beautiful stock. all the scraps plus garlic, cardamon, some potato, onion, radishes, peppercorns, cloves, thyme and the crazy hottest of all hot sauces that i bought seven months ago, the one which i cannot stand using more than one drop, i added about eight drops since it was about five litres of stock. reduced by a third and then blended all those weary boiled to death chunks, then strained, then presto and placed half in the freezer. new kombucha. pineapple, oranges, mango and maple syrup. please don’t explode in two days. watched some youtube videos about eating and collecting dandelions, i’m hooked. working on a song about feeling as though one is living in groundhog day, as though everyone else also is living the groundhog day phenomena, same problems in perpetuity despite one’s attempt to take a different road. looking for a chorus that feels right. that’s a whole other problem. today, while walking in high park, passed someone walking their dog. dog went around a pole which frustrated the human. i don’t think for a minute that dogs view leashes and humans the way we do. pretty sure dog thinks leash a separate living thing that pulls at dog and human is just coincidentally nearby leash. this particular human was annoyed, show their displeasure pulling the dog back around the pole. in their imagination they are teaching the dog to think about the human and what’s inconvenient for the human. i think they will be in groundhog day longer than me and i’ve been here a long long time already. i prefer humans who use leashes that don’t yank at the dog’s neck. also prefer humans who alter their path and change course to accommodate how the dog went around the pole.