Author: doug

Our grocery deliverers brought us this cookie decorating kit. These are mine. I’m just glad to not have any of these sweaters in non-cookie form.

I bought myself an e-ink tablet for reading and note-taking. For the screensaver image I chose a line drawing from Claire.

There is a house being built near us. It’s an unusual design with separate living and home-office spaces, and so was clearly custom-designed by an architect. As construction gets closer to completed, I’m noticing some things that make me question that architect’s attention to detail. Here we see where the house’s main front porch meets a secondary massing to the right. And I have Questions about why there’s this weird indentation, why it doesn’t go all the way up, how the porch roof fails to interact properly with it, and what’s going to happen to the water that falls off the back of the porch roof.

For our holiday party this year, my office is holding a hosted virtual beer tasting — complete with 4 beers hand-delivered to each participant’s home.

We’re planning to have a few folks over — a household at a time — for 2nd Thanksgiving. So in the interest of physically-distanced food safety I made easily-portionable dishes. Stuffins — stuffing muffins — are the jewel in that crown.

Waffle plus wild blueberries equals nourishment AND entertainment!

We saw this wild turkey in the nearby graveyard today. Contemplating his mortality this close to Thanksgiving, perhaps?

A short stretch of grade-separated bike lane, being installed in West Newton Square. It’s not much, but it’s a start.

Does the message on the bottom of this maple syrup jug represent subtle cross-promotion of bacon by the maple farmer?

Baby back ribs from our meat CSA. Smoked over charcoal & maple for 4 hours. I managed to get pictures this time before we inhaled them.