[CRD actually remote blogged this. Haul this week included: cabbage, potatoes, garlic, slicing cucumbers, lettuce, tomato tease, summer squash, red Russian kale, bok choy, basil to pot, peaches, eggs, orange flowers. Thanks for remote blogging, CRD!]
Ginger and Tiggy fed off of each others' bravery and ventured onto the steps behind the house, with Tiggy stopping to graze along the way.
There were storms earlier-- complete with lightning, thunder, and frightened kitties. It has cleared now, but the porch is still a little too damp for sitting out.
Dinner will be a fritata with greens, new potatoes, scallions and bacon, served on the porch, I hope.
I have one just about every afternoon at work. Sometimes I have an iced green tea, with lunch at times an iced thai tea, sometimes a pombupani, and sometimes I go from tempting fate to assaulting it with full force and have an iced decaf coffee. 
I went swimming this morning before work. I swam laps in the medium-speed lane and also did stretching in the family lane. I like taking the water aerobics class, but it doesn't always fit into my schedule and sometimes it can be a little intense. When I get wiped out before the class ends, lest I pass out and drown, I just sort of float away from the other blue-haired ladies and make my own swim.
Oh, and we wore brighter orange suits.
You see, my nose skin is all blotchy and horrible from using the pump shower soap at the Y after swimming instead of my very expensive face soap. (I am sensitive; I cried over CRD's post yesterday.) You can't tell in the photo above because Photobooth nicely porcelainifies my skin. But, I thought that red lips would help distract from the red around my nose.
Sometimes, when James seems movies that I am not going to see, usually because they are too scary, I ask James to tell me the movie. He recounts the basic plot, throwing in some analysis and notes about the direction and acting. It's the next best thing to seeing it myself, and even better when it's a scary movie. So, I asked James to tell us the story of the medal. He relates the following.
Sigh.
Green chard, scallions, slicing and diva cucumbers, juliet tomatoes, peaches (!), new potatoes, red and white turnips, romaine lettuce, bok choy, and a kholrabi stem. Plus, eggs and flowers (photo of flowers TK so Diana can identify their breed). Extras: sheeps milk yogurt, granola, kielbasa, italian sweet sausage, hot dogs, chicken breasts and thighs (meat for River House).
In other unrelated news, the dill plant mysteriously disappeared from its pot. I guess it ran away from home.
What a morning of mysterious coincidences!
And the gray boy has finally grown into his wise, but not wizened, gray appearance.
Finally, the boys indulged in their fancy, very special birthday treat.
There are so many memories in this photo. And I am only Facefriends with one of them.
A little known fact about Candice is that she majored in Pirate Studies. Here she is after having landed her first job on board a ship.
She took first place in the Plank Walking competition. But, the great thing about Candice is that, despite all of her hijinx as a Pirate, she is still incredibly sweet. I remember how good she was with Woody when he was having an asthma attack as as an example.
I love Candice. She is a super important person in my life.
Eggs, broccoli, cucumbers, snow peas, blueberries, purple kale, green chard, a loaf of bread, poppy lavash crackers, blue corn tortillas, granola, scallions, turnips, a dill plant, and sunflowers (not pictured).
As you can tell, one of the key attractions is how secluded it is. For example, based on surrounding streets and following the stream down to the spit, I am pretty sure the house is somewhere in the trees in this satellite shot.
