Doug's Project 365

The kitties have a new favorite hangout, at least in the morning.

I think they’ve discovered, as the weather gets colder, that the sun warms this room first.

Tonight for dinner … Flautas.

 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.

I had me some BBQ for dinner tonight.

Actually, it will be lunch tomorrow too — that was a lot of meat.

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.

These were the smallest onions Lis could find at Russo’s today.

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.

The fish in the front is a zebra danio, and the blurry ones in the back are pristella tetras.

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.

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.

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.

I guess Indian Summer is late this year.  For late September in New England, this is positively hot.

I originally bought this french press because I wanted an occasional cup of coffee for the drive to work, and I didn’t want to haul out the big coffeemaker.

Over a year later, I’m still using it for that purpose — not every day, but frequently. I’ve gotten pretty good at it.