Cats and grilling and stuff

Up until Friday, I didn't have any games installed on my phone. Now, I have Neko Atsume both on my phone and my iPad. If I were a game developer, this is exactly what I would have come up with.

The premise is simple. You leave food and toys in your yard to attract cats. You buy food and toys with fish. Cats come to visit and leave fish as gifts for you. You can then purchase more food and toys. And just like in real life, you can take photos of the cats when they come and keep them in your kitty albums. Neko Atsume is utterly pointless, and completely charming.

Here you can see that I really care for my cats, as I've put out expensive food with bonito for them.

Aside from knitting on my fawncho (I'm on the last few rounds but have a serious yarn shortage situation) and reading Swann's Way on the deck, I've also been continuing to try to learn to use the barbeque. I'm aided in this in part with weird recipes from Bon Appetit. Brined and grilled radishes and carrots anyone? Marinated and grilled kale? How about putting halloumi directly on the grill, where it will stick? There have been a few modest successes though. I liked wrapping a block of feta in tinfoil, with a drizzle of olive oil, a bit of honey, thyme and pepper, and then serving the grilled feta with bread. Yesterday I learned that grilled asparagus is pretty tasty when tossed with a squeeze of lemon juice, a squirt of grainy mustard, and some salt and pepper. Next up: hot dogs, and marinated eggplant. Grilled pizza, however, is so last summer (to Jeff's relief).