noasi on a smaller scale

Today’s sugar craving was satisfied by a small slice of my first ever lemon chiffon pie.

It was terrible. I’m glad I had a small slice.

With the lovely weather and bountiful citrus in the yard, we’ve taken to spitting mandarin orange seeds into the compost bin for sport.

We tired the girls out! Go us!

With my Chase gone, Andy’s pets keep me supplied in dog snuggles.

Ogres have layers. Onions have layers.

Parfait! Everybody loves parfait!

Finding comfort these days in the mundane.

Silver needle white tea, my absolute favorite morning beverage, steeping in my pyrex “tea pot.”

The close up that works for morning beverage, comfort, and craving prompts, too.

Rookie mistake: painted the wrong side of the paper. #creativityeveryday

One of the questions on this medical form is “How far can you comfortably walk on level ground without stopping?”

I… don’t know. Like, should I Forest Gump this question? Just go out and start walking until I can’t?

Today’s water experiment: shapes of clouds. #creativityeveryday

Watching The Wire for the first time, on season 5, episode 8, and oh good lord why am I watching this show? Like, the one good bad guy dies and just come on.

Bah.

I rank this with the Game of Thrones Red Wedding.

Tilly is convinced there is a rat in the compost pile. Can’t say I disagree with her, but we found none today.

“Name this band. Pearl Jam. I knew you wouldn’t get it.”

“I wasn’t, actually.”

The song was Yellow Ledbetter. 😆

Up next in the queue, Storm in a Teacup, by Helen Czerski 📚

Related, top of Peak Point. I now know that I need to work on climbing a sustained 20% grade with sections of 30% grade faster.

I took this picture a few miles north of Maverick’s today, and I don’t know what water phenomena I’m looking at with the ghosting wave.

Do you know water? Can you tell me what I saw?

One of those mornings, eh?

OH “Nobody expects the American Insurrection.”

OH: “There is always another level of bad, often involving shit.”

Yu the Great from Julia Bainbridge’s Good Drinks, a delicious thai basil, matcha, lime, alcohol-free drink. So tasty! 😍

New tea mug from Andy! It is a Chemist Cup by Haand. Squeeeeeee! 🍵

The dregs of the loose leaf tea. 🍵

Happy Boxing Day! 🎁

I adore Good Drinks by Julia Bainbridge, fantastic recipes for non-alcoholic drinks.🍹📚

The Great Conjunction from the hills. Great viewing for about 20 minutes, until the clouds rolled in.

Taking a break.