Whatta week … I was gonna say more like 9 days since I last posted but it’s really only been a week.
The political news is crazy, the weather is changeable, and I haven’t been doing very well at photographing food. Or at any of my retirement re-organization projects. Or any of my more vague creative projects.
I feel like all I’ve been doing is going to my volunteer jobs and sopping up the basement. Saturday and Sunday a week ago there were thunderstorms, enough that I had to sop, although we got rainbows on Sunday night. I’m using one for my iPhone wallpaper now. And I had to sop Sunday morning, but not Sunday night. Then the following Monday night I had to sop again. I got a bit of a break until this morning (Tuesday, July 23) when at first it seemed like it had settled into a quiet all day rain, then it started thundering and pouring. I had to get out the shop vac; the last times I’d made do with a mop and towels.
iPhone wallpaper rainbow
And since I’m running out of time tonight, I’m going to fill in the pictures for now with not a lot of text, and maybe more later.
I had a lot of bread that I made into croutons, that I used in chicken zucchini casserole, and cherry salad, and the last in panzanella.
George in the downstairs bedroom, where I was sleeping when we were in quarantine
Lucy too
Pizza with sourdough crust – last Thursday’s dinner
Gluten free peanut butter cookies
Oatmeal cookies, made with oats from the bulk aisle at the co-op that just did not get soft enough. I ground the oats up for bread and it’s Bob’s Red Mill for me now. Yes, I know it comes in a plastic bag, ziploc no less. I will use it to pack cookies in when I ship the boxes in December
Summer fruit crisp, 2 nectarines, a plum, and a few handfuls each of blueberries and cherries, also with those hard oats, but ground
Both rahr’s – his comfort toys
We went for a long walk on Friday, 8 miles, and saw cranes crossing the street with their offspring
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- Cranes crossing the street
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- Cranes crossing the street
A cookie and a beer after we came back from trying Matt’s smash burgers on Friday night
Saturday counting brekkie
The sky over Opera in the Park
The crowd at Opera in the Park
Along with the insane politics we had the CrowdStrike crash. Even on the radio, Ari Shapiro was saying in the last 8 days we’ve had an assassination attempt and Biden pulling out of the presidential race. And CrowdStrike. And thunderstorms.
The blue screen of death during the big CrowdStrike outage
Plucots & fizzy water on the porch
Whew, made it and it’s not quite 9:00pm yet. I will do better. Real Soon Now.