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None of the other humans at my place appreciate figs, but the pesky 🐿️ and 🐦 have been taking bites out of the best looking figs before I can claim them for myself! The nerve!

Most of the kadota has a ways to go yet, but these first ones at the base have been ginormous jammy juice bags this year. BM is much smaller tree and near the end of fruit. The last few days have been very hot, and making those lovely wrinkly figs that start drying on the tree. I think I ate 9 of them earlier, mmmm 🤤

Loco Moco for dinner last night!

Brown gravy: Pan fry frozen hamburger patties with your favorite house seasoning, remove from pan and set aside. Remove most of the grease from pan (optional: and add minced onion, until cooked) and add a wodge of butter + equal volume of flour (about 2-3tbsp each), stir and cook until flour is browned; add splash dark soy sauce, worschester sauce, some paste bouillon, and a small squirt of ketchup; whisk in about 2-3c water, very slowly at first to help break up any flour clumps so it’s smooth; cook and reduce or add liquid, to desired viscosity; add cooked patties and any drippings back into the brown gravy to warm back up. Serve over white rice, with a runny egg and side dishes 🍽️

Wife got some 14” tortillas at the store, so naturally I wanted to roll up a fatty breakfast burrito. SPAM potato hash, cheddar cheese, sour cream, salsa, and 3 eggs - devoured 😜

Mostly just an FYI post for the owners with older Cruisers starting to show their age. Mines a 2002 and had a rear window that recently stopped working. Took things apart to investigate and found broken wires inside the rubber boot section between door and pillar. Spliced and soldered and its working again! This is the left rear door my kids have been abusing for years throwing it open and slamming it shut.

BBQ’d Costco Polish dog, sesame hoagie roll, mayo, mustard, tiny bit ketchup, sweet relish, onions, sauerkraut, tomatoes, butter lettuce

Made a SPAM Musubi birthday piñata 🪅

Materials: Cardboard, hot glue, butcher paper, cooked flour slurry, a paint stirring stick, metal wire, and acrylic paint

Didn’t have any packing peanuts for the rice, but it came out pretty great for a last minute 2-evening project after the kids were asleep. Didn’t put in any spam cans trying to save weight (was like 30lbs), but have since discovered that spam single packs exist - next time for sure!

I made a SPAM musubi piñata

4 homegrown eggs quick scrambled in the pan with cheddar cheese, stovetop flamed tortilla, picante style salsa, sour cream and taco sauce. Takes less than 5-min to make and hits that spot every time.

Had to do something with all the olallie berries I’ve been picking lately, so decided to make some hand pies. Filling is fresh Olallie berries, few big spoons of sugar, pinch salt, and a sprinkle of corn starch. Crust is Trader Joe’s pie crust, cut with a to-go container. Farm fresh egg wash with some sugar on top. 375 for about 25min. Easy as pie 🥧

Olallieberries starting to get ripe, so I picked a bunch (left side); still LOTS more to go, but sooo many thorns. Also picked some wild blackberries (right), a zucchini, and snacked on one of the last SpiceZee nectaplums

Celebrating the 4th back at the house I grew up in, and was looking through my dad’s shop for a part to fix something, when I came across a bucket of my dad’s old cordless Makita. He was a kitchen/bath remodeler for 30yrs and these were from way back. Brought up some great memories from back when I was a kid helping him install kitchens

Made a quick piñata for a friend’s 50th birthday party. Their drink of choice has been a vodka cranberry, so naturally that’s what I made them.

Materials: Cardboard, hot glue, metal wire, drawing paper, butcher paper, cellophane, cooked flour slurry, latex and acrylic paint.

Filled with mostly red items: mini vodka bottles, mini hot sauce and bbq sauces, KitKat bars, Doritos, Cheese-It’s, Pringles, raisins, freeze dried strawberries, popcorn, to-go breakfast cereals, and Lotto tickets.

We reversed our normal hitting order of youngest to oldest after the birthday person, and went from oldest to youngest, which was pretty fun.

8 fresh eggs, sharp cheddar, mozzarella, green walking onions, house seasoning, splash of water.

Splash Pluots 2026. One of my favorites in the orchard; super sweet with a nice texture, they’re almost like 2” cherries, and this tree gets loaded with them every year.

Unfortunately lost twice this volume to the birds and squirrels already, but they allowed some big ones to get to that perfect stage of ripeness, so I picked a bunch to share with family friends🤘

Came home and everyone was gone, so I made a dinner scramble: leftover SPAM found in the fridge that wasn’t there this morning, leftover French fries and onion rings my kids didn’t eat a day ago, part of a tomato I found on a cutting board amongst evidence of sandwich making, some spinach, extra sharp cheddar, and four freshly laid eggs, toast, and a Kirkland bee. Eating while watching Bojack Horseman and then playing some Doom 3