§ I can see fruit beginning to develop on our blackberry, strawberry, and snap pea plants. I can’t wait for the rest of the garden to fill out—I planted two more tomato seedlings and six different types of peppers.

We also picked an almost burdensome amount of lettuce. Just as I was starting to ready myself for a week of enormous salads, Caroline had the ingenious idea of using them in our long-neglected juicer. That quickly lightened our load.

§ Speaking of my inability to stick to reading one thing at a time, I started reading The New House by David Leo Rice after seeing James Reeves’ passionate recommendation.

Frustratingly, I can’t find a digital copy of the book anywhere so not only am I jumping around too much, in this case I don’t even get to use the reMarkable tablet to help.

§ I tried to savor the new season of I Think You Should Leave and still finished it in less than a week. My favorite sketch was The Driving Crooner.

Overall, I feel like this season was maybe slightly worse than the previous two. I still highly recommend watching it, though.

§ I thought this might be the first year that I would skip the iOS beta. I made it two days before installing iOS 17 on my phone. Playing around with the updated autocorrection engine has been interesting but, overall, there is really not much to see.

§ Since its introduction at WWDC last year, I haven’t seen much mention of Apple‘s RoomPlan API. Try it out if you want a taste of the technology behind the upcoming Vision Pro headset. You can watch your iPhone construct an accurately scaled 3D model of a room—in real time—with each architectural element and furniture item segmented and tagged. It is shockingly impressive.

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§ Recipes

We had a lot of quail eggs we needed to use so Caroline and I made a big batch of lemon curd with the yolks and angel food cake with the egg whites. The lemon curd had a bit of a grainy texture. I am not sure if that is due to the recipe or a just a consequence of not having a proper double boiler. Regardless, it tasted great, especially as a part of lemon curd ricotta pancakes.