Potato cake, fried egg, ham, planted arbol chile seeds

The dirt must stay warm, summertime warm, all through the night and the seeds given ten days. Sometimes the seeds germinate faster than that, sometimes longer. Some seeds are on the surface the rest mixed to varying depths, all very shallow to 1/4 inch. 

Today is January 3rd so we will not start to become anxious until the 13th. The pot is set by a 100 W incandescent lamp, the entire clay pot is warm. Arbol plants are hardly worth the trouble. The plants are scraggly and not so attractive and the chile is not very hot at all. The flavor is good so they have that going for them. This whole sack of chile pods cost $1.50, I think, and the seeds alone through a catalog will be a few dollars for ten or so seeds.  

These pods have a faint roasted aroma and I am counting on the seeds not being damaged by heat. I think they'd say so on the label if they were roasted because it is some cost and some bother to roast them. 

Potato cake, roasted chicken, egg

Roasted chicken from yesterday. Mashed potato from yesterday. Egg from when I do not know. Thinking about eggs makes me sad.

If I had chickens, they would each be provided their own little box with hay in it just like in the cartoons. A personal cell within the chicken collective. That reminds me, do you know why proper chicken coops have two doors?

For cross ventilation?  

Chickens dislike feeling trapped?

One for the human the other for the chickens?

Building code standards demand two exits? 

Makes escaping an invading predator easier?

No. None of these reasons. The reason is because if it had four doors then it would be a sedan.

Potato cake

Potato cake made from held over cheese mashed potatoes made earlier. Sauce from canned tomato sauce purchased under the mistaken impression they were stewed tomatoes. Enhanced with sweated diced onion and crushed garlic with a few drops of Worcestershire sauce, and a little chiffonade basil.