daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
Today we had some fun clouds roll through so I set up my camera for a time-lapse. You can see it below. The still image wasn’t very interesting so I decided to choose a filter in Silver Efex Pro to make it a bit more dramatic. 😊
I hope you had a good day!
Curry Nights are the best! ❤カレーライス
Lots of heat in this one. The eggs don’t look so great (a bit too hard and the eggshells stuck!) but they were yummy. As usual, I ate too much. 😋
A bit of bad news today: my bike is out of action for a few weeks.
I usually keep my bike in the garage, in front of my car. We have a 2-by-4 on the ground to keep the car going too far and hitting the bike, but a normally-careful teen driver in our household came in too fast and went over the wood and plowed into my bike, pinning the wheel against the small curb in our garage. I was in my home office when I heard the crash, and I initially thought he just knocked the bike over, but upon closer inspection, I noticed that the wheel was “tacoed”, which means bent in the shape of a taco.
I took the wheel to the bicycle shop and they said it was beyond repair and unfortunately they wouldn’t have any replacement wheels for two months. 😮 If you didn’t know, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge demand for bicycles and subsequent shortage available bikes. And that shortage also extends to bicycle parts. Luckily I was able to find a rim on Ebay that appears to have the same dimensions as my damaged one, so I am hoping it will be any easy swap. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it won’t arrive for another week-and-a-half, which means no evening bicycle rides for a while. 😞
Still, in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a huge (nor expensive) deal. And it’s the first damage that my 20-year-old bicycle has suffered, so I should consider myself fortunate!
Let’s hope the day improves! 😋
Now that Mariko has a really awesome pizza dough recipe, we’ve been enjoying a lot of pies lately. Tonight’s pizzas were a nice Margherita and also a half Gorgonzola/pear/honey and barbecue brisket pizza. They were all so tasty, but my favorite was the simple Margherita. I think it was because the crust was a little crispier than the half and half. Oh how I love pizza nights! ❤🍕
While on my evening bicycle ride, I spotted some strange clouds off in the distance I. We occasionally have wildfires here in central Texas, but after checking the news, the nearest one was in a different direction. So, it’s kind of a mystery what these were.
Surprisingly, I still see new and interesting things while riding around the neighborhood. This cool Volkswagen bus mailbox caught my eye. Mariko loves the old VWs, so I had to stop and take a photo. 😀
I hope you had a nice and safe day! またね～
