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Dec 20, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Tree Mite
Not very many decorations, but the ones we have are top notch!

Dec 17, 2024

qu'ils mangent de la brioche, et par “ils” je veux dire “moi”

qu'ils mangent de la brioche, et par "ils" je veux dire "moi"

Two fruitcakes, one for me and one for a secret santa gift exchange (to someone in That Paradise That Is California™, so packing it will be an experience.)

Dec 16, 2024

The strategic candied citron reserve is in excellent shape this year

Building up my strategic stockpile of candied citron

This wasn’t a particularly good year for citron (at least according to my purchased; citron was not to be found at my local store for most of the year, and when they showed up – in the middle of the high holy days? – the ratio of rind to citrus was fairly low) so I made up for it by buying and preparing lots of them.

I think I have enough for five fruitcakes right now, at least as long as the family doesn’t graze over them like a herd of hungry goats.

Dec 15, 2024

Railroad photo of the day (if the day was thursday)

The Holiday Express in the rain

I took a somewhat scenic route back from the dermatologist on thursday, and found myself stopped at the Portland Traction crossing before the Springwater Trail – the Holiday Express is running and I arrived just as it came by on its trip south.

The tiny logging mikado that they’re using until they get the Mount Emily shay back into running order is too small to pull the Holiday express up the ramp to Spokane at the Sellwood end of the loop, so they need to tail the train with their ex-BN SW1000 to get enough puff to get up that hill. I stuck around at the crossing until it passed, then passed it again on the Springwater Trail (the trains only run at about 15mph, and even in my aged & decrepit state I can get up to 20mph along the flat parts of the Portland Traction’s ROW.)

Dec 13, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

A box of oranges with lagniappe
Something extra in a box of oranges

Dec 12, 2024

Shopping

Shopping
Back on my usual nonsense of overfilling my bags when I go shopping

Dec 06, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Mite & Bread
Dust Mite warms their feet on some freshly baked baguettes.

Dec 05, 2024

Shopping

The emergency randonneuse and a load of oxygen
Picking up a bottle of air on a chilly december afternoon

Dec 01, 2024

Trolley picture of the day

Freshly painted type 1

This Type 1 car looks like it’s got a new coat of paint; sort of like the paint it had when it was shipped (#116 was one of the last 2 units in the original paint, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore) but not really.

This makes me think the twilight of the Type 1s is upon us, and it won’t be long before they’re all shipped off to the scrappers or railroad museums :-(

Nov 30, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Belated Mite
I’m sure it’s still officially friday somewhere in the world!

Nov 22, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

The tailor
Dust Mite helps me sew up some bags

Nov 15, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Citron is back on the menu, boys!
Citron is back, so it’s time to candy it up and roll it into a fruitcake or twenty.

Nov 08, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Still life with Mite, fruit, and bread
Let them eat bread & citron!

Nov 07, 2024

Polson Logging #2 in steam

Firing up Polson #2

The ORHF is warming up for the holiday excursion season, and that meant that when I rode by their shops today Polson Logging Co. mikado #2 was being cleaned and fired.

Nov 06, 2024

Photostitchery

The octopus tree (photostitched)
The Octopus Tree at Cape Meares, photostitched from a dozen individual photos

Nov 04, 2024

Trainspotting

McCloud River #25, railfan pose

We went to the coast last weekend to ride one of the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad’s steam-powered excursion trains, so of course I needed to take a picture to document the atrocities.

Nov 01, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Bread & Mite
Dust Mite hides behind the bread pile

Oct 25, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Salmon Mite
Dust Mite and everyone else’s dinner

Oct 21, 2024

Fruitcake!

post-transition fruitcake
behold the fruitcake!

This one was made with blueberries, citron – of course! –, and cranberries, brown coconut sugar instead of brown cane sugar, and (for veganization) Bob’s egg replacer instead of dinosaur eggs.

Oct 18, 2024

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite & Blåhaj character studies Dust Mite & Blåhaj character studies
Character studies of Dust Mites & my Blåhaj

Oct 17, 2024

Horrible fun with animated gifs

The PV&T official train as an animated gif

I’d finished redrawing all of the passenger equipment that I’d put on the PV&T official train, so then I thought “why not make it into an animated gif?”

Several hours later, here it is, in fully horrible glory :-)

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