Peter Birk

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I thought I was clever by starting to work on dinner early, but I wasn’t clever enough by half. This monster is going to take almost two and a half hours to roast. And it took about a half hour to prep.

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I’d forgotten how much of prance Julia Child’s roast chicken is. It’s a workout, especially with today’s plus-sized birds.

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Autumn Days

I’ve really been into trees lately, and this past week we’ve had some wonderful weather.

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Fall Colors

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He Pretended Not To Notice

We saw a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence’s snow-white hair—and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it’s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo,

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Gotta Do Something While the Hot Dogs Boil

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Somebody’s smoking, may be ribs? Whatever it is, the neighborhood smells wonderful this morning.

Writing

Trees

I've been really fascinated with the shape of trees lately. There's something about the organic, smoke-like shapes of branches, trunks, and bark that's capturing my imagination. I'm not sure what to do with this, so I've been taking pictures.

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Against the Grain

I finished reading another book! That's two this year. I mean, I'm reading all the time, but mostly articles, web pages, Reddit posts, Tweets. Since the derecho, I've finished two actual books. This one was Against the Grain, by James C. Scott, which is

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I'm working on the front porch because the weather's so damn beautiful today, and I was just enraptured by this impossible moment where the tones of the wind chime blended perfectly with the beeping of a truck a block away, which illustrates how productive I'

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The thing I love about UPS My Choice is that once you sign up for it, you have absolutely no choice to turn off the fifteen hundred emails sent per package.

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Honestly, the next edition of Civilization that I'm really looking forward to would be the 54th. I can't wait to play Civ CIV.