Best thing Sunday morning: breakfast of fuyu-ish persimmon, yogurt, and pecans. Heaven. Saturday morning was a cubed, slightly stale Portuguese roll, some of the candied pumpkin, eggs beaten with cream, and baked - variation on French toast and a bread pudding (i guess ( Read more... )

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TL;DR if you have an Android phone go turn off the tracking ID: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-nowRead more... )

Brisk but lovely morning on the back deck in the moonlight and the dawn sky ( Read more... )

Happy or amusing things ( Read more... )

Dad wanted to talk this morning, driving home from his sweetie's, where they watched the returns all night with disbelief. I'd not followed the reporting, just peeking at the NY Times decision arrow (holding the striking tech workers in my heart) and the electoral-vote.com site. Christine came home from watching with her sister, feeling despondent ( Read more... )

Hope. Prayer. May the citizens of the United States of America find that collectively, with enough state by state majorities, they must vote for the competent choice of Kamala Harris ( Read more... )

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I had the last antibiotic yesterday, so if that's been a drag on my system, it will stop. Might just be the waning of the light.  This morning was 51°F on the back deck, essentially balmy, and i sit on the lounge listening to the chorus of insects and frogs under the brilliant last quarter moon. The Moon is near Mars, which in turn is in line with ( Read more... )

I saw the comet -- barely -- last night. I think looking before the end of nautical twilight is probably too challenging at this point. It's coming down in brightness, so  not as dramatic as a week ago. Also, most photos are timed exposures.  As the moon rose, i could see how the contrast with the night sky changed. The moon rises later tonight, so ( Read more... )