garden awesomeness 5

There’s something new in the garden every single day. baby tomato! baby banana pepper! squash blossoms baby broccoli! corn, nearly a foot tall beets on a pile of spinach dinner makings The spinach has bolted, so I finally gave in and pulled all the plants. It took almost an hour to clean it all, dry it, and package it in ...

the sun shines for you today 1

I love summer, despite it being the reason I can’t keep up with my typing. There’s a lot going on! In out-and-about news, we went to watch a bunch of our friends play softball in a park in Minneapolis that didn’t allow beer (that was way more traumatic to them than their mercy-rule loss), hung out on the patio (sidewalk) ...

wednesday picture edition

Incidentally, I decided to do Project 365 this year to force myself to take photos more regularly. I think it’s working.

and the livin’ is easy 2

We went all crazy with the birthday gift cards last night. The Target one landed season 3 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia* and some solar pathway lights for our sidewalk. The Bachmans gift card bought me a bunch of flowers to put in the galvanized planters we got at CB2 in Chicago. (Did you notice that Matt managed to ...