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Monthly Archives: June 2025
The Stacks
We love Wes Anderson and loved the gift of this book. We also love Project 562 which was photography project that that photographed all federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Natives villages although when we got it, we thought our niece’s photo would be in it. I think she was in the Instagram feed and that’s how we got that idea. She’s not in the book but it’s still a really awesome collection.
Then I went to the Portland Art Museum to see the art of Oscar Howe, a Yanktonai Dakota artist from South Dakota and I loved his art. I loved it so much I went to the exhibit twice.
I normally would not buy a book from an art exhibit but I couldn’t help myself and I distinctly remember saying to my husband: I don’t want to become a household with a giant stack of coffee table books.
You can see how that’s going. No more coffee table books.
This was in the sculpture garden during our New Orleans trip. It reminded me of our book stack.
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The Little Notebook, Update
First of all, I did an advanced google-search to find the post with my previous notebook update and AI gave me this:
On the website “pamrentz.com”, the word “notebook” appears in several posts, most notably in a post titled “Notebooks” from July 26, 2013. This post discusses the author’s collection of notebooks, starting from 1978, and how she uses them. The author describes how she has notebooks stashed all over her room and that they are not all full. She also mentions using them for journaling and for jotting down ideas. One post also mentions keeping a small notebook by her bed for late-night ideas or reminders. She describes using a notebook to write down favorite URLs and passwords, a practice she finds amusing in hindsight. A more recent post in June 2023 mentions seeing someone writing in a notebook in a parking garage.
I feel so famous!
Here’s to the 2013 post.
In 2021, I did a post about finally buying a new notebook to replace the pictured.
Except. I found that I’d missed a bunch of pages in the middle of the green notebook. So I kept using it and I just swapped it out in April. And also changed the date to 2025. If it takes 10 years to finish that notebook, I will be in my 70s when I’m done.
Amazing.
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Berry Delicious!
Yes! I picked 1 and 1/2 pounds yesterday.
If I can, I pick every day. It’s a great way to end the day, especially after work. The other day there were two bunnies hanging out with me while I was out there and it was amazing.
It rained yesterday afternoon and today. I haven’t been out there and I’m not sure how this extra cool days are going to affect the fruit. Let’s hope very little.
Also, you can’t see but there are a few blueberries on the bottom. They are just coming in. The marionberries are also on the verge. I found one ready to eat yesterday.
At first I thought I’d skip making jam but upon inventorying the supply, we have less than I thought so I will probably do a multi-berry batch next month.
We Got the Beets!
Staging for the daily cauldron of fruit.
It’s on my list but I still haven’t replaced my trail cam so if I can’t see what’s going on out there — maybe nothing is going on out there.
Wrong.
Sadly, the deer have returned. I don’t know how many or for how long but I definitely could tell that my poor little Asian plum tree served as major snack material. There were pieces of tree on the ground. There were deep divots from those cloven hooves. No turds though!
I can see where someone snacked on the apple tree, as well, but the apple tree is more established (relatively) and the damage didn’t look as bad.
I don’t care if they eat roses like some people. Eat the roses! The rosemary is giant — try that. There’s some green weedy stuff that might be delicious if they would just try it. I guess I should be careful what I wish for. Now I know they at least one of them is still alive and roving about the neighborhood.
This weekend I picked beets that I slow roasted with shallots. Delicious! I also picked peas. The peas are insane. I’ve never had such healthy plants so I planted them way too close together. It’s a mass of pea plants and a chore to poke around in there and try to find all the peas.
We had risotto with fresh peas that came out pretty good but I need to refine my technique. I am hoping to make some pasta with fresh peas and I already threw some in the freezer.
The berries are coming on but still manageable. I’ve never had so many of the everbearing before and some healthy looking red raspberries are starting now, too.
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