My week has matched the incredibly varied weather in Seattle this week. Time of calm sun warming us to our toes, and spring storms with rain so hard it seemed it would never end. Since I choose to check the bad and sad at the door to this blog, I will spare you that, suffice to say that B, Royal and I are just fine.
On to the sun...something I have dreamed of doing for years now came a reality, last weekend we planted a vegetable garden. After all was said and done it only took us about 7 hours or so, start to finish, not sure what was holding us back. After coffee out on Sunday we bought the lumber, came home and while Royal was building the raised beds, I went out to Swanson's Nursery (I know it is spendy, but trying to support the local guys and wanted some good advice) and got the plants and dirt. We planted tomatoes (plum and cherry), shelling peas, lettuce (3 kinds), parsley, carrots, strawberries (2 kinds), onions and chives. We also planted 3 blueberry bushes outside of the planters. Basil and zucchini will come in a couple of weeks when things warm up. We have never had vegetables before so we'll see how it goes but are all really excited at the prospects. Royal already wants to build more boxes, but I thought we should see how this first batch goes.
We have also had a lot of paper usage going on around here, mostly comic book creation and paper airplane construction. Thanks to a suggestion from Daria, I picked up
Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics, which B and I read last night then he did a great drawing before bed. Captain Underpants has made his way into our home, so he too is a regular fixture in the comic books. I am not too thrilled with Mr. Underpants, but I let him in so I guess I have to deal with it, I didn't quite realize what the books were until they were already here.
I have been baking a lot of bread over here too. Enjoying the quick bread from the
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian book I mentioned, this time I did half molasses and half honey and liked how it lightened it up. The bread is mostly just flour, cornmeal, plain yogurt, molasses and honey, really heavy and dense but nice for snacking. I have also been making
Soule Mamma's acoustic-style WHO bread and we all really like the touch of sweetness. This morning I tried the Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes from the new issue of Martha Stewart Living (which doesn't seem to be on her website so I can't link to it) but it was really good. I substituted plain nonfat yogurt for the buttermilk because that was what I had, and frozen for the fresh blueberries, but it came out really good.
To sum up my crazy week, I must share my Wednesday with you all, ready? Here we go.
Out of the house by 8am, take B to Japanese class, drive B to school, coffee with D, job site walk-though for a project I am doing in Bellevue (35 minute drive each way), lunch in the car (bread and apple), client meeting at 1pm, race back to pick up B from school, hit two different grocery stores (because Trader Joe's, though I love it, doesn't carry things like molasses and yeast), came home, made a batch of WHO bread left it to rise, made pizza (using TJ's refrigerated dough), ate dinner with B, made a batch of gluten-free brownies for Royal, baked the bread. To cap it all off, B (in an attempt at being the aforementioned Captain Underpants) was jumping off the coffee table, cape and all, onto the hardwood floors and slipped, almost knocking his two front teeth out. When the blood stopped, we discovered those two front teeth are now really loose, but since he would have lost them eventually anyway he is just speeding up the process. A hard lesson for him in how life doesn't imitate art (if you can call Captain Underpants art).
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