Pi Day is a particularly strange fake holiday. Email promotions so far include two different vendors offering special wine discounts. 🤔

My favorite bird site in January 2023.

North End wisdom

Taking a much-deserved break from the house-moving activities.

Sunset on the Charles River yesterday ⛵️

“Alpine Highball”: gin, yellow chartreuse, Campari, orange-rosemary soda

1… 2… 3… Four on the Floor @ Artifact Cider Project

Lunch view 🌆

Like Sunday morning

Seeing all of the unmasked, coughing people in the airport is gross. 😷

They’re not yet in season, of course, but the supermarket strawberries looked good this weekend. Macerated with lemon and splash of gin and served over gluten-free sponge.

Window shopping in Staunton, Virginia

Night walk in Salem

(iPhone night mode shot)

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Visiting Longhopes Donkey Shelter in Bennett, Colorado.

I can sew when I must, but it isn’t a hobby. However, I am endlessly fascinated by mid-19th century tech.

(At the Cherry Hill Farmhouse museum in Falls Church)

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#ThirstyThursday : it’s nearly Friday

It’s quite a relief to return to dining on the deck again.

Chilly weather requires soup for dinner.

Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, Virginia

This year has been tiring, with far too little joy. I guess that’s why I thought I’d assemble the Christmas tree 2 weeks too early. #mbnov 🎄

Peated bourbon from Kings County Distillery is puzzling. Does it taste like scotch-y bourbon or bourbon-y scotch? So I thought a Rob Roy/Manhattan cocktail made perfect sense for Friday cocktails. #mbnov

Stoop seems like an excellent word for 2020. I still have hope that things will start looking up, but… #mbnov