A big hurricane is headed our way. An email from the public schools superintendent is a great example of the ‘small just, just ahead’ communication strategy I’m always hyping. I’ve reprinted her message here.
Cooking more scuppernong grapes for juice this morning. Doing too much in the kitchen yesterday and mixed the roselle simple syrup into the grape juice; wonder how that will change flavor. Will also finish hot sauce with Calabrian chiles I smoked over hickory chips. Experiments.
Another big rain, another box turtle on the move, this one in my path as i walked to retrieve the Sunday NYTimes.
Home from my morning excursion to the Carrboro Farmers Market, Gray Squirrel Coffeeshop, and Home Depot. Enjoying a PB&J and the last of my sour cherry shrub. Later will make osso buco, syrup from rosella flowers (wild hibiscus) bought this morning, & hot sauce with hot chiles.
Squirrels in the oak trees, dropping acorns onto the aluminum carport. Reminds me of the flying fox in the breadfruit trees on Paama, how we’d be jolted from sleep by crashes on the roof.
OMG, that phone call is hilarious.
Woke at 5 so I could meet Joe the sign pro at Duke by 6. As he installed a window decal for Voices of Duke Health, we chatted about architecture, the printing business, Army basic training, basketball, North Carolina, and more. Good conversation, followed now by coffee.
I was out walking woods again, checking on the fire ring we cleared Saturday and almost stepping on this turtle. Walked back to house and found good friends had stopped by to bring pickled sour cherries as consolation for my missing our annual road trip to pick cherries jn VA.
Went into the medical center today to set up the Voices of Duke Health listening booth, a temporary recording studio that I’ve been talking about for many years. I’m happy to have found great partners and earned trust of leaders and funding to make this happen.
Discovered cool photo features of my new iPhone 8 Plus: profile mode with lighting options. Used it on a turtle shell my son and his friend found this afternoon in the woods out back.
Posted this earlier to my linklog: great visualization of the UNC-Duke men’s basketball rivalry over time.
And here’s a can commemorating one of UNC’s national championships, washed from beneath the toolshed in the recent heavy rains here in Chapel Hill.
Today I gladly told my colleagues at the Duke Audio Working Group about Micro.blog and how much fun I’m having using the microcast feature. The Duke River of News has a podcast tab, good place to listen to what my colleagues are producing.
The Voices of Duke Health listening booth will be in full swing next week! And podcast to follow, but we already have clips and teaser audio, and theme music, at listeningbooth.info
Sounds of the South Pacific
We’ve been back from our epic South Pacific trip for nearly two months, and only now am I getting a chance to log the various sound recordings I made during our week in Vanuatu. I hope to stitch together the best of the sounds and interviews into an audio postcard. Here, though, is one full clip of my interview with my son, Oliver, on the morning we first woke up at Erakor Island Resort in Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.
That’s Oliver in the green swim shirt in the photo above.
I also interviewed my son, Oliver, about starting third grade tomorrow. He commandeered the microphone and talked and talked, about kittens and airplanes and more. Will take some time to edit and trim to post to the microcast.
I have used Captio for many years, but I have seen too many Drafts fans to ignore so just installed the app and paid for a year’s subscription.
I have used Captio for many years, but I have seen too many Drafts fans to ignore so just installed the app and paid for a year’s subscription.
After many hours on chat, phone, and in the Sprint store, I have upgraded my phone and my daughter’s phone. I’m now on an iPhone 8 plus, and looking forward to better photos and improved web browsing.
Caps
After these hard rains, mushrooms are popping up all around our house and in the woods.
Yesterday’s stroll in the woods listening to an owl was a joy to owning land. Today’s emergency installation of a new well pump one of the expensive downsides to owning an old house not (yet) on city water.