(morning writing, sky, perpetual calendar, garden)

[elainegrey]

Happy New Year! I had an overly quiet and still day yesterday, distracted by electrical bills and all the confusing riders and charges.  My major accomplishment for the day was updating expiring debit cards across a variety of billing systems.

TIL that a satellite maximum altitude of 67° feels like it is going straight over my head (which would be 90°). Wow,  are there many starlink satellites up there. I stepped out to open the deck door -- although Marlowe has no interest in being out in the dark -- and observed a satellite going overhead and through the big dipper. And another . I checked my watch and then after tea was made and pet feeding staged, checked Heavens Above to see what i saw. Fortunately it's passage through the big dipper was concrete enough that i could compare tracks against the stars and be confident.

Yesterday i made a chickweed and other yard green soup. There's an "earthy" quality -- spinach and beet greens have it too -- that is not my favorite. I added amchoor and pepper, which helped, i think. I find the plant annoying, little fiddly leaves and stringy tender stems, and soup where it is well blended seems the tolerable state. The other abundant green this time of year is Potentilla indica (Indian strawberry -- that's India Indian, not some mistaken notion of native American). It's also fiddly, and it's easier to get 100g of chickweed quickly compared to picking the leaves.

The cut leaf coneflower has some leaves out, but not really enough to do anything. The "forage kale" i tossed out as a cover crop -- turns out to have a really sharp mustardy taste. OK, that's why it's a cover crop seed.  It was fine in small quantity garnishing my blackeyed peas last night. For Christine, i garnished with sorrel, which might have been not tender enough to be interesting.  I have some endives that are surviving -- yowsa, bitter! Too bitter for me and i like bitter!

It's a good thing i'm not relying on my yard for food. The first few years here i had some good brassica beds: i would enjoy having some nice collards again.

Comments

[cmcmck]

'Appy noo ear! :o)

I'm also not a fan of the 'earthy' flavours.

[liminal_space]

happy new year!

i actually saw really nice collards at walmart of all places -- i was looking for mustard/turnip greens, because THAT is my absolute favorite flavor combo greens-wise.