Set up, our front porch is for Christmas, from a distant point of view.
Also set up it is, if closer you look, for Life Day!
Category: It Happened to Me
My thoughts, in order:
- That’s a bit gruesome to bring to yoga class.
- On second thought, if you wanted to give off a “Don’t mess with me” vibe at yoga class, this would be the way to do it.
- Does the headline mean that Saturn’s son was named Yoga Mat? That name doesn’t sound like classical Greek.
- “Yoga Mat” would be a good Star Wars character name. Definitely better than the one they gave Baby Yoda.
- I’m sure there’s a dude named Matthew in the hipster part of town who goes by “Yoga Matt”.
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Sunday sunset
I took this photo of our house just a moment before walking across the street to our neighbors’ house for a socially-distanced barbecue on their front lawn. It was just a few of us from the street, and it was a lovely way to spend Sunday evening.
I love this neighborhood.
I took this picture after having a couple of friends over for socially-distanced drinks in our front yard on Saturday night.
The temperature was a lovely 24° C (75° in Herr Doktor von Fahrenheit’s old-timey system), we had groovy jazz organ playing on the porch sound system, the company was excellent, and the string lights made our corner lot look so cheerful that we got compliments from the neighbors. (They’re also perfectly timed for Diwali!)
It was a lovely evening all ’round.
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Yesterday’s bike ride
We’ve undergoing a period of cooler temperatures here in Tampa — and by cooler, I mean 20°C / 70°F in the late afternoon — which made yesterday’s 10K bike ride (something I do five or six days a week, schedule and weather permitting) a very pleasant one. I took some photos while cycling through Riverbend and Seminole Heights.
Here are the Riverbend photos, which I took while following the Hillsborough River south towards Hillsborough Avenue:
It was then time to cross the river over the bridge, which offers this view when looking north…
…then veer north to Hanna, and then east to Lake Roberta, where 4 circuits of the lake makes one mile. I’d already done more than 10 kilometers after those circuits, so I decided to hang out with the ducks for a few minutes.
Gentle Reader, let me introduce you to Lake Roberta’s biggest a-hole, who makes Canada geese look relaxed in comparison:
He has a gang of followers:
This duck is happy just to have a chance to relax:
I grabbed some last-minute groceries and started heading home. Seminole Heights is one of those tree-lined neighborhoods with a lot of houses built from the 1920s through the 1950s, where college-educated families and craft breweries can be easily found. There’s a clearly-established voting preference here…
The owners of the nearby Corner Club — the neighborhood’s dive bar, karaoke joint, and after-work hangout for folks to work at the nearby TECO branch — recently sold the place, but at least it will remain a bar and not get turned into condos:
Now back to the signs…
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Today at Bearss Groves
If you’re in Tampa and looking for pumpkins, our regular fruit/vegetable place, Bearss Groves, has plenty in stock! I got three “sugar pie” pumpkins for $10, and they’ll end up as part of dinner (mashed like potatoes, they make a great side dish). They’ve got plenty for carving or decorating as well.
I was there this morning, and their garden-grown squash selection was great! They had yellow and green zucchini…
…yellow squash…
…8-ball zucchini, which you can stuff with all kinds of things…
…and patty-pan squash (I got a couple pounds of these).
I saw this on this in Hampton Terrace during this morning’s 10K bike ride.
I think I’ll close this post with something you might not have seen: A scene from Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes that puts together Wu-Tang’s GZA, RZA, and Bill Murray at the same booth in a café: