Month: September 2020

I bought a cheap fully-manual large-aperture wide angle lens for my little mirrorless camera. I believe it’s required to demonstrate new photo equipment first with a cat photo, so here you go. Not bad for $75.

You see here my two volumes of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” — Julia Child’s seminal cookbooks — that I got from my mom’s apartment. The binding is broken on Volume 1, and I’ve been meaning to glue it for ages. Today was the day. The second book is providing extra weight on the glue, and the ruler is inside the spine providing support.

Corn tortillas that you buy are not fully cooked. Look how the one on top, which spent about 30 seconds a side on a cast-iron griddle, has shrunk as it heated through. They’re so much tastier once they’re actually cooked through. This has been a public service announcement of the Parkercat Food Network.

This most excellent bottle of Scotch — a birthday present from a generous friend — lasted almost exactly one year in my house. I vowed to only raise a glass of it in celebration with friends & family, and I did keep that promise. Some friends and I drank its last dram at a Physically Distanced BBQ this past weekend.

Taking a break

I’m sure this preying mantis caught all sorts of bugs near our compost bin.

My blanket has a nose. And a tail.

Broc-co-lini, the faux-Italian treat!

How many frogs do you see?

The reconfiguration of nearby West Newton Square saw a big leap since I was last down there with the removal of this little traffic island. It’s part of a project to make this whole area less car-centric, which I will appreciate greatly once I am commuting on foot/bike through here again.