vital functions
Aug. 23rd, 2020 11:30 pmReading. ( T. Kingfisher, Nalo Hopkinson, Alyssa Wong, Erin Morgenstern )
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simont has me itching to reread the Craft Sequence, but as I just borrowed On The Come Up (Angie Thomas) from the library on a whim, probably that!
Watching. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; now up to S01E06. ( Read more... )
Playing. Mrrgh horn. Playing more still results in better everything.
It's been a slightly ridiculous week in terms of PoGo: I wild-caught a 100% IV Snover, a 95% Purrloin and a 98% Murkrow in one afternoon, and also a shiny Skorupi, which I think I actually quite like. The afternoon before: 96% Lotad plus 98% Lillipup. From research I finally got a Deino worth evolving; from raids I got a 98% Genesect and a weather-boosted 91% Heatran.
I am very slowly sneaking up on reading the instructions for Hanabi, so that might happen at some point this week.
Cooking. Ooh, let's see. ( Sushi, tomato sauce, Ethiopian misc., ice cream, jam )
Exploring. We went to the tip! It was out of the house and not an allotment or a testing site! We got rid of some of the grot we'd been steadily accumulating! Progress: made.
Making & mending. Fixed the tablet. Learned several things about how Apple constructs Stuff, and met a couple of types of retaining clip I hadn't, previously. Still not got the hang of getting screens up from the plastic bezel without causing any damage to either, sigh, and still annoyed about adhesives in general, but -- the screen works! the wifi works! job's a good 'un.
I have not resumed Doing Art on the coffee table because I've moved a Kenwood Bit that needs dismantling and cleaning over. That's a job for maybe-this-week.
Growing. Gosh the heavy rain this week did a number on the plot. Old fennel suddenly very sad; artichokes all suddenly in full flower but also clearly sulking; first set of pea plants attempting to mould. I have set aside to dry the peas for planting next year, though I hope to get a few more.
We've had something like getting on for 4kg of tomatoes this week, which we've been eating roasted-with-thyme (the cherries) and in salads (cherries and plums) and as they come (all of them) and in cooked tomato sauces and also Ethiopian food (mostly the beefsteak). We also had enough Cosse Violette beans to turn them into a small quantity of fasolia (see above/yesterday), another handful of onions, and some more chilli. Off the patio at home, in addition to the here-tomatoes: another couple of figs! And a third coming ripe.
In terms of growth: the various root veg are actually coming up, somewhat to my surprise, albeit patchily; I think I need to drag myself out to the plot on an overcast day so I can "thin" them by, uh, transplanting them further down the row to where seeds didn't take. The yellow beetroot have visible yellow stems; I've no idea which of the various Umbellifera are the root parsley versus the parsnip versus the carrot, which'll teach me to write things down, maybe. There's a fruiting flower on one of the loofah, which may or may not set, we'll see; there's a third (third) cucumber coming along, and I have some thoughts on how to do them better next year; the peppers are doing better for being in bigger pots and will hopefully keep fruiting.
To sow this week: onions (to overwinter), winter spinach, and probably some pak choi.
Up next:
simont has me itching to reread the Craft Sequence, but as I just borrowed On The Come Up (Angie Thomas) from the library on a whim, probably that!Watching. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; now up to S01E06. ( Read more... )
Playing. Mrrgh horn. Playing more still results in better everything.
It's been a slightly ridiculous week in terms of PoGo: I wild-caught a 100% IV Snover, a 95% Purrloin and a 98% Murkrow in one afternoon, and also a shiny Skorupi, which I think I actually quite like. The afternoon before: 96% Lotad plus 98% Lillipup. From research I finally got a Deino worth evolving; from raids I got a 98% Genesect and a weather-boosted 91% Heatran.
I am very slowly sneaking up on reading the instructions for Hanabi, so that might happen at some point this week.
Cooking. Ooh, let's see. ( Sushi, tomato sauce, Ethiopian misc., ice cream, jam )
Exploring. We went to the tip! It was out of the house and not an allotment or a testing site! We got rid of some of the grot we'd been steadily accumulating! Progress: made.
Making & mending. Fixed the tablet. Learned several things about how Apple constructs Stuff, and met a couple of types of retaining clip I hadn't, previously. Still not got the hang of getting screens up from the plastic bezel without causing any damage to either, sigh, and still annoyed about adhesives in general, but -- the screen works! the wifi works! job's a good 'un.
I have not resumed Doing Art on the coffee table because I've moved a Kenwood Bit that needs dismantling and cleaning over. That's a job for maybe-this-week.
Growing. Gosh the heavy rain this week did a number on the plot. Old fennel suddenly very sad; artichokes all suddenly in full flower but also clearly sulking; first set of pea plants attempting to mould. I have set aside to dry the peas for planting next year, though I hope to get a few more.
We've had something like getting on for 4kg of tomatoes this week, which we've been eating roasted-with-thyme (the cherries) and in salads (cherries and plums) and as they come (all of them) and in cooked tomato sauces and also Ethiopian food (mostly the beefsteak). We also had enough Cosse Violette beans to turn them into a small quantity of fasolia (see above/yesterday), another handful of onions, and some more chilli. Off the patio at home, in addition to the here-tomatoes: another couple of figs! And a third coming ripe.
In terms of growth: the various root veg are actually coming up, somewhat to my surprise, albeit patchily; I think I need to drag myself out to the plot on an overcast day so I can "thin" them by, uh, transplanting them further down the row to where seeds didn't take. The yellow beetroot have visible yellow stems; I've no idea which of the various Umbellifera are the root parsley versus the parsnip versus the carrot, which'll teach me to write things down, maybe. There's a fruiting flower on one of the loofah, which may or may not set, we'll see; there's a third (third) cucumber coming along, and I have some thoughts on how to do them better next year; the peppers are doing better for being in bigger pots and will hopefully keep fruiting.
To sow this week: onions (to overwinter), winter spinach, and probably some pak choi.