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Pretty busy day so far. We took a long walk downtown and had hot sandwiches for lunch (1/2 Reuben here), then coffee at the usual place, then walked home, all without getting rained on.
Brian mowed the lawn and pulled weeds, I went grocery shopping and got a whole bunch of good food for the week. The Farmer’s Market yesterday was a disappointment — nothing is really ripe yet around here, so it was all stuff like cheese and coffee and a few young plants for gardeners, but I didn’t feel ready to buy a strawberry plant just yet. So I settled for supermarket produce, plenty of it, including organic carrots with greens still attached, brown mushrooms, small fuji apples, a sweet Texas yellow onion. I also stocked up on things missing from our pantry like peanut satay sauce, coconut milk, and dried tarragon in bulk. Buying dried herbs and spices in bulk is truly the only way to go. The product is fresher, and I can get what amounts to an entire bottle of it for about 30 cents every time.
At the deli/bakery, I got some fresh feta, gherkins, and pitted italian olives, and was lucky to get a huge sample of superdark chocolate cake. It was soooo good. Didn’t buy one, but probably will next time we have dinner guests. Which will be soon I hope! No one has even seen our house yet 🙁 Except the cable guy.
John Adams ends tonight, alas. If you haven’t been able to see it and are interested in American history, you should try to find a way, or wait to Netflix it. I listened to a commentary on NPR recently about what a shame it is that HBO was the only network to produce this film, because if a major network had wanted it, more people would have gotten a little mini-education. But then again, I can’t imagine how some network like CBS couldn’t have fucked this up to appease sponsors.
Oh one last thing, I had some weird dreams this morning, as one does when one wakes up at 5:30 and then drifts in and out of sleep for the next three or four hours. Something about navigating my way home through a swarm of bumblebees, and noticing that the dandelions nearby were about ten feet tall. Oh and I went to Starbucks and the person in line behind me was Beyonce Knowles. No one seemed to really notice or care. What the heck was I doing at Starbucks? Hmmmmmm.
I don’t know what’s wrong with us but we lost interest in John Adams and I’ve been deleting eps since about the 3rd one or so. Steve is driven mad by the crazy camera angles.
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with you, you hate America, obvs
I am not interested in any historical American who is not from Illinois.
we’ll have to wait for netflix as we don’t have cable let alone the lovely hbo. there are things i miss about no cable & hbo is one of them. mostly though i miss comedy central and watching the daily show.
we went to a farmer’s market in alaska in may and all you could really buy was handmade stuff like soap and potholders and candles. i guess i don’t know why i would have expected something amazing when it was barely getting above freezing but it was mildly disappointing so i can understand what you went through! i’ve only been to the farmer’s market here once and it was pretty good but it’s out of the way .
“farmer’s market in Alaska” amuses me, even though I know lots of produce grows there, just not the kind people here are used to. I know zillions of blueberries grow there in the summer.
Our huge monster farmer’s market opens in 2 weeks. For the first month or so, it’s almost all plants, and stuff like eggs, cheese, honey, and apples/cider. I get to dig/do a whole new garden bed at Jesse’s, though, so I am stoked on the plants.
I very much want to plant carrots. I hope I am not too late.