Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the plant’s unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.
Excerpt from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
It was only 93° today.
My sister got lucky
Married the yuppie
Took him for all he was worth
—Tom Petty
Finished reading: Guts: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier 📚
Our back patio is usually chaos. Zoey doesn’t seem to mind. She says she could do without the heat, though.
Currently reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan 📚
Summers in Portland have felt more like Redding every year. We now have 3 official seasons: rain, smoke, and scorching hot.
Started reading: White Bird: A Wonder Story (A Graphic Novel) by R. J. Palacio 📚
Roughing it, obviously.
I see you, Cannon Beach.
Happy to see more EV chargers at state parks & campgrounds across Oregon.
Glamping supreme. Ask me if I brought the portable AC. 🏕️
Countdown to camp. For all the money we’re spending on this, we could’ve stayed at a pretty nice hotel with a pool. 🏕️
It’s going to be around 100° the next four days. We walked around the neighborhood on the early side and stopped to listen to the bullfrogs at the wetlands. The creeping thistle looked neat. The bees looked happy.
I worked as a cook at P.F. Chang’s in college. Whenever someone finds out about this, about half the time they say “I love their chicken lettuce wraps!”
Then I break the news to them that it’s just ground up and fried chicken fat and skin, the stuff that normally gets thrown away.
Organic fireworks.
Nice day in PDX, and surprisingly quiet due to the holiday.
Explained Independence Day to my inquiring 5-year-old son today, as best I could. He responded:
But dad, war is not good. People get hurt and that’s not something that we should be remembering.
Couldn’t argue with that.
I just want Apple to allow me to choose “natural” scrolling for the trackpad, and regular scrolling for the mouse wheel. Is that too much to ask?