Last night's food prep; spouse bought me 5 lbs of calamondins from CA (citrus greening has killed all the easy FL sources), I processed them for making jam. Pop stem scar off, slice, squeeze over strainer to remove seeds and collect juice, save halves. Grind in blender, mix with equal volume of sugar, cook, jar. This is an actual old family recipe.

On the long list of shit that annoys me is the US bicycle industry. Family member bought themselves a NICE e-bike. They were wondering, could they raise the handlebars a bit, so they could be more upright? No problem, I know stems, can fix. But look at how short the hydraulic cables are, FROM THE FACTORY. Couldn't even put the lever all the way out on the handlebar. And replacing those hoses, can you do the pull-a-string hack for the frame routing? Heck no, internal tie-downs, UNDER THE MOTOR.

My neighbor and I filled 15 bags with leaves yesterday. Our goal was just to pack as many bags as we could, not to create a leaf-free zone, because the Big Oak Tree was doing this while we worked:

We have the only pawpaw (asimina triloba) tree in our town, AFAIK. It has distinctive leaves, easy to spot in a pile, on this windy fall day decided to see how far away I could find them. Turns out, not far. Only saw one, across the street.

Turkeys.

Useful thing to know if you need touch-up paint for a bicycle -- quality paint shops (e.g., Benjamin Moore, e.g.e.g. City Paint in Arlington MA) have portable color-matching gadgets that will tell you the menufacturer color that is closest, and another that will just say "do this mix". So the trim on my wife's Faraday is 430 "Landscape". They matched the roll-up door on my Glorious Bike Shed exactly.

A responsible motorist left this bent pole angled into the cycle track, a smug, smelly cyclist relocated it to a safer place.

I hear there's a shortage of quality cat photos.