Knock. Knock. Knock.

Who could that be? Maybe a friend coming over to visit? Maybe a delivery just for me? Maybe a-YIKES!


BOO!


Oh no! What's a girl to do?

Once a Boo gets in your house, they're hard to get rid of.

And if you turn your back on them for just one moment, they eat your food and they-


Play your games, and then they-


Sneak upstairs and-


(Gasp!) Read your books!


What's a girl to do? I know!



Aw, Boo, you are adorable, and we're going to have SO much fun together

Food Box Week 6

The onions have gotten much larger since the first week. The carrots too. The radishes too. And that gigantic 15" cucumber? How will we ever eat all of that? The rosemary I'm hoping to use in bread. Maybe. And the green beans we should eat soon too. I think this is too much food for two people - we're falling behind ... aaaah!

Scout Camp 2010

Somehow the scouts and scoutmasters all survived their week at Camp Fife. The boys kept very busy working on lots and lots of merit badges. Their assistant scoutmaster, on the other hand, looks like he was living the lazy life.

Food Box Week 5

There it is. Pretty food. Yummy food. Squash, beets, onions, butterhead lettuce, and breakfast radishes. Yum. So far my favorite is to saute the sliced squash.

Other fun things I've made lately include this delicious chili (made nice and spicy by the jalapeno peppers and the chipotle chilis in adobo sauce).


Making chili let me use one of my favorite utensils ever:


Yes, it's the clip that acts as a spoon rest - less mess on my counter and stovetops and it drips into the pot.

Food Box Week 4

Well, uh, um, I can't tell you how cool my food box was for week 4 because I, well, I totally forgot to pick it up. At least they donate un-claimed boxes of food to people who can use it. Sigh.

I also forgot 1 doctor's appointment, 1 physical therapy appointment, 1 dose of medicine, and at least a couple of work meetings. Where did my brain go?

Will Hug For Food

I like hugs - hugs are for friendship and love and to show you care. I come from a family that hugs a lot. My husband doesn't. So, after fixing dinner tonight, I intercepted him on his way out of the kitchen and got a hug.

Me: You think I'm silly cuz I want a hug?

Him: (nods)

Me: You give me hugs just because I want them?

Him: (nods)

Me: Is it worth it?

Him: To hug you? Sure - you give me food.

More Food - Food Box Week 3

Here's the pretty picture:


And what is that? Two beautiful enormous heads of lettuce (red lettuce and butterhead lettuce), two bunches of radishes and one bunch of beets (much smaller than last week's beets), some red spring onions and a bag of rye flour. Which turned into this:


which baked into this:


and tastes like this:


Oh well, I guess you'll have to use your imagination. Not the strongest tasting rye bread ever, but still tasty bread. I'll have to look for an even better recipe I guess.

Since I should probably limit myself to only one here's-the-cool-food-I've-made-lately post per week, here's a couple more things that I made with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law in the last week - homemade strawberry jam and canned strawberry-rhubarb pie filling:

Happy 4th of July!

After a yummy dinner and a visit with my mom, we started driving home about 9:50 PM. Which put us in the car at the perfect time to see lots of fireworks. We drove past one of the bigger city displays and we saw a few more displays as we drove down the freeway. But the biggest surprise was the noise when we got out of the car at our house. It is complete, non-stop fireworks pandemoneum out there. It's just people in their neighborhoods, I think. Maybe it's because there's they might be illegal next year. Either way, I love the sound. Happy 4th!