March, 2020

We ordered too many green beans. Fortunately, Joy of Cooking’s “how to run a home” section — suddenly relevant again — has times & advice for blanching and freezing all manner of vegetables.

In the physical distancing era

Seen in our walk around the neighborhood today

Our cherry tree is biding its time for some actual warm weather this year.

Sunday, the first robin. Today, the first chicken(*)

(*) spit roasted

I want to be able to read my house’s gas meter and import the reading into home automation so I can track usage more finely. I ran across a project to use standard computer vision algorithms to do just this sort of thing. Today I did some proof-of-concept experiments, and here’s as far as I got: finding the outlines of the dials. I think this may just work.

Italian-braised oxtail for dinner tonight. We had been saving these for a big snowstorm (that never came), but the 1-week anniversary of Not Going In to the Office seemed like a good occasion.

This is the leftovers after a satisfying dinner:

My brother uncovered another box of family photos a while back and I am getting around to processing them. It contains many treasures, but sadly is quite mixed, containing photos from 1900 to about 2009. I’ve got my work cut out for me.