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stringy asparagus stir fry
Monday, March 9 2026
We had another sunny day, this time with even warmer temperatures and sunnier skies. At some point I threw open the front door and the window to the laboratory deck. Another nice milestone for the season was the driveway had a dry spot big enough for the dogs to sun themselves, and that's exactly what they did for the first time this year. There was still a fair amount of snow, especially around our house where I'd piled it up to clear it from other places. But it was down to just patches in the shade over most of the landscape.
Yesterday I'd enlarged the shoveled-out part of the driveway to implement our third parking space (third in the sense that if someone parks in any of the three spaces, they can come and go without having to move other cars; we have more spaces if moving cars is okay). Today I shoveled through a massive hump blocking the north garage door. The snow was dense and heavy from having absorbed a lot of rain water.
Despite the warmer weather, there were fewer geese flying northward; evidently most of that had happened in one burst yesterday.
I took a modest 90 mg dose of pseudoephedrine and hoped to use the resulting mental energy to get my state-machine I2C master code working, but I didn't get very far into it before I started having to do my Monday chores. I took the dogs for a walk down the Stick Trail (Neville stayed with me by Charlotte disappeared early and had her own distinct adventure), stopping to make minor fixes on the various stone walls along the way. Without Charlotte following me, I cut over at first opportunity to get over to the Chamomile Headwaters Trail, which was a stong-running brook from all the meltwater (that's how it got its name).
Back at the house, it wasn't even 4:00pm, but I started making dinner. I had some asparagus that wasn't getting any fresher and Gretchen had said something about wanting to eat something with rice. So I made a sort of stir fry with onions, mushrooms, tofu, asparagus, and broccoli. I wanted to use as much of those last two items as possible, so I only got rid of about an inch at the bottom of the asparagus and used nearly all of the broccoli stem as well, cutting it into little pieces like celery. But it turns out that there's a sound reason one throws away more of the asparagus than that; there ended up being so much chewy, stringy asparagus in the resulting stir fry (which was otherwise good) that Gretchen found herself spitting it out (like a bay leaf) when she was later eating it. I just chewed it up and swallowed. Dietary fiber is good for you!
Between getting home and eating dinner, Gretchen wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather by going for a walk (with the dogs of course) up the Farm Road and back. [REDACTED]
To buy myself booze-drinking rights, I decided to paint a small painting of a hovering hummingbird. The results were creepy and not exactly what I wanted. Maybe it needs a flower or something.
Neville and Charlotte sunning themselves in the driveway. Click to enlarge.
Northbound geese overhead. Click to enlarge.
Using my zoom lens to see the geese in detail. Click to enlarge.
Creepy hummingbird painting. Click to enlarge.
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