Category: Doodads

Doodads — odds and ends pictures (with update on ginkgo fruit)

These are pics that there aren’t enough of to do a whole theme post so will post them together here. This is a dinner I made from a recipe card from Hello Fresh for a second time.  Roasted carrots, fried haddock with a coconut milk/chili cream sauce, topped with pineapple and scallions over rice.  It…

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Doodads — Day Before Halloween

Sunday night was the concert, which was wonderful.  The drive over to Grand Rapids and back was fine, even if I did lose my way a little on the way back.  (When you’re on Monroe and the directions say head towards Ottawa, but when you ask the attendant where it is he doesn’t say go…

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Doodads — Ant Project, witch hazel, etc.

All of the logs that have been lying under the apple trees have been debarked, moved by dolly, dried out, and are now stacked in the carport.  I’m proud of myself for getting that part done.  The bark is here and there.  After letting bugs skeedaddle from one pile I put it in a growing…

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Doodads

We went out to the state park winter sports complex today to walk trails.  They’ve added several things there since I went there last, including zip lines, an archery range, roller luge, a massive climbing wall, and a decent-sized picnic area.   Not many people out there, probably because most everything was closed.

Doodads from last week or so

A bunch of things have happened and no sense in making separate posts for each.    Last but not least, some of you have heard me say that my cat, Dotty, has an exercise wheel.  She ran on one at the shelter I adopted her from so I bought her one.  She’s mostly used it…

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