仕方がない
#208 it cannot be helped
I am back in the states after an extended period away; this time not as a visit. I have to set up shop again; build fresh using the remaining pieces that survive the transition.
Deliberate set up mostly.
What’s been done so far? Salvaging garden plants. The hopeful in question:
A toasted bay leaf plant
A twig that had been a olive tree
Several pepper plants and cuttings; jalapeno, bell, and shishito
A citrus plant?? I thought it was a pepper until I jabbed my finger on a thorn. It might just be a weed? Honestly, I can’t tell…
A dwarf peach tree with one leaf
What’s next?
Assess the space and build a planter
Get some seeds/starters for things like zucchini and tomatoes
Save and resprout scraps from veggies we buy at the store — more pepper seeds, onions and the other allium greens not buried, maybe some other stuff
Herbs
Not edible, but try to make some jade plant bansais
Ger my indoor plant game down — need to straighten out a some vases + get the low light jungle pals revitalized and ready to go.
Am I a plant guy? I’m getting there. I want to be. Taking Cohen’s Gardens back to the top (I have my grandma’s old business card from however long ago that was — 70s? 80s?).
More systems underway — workshop and office build out and plan, skills tracking & building agent + the actual skill building itself, some kind of cookbook, creating processes for the pantry/kitchen maintenance, and I’m sure a whole lot more.
I’d love to hear what kind of stuff you’ve got going so I can copy shamelessly :)
Hmm.. do I have any beer and circus recommendations this week? Not many; for the “beer” section I found a vermouth in Buenos Aires called Carpano that I was a fan of.
Circus we’ve got a bit less to pick through, but I’m digging the TV version of Man on Fire, like the Denzel movie but a mini series from Brazil on Netflix. Classic CIA guy gets called back into action story, except the guy sometimes looks like a cross between Kevin Durant and Kevin Hart, idk why though.
aannnnnnnnd these two old foreign screamo groups you’ll probably skip.
I shared live videos because that’s more fun.
More to come, I’m fighting off a cold, so I’m a little slim today… shikata ga nai.1
They say this all the time in Shogun. In the book it’s feudal Japan’s “it is what is is” or “what can ya do” — accepting fate.
Apparently shō ga nai is more useful in regular life/modern times. しょうがない. Go to Japan and bust this one out when something is sold out at 7/11 or something.