My friends Tim & Gina graciously loaned me their cabin for a weekend again, and my friends Steph and Megan joined me for paddling, hiking, birdwatching, etc. We spotted some sandhill cranes, and I found some Alpine Waxy Cap mushrooms, which we didn’t eat because the squirrels had gotten to them first. No problem: IContinue reading “ESC #45: Cabin Weekend Edition”
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Drama Queen/I Have Notes For…Bon Appetit, Your Majesty!
Really, I don’t have that many notes. It was a fun romp through Korean imperial and culinary history, and the main characters did have chemistry—but mostly when they hated each other…. Jeon Ji-young is a talented young chef who has just won a cooking competition in Paris that grants her funding to open her ownContinue reading “Drama Queen/I Have Notes For…Bon Appetit, Your Majesty!”
A Lamb and Her Rock
youtube.com/watch If I were a sheep, this would 100% be me. Nothing like a good rock.
Happy Chuseok from ATEEZ!
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Pointcrow’s Goldfish, Tortellini, Defeats Hardest Boss in Elden Ring
youtube.com/watch That title either made perfect sense to you or no sense whatsoever. So, for the second category of readers, let me explain; no, let me sum up…. Elden Ring is a role-playing action videogame renowned for the difficulty of its combat. In particular, there’s an optional boss toward the end, Malenia, Blade of Miquella,Continue reading “Pointcrow’s Goldfish, Tortellini, Defeats Hardest Boss in Elden Ring”
ESC #43 and #44
Who doesn’t take a picture of their first-ever squid-ink paella cooked on the grill? Your girl, that’s who. I’m going to stop apologizing for not taking photos of these beautiful dinners and just start doing it! One of these days…. Until then, you’ll just have to be content with a picture I took in theContinue reading “ESC #43 and #44”
Dave & Jackie’s Favorite Artifacts from the Boloquoy Renovation on Orkney
There are some amazing finds here! youtube.com/watch
Fall Fruit Harvest is Starting!
Got about a month or so until the Gravensteins are ripe.
Saturday Ceramics: Cylinders by Jeewon Jeong
Just picked up 8 of these. They look black most of the time, but in this light you can see they’re actually dark navy. I thought they would be too large to hold comfortably without a handle but am really enjoying drinking out of them: they cool hot tea down nicely and keep it warmContinue reading “Saturday Ceramics: Cylinders by Jeewon Jeong”
Loading…Ghost of Tsushima
So, I turned myself into a PC gamer this summer. The logic went something like this: That’s the cleaned-up version of the story. Of course there were complications, the two biggest of which were (a) optimizing GOT on my still-pretty-marginal GPU so it didn’t crash once per session (which I was able to do withContinue reading “Loading…Ghost of Tsushima”
The Rookery 