hi again. it's me not updating all of the news that i should be.
i'm heading to connecticut on thursday for a week of fun. traveling to boston to visit sudeep, backpacking in new hampshire with a friendly cool couple, and then driving to nyc to drop off paul's dad for his flight to brazil. lots of stuff to do, plus hanging out with the inlaws (i don't really ever call them that....we get along so well and the word inlaws seems to draw up negative connotations for some people). hanging out with paul's parents should be good. and hopefully i'll be able to help around the house, and see some of paul's good friends who i enjoy.
the chickens are doing super well. they are getting fat and looking tasty (i'm only half kidding). really i still think i could eat them, although they are growing on me. yes, i do talk to them. and i love to hang out with them. they follow me around and run over whenever they think i might have a treat to give them. tonight all three jumped up on the hammock with me and sterling even nestled in my lap.....she's a funny one. so skiddish she doesn't like to be touched, but still seems to want my company. i really do LOVE these chickens. they're so much fun.
we signed up to be a part of the madison city coop tour. it's august 25th. so the entire wisconsin public can potentially come tour the coop and meet the girls. i hope it goes well. i'm really proud of our coop and i hope others like it too. it's not the "prettiest" but it functions really well and i'm proud of us for using free/found objects as much as possible.
on to food news. i had sushi for the first time ever. i have a friend who is a sushi chef at a neighborhood restaurant that is closing this week (the management is turning it into a tex-mex to make more $, even though this restaurant is really cool and has a great interior and good food). he created some special sushi entrees for jason and i right in front of us. the first had eel, and the second was raw fish (mahi, i think?). they were both very interesting. i liked the eel the best.
on friday evening i went to a birthday party and one of the guys there was deep frying everything in sight. plantains (yum!), and i tried deep friend pickles for the first time....i'm not a fan of pickles in general and this was more like a super-strong hot battered pickle, so it was really not so good.
ohhhh, and the birthday party the weekend before last at our house? it went really well. lots of people (30ish?), lots of cheese, lots of wine, lots of chatting. and no complaints from the neighbors even though we were pretty loud on the back deck until late. our back deck rocks! aly set everything up beautifully...and the space seemed to work well for movement and interaction.
fun fact: i have been biking to work almost every day since early spring. it's 3.48 miles each way, which means that i bike 34.8 miles each week to work, and generally more (at least 15 miles every weekend) when i have errands or meetings. fun stuff. i purchased a 10-ride bus card in march and today i used it up....that's pretty awesome that i've only used the bus 10 times since then.
other fun fact: i'm heading to the minnesota boundary waters with ruthie to go canoeing for a week in august. yesssssss. this is gonna be awesome, especially with aly joining us.
time for bed. gotta rest up for soccer tomorrow.
i'm heading to connecticut on thursday for a week of fun. traveling to boston to visit sudeep, backpacking in new hampshire with a friendly cool couple, and then driving to nyc to drop off paul's dad for his flight to brazil. lots of stuff to do, plus hanging out with the inlaws (i don't really ever call them that....we get along so well and the word inlaws seems to draw up negative connotations for some people). hanging out with paul's parents should be good. and hopefully i'll be able to help around the house, and see some of paul's good friends who i enjoy.
the chickens are doing super well. they are getting fat and looking tasty (i'm only half kidding). really i still think i could eat them, although they are growing on me. yes, i do talk to them. and i love to hang out with them. they follow me around and run over whenever they think i might have a treat to give them. tonight all three jumped up on the hammock with me and sterling even nestled in my lap.....she's a funny one. so skiddish she doesn't like to be touched, but still seems to want my company. i really do LOVE these chickens. they're so much fun.
we signed up to be a part of the madison city coop tour. it's august 25th. so the entire wisconsin public can potentially come tour the coop and meet the girls. i hope it goes well. i'm really proud of our coop and i hope others like it too. it's not the "prettiest" but it functions really well and i'm proud of us for using free/found objects as much as possible.
on to food news. i had sushi for the first time ever. i have a friend who is a sushi chef at a neighborhood restaurant that is closing this week (the management is turning it into a tex-mex to make more $, even though this restaurant is really cool and has a great interior and good food). he created some special sushi entrees for jason and i right in front of us. the first had eel, and the second was raw fish (mahi, i think?). they were both very interesting. i liked the eel the best.
on friday evening i went to a birthday party and one of the guys there was deep frying everything in sight. plantains (yum!), and i tried deep friend pickles for the first time....i'm not a fan of pickles in general and this was more like a super-strong hot battered pickle, so it was really not so good.
ohhhh, and the birthday party the weekend before last at our house? it went really well. lots of people (30ish?), lots of cheese, lots of wine, lots of chatting. and no complaints from the neighbors even though we were pretty loud on the back deck until late. our back deck rocks! aly set everything up beautifully...and the space seemed to work well for movement and interaction.
fun fact: i have been biking to work almost every day since early spring. it's 3.48 miles each way, which means that i bike 34.8 miles each week to work, and generally more (at least 15 miles every weekend) when i have errands or meetings. fun stuff. i purchased a 10-ride bus card in march and today i used it up....that's pretty awesome that i've only used the bus 10 times since then.
other fun fact: i'm heading to the minnesota boundary waters with ruthie to go canoeing for a week in august. yesssssss. this is gonna be awesome, especially with aly joining us.
time for bed. gotta rest up for soccer tomorrow.
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