1/4/2020
(Above: A rainy bespattered window with Jacobhouse’s garden in the background.)
Commentary: Today’s was a pleasant morning, beginning with a bit of creative writing and a beef pasture check. After the latter activity, I returned to Jacobhouse where I wrote for a little while longer before engaging in a minor fungi hunt near the cattle field just east of Jacobhouse. It soon began to rain, so I returned home where I took refuge from the outdoors’ prevalent moisture. It was during the ensuing comfortable (and cozy) hours that I wrote this post, tended to a little bit more creative writing, baked some bread for sandwiches, and engaged in leisure-related computer activities – primarily Path of Exile.
Here are some pictures I took during today’s early hours:
Mushrooms growing (again) at the base of a dead hackberry tree in the beef pasture. 
A lantana bloom on a plant growing just outside of the beef cow field. 
Basil. About as fresh and healthy as it can get. 
A close-up of some delicious, freshly toasted bread. 
Nope. It is actually a close-up of this exceptionally large mold. 
I know I said ‘large’ in the prior picture, but the image did not do it justice. Here is a foot for scale. 
This is the actual bread I made today. Much better!
(5:50 PM Update:) For lunch, I made prosciutto/tomato/basil/mozzarella sandwiches on the bread that I cooked this morning and dressed them in a garlic-balsamic vinaigrette. This delicious episode was ensued by a tad more leisure time at Jacobhouse and then by farm activities in a thankfully precipitation-free environment. These tasks included: feeding bovines, helping Padre work a couple cows through the treatment chute, and genetic testing a few wagyu calves. My brother also visited for a brief time because he wanted to see how my freezer room project and Padre’s studio were progressing. After the ensuing evening beef pasture check, I returned to Jacobhouse where I ordered two windows* for the freezer room from Home Depot.
Final Note: Tomorrow, I will be venturing down to the Harbison Farm market to procure the weekly produce. It will likely be my last visit there before the impending trip to southern Europe. After / before market activities, I shall engage in some sort of Master Blend freezer room shenanigans.
*One is a window, and the other is an acrylic sheet.
Great Pictures, and just so everybody knows your foot is a size 16, so that was an extra big fungi.