Anthony Piraino @piraino@mastodon.social

Verified myself on here with my website... that's a pretty cool feature!

@bigzaphod iOS 12 or higher... *grumble, grumble*

Baked another dutch oven bread loaf yesterday - the workhorse loaf from Serious Eats bread making 101 series. Turned out really good! The crust was perfect. The interior was supposed to be a little more open and airy, but I'm not sure what I need to do to improve on that.

They're open right now, but I feel bad about it... maybe that's a good compromise?

Torn between keeping the doors closed to keep the AC in and the house cool, or opening the doors to listen to the wind in the trees.

No rain from the hurricane yet, but the wind is doing some gusting. My main concern right now is for our wee little baby chinese elm tree and the two relatively new crepe myrtle trees in our backyard. They're looking rather... bendy.

In case any of my Mastofriends here didn't know, I have some of my artwork available on t-shirts, and they happen to be on sale right now: https://www.teepublic.com/user/mousekidoodle ...so maybe check them out if you like art and also like wearing clothes!

Hatches battened down: Took in our patio umbrella and all our garden spinners. Left our patio chairs outside, because they're pretty heavy and I don't think tropical storm winds are going to move them anywhere.

I decorated the envelope for my combat-boot-and-oversized-hoodie-wearing, Hamilton-loving daughter's birthday card.

Sounds like Pixelfed just got Instagram import... so tempting just to bring all my Instagram photos over there. Not sure I feel comfortable with that though until they get some kind of terms of service in place.

At the NC Folk Festival!

*This close* to deleting Instagram...SO MANY ADS.

Allergy medicine ha sunlocked the secrets of the universe today and also made me unabel to type proprly. A<A.

Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus were all aligned in a perfect arc across the evening sky when I took the dog for a walk a few minutes ago.