The Small Tufted Titmouse Is Back - Not That It Went Anywhere

Rooftop, Chimney Painting

Rooftop landscape.

Primed more that three quarters of this chimney.

Orbweaver Spider (Neoscona crucifera) Me Thinks! By Day and Night

This guy, and I do believe that it is of the male species, keeping still. After all it is
nocturnal and as you can see that it is broad daylight looking up in this corner
at the backdoor.

I suspect is the one responsible for threads of web that have been catching
in my hair as I pass through this doorway on numerous occasions. Once they
have spun their web for the evening and late night netting of insects. They
will then gather most of what they spun and eat the webbing. What few tendrils
of silk are left is what I feel as I had mentioned.

I doubled checked just a few minuets ago and sure enough he was out there, same
corner of the door jam, suspended upside down on a thread, while the misses is
touching up the web. Good thing I ducked really low as you will see.

Male spider top left and female
in the web almost diagonal from
the male spider.

Female spider running scrimmage and
adding lure like patches.



                                                 

Female with larger abdomen and weaves
majority of web.

Blue Pea Bares Pods

This was fist observed a couple of days ago when they were greener and was
wondering what they would taste like.

Yesterday's Harvest - Smilling Tomato

Yeah, like you have something to
grin about. Have you looked in the
mirror lately?

I'll still eat you if something else
doesn't.

The last tomato from this new crop
is any indication of it's potential taste.
What's a few blemishes.

Ripening Haas Avocados and Paris, France

While at the store last week I notice this women buying some really green Avocados.
I asked her if she ever had any issues with buying unripe Avocados. So she shared with
me on how she places them in a brown paper bag and placed in a cool dark corner of her
kitchen to ripen in days. I'm thinking to myself, I hope not all at once.

This week at the same store and with determination and the love of avocados I buy
three extremely green avocados. Blemish free as can be, only to get to the cashier
who manages to transfer them to wagon only to hear one of them fall to the hard
tiled floor. Heard it like a wooden thud as only a green Avocado can.

I place this green bounty of delicious into a respectable brown paper bag that will
house and facilitate this ripening process. Two days later I reach my hand in thinking
that I don't want all of the captured ripening gasses that may have accumulated to
escape. To find at least one soft to the touch. If that wasn't enough, I had to remove
them from their confines, with no  to find three shades of ripeness. The darkest being
one that I would have picked on sight with the idea of  potentially being ready to eat.

This looks promising.





As I write these ramblings the tragedy that struck Paris, France weighs heavy on my mind
most and inseparable.

As far across the world it may seem, yet it is here in my thoughts, in this room. With the
notion that this level of violence, of this nature can happen any where there is disregard
for the human life.

Yesterday's First Meal - Experimental Kitchen

Salvaged two cans of Lentil soup, grilled
Brussels Sprouts with some yellow mustard
to tie it all together and a dash of coconut oil.















Good read so far, from our Library.