I don’t know what happened. It was just summer a couple of days ago.Now, that same happy baby looks like this:

Anyway, some stuff to look at in the rain:
Some asparagus are starting to emerge. Maybe we can eat a few this year?
Lots of trillum coming up in the shade garden and [...]

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So, my yard’s full, right? No more fruit trees. Easy enough. Just don’t buy anymore, right?
But what if a friend’s brother owns a nursery, and he’s got too many bare-root trees? He’s just going to throw them out. Nooooo!
So, I just planted a family cherry, a family apple, and a [...]

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It was this nice:

And it looks like our mini-Love Canal experience hasn’t fazed my Asian pear too much:

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What a day here in Portland. 70+ degrees and sunny all day.
What better time for my neighbor to break out his old-timey sprayer and start drenching his trees with noxious stuff? The trees hang over my fence? Well, then it was only right of him to tell me to get out of [...]

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I’ve had a couple of people ask, so here’s my latest Rian’s Super Duper Sourdough Recipe:

1 c. San Francisco sourdough barm (I keep mine pretty wet, adjust accordingly)
1 c. whole wheat flour (I use Bob’s Red Mill)
1.5 c. AP flour (I use Bob’s or King Arthur) I actually prefer AP to bread flour for [...]

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