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   arborio rice with low-effort chili
Monday, September 7 2026

location: rural Town of Hurley, Ulster County, NY

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After I was done with the bulk of my usual Monday catching up on this journal, I took Charlotte for a walk down the Gulleys Trail and then back on the Stick Trail. Due to continued problems with my right elbow, I was careful not to do anything too strenuous with it, though I nevertheless added stones to all the stone walls I passed, including a nascent one along the Gulleys Trail as it passes across the head of one of two major gulleys. The cooler conditions seemed to slow down the mosquitoes a bit, making it so I could mostly keep them away by waving my hand.

For dinner tonight, I made my low-effort chili, this time using a fair number of tomatoes from the garden in addition to canned tomatoes. We didn't have proper rice, but I found some arborio rice that I was able to make in the InstantPot using the pressure cooker function for seven minutes. We ate it while watching a couple segments of Shark Tank before I cut things short and went off to take a much-needed bath. The infected cut on my left middle toe is better, but I wanted to blast it some with scalding-hot solar-heated water before applying more antibiotic salve and wrapping it up again.


The nascent stone wall along the Gulleys Trail as it passes across the head of one of two major gulleys, viewed from the south. Click to enlarge.


Charlotte on the Stick Trail headed home through a lawn of Japanese stiltgrass studded by 20 year old cairnes. This is only a couple hundred feet south of our house. Click to enlarge.


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