It’s National Moth Week! I haven’t yet seen any awesome moths lately, so here’s one from last August … but I did see a tarantula hawk today, so that was pretty cool!
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agave americana
I’ve been collecting the maguey fruits a couple of times a day as they fall to the driveway. I’ve read they are edible (boil first, then sauté in butter or bacon fat) but they are pretty bitter. I’ve tried roasting and slow braising, hoping that will sweeten them up, but the bitterness persists. A little further research reveals that it’s the unopened buds that are good to eat, not the fallen fruits. To take advantage of the bounty, we should have cut down the stalk before the flowers even opened. Oh well … I think I’ll just leave these for the squirrels.
basket o’ paint
My rarely-used acrylic paints live in a fabulous large basket, gathering dust. One day I’ll get back to them …
squash blossoms
dragonfruit
I’ve had these dragonfruit cuttings jammed in a pot for years. They periodically flower, but never set fruit. I should get them in the ground; they might do better if they could spread out.
egretto rufescens
Three photographers and a sketcher watched the reddish egret pose and dance in the lagoon’s shallows.
fire truck
Hoping we don’t need to see any of these in our neighbourhood this fire season.
leaning
loppers
Sometimes you need the big guns.
resuscitated
You know when you put off doing something because you think it’s hard, and then you finally do it and it was really easy? So you wonder why on earth you didn’t do it long ago? Yeah, that.
When my first key stopped opening the car door remotely, I put it away and used the second key until its battery also started dying. This morning I spent a few minutes on Youtube, then realized that I had the right sized batteries. Voila, both fobs are now resuscitated. I don’t know if I should feel inordinately pleased with myself or embarrassed that it took me so long to get to such a simple task.
Now I’m asking myself, what other inconveniences am I tolerating that could be mitigated with less than five minutes’ effort?
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