yeast

I napped in the hammock today. I moved it again, too. I want to move a bunch of the plants as well but I've been postponing that work for another month or two waiting for the weather. Then it felt like spring and I wanted to get my hands dirty. I started with excavating the peach and witch hazel root flares. I buried them too deep two years ago and the Tree Tenders training got me worried. They're looking nicer now, though I still have to clean up the rings. The anise hyssop have started popping up, and Huitzilopochtli is on my mind.

We've been walking a lot this week, around the boro and down the Wissahickon. It's been chilly but sunny enough to spend an easy hour and a half wandering. I had my last Tree Tenders class this week and have had plenty to think about.

I've also had plenty of history to think about. I went to a presentation of Vintage Videos to see old film shot around town in the early to mid twentieth century then hung out at the historical society working on my own upcoming presentation, which is still thin but coming together.

I resisted going to the store all week in favor of time at home with the dogs. I had tried making a sort of ambrosia salad that didn't quite work. I macerated strawberries then whipped up some coconut cream in the food processor and tried incorporating the syrup. The mixture broke so I strained it off and used it to make oatmeal instead. I did finally go shopping today. The sourdough starter is still struggling and my mouth is suffering from the bread its producing but I decided not to buy bread or yeast, which made me feel a sort of solidarity with those turning down the heat and shutting off the lights to eat eggs in the cold and dark.

I spent the evening tending to the yeast I do have. I tried harvesting from the little wort and from the bottom of a homebrew and pitched those in even smaller worts. I also mixed some into the sourdough starter in the hopes of energizing that. I'm not sure if I actually got any yeast or if the effort will yield anything but it felt on the right track.