Sing in me, O Muse, of the wascalliest of wabbits

Pond

Raffi you’re so right

I for one encourage Mr. Metaxas to go jogging in weather that looks like this (pics from 2020 during a wildfire in California, AQI was somewhere around 500). Maybe he can even jog backwards after punching someone who suggests it’s a bad idea

Stag beetle, based on a photo by my son taken here at camp

A raccoon took several chomps of the Tim Powers book I am reading

Theme at camp is Christmas in July

It is very weird to see Christopher Nolan, perhaps the top director of dude movies for dudes, being accused of trying to subvert masculinity.

After a few days with high humidity and temps in the 90s I have learned the importance of moseying. Rushing is no good in this weather. But if you mosey, and perhaps dawdle a bit in the shade as you go, it’s not bad. Just plan ahead timing-wise.

Pleasing design.

I made a craft at camp

Pretty nice morning here

Press T to respectfully greet turtle on this fine morning

Had to use a flashlight to find the latrine, had a lot of fun

Daylight savings, standard time, whatever, all I know is that I have one of these internally that lets me know when it’s sleepytime

I'm afraid the daylight savings time will be quite permanent when your friends arrive.

Why he looking at me like this

Dan Beard, micron pens and watercolor.

Some original pen and ink drawings by Dan Beard on display at camp

Local soda pop

I’m not very good but I am having fun doodling with watercolors

Sketching out a rough idea for a Saint Christopher image

Watercolor sketch of Dan Beard. Pretty wonky.

Sam Neill was one of those guys who always made a movie, even a dumb movie, better. I always enjoyed seeing his name pop up on screen.

Last night’s opening campfire at summer camp

"By the night lamp / Just before bedtime", a watercolor painting by Carl Larsson of his wife Karin and one of their sons. 1908. Karin designed the rocking chair in the foreground.

It’s almost impossible to exaggerate how central the Dreyfus Affair, visibly or invisibly, is to Catholic and European politics over the past 130 years, and how bonkers it is that a monument to Dreyfus is still being debated.

My daughter made me a birthday card

This is @pontevedrian.bsky.social actually

AM beers don’t count when you are doing yard work

At our birthdays dinner last night. 44 / 48 this year (Aletheia and I have birthdays one day apart).

People are begging to know my style secrets but you can’t teach intuition

Why they look like this

The Entrance to Paradise by Wilhelm Bernatzik, 1906.

Old Oaks in Surrey by Jan Toorop, c. 1890.

The Pine by Hanna Pauli. late 1800s.

Just a nice mustard. Every once in a while we do fancy hot dog night and I will admit that a hot dog with kewpie mayo, kimchi, and furikake is also pretty good

My daughter was talking about what her fellow teen zoo volunteers did on their trip to Belize since it was screen-free, and one of them was collaborating to recite the entire script of The Bee Movie from memory, like some kind of Homeric epic

Breakfast chilaquiles with consommé from yesterday’s birria and a duck egg

Birria tacos for Aletheia’s birthday

In case anyone wants to write another book about post-liberalism, I don’t think anyone has taken the book title Primitive Root Weimar yet

Asking Vermin Supreme to move from NH to Maine and run against Platner so we can have a Binface situation at home

Are you a lover of the yellow press and cheap and untrue sensationalism?

Thai basil noodles from Woks of Life, Thai basil courtesy of our garden.

Pretty much anyone who wants to share advice about having kids or being a parent is going to give dumb, subjective takes. Multiply the chances by a billion if it is someone still in their 20s.

FB memories reminding me of when one of my kids at a young age half-remembered a joke: "What time is it when an elephant sits on your baby? Time to get a new baby!"

Get your body swimsuit-ready this summer with one weird trick that melts off the pounds

It’s interesting reading midcentury pop Catholic books by people like Frank Sheed, because they predate the “we must remake Christendom” mindset and as such have a perspective that’s become almost alien in current apologetics.

Squirrels ate every single apple off of my two apple trees before they had a chance to fully ripen.