Our plums are starting to ripen: Some have already been claimed by the ants and squirrels, but we go to these ripe beauties yesterday and tried them — and wow, they’re delicious! Can’t wait for more.

Waiting on my breakfast order on a beautiful Sunday morning.

We’ve been in our place for a couple of months before finding that the solar system wasn’t producing any power. One quick visit from a tech and we are making energy from the sky. Yesterday’s production was a little less than twice our monthly average in the previous billing period. I am STOKED.

The sun is up late, and so is the high temperature we’re making our way through. Sunset is a beautiful and somewhat cooler time to get out for a walk through the neighborhood.

I had a pretty good time getting to the gilded title again in this week’s Iron Banner, the first of this newest The Final Shape expansion.

Biking home from the market, enjoying the still-cool still-early feel of the morning.

I reconnected with my first college roommate at the neighborhood pub the other day. Feels great to be near old friends, again, and I’m grateful that it feels so good to be in touch after a lot of years.

Love to have garbage air quality and a still-terrified dog after a night of fireworks before a heat wave. So much for cooling down the house for a few hours while it’s nice out.

A couple of trees I appreciated on a walk at the park the other day.

Among of the things I’m struggling with is that they’re doing this for someone who is, manifestly, one of the worst people in the world, staggeringly uncaring about his own legal and constitutional obligations, and they seem utterly untroubled by the implications of that.