If someone nearby is wearing these, you have the right to ask them to take then off & cover them. No one has the right to secretly record you. They can record direct to internet w/ record light off, & have facial recognition #privacy #surveillance #abusivetech open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

White bean skillet meal, sautéd diced onions in olive oil, removed, sauted tomato paste (splatter!), then 30oz pre-cooked beans, onions, roasted garlic, seasoned salt, cayenne & black pepper, heat, top with hatch pepper salsa then mozzarella cheese. then in hot oven 5 min. #beans #vegetarian

Sourdough loaf #2. This was just bread flour, water, homemade starter, and a touch of salt. The oven-split was very nice. I still need to work on things but this was really tasty. Will a sourdough-crust pizza be next? #Sourdough #BreadBaking

This is sort of crazy. I was cleaning up and looking for plant containers behind the compost pile. Two years ago I gave up on this brugmansia, cut it down, and left it there through two winters and summer with no watering. And now it's growing! I'll see if I can rebloom it again. #gardening 🌱

Today I dug these up, before I have the yard cleaned up for selling the house. They'll have to sit in pots for a month before moving them to the new house. If they don't live, that's OK. It's about the worst time of year to do this. Siberian iris, lavender, crocosmia. #gardening 🌱

Black bean bake - Black beans, onions, roasted garlic, smoked paprika, seared tomato paste, cumin, pepper flakes, olive oil, topped with Hatch pepper salsa, shredded cheddar, and a touch of shredded Romano. Roasted a few minutes in hot oven. Yum! #cooking #beans #vegetarian

My first attempt at a whole wheat, artisan-type sourdough loaf. It came out OK. A bit heavy. Maybe I should try 50:5o or even just bread flour, next time. #sourdough #baking

Bad Quilting! Pillow shams. No big deal, I bought cheap at estate sale. After washing cold, gentle, I saw the blue bled into the whites, & lots of disintegrating seams. I don't think they used 1/4 inch seams, & no prewashing of dark fabrics. Will use until I make some myself. #quiltsky #quilting

St. John's Wort, now making berries. This is a shrub-shaped variety, not the ground cover type. #StJohnsWort 🌱

Whole wheat #sourdough pancakes from starter discard stored in fridge. 1 cup starter, 1 tsp wh. wheat flour, 1 tsp monkfruit sweetner (sugar would do, but I'm avoiding it), 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2-tsp baking soda. I stirred and cooked on skillet like pancake. Different, not too bad! #pancakes

Day #5 of serial feedings of whole wheat #sourdough starter starting. Overnight, foamy and bubbly, yay! Nice alcoholic sour aroma too. Will keep going a few more days, then try making a loaf. I used to make sourdough bread when I first retired, but with bread flour. #BreadMaking #SourdoughBread

St. Johns Wort bush with lots of bees. #Bumblebees, #Honeybees and others. Blooming for more than a month now. #StJohnsWort

I took cuttings of St. Johns Wort bushes to plant at the new house as a low hedge. This is a busy type. Very bee friendly, colorful deep green leaves, yellow flowers, red berries. #StJohnsWort #Cuttings #Propagation #BeeFlowers

I took cuttings of these red roses and two other favorites, to move to the new house. It will be much smaller garden. I usually start roses in fall, but have started some during summer successfully. They are all 25 to 30 year old bushes. #RoseCuttings #RosePropagation

It's been years since I baked #sourdough loaves. Starting over again, this time 100% whole wheat. I used 2 tbsp each flour and water, sat for a day, then added 2 more tbsp each. Today, day 3, I added 1/4 cup each. I'm seeing frothy activity. Transferred to pint jar. #baking

I had a doctor's appointment today and needed to stop in the rest room. I saw this sign. It seems like wise advice, but I wonder about the necessity. #Don'tDrinkTheWater #Advice

Easier starch recipe for #quilting. My store stopped selling spray starch. Soaking fabric in liquid home-made starch, then squeezing, can deform & stretch fabric. Reworked for hand spray bottle. Spray on fabric, let dry, then press. Much easier. See alt txt for recipe #MenWhoQuilt #QuiltSky

Putting this out there in case someone needs to connect. I took #Imatinib ( #Gleevec) 12 yrs for #GIST #GastrointestinalStromalTumor, a rare cancer. Stopped 3 years ago due to pulmonary fibrosis, rare side effect. Recurred (bummer) last month. Expecting to start new TKI Rx soon. It's OK. 🙏

More roses in bloom. Tropical Lightning (very vigorous and thorny), unknown cream colored English-type rose, Vanessa Bell English rose, Mme Boll old garden rose - the most fragrant in my garden, I grew from a cutting. Mme Boll is French, from 1800s. #Roses

Lots of roses blooming. New Day, Scentimental, red rose I thought was called "American Classic" but maybe not, Scepter'd Isle. Most are 20 years old and have been moved a couple of times when I changed homes. #Roses

Spa day for Mr. Rufus. His personal groomer (me) attended to his every need, gently responding to squirming, & switching to scissors for sensitive areas (face, paws). After his haircut he had a warm shower with shampoo & conditioner, & towel massage. Now he's a happy dog! #Rufus #DogsOfBlueSky

Random stuff for June. Strawberries ripening. Wild Pacific irises by the roadside. Garlic scapes for stir fry. Wild roses by roadside. #Wildflowers #gardening 🌱

Nice day. Sitting on the front deck with a fierce black sheep-lion by my side. #Rufus #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs

Robert L Arnold on Pride. I think Arnold is one of the most articulate essayists of his generation. 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #SouthernVoices substack.com/@defiance13/...

Happy Pride 🌈 (Oslo although I'm not Norwegian 😀) bsky.app/profile/loca...

Current read. Ian Fleming's "From Russia With Love". Kind of slow. Multiple chapters before Bond comes into the story. A vestige of my parents' era, USSR vs. UK. Almost seems nostalgic compared to how things are now. #Reading #Booksky #OldBooks (public domain image of books)

"Failure to read directions carefully may result in incorrect assembly." #dagsofbluesky #rufus

Bush bean experiment. I don't normally plant beans this early. Something pulls up the plants and eats them. So I'm trying on the deck, more protected. These are Fagiolo Nano Marconi bush beans from growitalian.com. 🌱 #KitchenGarden #ContainerGarden #AccessibleGardening

Some of the seedlings sunning on concrete porch. They go inside at night. Bush beans, squashes (~5 types), marigolds, lettuce basil. One Four O'clock sprouted of about 20 seeds. Ditto with zinnias. 🌱 #VictoryGarden #KitchenGarden

Container tomato update. TidyTreat Patio tomato. Kept outside to see if weather ok for tomatoes. It has baby tomatoes now. I usually don't plant toms until mid June. Up-potted my seedlings of "Micro-Tom" and "Container Choice". see alt txt. 🌱 #VictoryGarden KitchenGarden ContainerGarden

Today I planted the four Bellatrix sauce tomato seedlings. See alt txt. They are my most vigorous tomato seedlings, now too big to put under lights when brought inside. I mulched with old tree leaves. Disease resistant, determinate hybrid. 🌱 #VictoryGarden #AccessibleGardening #KitchenGarden

Today I thinned apples. I leave one good apple per cluster, with clusters about 6 inches apart. The trees are mini trees or espalier so no ladders #AccessibleGardening 🌱 #SeniorGardening #VictoryGarden #HomeOrchard

I've been using Pimsleur to learn Spanish. Each lesson takes me 5 days (per the instructions, one day but I'm 🐢) (More likely 🦕). I repeat each lesson x 5. Level 1 has 30 lessons. Almost completed! (Of 5 levels). Also on Memrise for variety, and flashcards. #LearningLanguage #LearningSpanish

Today I decided to move Rufus' meal time ahead an hour, so he could eat before his walk. I think he had more energy today. He didn't stop. If this walk had a sound track, it would be BeeGees "Stayin' Alive". Like they teach you in CPR classes. #DogsOfBlueSky #StayinAlive #Rufus

Playboy rose. Grown from a cutting taken about 2014. An early bloomer. www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l...

A bee-loving plant. St John's Wort (Hypericum). Cheerful yellow flowers, humming with bees. Deer and drought resistant, I never water them. I cut to 6" tall in winter. This one is smaller, earlier, smaller flowers, compared to others. 🌱 #DroughtResistantGardening #DeerResistant #beeflowers

Making progress on easement edge border. Most weeds are gone now, a few remain. Moved lavender plants last month. Most other plants stay where they are. Today I started hauling mulch. Nothing here gets watered in Summer. Deer resistant. #DroughtResistantGardening #DeerResistantGardening 🌱

More seeds started today for #VictoryGarden. Will be much needed/appreciated this year. Seedlings started 3 weeks ago doing well. Out for daytime sun, indoors at night. Tomatoes (slicing, salad, & salsa), summer squash, winter squash, sweetcorn, green beans, lettuce. 🌱 #gardening #frugal

Ceanothus (California lilac) is a fantastic bee flower / shrub / bushy small tree. We never water them, deer don't touch them, & they hum with honeybees & native bees, including bumblebees. One caution - don't plant near house in fire zones. They burn quickly. #pollinatorplants #beefriendly

Rufus really wanted that scrap of avocado toast. I don't usually give him human food but he hypnotized me. #Rufus #DogsOfBlueSky

Wanna go for a walk? #Rufus #DogsOfBlueSky

During dry moments, I planted veggie & flower seeds. Also, filled the old horizontal bee hive with potting soil, planted strawberries, basil, cilantro. I loved beekeeping, but yellow jackets kept robbing the hives and killing the bees, which made me very sad. #gardening #AccessibleGardening

Flowers from the yard today. Unknown rhodie, Darcy Bussell rose, unknown rose, Immortality iris. 🌱 #Gardening #flowers

Finished the binding, washed out the starch, then dryer to fluff it up. Happy with result. I like the crinkly look. The backing is a high quality white flannel sheet that I washed / dried hot x2 before using. The batting was the thinnest white 100% cotton I could find, #MenWhoQuilt #Quiltsky

Solar halo seen on dog walk today. I had to look it up. Amazing, not a photo artifact, and not edited. #solarhalo

The binding is made. Same batik fabric as used for the stars in the quilt. More to follow. I started to sew it on. Now I'm at the stage where the two ends are joined together. I always stall at that point. #MenWhoQuilt #Quiltsky #Quilting

Three summers ago, I collected neglected bearded iris rhizomes from around the yard, and some curbside freecycle. Planted them on this raised area around a tree trunk. Here we are now. Some are fragrant. #FlowerGarden 🌱 #BeardedIrises #Freecycle

Robert Arnold says it far better than I could ever dream. And while I really don't give a rat's ass about the weird costumes and grotesque looking plastic surgeon results there, it all reeks of Louis XV and "Après moi, le déluge" (and let them eat cake". #EatTheRich substack.com/@defiance13/...

Today I up-potted tomato seedlings. They are slow and scrawny in seed starting trays, but usually have a burst of growth soon after I pot them in potting soil🤞. Also sweet basil, a kalanchoe, Thai basil, some dwarf tomatoes, and scented leaf geraniums. #gardening #KitchenGarden 🌱

Rufus loves everybody! #dogsky #Rufus