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Deep-fried, melt-in-the-mouth carrot tops, slow-cooked carrots, pasta with basil pesto. Dwight grew the basil from seeds; the carrots are from the local farmers market.

Marzipan, whipped cream, raspberry jam, sponge, almonds, buttercream. My once-a-year cake.

It’s “No-News Wednesday,” a day without any news media. Made a dent in the second book in the “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy by Cixin Liu. I normally don’t go for science fiction, but this is a fine summer read. I get to see through Chinese eyes, dimmed by translation.

On Tuesdays seniors get a 20% discount at Coastal Seafoods, probably the best seafood store in the Cities. I got to see their spiffy new digs for the first time and save on a nice piece of King Salmon which they deboned for me.

Took delivery of 40 LEGO balls. They’re precisely the right size and weight for my next project, a Great Ball Contraption.

Posted Izzy’s Ice Cream.

It’s Saturday. As we do every Saturday, one of us (this week, yours truly) walked over to Mill City Farmers Market to stock up on local produce for the week. Part of the market is in a former train shed listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

It’s Friday. Fridays and Mondays my GED student and I Reason Through Language Arts, layered on ESL.

Contemplated a cluttered view, Northeast Minneapolis.

Our Wednesday tradition: cycle to the Chain of Lakes, stop at Lake Harriet for a breakfast sandwich and coffee, continue along the Minnehaha Creek, then up the Mississippi to home.

It’s Tuesday, so cycled with a friend in search of things we’ve never seen before. The grounds of the Casket Arts Community are always a good bet. This is a base for over 140 artists and art businesses. In 1882 the Northwestern Casket Company made caskets.

Cycled through an area where the community is lifting itself up from the destruction during the riots in May.

Sunday afternoon, recumbent on a sofa, a novel, a nap, under a silent speaker floating on the ceiling.

Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker: Teardown.

Posted LEGO Mindstorms Warehouse Picker.

Cycled past city workers who were busy refreshing bicycle-friendly road surface markings.