October 3

After a summer of being busy, being unable to get near it due to traffic & parking, and just plain forgetfulness, I finally made it to the Waltham farmer’s market today.
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Most of this stuff is already eaten!

October 1

Tonight for dinner … Flautas.
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 We had these (that looked much more like what I made, and less like the article) at a cafe outside Zion National Park last year.  The Anglicized version uses roughly the same ingredients you would use for tacos, just in a fancier form factor.

September 29

Most of the foundation plantings around our house are pretty overgrown.  Over the weekend I severely pruned one of the holly bushes (the non-prickly variety, thankfully.  This one is in the back of the house, and I picked it for practice.  It had been pretty badly abused in the past (pruning with hedge trimmers, which just promotes surface branching & growth). I think I removed about half the bush.
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September 27

We got some new fish for the fish tank today — we had lost some fish in the move, and the water has just recently returned to a reasonable chemistry.
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The fish in the front is a zebra danio, and the blurry ones in the back are pristella tetras.

September 26

I mowed the lawn today for the first time in 3 weeks — it really needed it.  What this meant is that the subject of the following picture was very visible.
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This is a path worn in the lawn by some sort of animal — my guess is our neighborhood fox on his rounds.  If I had a motion sensor setup for my camera, I’d give it a try.

September 25

We had homemade pizza for dinner.  We pre-made the dough last night in the bread machine, keeping it in the fridge overnight — it develops great flavor that way.  But I guess the container I chose was a little too small: by this morning, it was trying to escape.
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