Field Adventure

Breakfast was homegrown today and there was not a sense of urgency in its preparation. I was up early and took my time crafting a delightful repaste. I was down to the last few eggs when I started with no real plan to get more. Generally my food shops are guided by the Family Feasts but they’re paused for now so I’m off kilter. Making up for it were these supple breakfast samidges. It was a few minutes after eight when I made my way to the helm for a morning of effort.

Today was planned to be an adventure in the field. I was going to visit one of our internal locations and then visit with a customer for most of the afternoon. I’d locked in those plans and I was trying to find a couple hours in the morning to see another customer but they bailed basically when we were supposed to meet. Not much notice there. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The fires I stirred up yesterday seem to have caught and my morning turned from a leisurely drive to see some plots to an inferno of questions and emails. I had to push back my planned departure time and then I had to do it again. Eventually I had to cut out the visit to the internal site altogether. I left with only minutes to spare and the need to make up some time on the drive. I got a McLunch on the way out of town and drove for over ninety minutes to reach my destination. I went with a customer to some plots and they showed me how a favour I did for them in the spring was paying off and helping their business, that was nice to see. Then we convoyed to a plot where they wanted me to see a few things and where I wanted to chat about their portfolio and generally catch up. It had been over a year since I’d seen them. We exchanged some hot goss and had some good conversations. What they wanted me to see is pictured below, some Sudden Death Syndrome symptons on the right and a clear line where the next plot starts and there are no symptoms. The catch is that both plots are the same variety. There is a treatment difference. We walked all the way to the trees back there while trying to discern what it could be and looking for other signs of the disease. It was awesome!

We looked at some corn before calling it a day. They had to get home by a certain time to bring their kids places. I didn’t have that issue and seriously considered ripping down to the lake just to look at it. I was wishing I’d had thrown my rod and reel in. But I also had responsibilities this evening so I turned the truck towards home and pushed down hard on the accelerator. I got home around six from my outing and started into my dinner. The meal board wanted me to make coconut shrimp from the air fryer cookbook. I complied reluctantly. I used smaller shrimp than suggested because I wanted to use it up and that meant I had to do a lot more breading. This recipe has three bowls in the breading line so it took me quite a while to get enough ready to go in the basket. Then I prepared another batch while the others cooked. They look less burned in the photo below. They were perfectly done and I ate nearly everything you see here. The dip wasn’t the one suggested in the recipe but rather some chipotle mayo that I’d bought. It was adequate for the purpose.

After an exhaustive cleanup and with a gut full of shrimp I started to prepare for D&D. I thought I would be much tighter for time but it seemed to work out beautifully for me. I had some time to look a couple of things for future plans and answer some personal emails before converting my mind over to the game. We had a great session, we were still in the midst of our encounter and moved things along. One of the party pulled out a seemingly worthless spell to save the day. I was very afraid at one point having made a somewhat brash decision for my character. He was definitely in the crosshairs and got messed up really bad. I was able to limp away and get myself partially healed, avoiding death for now. I’m optimistic that we’ll be able to accomplish our goal and get the hell out of there next time. It will likely take us three sessions to do this encounter that is probably only supposed to take one but that’s the fun of it, you never know what is going to happen. I was pretty wired from the game so didn’t go to sleep right away, it was probably half eleven when I finally faded to black. Fun day!