Month: June 2016

I made Steve a long French Gimlet with Thai basil (from the herb garden) last night. Inspired by this beverage, I made myself a long raspberry-thyme French gimlet (with raspberries & thyme from also the garden). They’re both nice refreshing summer beverages, though this evening’s is the more photogenic.

This guy hung out in the yard this morning as I drank my coffee. He sure is cute, but it’s a good thing we don’t have a vegetable garden.

I know this particular variety of orange daylily is widely naturalized, and is technically an invasive species (native to Asia), and I know that we had approximately 5000x more of them than we needed when we moved in, but they still say Summer in New England to me, and I like them.

OK, I know I posted already today, but this is too good to pass up.

You say you’d like a little bacon on your burger? Well too bad, you’re getting a BAC-O-WEAVE!

(Thanks to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of Serious Eats for the inspiration)

A cocktail glass and giant ice cube dress up your classic margarita.

8:30 at night and the sky is still blue.

(And the garage beacon says it’s going to rain tomorrow.)

 

Bob and Kat and I went out to beers/dinner in the seaport on this absolutely stunning early summer evening.

Bonus photo: The restaurant (Row 34) serves both the correct and sacrilegious versions of lobster roll. I will leave it to the comment section to discuss which is which.

Ah, the joys of a new device. This is the 2nd system update for my new tablet in as many days. It wanted an update fresh out of the box and it’s just coincidence that a new version was released the day after I got the tablet; I don’t expect this pace to continue.

I bought myself a small tablet — primarily for reading — and chose a cover with maps on it rather than a boring plain color. I choose to believe that it represents an alternative reality in which Finland (and Belgium and the Netherlands) are missing and the rest of Europe misshapen, rather than incompetent mapmakers who don’t give a shit.