Department. I asked if he knew my grandpa’s cousin, Joseph Sisco. “Yes, Ambassador Sisco!” He worked hard for peace in the Middle East. #familypride
Where to dine in Portland, Oregon on a Tuesday evening in August? Recommendations appreciated. Earlier I’ll be at the Skamania Lodge for a conference, and would enjoy a hike in the mountains, too.
Here’s a photo I want to use on my About page, and I think the way I do that is to upload it here, then link it to that page. If there’s a better way, please advise.
The tree I thought was a cherry, then a plum, turns out to be a peach. 10 gorgeous orbs ripening now. The trimming of the big oak above earlier this year gave this tree sunshine, made it happy enough to bear fruit.
A very pleasant evening in Saxapahaw, NC for live music (West African kora!) under the trees and conversation with friends.
We are committed to joining Rev. Barber in Washington on June 20, 2020 for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington.
My daughter made chocolate chip cookies. I poured a stout. Erin began to stream Rev. William J. Barber, speaking from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh right now about racism, immigrants, and what – and for whom – July 4 is celebrated.