ME II: busy days

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It was a beautiful day sunny with cool breezes. We did some errands early downtown and made it to work by 8:30am. I sincerely appreciate that many things open at 7am. We had a full day at work. This evening I took a class on Ukrainian pickling and fermenting. Here is a recipe for sour spicy pickled tomatoes. The course was a super informal zoom call with two Ukrainian cooks, one who is releasing a cookbook soon. There were roughly ten people in the audience who I think were all Ukrainian. It wasn't very interactive but I took notes and learned a little. I never thought of pickling tomatoes before and these seem a little bit closer to marinating tomatoes, but I'd like to try them. The tomatoes here I think get too much water so they taste a little bleh. I think adding all the herbs etc would be nice. We don't have a food processor or anything like that but I might borrow one from a friend.

Tomorrow we might seek out and see how available the new bivalent COVID boosters are available at our local Walgreens ahead of what looks like a busy few weeks where it would be nice if we had extra protection.

millstone with a old sign that says In 1745 on a high bluff on the opposite corner stood the old windmill from which this millstone was taken
A little history: This is from Lincoln Park which is our favorite little park downtown. It's just under a couple acres and largely flat. I wrote about their 150-year-old fence not long ago. This is on the corner and reads: "In 1745 on a high bluff on the opposite corner stood the old windmill from which this mill stone was taken. The park is from 1866 so this was history before the park was even a twinkle in anyone's eye. They took away part of the historic park to build a hideous and yucky two-lane road through the middle of town. In 1989 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was also the location of the Maine Occupy protests.
Harbor view park looking at the containers and the river very blue
Low tide looking up the Fore River from Harbor View Park.
full looking moon over trees
An almost full moon is 97.6% full and tomorrow it will be the fullest. This month she has been really showing off at twilight.
my friend the red oak on Spring St. from a view his leaves make a heart shape
My friend the Red Oak on Spring Street giving us all a giant heart shape with his silhouette.

Have a lovely evening.

Sending love, Tawnia

And have some nice birds:

  1. American Goldfinch
  2. House Sparrow
  3. Herring Gull
  4. American Crow
  5. European Starling
  6. Blue Jay
  7. Rock Pigeon
  8. Osprey
  9. Ruby-throated Hummingbird