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I'm taking an ash tree down on my property next week and I'm gonna build a work bench with it. I want it to be a hefty boy, so I'm going the roubo route.

Question is, since I can ask the mill for specific cuts, is there any reason I shouldn't just get one monstrous 6" slab from the middle of the trunk and use it?

I found this liverwort growing up against some landscaping bricks at my house. I've taken thousands of pictures of moss, but this is the only wild liverwort I've seen

I don't know if saying something is cool moves beyond the appropriate dullness, but........ it's cool

I like taking pictures of moss and it's relatives because it forces you to slow down and look at very small details, and there's a whole world of complexity right under our feet, you just have to look for it

This is dusty, he's a very very patient boy, part maine coon we think

First time in a long time I've made the tartine country loaf and actually followed the recipe. God, it's so good. The way the dough feels, the sheen on the crust, the smell is incredible, just an absolutely fantastic recipe

(I will admit they look pretty underproofed, this recipe usually doesn't have that vigorous of oven spring or a big ear, but I was impatient)

My shaping was also mediocre at best

Loaf 1: 15 hour cold proof

Loaf 2: 16ish hours

Moved across the country recently, the new oven is tiny and ancient, but on the second try, I had a good outcome!

These loaves had no recipe, flying completely by the seat of my pants, with very young, arguably not ready starter.

850g bread flour 70g whole wheat 80g wheat germ 400g young, questionable starter 700g water Small pinch active dry yeast to supplement the poor starter

Mixed all, 20min autolyse

Mixed 21g salt in 50g water then added to the dough.

Three folds over the first couple hours. Total bulk ferment was maybe.....four hours? At which point I preheated the oven for one loaf and put the other on the fridge until around noon the next day, so around 18 hours in the fridge.

First loaf, no fridge time

Second loaf

Found a liverwort in the wild, by one of my flower patches!

I find it fascinating, but also a little unsettling, that I can moss leaves are one cell thick but I can still see them with the naked eye.

There's a whole world down there, that i never really thought about until a week ago.

I spent the last six months anxiously awaiting the bountiful bloom of what I believed were gaillardia pulchella, or blanket flowers

Come to find out they're lance-leaf coreopsis, but it's still a good number of flowers, and the locals appreciate them either way

We're moving in a few weeks, so I'm in a baking frenzy making stuff for people who have/are/will be helping out

And that, right there, is why I garden.

Anyone know how long this little Gaillardia pulchella, firewheel guy will take to go from where it's at, to fully bloomed?