We gathered Anna from her dorm for a family hike on Greensboro’s Lake Townsend Trail, part of North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail system.
Carrboro Run Club night. I went 4 miles. Now enjoying a thirst-quenching Pilsner from Craftboro Brewing Company. Big group here in the parking lot. Join us every Tuesday at 6:33.
Stepped outside. Cicadas are loud, but I hear tapping high in an oak tree, am lucky to spot the flashy black, white, and red of a pileated woodpecker. (Wondering if @mikehendley takes commissions.)
This autumn clematis is beautiful, but it is invasive and damaging the azalea.
Micro Camp sticker arrived yesterday. Thank you @jean @manton and all the presenters for a great event. Next year we camp for real?
When dad saw the Rolling Stones
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
News today that Charlie Watts, the drummer for the Rolling Stones, died, so I called my father, Joseph, to ask him about the time he peeked out from backstage as Charlie and company finished a set in the Los Angeles Forum. Here’s our microcast. Dad also explained how I got my childhood nickname, Pups, and what it was like for young parents working on a congressional campaign in California in 1972.
Just had an idea: I should keep a scratchpad of all the messages I type but don’t send in reply to the crazy stuff my family sends me. Or maybe I print each one and burn them each week in the firepit outside.
Angles and shadings. This is the hickory that toppled yesterday. Forest around it looked beautiful in the light between rains today.
Glad to have finally discovered a way to use Micro.blog categories: I can now tag my turtle photos and posts and have them together on my site here.
Yesterday’s loud crash as winds picked up turns out to have been large hickory tree that fell out back, taking out a few southern red maple and a sourwood. Walked out to assess, looked down and saw this turtle.
Fresh wood chips beneath the swing.
Family movie night was CODA on Apple TV+ and it was so so good. I cried a lot, and smiled, and cheered.
Waking up in the Siena Hotel in Chapel Hill, a staycation just few miles from our home, for our 25th anniversary. Erin surprised me with “We always wanted to go to Tuscany.” Dinner at Hawthorne & Wood, where we both had flounder in coconut broth, like our fav meal in Vanuatu.
The photo from @cheesemaker is better but inspired me to snap one of my own. Back at Gray Squirrel Coffee in Carrboro for a flat white and writing.
Finished reading: Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid. Very much enjoyed it, and found it thought provoking. 📚
The pear tree is heavy with fruit this year (we trimmed it way back a couple of years ago). I think these are kieffer pears so one of the weekend projects is to make preserves.
I had such a great vacation on St. Croix last month - swinging in my hammock - that I decided to make a sticker to remember it.
So glad to see the first of the ginger lily emerging.
This is great: The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture - The New York Times
Started the day making hot sauce, cooking the mash outside on a wood-burning stove so the house doesn’t fill with the fumes. Serrano peppers from my garden and other chiles from the Carrboro Farmers Market.
