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

    14 March 2023
  • My favorite bird site in January 2023.

    birds at backyard feeder, snowy fence in background

    25 January 2023
  • North End wisdom

    City street at night with sign "Laundry Today or Naked Tomorrow!"

    20 December 2022
  • Taking a much-deserved break from the house-moving activities.

    11 December 2022
  • Sunset on the Charles River yesterday ⛵️

    29 October 2022
  • “Alpine Highball”: gin, yellow chartreuse, Campari, orange-rosemary soda

    5 August 2022
  • 1… 2… 3… Four on the Floor @ Artifact Cider Project

    30 July 2022
  • Lunch view 🌆

    27 July 2022
  • Like Sunday morning

    15 May 2022
  • Seeing all of the unmasked, coughing people in the airport is gross. 😷

    28 April 2022
  • 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.

    26 March 2022
  • Window shopping in Staunton, Virginia

    25 November 2021
  • Night walk in Salem

    (iPhone night mode shot)

    23 October 2021
  • ⛵️

    17 October 2021
  • 8 September 2021
  • Visiting Longhopes Donkey Shelter in Bennett, Colorado.

    5 September 2021
  • 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)

    8 August 2021
  • ⛵️

    16 May 2021
  • #ThirstyThursday : it’s nearly Friday

    8 April 2021
  • It’s quite a relief to return to dining on the deck again.

    12 March 2021
  • Chilly weather requires soup for dinner.

    23 January 2021
  • Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, Virginia

    17 January 2021
  • 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 🎄

    13 November 2020
  • 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

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

    5 November 2020

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