CSA update

One of these days, we'll remember to take a picture before we eat it all!

Week 14
red grape tomatoes
sweet corn
blueberries
cantaloupe
slicer tomatoes
pink eye purple hull peas

This is mostly for our parents, but for anyone else who might be curious, here's what the last two months have brought us from Vollmer Farm.

Week 13
blueberries
sweet corns
slicer tomatoes
leeks
yukon gold potatoes

Week 12
blackberries
blueberries
sweet corn
collard green sprouts
beets
turnips
walla walla onions

Week 11
sweet corn
snap beans
strawberries
zephyr squash
ishikura green onions
lettuce

Week 10
burgundy beans
purple top turnips
new potatoes
moneta beets
mixed greens
early jersey cabbage
strawberries

Week 9
cauliflower
leeks
zephyr squash
snap peas
strawberries
baby lettuce

Week 8
strawberries
cauliflower
slicer cucumbers
new potatoes
green onions
tomatoes

Week 7
bi-color squash
moneta red beet
zucchini
lettuce
cauliflower
strawberries

Week 6
baby specialty lettuce
strawberries
broccoli
early jersey cabbage
zucchini
green onions
sweet potatoes

Week 5
baby specialty lettuce
strawberries
baby turnip greens
green onions
broccoli
tomatoes

not so happily ever after.

Via How About Orange - A photo project that explores alternative endings for some famous tales.

A wedding anniversary and some flying pigs.

On May 3, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary by running in the Cincinnati Flying Pig Half Marathon. Yup, that's right. A group of 6 of us piled into a rented minivan and ventured to Ohio for a ridiculously fun weekend of roller coasters, skyline chili, and running. On the morning of May 3, at way too early an hour of the day (or as my family likes to call it "before the butt crack of dawn"), we lined up with thousands of other people to run 13.1 miles. But no one looked quite like us.

They don't give those medals to just anyone, you know.
(Just everyone who runs the race)

"today is our 1 year wedding anniversary! what are we doing running with you people?!"

our mini herb garden.

Baby steps.

Our goal is a flower, fruit, herb, and veggie garden. We're starting small. I started this container herb garden back in March. Here's what it looked like right after planting (complete with the cute garden stakes Matt's mom got me for Christmas!):

And here's what it looks like today:



And it tastes delicious.

oh hai.

A classic Rockie yawn. I feel the need to submit this to icanhascheezburger.

blog hiatus...

is now over. Apologies.

Life got in the way of blogging about...life.

case closed.

A few days ago, I noticed one of my pots of pansies looking sad. And a little squished. See Exhibit A:
Then last night, I caught the culprit in the act. See Exhibit B:

I think the bunny sometimes sits up there and feasts. But I do not have the proof. Yet.

state worker furloughs

This was announced yesterday morning by Gov. Perdue. With the amount of speculation that's been going on about this in the last few months, I guess I'm not too surprised by the use of furloughs. It will be interesting to see how exactly this will impact the different state agencies and departments when the details emerge. And needless to say, I'm waiting to see what this means for me too (while being very thankful I still have a job).