More apples
Sep. 29th, 2007 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoSo I studiously avoided stitching the hems in those two towels all day.
Went grocery shopping as usual, then went down the road to the orchard because the late variety apples were to be available today. They had Yellow Delicious, which are OK but not as strong flavored as I like. However, they also had the variety I was after, Melrose or Melreuge. This is a scarce variety in the US, and it's a pity. They are a huge apple, as big as both my fists together. The skin is crisp rather than tough like a Macintosh, and the flesh is pale yellow and crunchy, with lots of sweet yet slightly tart juice. They leave an after tingle in your mouth that suggests a little tannin if you'd had wine, but I suspect is malic acid. Anyway, they are nice to eat though a bit large. Made into pies or apple crisp though, they are spectacular. I bought a full peck, and Mrs. Rash insisted on adding a few more to the top of the bag so that it was overflowing. Nummy.
Ice cream was on sale at the grocery store, so I think pie a la mode is in the offing. I also like apples with sharp cheddar, and I have two pounds of that coming with the co-op order on Tuesday, hopefully.
Put Tess out in the pasture and did the barn chores, cleaning stalls, putting down new wood shavings. Then fed everyone just at sunset and came inside to make a pot of chili. Gary called and is having a good time up in Wisconsin. Sounds like he won't be back until Monday morning.
While cleaning up the boys' yard after putting them away for the night, I picked up a very flat chipmunk. It had obviously been stepped on by a horse, probably more than once. It was not where it could have fallen out of their hay, and seemed much too fresh for that anyway. I suppose a cat might have dropped it in there and the horses just stepped on it by accident. However, a friend of ours had a horse who used to deliberately squish mice in her stall, so I wonder...
In between all this I was monitoring the six machines that are running BOINC in their idle times. About six work units completed for SETI@Home, and their server was down all afternoon and not taking results. However, that logjam seems to have cleared now and all the results went through, only to be held as "pending" while they await confirmation from another machine that will have run the same set of data. Consequently my scores are in for a big boost when all that gets approved. Two or three work units for WCG also completed, and the first (slow) Alpha that I started on Tuesday night is probably going to finish up its results before midnight. I'm still juggling projects around trying to figure out which machines can best handle them. The two Alphas have to run SETI, as it is the only project with a client that runs on the Alpha processor, but the other machines can run a mix or a single heavier project if desired. My home machine turns out to be the fastest, by a little bit, but I'm reluctant to load it down with something like CPDN that I can't cancel later without losing the credit for a long run.
That chili should be about ready now, so I'm gone. XD
Went grocery shopping as usual, then went down the road to the orchard because the late variety apples were to be available today. They had Yellow Delicious, which are OK but not as strong flavored as I like. However, they also had the variety I was after, Melrose or Melreuge. This is a scarce variety in the US, and it's a pity. They are a huge apple, as big as both my fists together. The skin is crisp rather than tough like a Macintosh, and the flesh is pale yellow and crunchy, with lots of sweet yet slightly tart juice. They leave an after tingle in your mouth that suggests a little tannin if you'd had wine, but I suspect is malic acid. Anyway, they are nice to eat though a bit large. Made into pies or apple crisp though, they are spectacular. I bought a full peck, and Mrs. Rash insisted on adding a few more to the top of the bag so that it was overflowing. Nummy.
Ice cream was on sale at the grocery store, so I think pie a la mode is in the offing. I also like apples with sharp cheddar, and I have two pounds of that coming with the co-op order on Tuesday, hopefully.
Put Tess out in the pasture and did the barn chores, cleaning stalls, putting down new wood shavings. Then fed everyone just at sunset and came inside to make a pot of chili. Gary called and is having a good time up in Wisconsin. Sounds like he won't be back until Monday morning.
While cleaning up the boys' yard after putting them away for the night, I picked up a very flat chipmunk. It had obviously been stepped on by a horse, probably more than once. It was not where it could have fallen out of their hay, and seemed much too fresh for that anyway. I suppose a cat might have dropped it in there and the horses just stepped on it by accident. However, a friend of ours had a horse who used to deliberately squish mice in her stall, so I wonder...
In between all this I was monitoring the six machines that are running BOINC in their idle times. About six work units completed for SETI@Home, and their server was down all afternoon and not taking results. However, that logjam seems to have cleared now and all the results went through, only to be held as "pending" while they await confirmation from another machine that will have run the same set of data. Consequently my scores are in for a big boost when all that gets approved. Two or three work units for WCG also completed, and the first (slow) Alpha that I started on Tuesday night is probably going to finish up its results before midnight. I'm still juggling projects around trying to figure out which machines can best handle them. The two Alphas have to run SETI, as it is the only project with a client that runs on the Alpha processor, but the other machines can run a mix or a single heavier project if desired. My home machine turns out to be the fastest, by a little bit, but I'm reluctant to load it down with something like CPDN that I can't cancel later without losing the credit for a long run.
That chili should be about ready now, so I'm gone. XD
