Thanks to my friend Trish’s encouragement, I got to spend 4 days with her on a girls’ weekend trip to Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. We left last Friday and just got back on Tuesday.
The timing was perfect because it was absolutely perfect weather while we were there, sunny and partly cloudy. Also, we both really needed a break from work since the last holiday was back in February. And now that I’ve been to the Bahamas, I can’t think of a better way to do absolutely nothing. Sometimes nothing is really underrated.
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So, in case I hadn't told you about my trip yet, I just got back from a long weekend in the Bahamas with a friend from work (Trish). It was all kinds of relaxing and wonderful, and I promise to write it up with pictures soon!
In the meantime, I just wanted to explain my brief absence from the blog and let everyone know that I'm back and will start posting again.
In case you didn't know, tomorrow is the annual Free Comic Book Day!
If you, your kids or someone you know loves superheroes, you'll want to find a comic book store near you tomorrow and stop by for some free issues! The one we go to always has a good selection, from children's books to independent new books to mainstream Marvel & DC. There's something for everyone!
Despite the struggles of keeping a tomato plant alive and healthy in a townhouse, I think Ben is about to reward us for our efforts. We've carried him down to the porch every morning for some sun and up to the office every night to protect him from kitty teeth. We've watered, trimmed and rotated.
We slowly realized that he seems to be getting what's called sunscalding because for some reason, the sun hits our house like it's coming through a magnifying glass in the morning. I burned the crap out of my first set of herbs that way and I guess I didn't learn my lesson. Ben started getting white spots on some of his leaves and I thought yesterday that it was a fungus, but after some Googling, now I think maybe it's just too hot.
Work for me is sort of up and down. Sometimes it's flowing, going great and other times I'm in major conflict with the one person here who I find difficult and I'm stressed out with too much to get done.
Right now, I seem to be on an upswing. There's a lot happening right now and a lot of it is good for me!
Has it really been a whole week since my last post? Sheesh! Work has been so crazy that I can't find 10 minutes to do anything and then I'm tired on the weekend and don't want to do anything. Funny how that works.
Well, I guess that makes this project pretty well overdue for posting. I'd seen blogs all over the place of people making their own ricotta and when I finally found a recipe for a low-fat ricotta, well, I figured I may as well join the party.
So here's the first of the missing posts from last week! We went to our favorite farmers' market the Saturday before last and picked up a couple of items from Sanford-based Waterkist Farm, which grows produce hydroponically. You cannot imagine how beautiful the greens looked! Maybe I'll snap a picture this week when we go to show you. I've never seen such beautiful lettuce.
Anyway, there were some colorful tomatoes that caught my eye and I just had to have them!
Oh, friends, I had such plans for last week's blog entries. I had nearly every day plotted out with new content. I was a little too busy to get them ready and set them to go live on their own, so I was just doing them one day at a time. And things were going great. And then...
Then things got messy.
Buying food from local farms is an effort. It means getting up somewhat early on a Saturday before things get really crowded and scouring the farmer’s market for the items on my grocery list.
It means teaching myself to pay attention to what’s in season, but it also means paying attention to which vendors at the market are resellers and which ones are actually farmers.
My new project is ... drum roll ... I bought a tomato plant!
I did tons of research on planting, organic fertilizers, growing conditions, cages, watering and then ... bought a prefabricated cage-pot with a tomato plant halfway grown already. Disappointing? At first, slightly. But I remind myself of the reality...