I’m on a Shirley Jackson reading binge at the moment having just finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle and I’m now reading the collection of short stories “The Lottery”. 📚

I mentioned liquid propane yesterday when I talked about straining my back. Here is an article on how to safely store this material, and here is another.

Watching the final episode of Inventing Anna

I strained my back this afternoon for the second time in about a month. This time it happened when I was placing a liquid propane 50 pound container into the trunk of our car.

We are normally not in northern New Hampshire at this time of the year and so I don’t get to photography lupine. Anyhow here’s a picture of one of these flowers that I took last night in the front yard of the Little House where we are presently staying. I’m glad that I can post this to my micro.blog rather than having to mess with Instagram.

I finally have a new belt courtesy of the local Walmart. This reminds me of the problems I have going through Airport security and having to remove my belt. I have to keep hold of of my trousers to prevent slippage while keeping track of my x-rayed computer, iPad camera, etc. Life is too complicated!

This entry is being written in and sent from ia writer.

I just resubscribed to the Adobe photographic plan. Back to Lightroom editing with a vengeance.

I hope these entries don’t go away when I get to the of my two week evaluation. I’m presuming I’ll just go to the free version of Micro.blog at that time.

I realize that I’ve actually been using Day One for 10 years.

I was looking forward to having a Green Mountain coffee here at the Waterbury visitors Center but they are close at the moment

I really like using Day One for journaling. It records not only date and time of an entry but also location and weather conditions. Location can be recorded from the metadata of an included photo for an entry entered after the fact. Very elegant indeed.

I’m trying to keep cool this week, but living in the south of the US makes that something of a challenge. At least we have AC but I do like to do a daily walk outside. Lately, I’ve been doing this first thing in the morning before the heat and humidity really kick in.

Economic conditions out there are beginning to remind me of the ’70s.

Even if you don’t own a EV or hybrid vehicle you can still get better gas mileage and therefore fight back against rising prices by simply lowering the speed at which you drive. I’m presently getting about 66 mpg on the highway at 70 mph with our Prius. I guess I should also slow down to do even better!

My daughter has a couple of cats and I think she can relate to the cartoon. They even bought the cat climbing device a few weeks ago but then a box arrives…

He’s saying that pro and serious amateur photographers will be buying lenses when they upgrade because of the superb quality of these products made for mirrorless cameras. www.bythom.com/newsviews…

On my walk this morning I listened to Friday night’s “All in with Chris Hayes” as a podcast. The topic of course was the Jan 6 hearings and I suspect I’ll be listening to a lot more of this in the next few weeks.

I have now taken the ointment for the infection causing the itching in my right eye. I’ll be applying this 3 or 4 times a day for the next ten days.

We are moving after 22 years in the same house and are in a continuing “throwing out things” mode. Thank goodness for CHARM, Restore and Last Chance.

I hope to post linked Flickr photos here such as what follows. This is Ruby Beach on the Olympic Peninsula coast.

I’ve just rescued 22-year-old regular paper album photos from Spain that I need to digitize and put on my Flickr album that I’d set up with some previously digitized pictures from the same trip.

We are back from Restore but as usual I forgot to take a photo. I’m generally taking photos to document where we’ve been and when etc.

I started listening to a recent Ezra Klein podcast with Thomas Piketty but I was missing a lot of the conversation because of that strong French accent of Piketty’s.

Pizza on a recent cold Friday evening in Seattle. Somewhere between Fremont and Ballard.