Uh oh… I really should look more closely at my ducks; I just noticed that Sassa has developed the male tail curl too. I guess we need to come up with another Swedish male name (that starts with “S”). Any suggestions?  🦆

Sassa

Puffy pepperoni pizza. I’m currently experimenting with 4-night cold proofing; I divide and feed my sourdough starter on Wednesday, and feed the countertop copy again that night, then prepare the pizza dough on Thursday, putting in the fridge till Monday. 🍕

Pepperoni pizza

My stack of clear corrugated panels for the bee shed project blew around a bit in a recent storm; I’ve now re-stacked and weighed them down. I’ve had these materials since April; one day I’ll get around to working on that project. 🔨

Building materials

Remember flowers? None blooming around here at present, but I still have a bunch of unpublished pictures from summer, so here are a couple of peppermint flowers with bees, taken in August. I hope our bees are hibernating well. 🌱🌼🐝

Peppermint and bees

Peppermint and bees

We have a very tall double-trunked fir tree on our property; on a recent evening I took this picture of it glowing in the setting sun. 🌅🌲

Trees

It’s January 1, 2021, so I prepared my first Cortex Theme Journal for the coming months. My yearly theme is the Year of Consistency. I’m going to try to write in the journal every day. Here’s the format I’m starting with; it might evolve over time. 📓

Cortex Theme System journal

Theme page

Journal page

Daily theme pages