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  • Finished: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Hitoshi Ashinano 📚

    An extremely pleasant slice-of-life manga set in a post-apocalyptic world. Instead of disasterporn it focuses on the joys of simple living and appreciating the little things. Looking forward to reading more of the series.

    This image is an illustrated scene that features a young woman with short green hair standing outside by a large, weathered concrete structure with an open frame. She is wearing an oversized white button-up shirt that reaches mid-thigh, light blue pants, and has a pair of round glasses dangling from her shirt’s collar. In the background, there is a bright blue sky with a few scattered clouds. Lush green vegetation surrounds the area including tall grass and plants climbing up a utility pole which stands on the left-hand side. To her left and slightly in the background, a small yellow scooter with red headlights and wooden handles appears to have a brown bag and wrapped items attached. A beverage can labeled "COFFEE" is positioned on the concrete structure beside a yellow cloth featuring a fish drawing. The scene is vibrant with a mixture of natural and man-made elements, depicting a peaceful and sunny day near a body of water which is visible in the distance.

  • Lol every time I try to share a link or something on micro.blog I always have to redo the post like ten times because I completely mess it up somehow, even when directly copying markdown guides.

    Oh well.

  • 🎶🖤New PIG day!!🖤🎶

  • Tuesday’s harvest.

    Went out and bought the good pita chips for mutubal.

    Need to figure out what to make with fava beans. While I love beans I haven’t eaten much of these before. They are fun and easy to grow though! The plants are strong and don’t need a trellis.

    A photo of a picnic table with a beige and white table cloth on it. The table cloth is dirty from tree debris. On the table sits a pile of fava beans next to five small globe-type eggplants and a mound of kale. A small black canvas messenger style bag sits nearby. Shadows of the oak trees above cover the entire scene.

  • Currently Reading: Brother Cadfael’s Herb Garden by Robin Whiteman 📚

    Imagine buying this book in the year 2000 for $30 only to find pages like this.

    A photo of an open book. The open page is talking about Ivy. There is a colored photo of ivy at the top of the page and lots of information about ivy below it. the whole page has a background image of low opacity ivy, but this makes the text extremely hard to read.

    I’m also disappointed as their definition of “illustrated” is just some border artwork. Glad this is just a library book.

  • 🍞 Tried out a recipe for a faster loaf. The darker loaf is spelt + acorn flour (harvested and processed by a neighbor) the one in the back is just spelt. Came out pretty dense, maybe not enough water?

    Baking with spelt is tricky, but I am slowly learning more. First time using/eating acorn!

    Two homemade loaves of bread sit on a wooden cutting board on a white tile kitchen counter. They are angled diagonally across the frame. The loaf in the front is a darker brown while the second loaf is much lighter in color.

  • When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.

    -Sparrowhawk in The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Feelin' this one IN MY BONES.

  • A visitor.

  • Finished Reading: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan 📚

    Greatly enjoyed following along on this journey. Book is filled with tons of helpful advice and now I have a lot to think about.

  • 🌱Millet Quest Update:

    Went with this cookie recipe for my first millet flour experiment.

    Subbed powdered sugar for the jaggery powder and only had whole wheat bread flour.

    Lovely simple cookie with a lot of flavor, sort of like a shortbread but more soft and cake-like. Maybe from the bread flour?

    A photo of two light brown cookies sitting on a white plate. The cookies are homemade and have markings on top to show that they were pressed down with a fork. There is a white mug in the background with a cartoon panda on it.

  • Gave a big bunch of celery to a neighbor, who in turn gifted me a huge bag of millet flour she could not use.

    New Side Quest:.
    🌱Gather millet flour recipes.

    Current Side Quests:
    🌱Gather celery recipes.
    🌱Finalize shirt design for community garden.

  • May have planted too much celery. Going to give away a ton, but this is also probably a good time to find some new recipes.

    Photo of a wooden raised garden bed. Closer to the viewer is a row of romaine and butter lettuce, towards the back is a tall, bushy row of celery plants.

  • We drove out to the desert to watch Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly play outside in 40°F. Incredible show, can’t stop thinking about it.

  • Ended up hiking 20 miles of the Trans-Catalina Trail the other day. Did not see anyone else until we were about 80% through. Large sections were pretty overgrown and some parts had collapsed from landslides. Lots of mud, lots of foxes, only heard one rattlesnake (but I’m sure we passed by a ton). 🥾

    Photo of black hiking shoes covered in mud. Photo of a hiking path that winds away into the distance. It is high elevation and can be seen following the tops of hills. The ocean can be seen on the far left corner and the sky above with clouds low and close to hills.&10;

  • middleschool.jpg

    A photo of a strip of paper on a desk. The paper says, "3. Someone eating poop, drinking farts, and/or eating lice."

  • Welp, accidentally pasted the URL 🎶to this into an important slide presentation months ago and never noticed (black text on a very dark blue background). Boss found it today.

  • 🌱 Rainy day community garden duty. Only two people came by, but that was nice. Allowed for some undisturbed weeding and trash pickup.

    A community garden in the rain.

  • 🎵 It is a Fief kind of day.

    The album cover for Fief's album II. The artwork is from the viewpoint of someone looking into a green space inside a cave, there is a pedestal with fire on it and a large green reptilian creature laying on the ground wrapped around the pedestal.

  • Time to take my vitamins so the little bird that lives in my phone can buy pants. 🤷

  • First attempt at home-made sushi! Asparagus, avocado, and marinated tofu. Definitely going to make more, but with much less rice.

    Been wanting to do this for years, but assumed it was complicated.

    I need to get better at actually trying things instead of putting them off forever.

    Three wide sushi rolls sit sliced on a wooden cutting board. The filling of asparagus, tofu, and avocado can be seen inside the rolls.