Sunday dinner: Sous vide Arm Roast followed by Boston Cream Pie.
Slowly preparing the backyard garden rows over the past few months 😅 Almost time to plant the peppers, tomatoes, and direct sow the herbs. No more lawn!!!!!! Tilling is amazing at removing thatch and dead lawn. 🌱
This is quite the year for catchweed (aka bedstraw aka genus Galium). It is everywhere! It even manages to grow in thick mulch with impressively long taproots.
Our “Bacon” Avocado flower buds are developing nicely. Also, the fig is waking up. 🌱🌳
First apricot bloom. Hopefully, as in past years, far more will follow. Figure this flower puts pollinators on notice. 🌳🌱
The front yard blue oak has awakened! 🌱
This should be my last nectarine flower photo. This year. 🌳🌱
Easiest way to deal with (perhaps) hundreds of mandarins once ripe: juice them. These have brightened to very red-orange I wonder if they are closer to tangerines?
The nectarine is up and at ‘em with many glorious blooms. 🌱🌳
Pompasetting nectarine.
Not my favourite 3/4”-minus gravel as the rocks definitely didn’t come from rivers with their headwaters in the California Nothern Coast Range but it’ll do in the backyard. Just as back breaking 😝
One of these days I’ll paint the PVC pipe to hide my poor PVC cementing job and a few barcodes. 🌱
First bloom today of our nectarine! 🌳 🌱
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.
Currently reading: The Power by Naomi Alderman 📚
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.
