(critter watch, cooking)

[elainegrey]

As i scraped off the kahm yeast this morning, i realized the figs are fermenting and i've got something like fig wine going. So yay, this experiment might not be a loss. And i might try again when i get back from Ohio and presumably find more overly ripe figs on the tree.

Found a skink in the bed ... Monday? Sunday? night. I think Christine rescued another, and i rescued a third. At this rate, i wonder if skinks miss the other skinks that have been carried off and are offering themselves up to the great grey fuzzy hunter. I hope the colony in the front yard is thriving and that the anoles aren't too put out.

I was buzzed by bats last night, walking down the hill to the creek to get my steps in. As the bad swoops in the beam of the light in front of my face, it's so brightly illuminated it's a bit blinding. Definitely startling. I yelped. I've seen the glowing eyes in the tree beyond the garden a couple times so some critter is reliably there. And moths - they have red eyes in the glow of the head lamp.

I was a thousand steps short yesterday after walking loops in front of the house to get myself to a round number. I'm not getting in the ten min work break walk. I think it would help my day, but i'm proving resistant. Maybe today.

I did do my balance exercises while Christine watched the end of the Yankees-Red Sox game. That was a pretty spectacular game with some amazing home runs.

Comments

[tamena]

OK now I know where my extra thousand steps came from LOL I got you covered for yesterday and YES I am feeling it today
I love bats!! I want to put up a bat house in the yard at some point
(adds Bat House to the Yard List...crow table, green house, hoop house, garden....)
I'm seriously thinking about trying some basic yoga here, my brother (step but brother none the less) is a yoga instructor and I keep wanting to ask him for help but he's always running when he visits. Do you do anything like that?

[elainegrey]

Ages and ages ago. I did enjoy it, and i do my balance exercises breathing with the movements. I had a book on how to adapt yoga moves to various ability constraints at one point. I'll see if i can find it. My grandmother who lived so long had started doing yoga in her 50s. I think it helped her as she aged.

[tamena]

Like I said I thnk I need to try here, my brother is in his early 50s and started when he found out he had colon cancer, he swears it's the best thing he's ever done for himself in his life, he's in better shape now than he's ever been

[tylik]

Yesterday I had a skink in the kitchen. As usually, it was in great shape, and Ember enjoyed its presence very much. To keep her from enjoying it to the point of harm, I rescued it and put it outside.

(Though unlike Cricket, she doesn't try to groom the lizards.)

[elainegrey]

I'm glad yours get to keep their tails!

[amaebi]

Ooooooh, beautiful bats.

Fig wine and fig vinegar both sound swell! You inspire me for future years. D.V. I will succeed in wintering over my small potted grove*, and next year will get at least a little fruit from each, and maybe, maybe, enough in future years for me to contemplate how to save them.

* This should work: my experiments in the past have led me to a place where I'm pretty sure I know what the figs and I are doing.

[elainegrey]

The fig websites are full of happily overwintered, potted, fruiting figs: may you have a delightful abundance. I keep pondering another fig tree. I would want one with either honey or sugar flavor profile which is not red/purple/pink inside but brown or gold.

The fig wine i've made is surely only suitable for making the vinegar, but this is interesting: https://www.stonefamilyfarmstead.com/how-to-make-fig-wine-at-home/