Backyard is looking good. Peppers & tomatoes are flowering. The elderberries are still flowering.

Our grapes are getting plump real fast. And our volunteer conifers are super happy. They grew several inches this year. 🌱🌳

Baby “Bacon” variety avocados! Latest date I’ve seen berries on this tree. Let’s see if they’ll survive summer and winter. 🌱🌳

Probably going to have a bumper crop of figs this year! Last year was meager. 🌱🌳

Spotted a Hooded Oriole in the front yard as we we started an after lunch walk. What luck. A first!

More of this rain please.

Our front yard Toyon (first photo) and Yarrow (2nd photo) are blooming. Just the California buckwheat and the California fuchsias are left to bloom. 🌱

Been several years & usually I’m behind on WiFi tech so figured it was time replace the old eero Pro with an eero Pro 6E. I only use one eero as the house is tiny. Now getting top WiFi speeds on the local network 🙌

Mockingbirds are going to have an amazing late summer of grapes from our cultivated California grapes. These have an amazing assortment of bugs too. Still have ladybugs in them. 🌱

Pineapple guavas have been blooming for a few weeks now. The Mockingbirds love munching on the flower petals.

Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, California. Last March.

Spring.

Wild California Grape flowers.

Area scrub jays have really got the hang of our feeder. Although, recently one jay tried to peck at the seeds through the transparent canister.

Our homemade Bulgogi fries. Inspired by a food show that had a terrible implementation of this idea. We got it right 🤫

Here’s a magenta flower from one of our cultivated California Wild Roses.

The Annie Cat.

So far, max gust of 40 mph at my backyard today. And that weather station isn’t ideally located.

The Annie Cat in a bag.

Today was the first taste of the Bravarian Hefeweizen home-brew and it is an unqualified success. This second brew is better carbonated (first was borderline flat) and it is more flavorful than Hank’s Hefeweizen. Both kits were from Northernbrewer.com.

California Scrub-Jays carefully inspecting our just planted peppers and tomatoes🌱

Happy I got the last batch of beer fermented before this upcoming insane heat wave. We’re transplanting our peppers and tomatoes today. Rob Mayeda on Twitter: “…Temps as much as +20 > average with records in reach (1/2) #CAwx 🌡️🥵”

Good morning, Waffle! 🧇

Colors balance shift is a key part of Film recipes so my Shortcut would fail to match as white balance would inexplicably reset via Q. Fujifilm found the bug too: “bug has been fixed, which caused that WB SHIFT saved as ‘CUSTOM’ would be disabled by operating the ’Q’ menu.”

Hefeweizen bottling day. Here’s my factory. This’ll be the last brew until winter as I don’t use much air conditioning or have a fridge for fermenting. I’m quite happy with seasonal brewing. It’s kinda stressful!