Yard sale buy of the month: Two brand new Nordic Ware mini scone pans for $5. They retail for $39 each, and we love scones!

Going old school tonight. Drinking a Sherry Cobbler with blueberry and lemon while I peel garden tomatoes to make sauce.

Y’all, I’ve been sleeping on the Sherry Cobbler. It is delicious, low abv, easy to make, and adaptable to whatever fruit is in season.

One of my photos being used at WordCamp US! Thanks to Anne McCarthy for sharing.

Someone stop me. I’m trying a new bookmarking app again. I can’t help myself. https://anybox.app/

I recently learned that my wife’s Cricut Maker can draw with pens, which effectively makes it a plotter. Time to export a few SVGs and try some test plots on the next rainy day.

This summer we instituted Sandwich Fridays with some local friends. We block 12pm on our calendars and meet at a sandwich shop for lunch while the kids are at daycare. Highly recommended.

Hydrangea in the front yard looking lovely. We think it is a ‘Limelight’ Panicle Hydrangea.

Loving these Magic Bullet tomatoes we planted this year.

Amazon delivery recently switched from Sprinter vans to electric vans from Rivian here. Started noticing them around town last week.

I asked my wife if she has tried Mastodon yet: "I keep confusing that with Evernote." Me: "Have you tried Bluesky or Nostr?" Her: "Now you’re just making up words."

The tomatoes are loving the rain and humidity, even if we aren’t.

Power had been out for 5 hours and the power company keeps bumping the time estimate back an hour at a time, so it is time to get the generator out.

Overheard from a NY pizza maker: "Hawaiian?! confused look and gesturing Nah. I got regula pizza."

One benefit (maybe the only one) of the basement flooding is that it is now cleaner that it has been in a couple years.

Removed ~80 gallons of water from the basement with the shop vac, not including the dehumidifier, which drains into the sink. Thankfully it is starting to dry out except for a few spots where water is still slowly seeping up.

If Threads doesn’t meet its revenue benchmarks in 12 months, I bet Meta will shut it down just like they did with Bulletin (remember that from last year?)

Currently sucking up water in the basement. Fun.