§ I should have been more clear when I complained about all of the rain last week: I wanted sunshine, not the snow we actually got on Monday.
By the weekend, the snow was long gone and temperatures seemed to have stabilized in the low-50s so I finally planted a few earliserve bush beans. It will be my first year growing them so I don’t quite know what to expect.
§ Unfazed by this weather, the trout lilies are all out in full force. It feels like they pop up with incredible speed, almost overnight. One year I want to set up a timelapse camera to capture their rapid colonization. I like trying to predict which of the 0.5% of them will flower.
§ That big “steam boiler” exhibit I’ve been working on is finally more or less finished. It works well and looks great. All of the circuitry that makes everything work behind the scenes is incredibly messy but that is for future me to deal with.
§ I also used that RaspberryPi “AI Hat” I’ve been messing with to power a “radar screen” exhibit. Instead of using a real marine radar system—which, from what I could gather, might actually be dangerous in small spaces?—I’m faking it by running object detection on a camera stream locally on the Pi. It was all much easier than I feared!
§ All of this—and much more—is for an exhibition that opens in six weeks. It’s a project I’ve been working on, in varying levels of intensity, for almost a year now. It’s nice to see it all finally start to come together.
§ Over the weekend, I tried baking makowiec—a Polish poppyseed roll—from scratch for the first time. It’s a dessert that my grandmother used to make every Easter. It was probably the most labor-intensive baking I’ve ever done but it came out great. Absolutely worth all of the effort.
§ I bought my first lawnmower yesterday which feels like an important milestone of suburban home ownership.
