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Ken Jenning's start
Saturday, March 21 2026
I took a recreational 120mg dose of pseudoephedrine this morning with my Saturday coffee and then, while Gretchen was off walking Charlotte, I went into the nearby forest along the Stick Trail to gather some cured (but recently rained on) dead chestnut oak I'd cut up yesterday. As I have been doing of late, though, I also did some work on the Chamomile Wall while I was out, adding a second parallel wall to the thin wall at its western end and then using long narrow "sticks" of bluestone like rafters to connect (and greatly stabilize) the two walls. (I've found that a completely hollow wall is very stable so long as there is a mass of rock connecting the two and pressing down on both simultaneously.) I did two similar forays, both resulting in wall work and a gathered backpack of seasoned chestnut oak.
At some point this afternoon, Gretchen and I watched a special old episode of Jeopardy! dating to June 2, 2004. This was the first game a youngish Ken Jennings played before he went on to win the game more times than anyone before or since. We chuckled at how dated the set was and how unfunny Alex Trebek was (Ken Jennings these days is a much better host). But we also marveled that Jenning's first game was a bit more of a squeaker than expected. Had he lost that one game, we'd be living in a very different world (at least in terms of Jeopardy!.
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This evening, Gretchen made a rice dish with pigeon peas, which she served with home-cooked red beans (not from a can!) and roasted cabbage. We watched a contemporary Jeopardy! and then the Christmas 2022 special episode of Detectorists. It was 75 minutes long, so more of a movie than the television series had been. It also crapped all over the good things that final episode of the series had left us with, but then it gave us something a bit absurd (but potentially special) to replace it with.
To "purchase" a booze-drinking indulgence for tonight, I painted a simple painting of a jellyfish using an illustration from the Peterson Guide to the Atlantic Seashore as the basis. I have a particular fondness, as you may recall, for sea creatures on a field of black and am perfectly happy rendering them with nothing more than white lines and dots.
Today's jellyfish painting. Click to enlarge.
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