Author: doug

My office’s summer party was today, on Thompson Island in Boston Harbor. I went for a walk and found these old abandoned pier pilings.

Click through for the whole album of my shots today, all geotagged.

I’ve been saving a few lobster shells in the freezer, and today it was finally cool enough to turn them into stock.

This is my free hot dog in celebration of National Hot Dog Month, courtesy of Kayem Hot Dogs.

This is what happens to the list on your whiteboard when you invite 40 people into your house.

I sent my macro lens to Nikon for repair, since I could no longer manually focus it. They found a ton of parts to replace, fortunately for the originally quoted price. Here’s a close-up — with the repaired lens, of course — of part of the repair description. Seems to be working just fine.

Click through to http://gallery.parkercat.org/index.php?/category/374&display=medium for more photos.

Newton puts on a pretty good fireworks show, and it’s just a short distance from our house. But this year both of us have to work tomorrow so we elected to stay home. Fortunately we can see (and certainly smell) the show at least somewhat from our front porch.

Some of my coworkers didn’t really understand what it would mean to work in downtown Boston. This evening some of us went to the Trillium beer garden on the Greenway, then I had a lovely walk over to meet up with Lis for the trip home. Ahh, *that’s* why you people were excited to move.

I treated myself to a salt pig, handmade from Etsy, to make application of salt during cooking more convenient. I had tried out the concept with a functional-but-ugly jar & scoop on the counter, and found it much better than keeping salt in a cabinet.

 

This warning label came with some cardboard cat scratchers. I want to know what the hell happened to engage the lawyers to this extent.