Our Dog Child is Home!

We're very happy to be reunited with our fuzzy baby! We enjoyed playing catch with her in the front yard this evening. She's getting very skilled at catching frisbees and flying squirrels midair.

After driving out to Santa Cruz to pick up the dog, I spent the afternoon working on my legal research & writing class. We were given an assignment at least two weeks ago to go research at the law library. While I got started on the research, I never actually sat down to write up the memo we'll have to turn in. I worked on that today. I think I'll need to go back to the law library tomorrow and spend a few more hours searching for cases.

We picked up our CSA produce tonight. We finally remembered to take a photo. (I've forgotten the last couple of weeks.) Strawberries are in! Yum, we picked up our delivery just a couple hours ago and we've already eaten the strawberries. Jeff is doing his cooking routine this evening to process the veges for storage.

Our realtor Clint has written up the addendum for the sellers on the Multnomah property for our signature. So, tomorrow we'll be delivering the message that we'll only proceed if they discount the property another $15K. I don't have any clue how long they'll take to agree, or not. Hopefully we'll know by Tuesday.

Vegetable Prep Night!

This afternoon we got this week's CSA delivery. This week we got: chard, 2 kinds of lettuce, rutabagas, green garlic, carrots, new potatoes, beets, and bok choy. We also got rosemary, but I traded it for another bunch of chard; we still have rosemary growing in one of our barrels.So, tonight was another vegetable prep night. I washed all the vegetables and then cut up the salad greens for salad. Jeff cooked the vegetables for putting into dishes during the week. He also made Roasted Honeyed Rutabagas and Rosemary and Garlic Potatoes out of this week's produce. OMG, the Rosemary and Garlic Potatoes were so good! (I can provide the recipes, just post a comment or email me and I'll send it.)

Then he used up all of last week's vegetables (from the freezer) and made up a vegetable fritatta. (A fritatta is basically a quiche without a crust.) I'm looking forward to trying that for lunch tomorrow.

First Produce Delivery

I mentioned quite a while ago that we had subscribed to an organic farm and we got our first delivery today! (The programs are called CSAs/Community Supported Agriculture if you want to look up the same kind of program in your area.) Here is today's delivery:We spent all evening washing, chopping and cooking vegetables. Okay, I washed; Jeff did the chopping and cooking... Now we've got almost all the vegetables packed up into small containers so we can add it to all the meals this week. Jeff is so awesome!


And here was dinner tonight. We used up some old veges from the refrigerator as well as used some of the new stuff. Lots of variety compared to our normal one-dish meals. Though, I probably went a bit over my calories for the day; I wasn't keeping close track because there were so many things in the prep stage at once.