big day!

fifteen minutes starting conveniently at 10:15 a.m.

first things first: I GOT A BIKE!!! across from the chiropractor's office last night there was a stoop sale going on, and the guy had three different bikes for sale. the one i picked is a blue ross ten speed that needs new tires and at least one new inner tube. i'd like to put panniers on the back of it, and i also need a helmet and a chain lock. i'm going to try to take it in to the bike shop as soon as i can, but that might not happen tonight because:

TONIGHT IS THE FIRST CSA PICKUP!!! lol. exciting stuff. they sent out a newsletter for the week with a list of what we'll be receiving (arugula, spinach, salad turnips, radishes, rhubarb) along with a recipe for rhubarb compote and another one for dijon vinaigrette. i'm so excited. i'll visit the pickup station on my way home from work (it's two or three blocks off the 40th st stop on the 7, so i'll get off the train, go pick up, and get back on the train to head home). i see some lovely salads in our near future involving arugula, spinach, radishes, and turnips with vinaigrette ;) and erin wants to try to make a pie with the rhubarb. yum.

the last two days i've been getting off the train at brooklyn bridge/city hall (2 stops before the stop i used to get off at). i've discovered the bike lane that goes across the brooklyn bridge. it's separated from the walking lane, which is good. i was vaguely concerned that i would have to bike around the pedestrians. i would ideally like to go from the city side of the bridge to the brooklyn side of the bridge first, in order to find out where the bike lane starts/ends on the brooklyn side, but i don't see that as very feasible seeing how we live on the brooklyn/queens side of things. i did map out the bike route from home to work a while ago (before i really thought biking to work was going to happen for me), so i know how to go, theorhetically speaking.

oh, i didn't finish the getting-the-bike story. so i bought this bike for $10 (!), and it has a flat tire, right? so we go back and forth as to whether we can take a bike on the bus, and we decide that we probably can't do that. the only way to get ourselves home? walk. it turns out it is roughly 3 miles from the chiropractor's office to our house. we stopped for dinner (add $5 to the cost of the bike cos we wouldn't have stopped for dinner if we hadn't been walking the bike home), and tried to stick to the shade. my arms and abs and legs are sore today, and i have a bruise where my calf repeatedly hit the pedal of the bike i was walking. i think i got a sunburn, too. but i have a bike now! and a story about our awesomeness! yep. it's a big day in my life.

also, it's about time for a garden picture update because five of the six tomato plants have tomatoes on them (still green), and we have baby yellow squashes and yellow squash flowers going on, and the pea plants are flowering and the peppers are about to start flowering.

fifteen minutes is up!