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Through midday Thursday i worked on surprise work, not needed work. Friday i made some progress but frazzled.
Friday evening i planted three half pound selections of potatoes. One is named "Baby red" which makes one think of new red skinned potatoes, but these are beet red flesh (see photo below). Lots of tiny potatoes so i was able to get plenty in.
There'd been a shipping fail and many delivered potatoes had rotted. The purple magesty (a dark purple fleshed potato) and Dark Red Norland (that's a red skinned white fleshed potato) were big spuds and there were barely any eyes on the purple magesty. I cut it in half and hope i get two plants.
Photos in the catalog: https://chathamfarmsupply.com/files/articles/uploads/potato_catalog_2022-23.pdf
I got the three Hemerocallis fulva 'Kwanso' roots planted in the shade veggie spot. 'Kwanso' is a double flowered selection that apparently is a heavier producer than the species type. That's a good choice for veggies. And I planted the American hazel and Chickasaw plum (both selections for larger, better nuts and fruits). It was rather dark as i finished, but Saturday was predicted rain so getting that done was important.
I then read Julie E. Czerneda's Ties of Power until 2 am, which wasn't smart. Some of that was also while watching Brian and Charles.
Saturday i managed to get packed and do laundry. The group of friends (from my pre-merger employer) i was hoping to meet with had a bit of a kerfluffle as they assumed i would be able to join them when they usually meet (about an hour before my plane landed) and didn't remember the details from last month's email.
Yesterday i flew to the San Francisco Bay area.
I ended up driving to Santa Rosa to see one of the friends, P--, so she wouldn't need to drive down -- and to see her new home. She's got a fixer-uper to turn into her age in place home. I enjoyed the drive despite the rain. I don't think i ever used windshield wipers on high the last five years we were in California, so that was Very Novel. I loved seeing the green hills, the oaks bare and lichen covered.
En route to the hotel, i drove around the west edge of the Presidio, where we used to live in the early aughts, along Sea Cliff, Lands End, Ocean Beach and the Great Highway (the stretch of Great Highway right by the beach was closed, so the slightly more inland stretch), up to the heights of Daly City and an overlook from where i could see sunlight on the sea and the peaks of the Farallons, then advised myself NOT to take skyline drive (as i had been up at 1:30 am local time to catch my flight) and drove 280 -- and encountered utter deluges.
Memories tickled my mind, including El Monte Road which i think i've driven down in dreams? Overtly i mostly noticed all the tree damage from the storms.
Dinner on Castro street with a colleague from Cardiff who says no seafood there??!! I advised the Dungeness Crab cakes and then had the beet salad myself. I did not get much distinct exercise that day.
This morning i woke, went to a grocery and got sourdough, Marin Brie (which seems to have way too much in the way of ammonia notes; hoping i can air it out) and Sonoma goat cheese, and drove up to Skyline drive. Frigid! Gale winds. Snow beside the road. Yikes.
Also, lots more tree damage.
I drove back down and noted the lovely scarlet flowers carpeting the woods. Just beside a trail head there were more, so i stopped and then took a lovely 20 min walk.
I thought the flowers would be a Castilleja but they are Pedicularis densiflora ("Indian warrior"). Both are types of more or less parasitic plants.
I realized a little while ago I hadn't taken my meds. I haven't gotten any work done but read the internet. So, hopefully meds have kicked in, and i've warmed up. I tried not to pig out on the bread and cheese, saving some for later breakfasts. I'm not physically hungry but there's a whining thought about lunch.
Friday evening i planted three half pound selections of potatoes. One is named "Baby red" which makes one think of new red skinned potatoes, but these are beet red flesh (see photo below). Lots of tiny potatoes so i was able to get plenty in.
There'd been a shipping fail and many delivered potatoes had rotted. The purple magesty (a dark purple fleshed potato) and Dark Red Norland (that's a red skinned white fleshed potato) were big spuds and there were barely any eyes on the purple magesty. I cut it in half and hope i get two plants.
Photos in the catalog: https://chathamfarmsupply.com/files/articles/uploads/potato_catalog_2022-23.pdf
I got the three Hemerocallis fulva 'Kwanso' roots planted in the shade veggie spot. 'Kwanso' is a double flowered selection that apparently is a heavier producer than the species type. That's a good choice for veggies. And I planted the American hazel and Chickasaw plum (both selections for larger, better nuts and fruits). It was rather dark as i finished, but Saturday was predicted rain so getting that done was important.
I then read Julie E. Czerneda's Ties of Power until 2 am, which wasn't smart. Some of that was also while watching Brian and Charles.
Saturday i managed to get packed and do laundry. The group of friends (from my pre-merger employer) i was hoping to meet with had a bit of a kerfluffle as they assumed i would be able to join them when they usually meet (about an hour before my plane landed) and didn't remember the details from last month's email.
Yesterday i flew to the San Francisco Bay area.
I ended up driving to Santa Rosa to see one of the friends, P--, so she wouldn't need to drive down -- and to see her new home. She's got a fixer-uper to turn into her age in place home. I enjoyed the drive despite the rain. I don't think i ever used windshield wipers on high the last five years we were in California, so that was Very Novel. I loved seeing the green hills, the oaks bare and lichen covered.
En route to the hotel, i drove around the west edge of the Presidio, where we used to live in the early aughts, along Sea Cliff, Lands End, Ocean Beach and the Great Highway (the stretch of Great Highway right by the beach was closed, so the slightly more inland stretch), up to the heights of Daly City and an overlook from where i could see sunlight on the sea and the peaks of the Farallons, then advised myself NOT to take skyline drive (as i had been up at 1:30 am local time to catch my flight) and drove 280 -- and encountered utter deluges.
Memories tickled my mind, including El Monte Road which i think i've driven down in dreams? Overtly i mostly noticed all the tree damage from the storms.
Dinner on Castro street with a colleague from Cardiff who says no seafood there??!! I advised the Dungeness Crab cakes and then had the beet salad myself. I did not get much distinct exercise that day.
This morning i woke, went to a grocery and got sourdough, Marin Brie (which seems to have way too much in the way of ammonia notes; hoping i can air it out) and Sonoma goat cheese, and drove up to Skyline drive. Frigid! Gale winds. Snow beside the road. Yikes.
Also, lots more tree damage.
I drove back down and noted the lovely scarlet flowers carpeting the woods. Just beside a trail head there were more, so i stopped and then took a lovely 20 min walk.
I thought the flowers would be a Castilleja but they are Pedicularis densiflora ("Indian warrior"). Both are types of more or less parasitic plants.
I realized a little while ago I hadn't taken my meds. I haven't gotten any work done but read the internet. So, hopefully meds have kicked in, and i've warmed up. I tried not to pig out on the bread and cheese, saving some for later breakfasts. I'm not physically hungry but there's a whining thought about lunch.
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and HI!
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I don't know that Pedicularis! It reminds me that I should do a pilgrimage into Rocky Mountain National Park to see the wet field of P. groenlandica before we leave.
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And, OH! Pedicularis groenlandica -- way more elephant-like than the https://flashbak.com/how-medieval-artists-saw-elephants-claws-hooves-trunks-like-trumpets-and-castles-on-their-backs-426529/ that altamira16 linked to! Also, lovely purple.
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I am so glad that you returned home safe.
This winter has been a sporadic festival of Chun Woo telling me how confident he is about driving on slippery stuff. Yikes. Luckily when I said "But you *don't* know how the driving is except on the bit you're on *right then*-- the nature of the surface can change without being visible in advance," he said, "You're right," and drove with less elan.