Today’s celebratory homemade sourdough loaf and Prosecco
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I’m looking forward to winter. Summer was far too long.
For today and a while after the election, Twitter & Instagram apps are removed from my devices. So far I’m avoiding their web counterparts. Instead, let’s enjoy some tiny coyote bush flowers!
Dark-Eyed Junco (Oregon) in the backyard! Had to photograph it through binoculars.
Northern Mockingbird in our backyard. They’re not nearly as brave as the scrub jays but they’re using our backyard more and more.
Got two volunteer conifer seedlings in the backyard — their needles are roundish and pointy, not in clusters. Thinking maybe spruce? 🧐 We’re encouraging them.
TBH, Fall is grilling season here.
A happy scrub jay feasting on some big bird seeds.
Gorgeous loaf of homemade sourdough.
Tore out the bark beetle infested Lapins Cherry today. It was half dead by beetles girdling it. In November we’ll put in a new Lapins Cherry from Stark Bros.. The old tree was from a big box store and while it provided prodigious fruit it was oddly pruned and I couldn’t fix it.
Saved this gorgeous western alligator lizard this morning from a murderous outdoor cat. It was cold, on its back, and sluggish (very vulnerable) when I scared the cat away. It seemed uninjured.
Backyard cultivated native elderberries decided summer is over! Yay!
Just voted🇺🇸
The Annie Cat has seasons. She only uses the wool bed during the cold season.
Lemongrass came back this year after dying back over winter (we also took cuttings over winter and one managed to take). So here’s homemade lemongrass ice cream topped with praline. 😋
Franciscan Assemblage. Mendocino NF. ❤️
Been a few years since we first wanted to mulch the backyard. Weather got nice so here we go with 10 cu yd of chips!
We made roasted hot pepper sauce recently. A mix of jalapeños, anaheims, serranos and yellow wax peppers (more orange red upon ripening)👌 Worth the wait growing and ripening peppers to red. 🌶
Coconut-Gochujang Glazed Chicken With Broccoli is pretty good. We added Gochugaru (Korean pepper flakes) for extra heat. Would recommend serving as a rice bowl though. It begged for a bowl.
Saturday, September 19, 2020 →
Billions of almonds waiting to be hulled.
Wednesday, September 16, 2020 →
Western Toad finally makes a reappearance in the backyard and it has GROWN. Wish I had something for scale.
The Annie Cat is so displeased that the game controller isn’t working right.
Saturday, September 12, 2020 →
Excellent sourdough shape, crumb, and pretty good flavor (48 hour refrigerator proof).
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 →
Today’s obligatory wildfire smoke scene. Halide app made it dead easy to override auto white balance.
Winds started after midnight here and dramatically warmed the air from ~75 to ~87°F. Likely katabatic winds.
Blue Jay yelling at everything this afternoon. Maybe it’s angry at the wildfire smoke.
Can confirm.
Oof.
Good morning: light of sunrise reflecting off the smoke.
Today starts an oppressive heat wave. At least the humidity is low. The smoke from California fires is thin today so not getting much help from it.
