the time for being outside is near.

It’s Thursday, which is my Friday, and tonight is the Draft Party. Assuming everyone survives that, we’ll be heading eastward to camp tomorrow! Tuesday night, Matt and I saw Toots and the Maytals at First Ave. I won their trivia contest, too, which meant we won a table on the balcony. SCORE. The show was amazing, and in keeping with ...

pressure drop

Check out the pimp-ass water bottle I got at Target Field. Ok, it’s really not that pimp, but I like free stuff! The game was ridiculous: 7-0 Twins at the bottom of the first. 15-3 final. How the Brewers managed to take a game in that series, I have no idea. The Twins are pretty sweep-adverse, it seems. After the ...

i wanted to camp in the yard. 2

I got morel mushrooms at the farmers market yesterday, so there was this for dinner: We made three little pizzas on the grill, actually. The first was based on this awesome recipe, with the addition of red sauce and frizzled sage from the garden. There was also a margherita pizza, and one Matt made with pepperoni and pineapple. I used ...

beer that tastes like s’mores!

Last night, we did the last of the planting in the garden (well, til I get to the farmers’ market over lunch today), and went to Stub and Herbs to celebrate. It’s Minnesota Craft Beer Week, after all. They had a million kinds of Flat Earth on tap, and my favorites were the ‘infused’ beer samplers. I got cherry and ...