Saturday, June 12, 2021
The amazing document converter, Pandoc, is finally available from Homebrew for M1 Macs! So I’ve adjusted my journal workflow to be on my M1 Mac mini. I’ll use jhead -autorot *.jpeg (instead of Graphic Convertor since I only have one license and I want it on my MacBook Pro) for autorotating photos and for f in *.md; do pandoc $f -o ./Archive/${f%.md}.pdf -t latex; done to convert the Markdown files to PDFs.
We harvested 2.5 pounds of tomatoes today. Almost 6 pounds total so far this season. We can’t use them that fast so many go in the freezer for future processing into soup, sauce, jam, etc. Same goes for peppers reserved for hot sauce🤤
We have a crazy amount of tomatoes ripening all at once — this is just one plant. We have three more.😳 Marigolds we started from seed are finally blooming.
I can hardly wait for Shortcuts on MacOS. That’s my favorite announcement from WWDC. Automator never clicked for me. I’m willing to wait so bugs hopefully won’t destroy my Shortcuts or iCloud data.
First ripe backyard garden tomato of the year. 🌱🍅 There’ll be many more to come!
Cultivated California buckwheat (front yard) flowers being buzzed by a honeybee.
These Santa Fe peppers are prolific! They seem to be more resistant to disease than jalapeños. 🌱
I’ve always loved listening to entire albums, as is evidence by my iOS Shortcut to randomize complete albums in track order. I don’t need that anymore. The Albums app is everything I always wanted Music.app to be. Shoutout to MacStories for letting me know about it!
One variety of Cultivated California Fuchsias are full bloom in the front yard. This clump regularly blooms first, the others a month or two later.
This beneficial little mantis (and other excellent insects) is why we don’t use insecticide in our yards. 🌱
One day at 111°F in my sunny backyard and another at 105°F, and my Logitech Circle View doorbell has not overheated. Its circumstances: 24V 20VA transformer, north facing in the shade all day. I’m quite pleased with it.
Finished reading: City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 📚
Our fennel plants are managing fine in this 105°F+ heat. 🌱
Ooof. Though I have a suspicion my weather station measures higher than it should. It topped out at 111°F today.
That time of the year where we temporarily shade the avocado trees as they have a hard time taking up water fast enough during 105°F+ temperatures… yeah they don’t belong here. At all. 🌱
Front yard cultivated California Buckwheat & a few butterflies (Coliadinae?). 🌱
Happy to say this sap sucking Leptoglossus zonatus is no longer suckling our tomato plants. 🌱
These jalapeños decided they had enough being outdoors and came right off the plant during inspection. They look fit to eat though are a little dried out. 🌱
Not sure why the M4.2 Lake Tahoe earthquake event isn’t showing up in the RaspberryShake app but my Shake definitely detected it. I did not feel it.
Our oldest jalapeños are starting to ripen to red. We can’t get delicious ripe peppers from the local store so it is worth growing them. We’ve got a few more days of temperatures where fruit will set… and tons of flowers. Should be very productive! 🌱
