Christmas gift

Cover of The South

musical breaks are the mayonnaise of kid’s movies.

took a guest through Glen Canyon up Twin Peaks new year’s eve, toured Philosopher’s Way with junior today. enjoy the green while it’s with us.

photograph of the southern peak, “Noe Peak” from the northern peak, “Eureka Peak” on a very clear last day of 2024

photograph of the trails we were walking traversing the east side of Twin Peaks down into the neighborhood below, mostly green this time of year, with a few single tracks rising and dipping along the hillside

photograph of a portion of Philosopher’s Way in McLaren Park, SF.a stone marker to the left of the trail indicates that hikes should proceed forward. A tree has fallen obstructing the trail just past the market, and a 6 foot circumference root ball pops up o the the right, while the trunk extends beyond the photo left.

Photograph of Bernal Heights and beyond, including downtown, the Bay Bridge, Berkeley, and so on, from McLaren Park, SF.

Afternoon Walk

A two and three quarters mile (four and a half kilometer), 417 foot (127 meter) elevation walk over two hours, (one hour moving) in San Francisco, California. About 5600 steps.

Very small sample size but: I overshot kneading on one of two dough balls by 10 degrees to mid-80s F, so when I placed them in my fermenting tray (and flattened them out given I had so much space to work with, so that they would cool more evenly), I marked that one.

After cold fermenting, the too-warm dough was slightly smaller, visually, than the correctly kneaded dough.

Go figure.