Thor & Dust Mite catnap
—orc Fri Apr 26 23:55:08 2024
Stopping by the virtual house on Leif Erikson Drive after a couple of years away from Tualatin Mountain/Forest Park
—orc Sat Apr 20 23:20:21 2024
Cozily sitting in the new recliner with several hundred million of its (smaller) friends
—orc Fri Apr 19 22:28:36 2024
It may not be very good chocolate, but it is still chocolate
—orc Fri Apr 12 23:49:19 2024
Dust Mite & cherry blossoms
We live just north of the farm where Bing developed his self-named cherry variety, and when we moved into our house there was a huge and ancient bing cherry tree slowly dying in the backyard. I think this may have been a first-generation bing, and in the last few years before it joined the choir invisible it produced bumper crops of completely inaccessable cherries (the tree was about 25 feet tall and the lowest living branch was 15 feet up, so no we couldn’t harvest the cherries at all) and one of them ended up setting root next to our dining room window. It’s now about 16 years old and it’s producing a fine crop of cherry blossoms (and presumably a fine crop of cherries, but the local squirrels & birds get most of them), but is sheltered enough so that it goes into bloom about a week after most of the other local cherries do.
This year Dust Mite managed to get out and see the cherry flowers before they all blew away.
—orc Fri Apr 5 23:59:22 2024
![[rss feed]](/~orc/feedbutton.png "Atom + RSS feeds available here"){kind=small}