Our volunteer conifers seem happy. First year they’ve developed cones‽ 🌱🌲

Covid booster ✅ Flu shot ✅

06:54 AM and was 82°F & rising in the backyard here in Orland, CA. Amazing.

beestat says it’s too hot for the A/C to keep up. It’s also a Smart Day / which means we need save energy. That’s easy: increase the AC from 77°F to 83°F.

For the next week, ~record hot temperatures! Once again, time to protect our Hosui Asian Pear’s central leader with shade cloth. I had to lash an old pruned apricot branch to the tree stake for height for the shade cloth. The tree put on several inches in the last week! 🌱

Had a standoff tonight. White had just rolled the double sixes.

Hope this leaf bursting bud on the central leader of my young Asian pear tree survives today’s max 114° heat in Northern California. A few more days of this too.

Smoke from the Six Rivers Lightning Complex earlier this morning creeping in towards our home in the North Sacramento Valley. It’s now smellably (😜) here.

We’re very happy with Trader Joe’s Bavarian Bratwurst. Pretty close to Nürnberger style but much bigger. Of course we had no choice but to prepare it as part of Currywurst.

These backyard figs look good but they’re not sweet. We dried them out and plan on using them in a bake in a week or so.