I saw no more overnight temps below 32 in the ten day forecast and did what any normal person would: I set up the outdoor shower! No more indoor showers until somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas, rain or shine. Cape Cod forever!
Outdoor showers means cold showers. No thank you. I prefer hot baths, to sit and soak the tight muscles away. Preferably with a lovely bath bomb and a book.
But you do you. Thankfully our bodies are pre-shrunk and drip dry.
It is National Johnny Appleseed day. I have an apple “orchard”. Or will have once my Northpole columnar apple tree arrives. Already have the hole dug and have transplanted it’s Scarlet Sentenel mate to the planter. The third is a Newtown Pippin which is already getting leaves! That’s three apples. I would love to get a Whitney crab apple but it would have to go out front in the easement as there is no more room in the back yard unless I end up takng out the Katy apricot back there. The one in the front I planted last year as blossoms this year which means apricots. The Katy in the back has never blossomed that I know of and isn’t this year, even after pruning, fertilizer and watering. I have threatened the tree that it gets one more year and if there are no blooms next year I will chop it down. We’ll see if that spurs some production.
The persimmon isn’t showing but it looks like it might get leaves soon. The fig and plum are going to town and my Meyer lemon and orange trees are covered in buds and blossoms. I will have apricots this year because the Blenheim Royal apricot has a dozen buds and a dozen blossoms. The Red Baron peach was just pruned this week and no sign of buds but it’s a bit early. Another month and then I should have beautiful dark fuchsia blossoms in May and fruit by July.
Along with that crabapple I was thinking I also might try cherries out front in the easement. And possibly one more apricot, an Autumn Glo. That would give me an early, mid and late season apricot. I do love apricots and the ones in the store are tasteless.
I have one more tree to buy. A dwarf Mexican or Key lime. I have two huge glazed pots for the middle of the back oval patio and one has the mandarin in it. The other pot has nothing but a few nasturtiums left from last year. It’s citrus season so I might be picking up a tree this month or next.
It is also National Organize Your Home Office day. As yesterday’s photo revealed, OFA has no need to organize his home office, it is perfectly organized as is. Unless he just did that to take a photo and then it reverted to it’s usual work in progress. With the new C&B so close to completion, I have to contemplate whether we shall have to wait an entire year until 2026 for it to finally be released. Perhaps OFA can enlighten us as to the process and the timeline of how a book gets published.
I guess someone is hard at work on Cat on a Hot Tin Woof.
I didn’t go to watercolor class because it was raining and I don’t like to drive in the rain if I don’t have to. It stopped around 1pm so too late to go. When the streets were dry I did drive to Dave’s Flower Shop to order my Mom flowers for St Patrick’s day and then to World Market to pick up an order I placed yesterday. By then rush hour was starting so I had to take a series of side streets and alternate routes to get to my area. I picked up some groceries and was home by 4:30. Perfect timing as UPS had just come. The dogs were ecstatic to go out front.
I brought the groceries in and put them away.
I did some work to fill all three of the bins which are going out tomorrow afternoon after the predicted morning rain and before the predicted evening rain.
I brought in the mail.
I worked a little in the back, pulling out some African Umbrella plants that are basically invasive weeds and stacking some bricks that need to be put back in my patio. Not much else I can do with such wet ground and rain still coming. I have a really big clump to go entwined with a dead miniature rose bush. I might be able to get that out tomorrow afternoon, if it doesn’t rain. I have hybrid tea rose to go right in that hole if I manage to get it all out.
It is an eclectic day. National Girl Scout Day, Alfred Hitchcock day, World Day Against Cyber Censorship, National No Smoking day and National Plant a Flower day.
National Baked Scallops day. I like mine grilled but I have had baked. I don’t care for clams, oysters or mussels and I am allergic to Lobster, having a passing acquaintance with it. I like the taste but not what follows. I love Shrimp and Crab and can keep it down just fine. But when it comes to stuff in the shells, I like scallops and abalone. Abalone are really hard to come by. They are farm raised and actually cleaner than the ocean ones because of they way they are farmed. I don’t eat farmed fish because they are dirtier and more diseased than wild fish but farmed abalone are not only cleaner but more sustainable as a percentage of the abalone raised are released into the wild. But it is also really expensive, not only to buy but to ship as they must be packed in ice and shipped express same day or overnight, really really fast. I ordered some abalone once and made my parents a fabulous birthday dinner. My Mom still talks about it. Thankfully scallops can be had more easily as you can find them frozen at the store. The secret to getting them grilled nicely is to thaw them out, then salt them and let them sit in the refrigerator on paper towels overnight. Then they are dry enough they will get a nice Maillard reaction. I do mine in clarified butter on a cast iron skillet because clarified butter doesn’t burn.
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Greetings!
My only experience with outdoor showers has been being caught in the rain…Heh! :^) Enjoy, Spence!
The weather in this neck of the woods will be in the mid 60s again today.
Good day to all!
Good day to all.
But it isn’t even mid March yet.
Outdoor showers means cold showers. No thank you. I prefer hot baths, to sit and soak the tight muscles away. Preferably with a lovely bath bomb and a book.
But you do you. Thankfully our bodies are pre-shrunk and drip dry.
It is National Johnny Appleseed day. I have an apple “orchard”. Or will have once my Northpole columnar apple tree arrives. Already have the hole dug and have transplanted it’s Scarlet Sentenel mate to the planter. The third is a Newtown Pippin which is already getting leaves! That’s three apples. I would love to get a Whitney crab apple but it would have to go out front in the easement as there is no more room in the back yard unless I end up takng out the Katy apricot back there. The one in the front I planted last year as blossoms this year which means apricots. The Katy in the back has never blossomed that I know of and isn’t this year, even after pruning, fertilizer and watering. I have threatened the tree that it gets one more year and if there are no blooms next year I will chop it down. We’ll see if that spurs some production.
The persimmon isn’t showing but it looks like it might get leaves soon. The fig and plum are going to town and my Meyer lemon and orange trees are covered in buds and blossoms. I will have apricots this year because the Blenheim Royal apricot has a dozen buds and a dozen blossoms. The Red Baron peach was just pruned this week and no sign of buds but it’s a bit early. Another month and then I should have beautiful dark fuchsia blossoms in May and fruit by July.
Along with that crabapple I was thinking I also might try cherries out front in the easement. And possibly one more apricot, an Autumn Glo. That would give me an early, mid and late season apricot. I do love apricots and the ones in the store are tasteless.
I have one more tree to buy. A dwarf Mexican or Key lime. I have two huge glazed pots for the middle of the back oval patio and one has the mandarin in it. The other pot has nothing but a few nasturtiums left from last year. It’s citrus season so I might be picking up a tree this month or next.
It is also National Organize Your Home Office day. As yesterday’s photo revealed, OFA has no need to organize his home office, it is perfectly organized as is. Unless he just did that to take a photo and then it reverted to it’s usual work in progress. With the new C&B so close to completion, I have to contemplate whether we shall have to wait an entire year until 2026 for it to finally be released. Perhaps OFA can enlighten us as to the process and the timeline of how a book gets published.
I guess someone is hard at work on Cat on a Hot Tin Woof.
I didn’t go to watercolor class because it was raining and I don’t like to drive in the rain if I don’t have to. It stopped around 1pm so too late to go. When the streets were dry I did drive to Dave’s Flower Shop to order my Mom flowers for St Patrick’s day and then to World Market to pick up an order I placed yesterday. By then rush hour was starting so I had to take a series of side streets and alternate routes to get to my area. I picked up some groceries and was home by 4:30. Perfect timing as UPS had just come. The dogs were ecstatic to go out front.
I brought the groceries in and put them away.
I did some work to fill all three of the bins which are going out tomorrow afternoon after the predicted morning rain and before the predicted evening rain.
I brought in the mail.
I worked a little in the back, pulling out some African Umbrella plants that are basically invasive weeds and stacking some bricks that need to be put back in my patio. Not much else I can do with such wet ground and rain still coming. I have a really big clump to go entwined with a dead miniature rose bush. I might be able to get that out tomorrow afternoon, if it doesn’t rain. I have hybrid tea rose to go right in that hole if I manage to get it all out.
It is an eclectic day. National Girl Scout Day, Alfred Hitchcock day, World Day Against Cyber Censorship, National No Smoking day and National Plant a Flower day.
National Baked Scallops day. I like mine grilled but I have had baked. I don’t care for clams, oysters or mussels and I am allergic to Lobster, having a passing acquaintance with it. I like the taste but not what follows. I love Shrimp and Crab and can keep it down just fine. But when it comes to stuff in the shells, I like scallops and abalone. Abalone are really hard to come by. They are farm raised and actually cleaner than the ocean ones because of they way they are farmed. I don’t eat farmed fish because they are dirtier and more diseased than wild fish but farmed abalone are not only cleaner but more sustainable as a percentage of the abalone raised are released into the wild. But it is also really expensive, not only to buy but to ship as they must be packed in ice and shipped express same day or overnight, really really fast. I ordered some abalone once and made my parents a fabulous birthday dinner. My Mom still talks about it. Thankfully scallops can be had more easily as you can find them frozen at the store. The secret to getting them grilled nicely is to thaw them out, then salt them and let them sit in the refrigerator on paper towels overnight. Then they are dry enough they will get a nice Maillard reaction. I do mine in clarified butter on a cast iron skillet because clarified butter doesn’t burn.