Winter garden
Few gardeners, even in northern California, grow vegetables in the winter. It’s cold. And wet. And vegetables grow ever so slowly. But. It is so very grand to be able to pull carrots, snip broccoli or lettuce, and eat them. And there is the perverse pride of knowing you are one of very few who [...]
Full day
I tilled and amended the first triangular bed, Bed 1, and Bed 3, and planted broccoli seedlings, sugar peas, lettuce seedlings, and garlic starts. Cooked beets, carrots, and broccoli. Oh my. I hiked from the Skyline Staging Area to Orchard Trail on the Bay Area Ridge Trail and got a good GPS track. I think. [...]
Pencil and paper
I am thinking of disconnecting. Apple Inc. has applied for a patent that will allow the company to force users of the company’s products to watch ads. To have to answer questions about the ad before proceeding. The advantage to the consumer will be lower prices for the product. I do not like this. Even [...]
Lucky man
I spent the day doing good things. Breakfast of a poached egg on a bed of tomato and bacon piled on Italian bread. Dark, rich coffee. Lunch with Mark in The Mission. A trip to Berkeley Hort for composted chicken manure, carrot seed, lettuce seed, garlic starts, and broccoli seedlings. Ha! A hike in Redwoods [...]
Green Jello
Fifty years since I have eaten Jello. Today, though, it is one of the few things I can eat. As long as it is not red. I am to be subjected to a colonoscopy tomorrow. So far I have drunk 32 ounces of water. Three times. One large bowl of Jello. At three, I am [...]
Great hike; bad tracking
The object: enjoy a beautiful day in San Francisco hiking with Jeff and create a GPS track of the Bay Area Ridge Trail as we go. Batting .500. One of the things necessary to create a track is to turn tracking on. I forgot to do that. Twice. I knew before heading out that navigating [...]
Excited — a new endeavor
Tomorrow morning Jeff and I meet at the Arguello gate of The Presidio, leave a car there, and take the other car to Fort Funston to begin a trek across San Francisco: up to Twin Peaks, down through Buena Vista Park, through the Panhandle and back to The Presidio. I will be recording a GPS [...]
Home is where the heart is
Sierra Designs created one great tent: the Flashlight. About three and a half pounds. Many tie down points. A tent with fly. And a ground cloth. Absolutely bomb proof. There were two nights, one at Point Reyes National Seashore and one on the Lost Coast, where I was caught in Pacific Storms. And the Flashlight [...]
The eleventh hour
. . . of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Originally Armistice Day, Veterans Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the end of World War I, November 11, 1918. I had not realized it was upon us until I was heading back from The City today and listening to National Public Radio’s Morning [...]
Too much fun
Work on a new site. A blank slate. And no one other than site visitors to answer to. Freedom! Well, yes, there is some obsession, too. Life is good. I ‘m listening to Elaine play with her cat upstairs. And thinking of how much they both enjoy that. Some very good conversations today. Clean. The [...]
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