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Now in bloom in our backyard: cultivated California Wild Roses (pic 1) and Elderberry (2). Still gorging themselves: ladybugs. Everywhere in our front yard. They’re just decimating aphids. Ladybugs particularly love coyote bush (3) and sage.

wild rose flower with white flower petalsyellow elderberry flowersbright orange ladybugs all over a coyote bush


Here goes my second brew - a simple Bavarian Hefeweizen. With way warmer than normal temperatures I figure our house will be close to or within the ideal fermentation temperature range. 🤞



Potatoe croquettes for lunch today. Great use of leftover mashed potatoes.

plated golden brown croquettes with one cut open, revealing fluffy white potatoes and chives

Citrus gummies are a great way to use backyard citrus. We made Meyer lemon with Valencia orange gummies. An Alton Brown recipe. We’ve frozen our remaining Meyer lemon juice. Our citrus season is now over.

orange gummies in a bin atop a red cuttingboard and a wooden cuttingboard

macOS Shortcuts, Logger for Shortcuts, Shortcuts Temporary Files, and Hazel

Logger for Shortcuts provided me exactly the information to figure out how to get Hazel to properly use a Shortcut against a file. Now I can have Hazel run a specific Shortcut against a file whenever a new file shows up. Background: for some reason when Hazel starts a Shortcut, the Shortcut operates on a copy of the file in a temporary folder. My programmer brain assumed that the Shortcut Input would be immutable.

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From last Monday near Tomales Point in beautiful California, a genus Arctia moth caterpillar on lupins.

red and black fuzzy caterpillar on slender pinnate lupine leaves.

From last Monday, a very loud acorn woodpecker at the Point Reyes National seashore visitor center.

red headed & black body acorn woodpecker laughing atop a light pole against a clear blue sky

From last Monday, the Pacific Ocean and Tonalite rock at Tomales Point.

white with specks of dark minerals in tonalite rock against the blue ocean

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