Day: December 31, 2021

Caveat: Tree #1079 (cancelled for bizarre numerological reasons)

A Daily Tree / My Photos

I’m going to take a break from posting tree pictures. Gotta shake things up for the new year, right?

I’m not done posting tree pictures. But I think it’s very weird that the enumeration of my poems and tree pictures ended up “in sync” – which is to say, each day the last two digits of each posting are the same. This wasn’t planned, and in fact it causes me confusion, sometimes. So… if I stop posting tree pictures for a while, then that number alignment problem will go away.

Anyway, they were getting repetitive. Not that they won’t still be repetitive, when I return to posting tree pictures.

Meanwhile, I continue to neglect the neighbors’ dog. I have been feeling a bit “under the weather” as they say, and also perhaps a reaction to the weather, which is not conducive to dogwalking: road coated in layers of slippery ice…

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Caveat: 김치볶음밥 알라스카 스타일

Banalities & Journaling / Food & Drink

Normally, on Thursdays Art and I go to town and do our weekly shopping and library visit, but because of how icy the road was, I decided not to. We also normally order a pre-made pizza at the place called “Papa’s Pizza” and take it home and so Thursday is “pizza night.” Yesterday, we had no pizza night. I got a bit creative, and made kimchi bokkeumbap (Korean style fried rice) – something I’ve been craving.

I’d tried the dish once before, a few years ago, for Arthur, to rather mixed reviews. So I altered the recipe some to his benefit: I doubled the amount of ham I used, I halved the amount of kimchi I added (compensating with some red pepper powder to keep it spicy), and I was generous with salt. I left out the dried seaweed garnish that is integral to the Korean version.

Arthur declared this new version entirely acceptable. Which is high praise, coming from Arthur. And I put my seaweed on the side and added it separately to my own serving. To be honest, I found the result to be remarkably close to my memories of the street-vendor version available on every corner in South Korea. It was very good.
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