Boundary

And it took for fucking ever. Google gave us like 8000 choices in the wrong size or indoor only or whatever.

And I longed for the day when we drove to a Target or a Dayton's or, hell, a Menards and walked into the patio area and looked at the four available rugs and if there was one that worked, great! If there wasn't one we just went on with our lives with no rug.

Peonies are at their peak around here.

Went to the St Paul farmers' market this morning. It's sort of my spiritual centering spot here in the Twin Cities.

Right before approaching the table with the beets the woman had cut the greens off of two bunches for a shopper. I said "they don't know what they are missing" and the woman asked if I wanted them and put them into my bag. We just had about half the greens sauteed for breakfast along with scrambled eggs.

The strawberries are early this year and they weren't cheap but they are amazing. One of the joys of summer.

The freeze dried kimchi is amazing. The guy selling it is the maker and he said it just occured to him when he was freeze drying mushrooms he had foraged. Funky. Spicy. I will likely crumble it over rice.

A freind who lives in Missouri sent me this screenshot.

Saw this in a reblog from someone I follow and was completely blown away.

These two performers from another planet are incredibly talented. Microtonal guitar/bass double-neck is sort of insane. All the pedal work and looping is really effective. And the drummer is so skilled at finding balance between driving and creating space for the sounds.

I hear most people say Math Rock and you can definitely hear the through line to King Crimson and early Yes. But also the Art Punk of Devo with the absurdism (but these two are much better technically). And Free Jazz with the microtones and polyrhythms.

We have a good friend, Marc, who is from Holland. When he was growing up, his family had a "summer home" near Le Roux Bas in Southeast France (think very old, brick and stone cabin near a creek in a somewhat mountainous region). They've stayed friends with the family who bought the place 40 years ago and Marc and his wife invited us to go with them to stay there in September.