random updates!

starting 11:22 a.m.

bike update: this morning i rode my bike the 1.4 miles to the train station instead of taking the bus! i locked it up to a pole (not one it could be lifted off of, though) near a group of other bikes locked up similarly. i just hope it's still all there when i get back. my chain wasn't long enough to go through the front wheel AND the frame AND around the pole. it felt good to do, but it took me longer than i anticipated. i was still at the train station earlier than i would have been if i had waited for the bus, even though the bus passed me on my way up 65th place. i also had to get off and walk up this brutal hill. i was out of breath from the walking, but not from the biking!

garden update: the landlord has finished laying the pavers for our new patio, and will be tearing out both sides of the fence and removing the 4' diameter stump that has been there since they took down the old elm tree two and a half years ago. we had moved our potted garden away from where they were putting the patio, and now we've moved it back onto the new patio and thus away from the stump/fence area. i had worried about all the moving of the plants, especially with so many of them bearing immature fruit just now. my fears were relieved when erin pointed out three bright yellow cherry tomatoes on one of the plants! (they're supposed to be yellow) yay! maybe it finally got hot enough to start them a-ripening.

csa update: tonight is another pickup already! we've been working at the lettuces slowly, and carter helped us make the collard greens on monday night, but we still have lots of green peas and lettuce and all the beet greens left :\ i need to buckle down and get to cooking these things. we've still been eating out too often. we stopped for pizza last night again on the way home from the chiropractor.

hmm. time's not up, but that's all i've got today.