First bloom today of our nectarine! 🌳 🌱
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 →
In 2012 our baby kitten (aka The Annie Cat) was just as clumsy as she is today (though she is more cautious now).
A banana slug from a 2010 trip to Jug Handle State Reserve, California (the north coast).
Got a warm spell in California so now I expect the nectarine to bloom any day now. The local almond trees already have.🌳🌱
There are so many colors in a landslide. This slide complex is at Bar Creek on the Mendocino NF, dropping a main road a dozen or so feet and topping it with mudslides - all in a day. Wish I got to the top but slopes were too steep and very slick. Quite the mess. Gorgeous day.
Started prepping the garden rows today. Great weather and perfect soil moisture. Was surprised how well the electric tiller did. 🌱
I’m experimenting with HomeKit Automations converted to Shortcuts. This one, when a Home member arrives, will turn on a welcome light if the Logitech doorbell reads < 200 Lux. Otherwise it’ll flash the living room lamp to indicate an arrival.
This morning: the most symmetrical Dutch baby we’ve ever had.
The peppers and tomatoes are still alive and growing fast. The tomatoes might get root bound sooner than we’d prefer… 🌱
Today, at home, the spice drawer was cleaned out and organized.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 →
The Fantasia nectarine (planted Jan 2020) is still in swollen bud stage. Has been for days. It’s sooo close to blooming. Here’s hoping it’ll produce fruit for the first time this year!
Look, I put a pressure gauge on the new hose bibb! I must be an erudite of irrigation systems. 🙃
Korean cheese buldak for dinner tonight. Chicken in a hot chili sauce covered with mozzarella 🌶🌶🌶🌶 😋
Mount Lassen’s reflection upon Juniper Lake in summer of 2016.
I pressure checked the new hose bibb this morning; it had a slow leak at the valve threads & PVC adapter. Tightening made it worse, so after redoing the pipe thread tape with more layers, the new hose bib seems to be fine at full water pressure.
Front yard update: the manzanitas are in full bloom! The poppies are trying to take over. Waiting on the Ceanothus (California lilac) to bloom… they’re the most showy.
I installed a new hose spigot on an old PVC waterline today. I’m trying to have the patience to give the PVC joints lots of time to cure before pressure testing 😬
Have compassion for your neighborhood birbs and borbs. They may help you relax a bit as you gaze at their theatrics.
Hello, probably Spruce. Put on some good growth this year, yeah? You weren’t invited, you’re kind of a weed, but I like you anyway.
Got to make the rock rings around the citrus trees larger so drip emitters can be moved back for better root growth. Also may help with frost as the ground can now radiate heat up into the trees rather than be insulated by wood chips. Here’s before and after.
Sporg! A pipe to nowhere 😋
A cozy sleeping machine. Yeah she’s awake. She can sense when the camera comes out to give the stink eye.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 →
Energy makes growing peppers & tomatoes in the winter possible. Got lots of jalapeños, serranos, santa fe, and a variety of tomatoe. We’ll transplant outdoors in mid to late March 🌱
Mud Creek, CA south of Mt. Shasta after a pretty intense debris flow in 2014. The deposits are muddy and full of variously sized rocks and other debris (such as entire trees).
Got a lot of hope for these little peppers and tomatoes! 🌱
For Sunday breakfast, my partner made rösti with Swiss cheese in the middle and a sunny-side up egg on top. For Sunday dinner, my partner made Mushroom Pot Pie. She’s the best.
We’re craving Manzanita flower blooms in the front yard. Almost there… 🌱
Beef tenderloin filets getting the royal treatment of butter basting. Cooked to medium rare.
Our first front yard daffodil flower of 2021. Bloomed about two weeks later than last year (Jan 24, 2020). A small pollinator is already taking advantage! 💚 🌱
Apple Photos thinks eating campfire roasted marshmallows off a metal stick is a sport. I agree.
