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For today’s dinner I made chicken in oven. As usually, I improvise. It turned out really good. Alas, not something that happens every time, even if total failures rarely occur 😉 I mixed the following: Saffron Grated fresh ginger Dried chili flakes Ground black and white pepper. Chopped garlic Sultana raisins Salt Ground cumin seed …
If this is your first time here, I suggest you first read my general post about distrohopping. 🙂 WattOS is a distribution based on Ubuntu with the LXDE desktop environment (as e.g. Lubuntu is, too). A more lightweight system, that consumes less Watt. The default install is a fully functional system, but with rather few …
I’ve written about cranes in autumn and spring. Today I heard and saw the cranes’ southward migration for the first time this year. It was a big V-formation (skein) of about fifty birds. In Swedish we call it "plog" ("plow") formation. They do plow through the air, abandoning us ground dwellers for greener pastures. I …
One of the most famous songs with a month in the title is September Song by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson. A beautiful song, written in 1938, and recorded many times. I love Lotte Lenya’s version from 1957. Lenya was married to Weill (twice!). Weill is perhaps most well known for the Threepenny …
If this is your first time here, it can be a good idea to first read my general post about distrohopping. Among the people using the Distrowatch site, Linux Mint has for some time been the most popular GNU/Linux distribution, passing the long time favorite Ubuntu. Other varieties of Ubuntu comes quite high on the …
Like many others, I got myself a Raspberry Pi. I have tried it out a bit so far, and will probably write some more about it. Like many others, I also built a case of lego for it. It was simply the easiest way for me to enclose it. I am not sure lego is …
This morning I heard a sound from outside, a short growl. I suspected it was a deer, and surely it was. It sounds more like a carnivore, surprisingly deep and rough for a small grass-eater. There were three deer. I went out on porch, and they looked at me, but stayed. Hey, that’s our plants!! …
If this is your first time here, I suggest you first read my general post about distrohopping. 🙂 It’s been a while since I tried another distro. Now I have been running Zorin OS a few days to get a glimpse of it. It is based on Ubuntu, with a UI bult on GNOME3, but …
This is the season for berries, both wild and domestic. It is an ok year, except for cherries (almost none in garden). Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is abundant in forest, even if this year it has been less than usual. Bilberry is a very typical plant for the pine and fir forests, as long as they …
After the coolest, rainiest summer in memory, there has been no rain and even sunshine (omg) for two days now. Even above 20 degrees (Celsius). A few days ago, there was a nice rainbow, just after some raining. It went all the way, from ground to ground like an arch. There was also a second, …
One of my first posts on this blog was about a sure autumn sign: the cranes moving south. Now it is spring, and the cranes have been on their way north from Spain and Northern Africa, respectively. Their last big stop is the lake Hornborgasjön. More than ten thousand gather to "dance" and probably also …
Today I found quite many Hepatica in our garden. That is unusally early. I do not think I saw them in March any other year. The common Hepatica (Anemone hepatica, formerly Hepatica nobilis) is one of the first wild flowers here in spring. It is common around where I live, but quite rare in many …