It works! – Find Walden

2/19/2020

(Above: It works! The light now turns on when the door to the milk-room is opened. Quite convenient.)

Active Summary: This day began with the early morning regimen. Afterward, I completed a couple Macroeconomics assignments and then headed outdoors where I performed three main tasks: fixing and setting up the motion detector light in the milkroom, cleaning up that milkroom a little bit with Padre and Wag, and harvesting vegetation for lunch / cleaning up the garden.

(9:07 PM Update:) This afternoon I helped with a number of cattle-related activities, and then Padre, Wag, and I took some time and began neatening up the Milk(storage)room a little bit more. This was followed by an evening out-to-eating at La Cuisine. The meal was fantastic, beginning with a delicious appetizer of flank steak and poutine fries, proceeding to a delicious main course of Caesar salad and French onion soup, and ending with a delicious and unique lime / gingerbread cookie / almond butter ice cream. I took a few pictures and have included the ones that turned out well:

La Cuisine whiskey sour with some delicious ‘filthy’ black cherries.
A tremendous appetizer of flank steak garnished with shaved cured egg yolk and with poutine fries served alongside.
La Cuisine braised Caesar salad. This is the place where I learned that braised Romaine was ‘a thing’ and a very good thing at that.

TIL: Today I learned the cause for yesterday’s motion-detector light malfunction; apparently, it was not properly grounding to the fluorescent light fixture. So, what I did instead was detach the ground wire from its green screw and fasten it to the old ground cable that the fixture had originally utilized. A bit of fiddling with the motion detector’s range-of-detection dial and a couple flicks of the light switch brought the replacement lights to life.

Commentary: It was enjoyable to venture outside this morning and get something done. Certainly, it was not ideal climbing up and down the step-ladder in the crepuscule darkness of the milk room, and it most certainly was not the most pleasant having old rust and cobwebs raining down on me whenever I shifted the old fixture-box around, but it was all worth it in the end. The milkroom is now illuminated*, and I now have a place to store the remainder of the miscellanea in the Master Blend freezer room.

In regard to additional highlights I have two today. The first is that I have recently finished my third revision of a short-story** that I worked on throughout the duration of my travels through Europe. So, it will soon be placed – at least temporarily – on this website. (a sneak-peak picture included below.) The second highlight is that my family and I are going out to La Cuisine this evening to celebrate our changing lives ***. I reckon it is going to be excellent.

A Sicilian style pizza I made last night via baking steel.The cooked ingredients were comprised of: homemade crust, garlic olive-oil/butter sauce, washed mozzarella cheese, and oregano. Then, after pulling it out of the oven, I placed on thinly shaved L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue sausage, Romano cheese, and garden-fresh rucola (arugula).
A picture of another speed test taken on my T-Mobile connection.
The Emerald Elbow.
The original image was taken by me holding a 1-1/4″ elbow in front of a computer screen. Fancy.

Final Note: Tomorrow morning I will likely work on more school, move some Master Blend Freezer room items over to the milkroom, and begin washing 5-gallon buckets for the ‘raised bed garden’ that I will be planting just south of Jacobhouse.

*I could only find low-wattage bulbs, so it is quite dim in there at the moment. Some light is better than no light, though, and I think Madre will soon have other lights available.

** Actually, at 27 thousand words, it is considered a novella. Especially because it is organized into a chapter format.

*** I was originally going to state “my brother’s impending change of life”. He leaves for Seattle in a little under a week.

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