Jeff Smith

@sumisu3.bsky.social

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Sauna サウナ, wine, craft beer, 日本酒, BBQ, chilis, hops farmer and home brewer, guitar, French horn, Flügelhorn, jazz, Irish Setters, vinyl & books. 30+ yrs IT. Finnish/German/Chicagoan in NZ via Japan. @sumisu@famichiki.jp and @sumisu3@mastodon.beer

Cavalier, Golden Retriever and Irish Setter are curled up together, partly on top of each other, on a dog bed.
Detroit style pizza in a rectangular pan
ćevapčići - small torpedo shaped sausages/meat balls. Grilled and stacked on a round plate. One small pita is on the edge of the plate and along side is a small plate of sliced red onions
Rectangular pizza. Already baked. Can see the nice crispy pepperoni, sauce and even the crispy edges from the cheese.
The previous looking through the rainbow but at a wider angle that shows more of the dark sky outside of the rainbow
A rainbow that appears quite nearby and you can nearly see the entire arc of the rainbow. Inside the arc it is looks like a normal sunny day. Outside of the arc of the rainbow it is heavy gray clouds
A slender fountain pen case slightly opened to reveal two pens inside, one black and one blue. The case is mostly in a dark urushi finish with the red around the edges/seams.
Screenshot of photo of some guy (I assume the Z Energy boss) and the headline “ Z Energy boss on why NZ dodged fuel shortages — and why pump prices may stay high for a while” He is trying to look honest in this photo I suppose - and casual, like higher fuel prices are no big deal and that we should all be grateful that his tribe saved us from running out of fuel
Five slices of pastrami off the end of one piece of the brisket after brining, spices and smoking
A page from American Nations with the following highlighted: Congress passec the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 by the slimmest of margins, with Yankees and Deep Southerners in favor, and Appalachian representatives deeply opposed. The acts granted the president the right to expel any foreigner or unnaturalized immigrant or to arrest anyone born in a hostile country at will. The acts also increased the number of years of residency required for citizenship from four to fifteen. Meanwhile, anyon who spoke, wrote, or published anything against the govern-ment, Congress, or the president that might bring them "into contempt or disrepute" or that might be considered "scandalou and malicious" would be subject to up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
More than a dozen, not all visible, peacocks and peahens working their way through a paddock
Looking into stone mortar at a blend of chilis, coriander, onion and garlic in a liquid of lime juice and olive oil
Three large cuts of beef brisket on a white cutting board and my great grandfather’s (>100 year old) butchering knife on the front edge of the cutting board. Bottom piece of brisket is the point and the two pieces on top are the flat cut in half.
Silence of the Gods opened to the last page of the main text of the left and the first page of the Bibliography on the right. My glasses are on the left side page.
Orange and pink/purple hues sunrise looking toward Little Barrier
Text from part of Silence of the Gods by Francis Young “If the Prussians really were trying to wash baptism away, this represented something different from mere ignorance of Christianity - it was a conscious and outward rejection of a Christian identity through a counter-ritual. However, Gouguenheim argues that Bishop Jung (and Henry of Livonia, who described similar practices at an earlier date) may have mistaken the use of water in saunas as a kind of 'pagan baptism'.”
An Irish Setter on the floor, facing up with ears splayed like a bat
POPS FAVORITE PISH By - Louis and Lucille Armstrong CREOLE RED BEANS (KIDNEY) AND RICE (Use 2 gt. pot with cover) 11b. Kidney Beans 1/2 lb. Salt Pork (Strip of lean, strip of fat) (Slab Bacon may be used if preferred) 1 small can of tomato sauce (if desired) 6 small Ham Hocks or one smoked Pork Butt 2 onions diced 1/4 green (bell) pepper 5 tiny or 2 medium dried peppers 1 clove garlic - chopped Salt to taste. PREPARATION Wash beans thoroughly, then soak over night in cold water. Be sure to cover beans, To cook, pour water off beans, add fresh water to cover. Add salt pork or bacon, let come to a boil over full flame in covered pot. Turn flame down to slightly higher than low and let cook one and one-half hours. Add diced onions, bell pepper, garlic, dried peppers and salt. Cook three hours. Add tomato sauce, cook one and one-half hours more, adding water whenever necessary. Beans and meat should always be just covered with water (juice), never dry. This serves 6 or more persons..... To prepare with Ham Hocks or Pork Butts..... Wash meat, add water to cover and let come to a boil in covered pot over medium flame. Cook one and one- half hours. Then add beans (pour water off), add rest of ingredients to meat. Cook four and one- half hours. Add water when necessary. SUGGESTIONS For non pork eaters, chicken fat may be used instead of salt pork. Corned beef or beef tongue may be used instead of ham hocks or butts. RICE 2 cups white rice 2 cups water One teaspoon of salt One pot with cover Wash rice thoroughly, have water and salt come to a boil. Add rice to boiling water. Cook until rice swells and water is almost evaporated. Cover and turn flame down low. Cook until rice is grainy. To insure grainy rice, always use one and one-half cups water to one cup of rice....."To serve" On dinner plate -- Rice then beans, either over rice or beside rice as preferred. •.. Twenty minutes later -- Bisma Rex and Swiss Kriss.
Doug the dog from the movie Up! Squirrel
2004 Torre Muga Rioja
The previous lasagna now baked with beautifully browned, crispy cheese on top.
Quarter sheet chaffing pan with unbaked lasagna. Shredded cheese and pieces of mozzarella spread across the top.
Scene from Hitchcock’s The Birds with all the birds roosting.
As described in the post - in a small bowl
oblong dark pottery plate with a stuffed pickled eggplant and a few mushrooms. A glass of wine and the wine bottle
Three sections of brined and then smoked pork belly (aka bacon) on a quarter sheet pan. This will get cut into smaller portions, vacuum packed and frozen. That is - what I can protect my son
A glass bowl of salsa made with chopped and somewhat mashed persimmons and onions. Small flecks of coriander but I couldn’t find much in the garden so very sparse.
Orange and pink sunset with a dark view of a rose garden in the foreground
Big Lebowski scene - robe while buying (and drinking) half & half at the grocery store
Dark beer wort in a 2L Erlenmeyer flask
Right to left: A brew kettle on an LPG burner (will pull that out when I use it - mostly for the long boil of the Pilsner Urquell). Grainfather G40 and an induction plate with a stainless steel stockpot on low metal shelving. Counterflow chiller on a shelf on the wall. My old G30 (on a small wooden wheeled platform) that I use to heat sparge water (the built in pump makes sparging a breeze. Further to the left are two conical fermenters. Various buckets in the foreground
A stack of 30 flour tortillas on a towel
Golden Retriever head and front feet on wood grain looking ceramic tile
Persian art from NY Met Museum
Jack Sparrow stepping off the Black Pearl as it sinks next to the dock
The counter at Banh Mi Phuoc with all the ingredients in the glass case - various meats, lettuce, cucumbers, herbs
Charlton Heston from the movie The Ten Commandments
Vacuum packs of hops in a stainless steel bowl
Papa Smurf in front of a fireplace
20L bucket nearly full of hops
Some of the fresh hops on metal drying rack ready to go into the dehydrator
Large stainless steel bowl of fresh hops
Green Hatch chilis in a stainless steel bowl on the left and a mix of red and green small chilis, Sport chilis, in a more shallow but much wider stainless steel bowl
Two mostly white small ceramic bowls. On the left is a cucumber pickle with myoga and on the right is the eggplant pickle with myoga.
Cutting board with a knife in the left edge, half of a cucumber, two eggplants, some sliced myoga and a pile of whole myoga
Chrome gives you two solid approaches. First, Chrome supports multiple profiles natively and each profile maintains its own language settings. You can create a "Japanese" profile with Japanese set as the primary language under Settings → Languages, and switch between profiles easily via the profile icon in the top-right corner. This is the cleanest solution for a bilingual workflow. Second, Chrome has extensions that let you override the Accept-Language header on a per-site basis. The extension "Quick Language Switcher" or "Locale Switcher" allow you to set language preferences by domain, so visiting, say, nintendo.co.jp could automatically signal Japanese preference while your default stays English. These are worth evaluating to see which is currently maintained and best-rated in the Chrome Web Store.
Scene from Indiana Jones when they are kidnapping Marian and she screams from inside the large basket “you can’t do this to me I’m an American”
Water running and filling up an outdoor bath tub for cold plunge
screenshot of a table from a website "en.wikipapia.org" showing a list of political positions and names. The table has columns for No., JD Vance, and Party. Key rows include: 2. Vice President: Mike Johnson, Marco (Republican); 3. Speaker of State: Chuck Grassely (Republican); 6. Secretary of State: Pete Hegseth; 9. Attorney General: Doug Burgum, Pam Bondi (Republican); 10. Secretary of Agriculture: Brooke Rollins, Howard Lutnick (Republican); 13. Secretary of Houing: Lori Chavez-Delemer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Independant).
A mostly white flat bowl with cut tomatoes. Some are red and some are more orange. Both are a variety called Chef’s Choice (a hybrid instead of heirloom but currently my favorite and most successful variety over the last couple of years). To the left is a small dish of soy sauce and an even small dish of wasabi. The white bowl has cute cats and sakura pattern in blue as sort of sets of lines across the bowl
An Irish Setter with a “comb over”
A Timothy Taylor branded glass filled with golden colored but cloudy beer and just over 1cm of foam. A cloudy, stormy sky in the background
Five round pieces of daikon already dark brown and glistening from the sauce. Arranged in a round Japanese bowl that is primarily white with vertical dark blue lines running from the edge to the center.
Brightly colored hammock, predominantly yellow (turmeric-ish color) with stripes of greens, blues and purples woven with some patterns of fish in the stripes. The hammock is stretch between two olive trees and the photo shows one end connected to a tree as the photo is taken while laying in the hammock
Looking up into the leafy branches of two olive trees with the sun coming through in the upper left corner of the photo. The sky behind is clear and blue.
Looking into a 20L orange bucket of milled grain/malt.
Collection of grilled small fish (shishamo), stewed kelp wrapped cod fish eggs, Japanese pickles, sliced tomatoes, and slic d cucumbers
Irish Setter sitting so his neck and head are in the photo. The hair on the top of his head is lighter color and all disheveled.
A cute small size red tractor behind glass in a showroom immediately across the street from the Yaesu exit of Tokyo train station
Ginko nuts tempura with some salt. Some sprigs of daikon sprouts on top also