Just finished watching a birdwatching documentary called LISTERS. It’s a 10/10, 5-star, two claws up experience. And free, with no commercials at the moment, on YouTube. youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

Harvested and dried our Ashmead’s Kernel apples. A ripe Ashmead’s is an in-your-face apple: high acid, high sugar. An apple that solo drives a red convertible with the top down in the carpool lane during rush hour.

Slightly diminish a book The Divine Stand-up Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Slightly diminish a book The Three-Buddy Problem

Slightly diminish a book Charles Atlas Shrugged

Slightly diminish a book James and the Giant Aprium

Slightly diminish a book The Rise and Fall of the Third Retch

Slightly diminish a book: The Kitchen God’s Prom Date

Slightly diminish a book: I, Roomba

Slightly diminish a book The Art of the War Department

Slightly diminish a book The Peckish Games

Slightly diminish a book: The Junior Vice President of the Rings

Just a quick phone pic, but I couldn’t resist. California skippers had all but disappeared from our garden a few years ago, but seem to be on the rebound. I’ll be zinnia soon, l’il buddy!

Slightly diminish a band: Aboveaveragetramp

Slightly diminish a band: Jog-DMC

This Gravenstein apple tree across the road from my farm is about 90 years old and hasn’t been tended to in about 40 years, maybe more.

Pink Pearl apples. Still on the tart side, but ready to pick. Their interior color is the best I’ve seen thanks to a cooler-than-typical summer so far.

Sebastopol Gravenstein apples—I only manage to eat several a day when they’re in season.

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country’s billionaires’ tax cut. — Nathan Hale, 2025

The Yellow Bellflower apple was supposedly George Washington’s favorite apple, and I have a tree that bears generous amounts of fruit. The apples are awful. Easily my least favorite variety. Maybe it’s a tree that doesn’t like the West Coast. I wish o could figure it out.

An old walnut tree, a remnant of a long-gone orchard, just starting to leaf out. Seen on my walk this evening.

Historic apple tree dating back to French settlers in the 1600s has been identified in Maine. My first thought: when can I taste it? www.bangordailynews.com/2025/05/04/h...

Only the biggest, best countries. This country came up to me, a real massive one, and he had tears in his eyes, and he said to me sir, thank you for these tariffs, it means a lot to my family — we’re gonna, we’re gonna, and it’s just an absolute disgrace and shouldn’t be happening.

This was an actual news story today #nottheonion #alternatetimelineplease

Spotted my first Hooded Orioles of the season today in the garden. The Violet-Green Swallows and Barn Swallows showed up over the past few days too. Went to plant another garden bed this evening and saw a Grey Fox near the owl box. I listened to hummingbirds whir as I put my hands in the dirt.

Living Dangerously Then: Let’s go to clubs and stay out all night in a foreign city, take an illegal cab home, get in an accident, then run the rest of the way! Now: Let’s have extra croutons!

First Gravenstein blossom cluster of the season, right on schedule. They are usually on full bloom on April 1 around here.

Yesterday I learned that the last original apple tree planted by Henderson Luelling at his Fruit Vale farm sometime between 1854 and 1859 survived until 2020. The remnant of the tree is still standing, and I happened to be driving past the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland today.

The adult elephant seals are leaving the beaches at Pt. Reyes National Seashore for their annual migration. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

I’ll take “What did you think was going to happen?” for $100

After that $1.5 billion Coinbase hack and theft was reported I’ve decided to shift my crypto holdings into my other portfolios: Beanie Babies and rare tulip bulbs.

Best one yet.

Seconding this request!

“We have a country to save, but ultimately, to make greater aim than ever before!” He’s talking about Russia.

The normalizing language in this Washington Post article from this morning is a joke. Whittling is something done with a penknife, not grenades.

DOGE isn’t sending their best people.

Not art, not writing, but this little gray fox has been coming around every night to cadge some bird food peanuts before I take away the tray, and she’s a cutie.

BREAKING: Department of Transportation introduces rules to make stopping at red lights optional under new “Drive Free in America” plan.

Flats of farm-grown lettuce starts from our nursery on their way to their forever home. Like in Toy Story, but with more salads.

Snuck a pic of an evening visitor — a gray fox — who came to snack on birdseed before I took away the tray for the night.

This about sums it up. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has issued an executive order stating that all Canadian bacon sold in the US will henceforth be called 51st State bacon. In addition, Canada Dry Ginger Ale will now be known as 51st State Precious Mineral Drink.

The nod to Rocky Horror, the creative use of black plastic trash bags as cave walls and the bygone fashions make this music video a must-watch.

Baby tomatoes (Sungolds in the foreground) getting ready for spring. #gardening #farmlife

If only Elon Musk had been accepted into art school.

“The federal government absolutely needs reform, but what we’re seeing isn’t reform — it’s vandalism dressed up as innovation.”

Looked in a barn found a pair of owls #Birds #owls #birdphotography #Naturephotography #nature #sonomacounty

Well worth reading.

Why don’t Democratic politicians refer to the Republican Party by its real name, The Trump Party? Language matters, and it’s time to remind Americans daily that the old Republican party has been transformed into something different.

Today, at a WH press conference: Reporter: “How many migrants that were deported have a criminal record?” Karoline Leavitt, Press Secretary: “All of them, because they illegally broke our nation’s laws and therefore they are criminals.” Stupid, evil or both? I can’t decide.