jennifer

Duluth, December 2024

One pink and purple daylily blooming in a big patch of green daylily plants under a hackberry tree. There's a silly cheap pink plastic flamingo in front.

First funky daylily to bloom this year!

Your Neighborhood Textile Stores: Where To Go Now That JOANN Is Gone - Racket From giant, well-stocked warehouses to smaller, curated offerings, these stores have the stuff you need for your next project.

RIP JOANN, but these local shops rock:

Piroshki, Russian Tea House
Chocolate cake, Coffee News Cafe
Everything about Cuchillo Cafe
Gordita day, La Pinata
Zwetschgenkuchen, Salzburg/zwetschegenteufel liqueur, rural Austria
Peach prosciutto pizza, Denver
Green chile cheese fries, Dairy Queen in T or C

February means it's SOUP OF THE DAY MONTH here at Rancho Gordo. Every day we'll have recipes for the coziest, zestiest, and yes, soupiest February yet. New recipes every day so don't miss a day. Grab a spoon and warm up!#soupoftheday #soups #wintercooking #peopleofthebean #ranchogordo #heirloombeans

Two bowls on a kitchen counter, holding a stew made with mottled brown lima beans, mushrooms, and a tomato-based sauce, sitting next to a small red dutch oven and a pan of cornbread muffins.

Christmas lima bean and mushroom stew with cornbread muffins, yum #beansky

Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter Donnacha Dennehy · Album · 2024 · 12 songs

Currently listening to Donnacha Dennehy's "Land of Winter" on the first chilly, snowy day in MN. Beautiful, fierce, energizing. ❤

open.spotify.com/album/4QEDYZ...

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The Dairy Queen in my hometown was sold and torn down 😭
Planet Pizza (another hometown place) closed shortly after half its employees went to college (sorry)
Hollywood Video is dead and buried under the Loons stadium
OfficeMax is now OfficeSomethingelse
Also worked at Gymboree (also now dead)

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:
-Ice cream slinger, Dairy Queen
-Pizza delivery driver/dishwasher, Planet Pizza
-Clerk, Hollywood Video
-Print shop, OfficeMax

(fun fact: none of these exist anymore)

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Starting two star quilt wall hangings today, one that's red and green and one blue.

The view of the Saint Paul Cathedral from Bad Weather Brewing on a clear warm early fall evening

Damn it's a nice night in the Cities

Look, everyone has a thing and the more you're into that thing, the harder you go in on failures.

But why these folks *so savage about apples*? It's honestly impressive.

applerankings.com/pick-an-apple/

Rust and purple irises with small native pollinators in a small boulevard planting

The irises in the neighborhood are just amazing this year. Even mine are beautiful. I am excited for a much prettier summer.

A sunny day spent watching small Lake Superior waves crash on the beach in chilly Duluth

Woo Spring Break!*
Surf's up!**

*three-day weekend in March
**water is deadly, swimming not recommended

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?

Hungarian Mushroom Soup Spiced with Hungarian paprika, dill, and thyme, this comforting soup is just what you need when winter seems to go on forever, and ever, and ever…

This is a lightly creamy soup, with a nice blend of spices and lots of meaty mushrooms

the arts cultural market is currently dependent on either highly visible performance or invisible unpaid labor with almost zero in-between. be a star or be exploited - and even those handful of off-camera artists still largely command Cult of Personality

I left the house to have a beer away from all the usual stuff in my life just to end up sitting next to some dudes talking about keyboards and learning classic rock synthesizer solos note for note and Leslie cabinets and oh no now it's brass instruments why can't I have peace

I ate chile on every meal today and it was a good day.

These aren't in any particular order, either...and I left a bunch of good things out...and I'd probably change these tomorrow...oh these lists are hard

Five symphonies to get to know me:

1. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
2. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
3. Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
4. Dvorak: Symphony No. 6
5. Schubert: Symphony No. 5

So many cool pieces beyond symphonies, though

Totally a "my dog is worried about me" day but it's ok

Big Beer Friday! Finally!

Ooh I never knew there was a Big Beer Friday! Yay!

Started today's listening with a new recording of "A Prayer to the Dynamo" by Johann Johannsson and WOW what an intense and beautiful piece

A black labrador retriever whines about being bored

We have done all of the usual evening activities (basement time, toy, box destruction, pineapple treat dispenser, and fake rawhide) and are still discontent or hungry or both

Close up on the face of a black labrador retriever named Lizzy

Lizzy!