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compelling pickled papaya
Thursday, May 29 2025
At the end of the workday, I stopped at a Filipino restaurant in Accord called Harana to pick up take-out food, which is something Gretchen had wanted me to do since I got my job. Harana used to be located out in the country southwest of Woodstock (and we'd visited it there), but at some point moved to the new location in Accord. I ordered pretty much everything vegan on the menu, which consisted of a mushroom-and-noodle dish, a tofu-and-bell-pepper dish, two kinds of rice, and pickled papaya. When I got home with these things, it was still early, so we put them aside until after Gretchen got back from pilates. Meanwhile, I discovered that the days I'd told my colleagues that I'd be gone (to Sri Lanka!) were off by three days because I'd misread Gretchen's calendar. Initially I was mad at Gretchen about this, though, as she pointed out, this was unfair.
While Gretchen was off at pilates, I managed to take both dogs for a walk that was fairly similar to the one we took yesterday, complete with Neville finding and snacking on a bone. But this time I returned via the Farm Road, covered (as I have been of late) with inchworms. (The caterpillar outbreak this spring seems to be mostly dark grey inchworms, though there are also gypsy moths and some species of green inchworm.)
The food from Harana was good but not exceptional, and it's unlikely I would be getting that much take-out from there in the future if it weren't so convenient to stop in at my way home from work. But the pickled papaya had something in it that had me wanting more.
Before darkness fell, I grabbed my big battery-powered chainsaw and drove the Forester down Dug Hill Road to some nice pieces of tree trunk in various piles from trees that had been cut from beneath the power lines. But the trunks were big and my chain blade was dull, so my saw kept crapping out before I could cut through anything but the smaller trunks. I managed to salvage some pieces, but the big beautiful pieces were too big to process. It's possible they could only be cut up with a real gas-powered saw such as my Stihl (which I have not used in many years).
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