K and I have been taking bike rides on weekend mornings for the last few weeks. Last week we set a goal of reaching a local park that's about 4 miles away but didn't quite make it.
The route includes an arching bridge over the freeway and it's a pretty big hill. K was concerned that she wouldn't be able to make it back home so we turned around early. Not this week. This week we made it all the way to the park!
As you can see in the photo behind K there are dancing bunnies. They don't look very big in the photo, but they are about 30 foot tall cast metal bunnies. Just below the surface of the bunnies they are covered in old household items of every sort. Our goal next time is to actually get to the park with the bunnies and then go up the bunny hill so we'll take some detail pictures and post those too.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Victory at Bunny Hill!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Jalapenos!!
Well, we have used real ingredients from our garden!! We made our favorite tomatillo salsa the other day and were able to use our first jalapeno! M was so excited. M thinks that it was the best tomatillo salsa we have ever made.
Today, we used another jalapeno. We made some avocado coleslaw that needed a small jalapeno. We used one from our garden. Yeah :) That is some good going.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Stink-eee!!!
M and I received a chest freezer from M's parents a few weeks ago. We were very excited to have some extra freezer room in our basement. We got it all set up, plugged in. We let it get cold and laughed about how we had something in our basement that had cold air in it! In case you weren't sure, M and I are a little bit silly. We bought some salmon in bulk at the grocery store and put in the freezer. We made lasagna and put the leftovers in the freezer. We put a few other miscellaneous things in there as well.
I came home from work the other day and I walked into the house and there was a terrible smell. M proceeded to explain to me that the freezer died. It was pretty bad. We opted to go out to dinner instead of dealing with it. When we got home, we decided we had to deal with it or the whole house would smell. We carried it up the stairs from the basement. Any wafts of smell were unbelievably offensive. We got it out onto our back patio. M got rubber gloves and some garbage bags. We opened the freezer, it was awful. He was sooo brave. He reached into the freezer and pulled out the items. Grrrroooosss. It smelled so bad. He immediately closed the lid again as it was terrible. We double bagged the garbage bags and he was green. I thought he was going to lose it in the garden. We moved the freezer to the end of the patio so the water would flow out of the patio area. He had to remove a plug from the outside AND from the inside of the freezer to open the drainage pipe. We opened the lid and he went back in. I thought to myself it must be true love that he is not making me go in there! We borrowed bleach from our neighbor and dumped it in with a lot of water. Miraculously, it didn't take much. I was surprised how quickly the smell came out. The freezer is cleaned and back in the basement. Still broken but at least it doesn't smell!
I came home from work the other day and I walked into the house and there was a terrible smell. M proceeded to explain to me that the freezer died. It was pretty bad. We opted to go out to dinner instead of dealing with it. When we got home, we decided we had to deal with it or the whole house would smell. We carried it up the stairs from the basement. Any wafts of smell were unbelievably offensive. We got it out onto our back patio. M got rubber gloves and some garbage bags. We opened the freezer, it was awful. He was sooo brave. He reached into the freezer and pulled out the items. Grrrroooosss. It smelled so bad. He immediately closed the lid again as it was terrible. We double bagged the garbage bags and he was green. I thought he was going to lose it in the garden. We moved the freezer to the end of the patio so the water would flow out of the patio area. He had to remove a plug from the outside AND from the inside of the freezer to open the drainage pipe. We opened the lid and he went back in. I thought to myself it must be true love that he is not making me go in there! We borrowed bleach from our neighbor and dumped it in with a lot of water. Miraculously, it didn't take much. I was surprised how quickly the smell came out. The freezer is cleaned and back in the basement. Still broken but at least it doesn't smell!
Friendly exchange
M and I always play "one good thing" at dinner. That means we take time out to tell each other one good thing about our day. We have a rule that it cannot be something we just did together, it has to be something the other doesn't already know about that day.
The other day my one good thing was something that doesn't happen every day. I drive along Broad St. every day on my way home from work. The speed limit is 50 in most parts and I think 40 in others. I saw brake lights ahead of me in the right lane and all the cars were stopped so I started to break. I eventually came to a stop because the car in front of me was stopped. The lady in the car to my right was stuck behind about 15 Canada Goose (OK, I looked this up on Wikipedia and am always confused about how to make it plural... you get the idea!) who weren't really moving. When the car in front of me went (the goose were no longer blocking our lane) I waved her on as she had clearly been waiting longer than I had and was definitely not going anywhere soon. We came to a stop next to each other at the next light. She rolled down her window and said "Thank you very much". I said "Oh, you are very welcome". And that was the end of the interchange. It was nice to have a friendly exchange on the road instead of road rage. It made me smile and it was my one good thing.
The other day my one good thing was something that doesn't happen every day. I drive along Broad St. every day on my way home from work. The speed limit is 50 in most parts and I think 40 in others. I saw brake lights ahead of me in the right lane and all the cars were stopped so I started to break. I eventually came to a stop because the car in front of me was stopped. The lady in the car to my right was stuck behind about 15 Canada Goose (OK, I looked this up on Wikipedia and am always confused about how to make it plural... you get the idea!) who weren't really moving. When the car in front of me went (the goose were no longer blocking our lane) I waved her on as she had clearly been waiting longer than I had and was definitely not going anywhere soon. We came to a stop next to each other at the next light. She rolled down her window and said "Thank you very much". I said "Oh, you are very welcome". And that was the end of the interchange. It was nice to have a friendly exchange on the road instead of road rage. It made me smile and it was my one good thing.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
I Miss My Dad
We found out yesterday that our friend Bob's father passed away on Friday. He had the same kind of cancer that my father had. The short length of his illness was also very similar to my Dad's. It brought back so many thoughts and feelings of what I experienced just over a year ago. I'll sum it up with it's not fair.
I have written about 10 different versions of this post and keep deleting, typing something different, deleting... I don't know how to put what I am thinking and feeling into words that I am comfortable writing down or that would even make sense if I did. I guess I just wanted to say I miss my Dad.
Bob, I am so sorry for your loss, my heart goes out to you and your family.
I have written about 10 different versions of this post and keep deleting, typing something different, deleting... I don't know how to put what I am thinking and feeling into words that I am comfortable writing down or that would even make sense if I did. I guess I just wanted to say I miss my Dad.
Bob, I am so sorry for your loss, my heart goes out to you and your family.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Quality Time
We have been so busy lately that although we spend time together, M and I don't feel like very much of it has been quality time. Today, we made time to have quality time. We slept in... a little bit. After breakfast we headed for the Worthington Farmers Market. We walked around the market and saw many stands with vegetables and herbs, a few stands with local meats, flowers stands, and a few miscellaneous stands. We tasted some chutney which M thought tasted good but I don't think he was sure about what to use it for. When "Lady Chutney" mentioned cheese and sandwiches, she had herself a deal. M bought Hot Cilantro Chutney and is very excited about it. I think he might even use it in scrambled eggs. With each stand, we commented that "I can't wait until our zucchini grows" , "I'm so glad we grow our own basil", "I wonder when the tomatoes will grow. Ya know, they are about the size of my fingertip now." Yeah, like I had to tell M that. Like he didn't already know ;)
As we walked through the market, holding hands, M said to me he was glad to spend some quality time.
As we walked through the market, holding hands, M said to me he was glad to spend some quality time.
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