Happy solstice!
Okay, okay…the solstice is tomorrow. It’s likely to be over 80 here, which is rare enough that the warmening nuts are acting like we’ll all spontaneously combust if we go outside.
We’re going to the first of the season’s summer fetes, after which we will come back, sit in the garden and drink wine until the bats come out. We have a narrow seasonal window where we can do that before the skeeters turn up.
Have a good weekend!
p.s. two words: horseradish mayo.
Posted: June 20th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 11
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Comment from LesterIII
Time: June 20, 2025, 7:16 pm
Happy Solstice!
I’ll be watching the band DEVO live as it happens for me locally tonight at 22:42 EDT.
Stoaty, you have to try garlic-horseradish butter on shellfish, sometimes with just a pinch of your spicy red pepper of choice. Gives it even more contrast + depth of flavor. Great Googlymooglies, it is good! Horseradish mayo is some of the only mayo I will eat, and you may want to experiment with adding it to different types of mustard.
I miss my garden.
Comment from Gordon R. Durand
Time: June 21, 2025, 2:39 am
If you have enough bats you won’t have a skeeter problem. We had a maternity colonly in our rafters before the remodel. Not a single mosquito made it past that swarm. After replacing the roof and cleaning up about a ton of bat guano, the mosquitoes came back.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: June 21, 2025, 3:17 pm
JavaMan and I used to live about 15 miles from the Bracken Cave Preserve, the largest bat colony in the world. It takes four hours for the bats to exit the cave in the evening. We did not have mosquitoes at our house, even though we lived up a hill at Canyon Lake. I think I killed four mosquitoes in seven years. Bat houses were very popular throughout the area, but I never thought we needed any.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: June 21, 2025, 5:29 pm
Summer solstice. Reminds for my first hernia, achieved while setting up a granite heel stone about 43 years ago.
Anyone know if the orange sauce they use to decorate Maki rolls or Musubi comes in a bottle?
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: June 21, 2025, 6:23 pm
Durnedyankee—I googled “where to buy orange sauce for Maki rolls or Musubi” and got returns for Panda Express and Kikkoman, which has a huge website for all of their products.
Comment from dissent555
Time: June 21, 2025, 11:33 pm
Here in northern Illinois we’re expecting temps around 95-100F (35-38C) for three days. And high humidity.
Sounds like a good stretch of summer.
The “news” programs like to chat up the “real feel” temps, which are usually 8-10F hotter. Then they stop talking about the actual temps so the rubes think the higher quoted temps are “real”.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: June 21, 2025, 11:55 pm
@Deborah HH thank you!
The home grown musubi needs a little extra zip!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: June 22, 2025, 12:01 am
@Deborah HH thank you!
The home grown musubi needs a little extra zip!
Yum yum sauce?!
Comment from steve
Time: June 23, 2025, 11:39 am
Have you noticed that the days are starting to get shorter?
Comment from Jon
Time: June 23, 2025, 4:34 pm
Welcome to horseradish mayo. It’s one of my favorites.
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