20 June 2011

City Fresh Haul


A few weeks ago, my daughters and I signed up for "produce shares" from the Coventry City Fresh program.  To join, you sign up for either a "single" share or a "family" share a week in advance.  Our first shares have been family shares.  The produce is from local farms and is picked and gathered the morning of the share distribution and members pick up their "share" Tuesdays from 5-7 pm. You can then decide if you want to pay for the next week's share or you can skip a week if you like.  We've picked up shares for 2 weeks now and each time there was someone on site making a recipe from one of the items for us to sample.  The link to Coventry City Fresh's blog is http://coventrycityfresh.blogspot.com/2011/06/welcome-to-coventry-city-fresh.html 


Here was our "haul" from the first week;



The items included:
1/2 Pint Apple Butter


8 oz Maple Syrup

2 lbs Corn Meal

1 Quart and 1 Pint Strawberries

1/2 Pint Huckleberry Jam

1 Bunch Green Onions

2 Heads Lettuce

1 Bunch Bokchoy

1 Bunch Garlic Scapes

1 Bunch Mint
 
The variety allows you to enjoy some old favorites, as well as try some new things.
 
Bon Appetit!!



14 June 2011

My Birthday Weekend

June 12 was my birthday.
Now, I'm not one to make a big deal about my birthday.
- It's not that I don't like birthdays and I've always thought
my birthday fell at the absolute BEST time of the year...
School was ending
Summer was just around the corner
People were graduating
going on vacation
getting married
and...
it was almost exactly
smack-dab
in the middle between Christmases!
******
So, you can imagine my surprise when a co-worker baked a cake for me on Friday
and my co-workers all signed a card for me and shared my cake.
Saturday, Tiana and I went to 
Parade the Circle on Wade Park Oval.
(PTC is an artistic, funky, creative parade and is a lot of fun!)
Saturday evening, my family took me out to dinner at
"High Thai'd" (formerly Mint Cafe) on Coventry.
I had a wonderful time and the Thai food was superb!!
(even my father in law really liked his entree - even though he 
is not a culinary adventurer like my daughters and I!)
Back to the apartment to continue our celebration with a birthday cake
and some fun time with my grandson, Julius.
All this, and my birthday wasn't even until the next day!!!
Sunday, I was amazed that so many people at church knew it
was my birthday, then I realized...  Oh Yeah...
Facebook!!
After church, my daughters "kidnapped" me to
Lucky's Cafe in the Tremont area.


The brunch there was sooooo delicious.
The restaurant was featured on a TV show,
Drive Ins, Diners and Dives.
It may seem like a hole in the wall 
in a less than "posh" neighborhood,
but let me tell you!  It had some of the best fare I'd ever tasted! 
While at the restaurant, my daughters presented me with a birthday present..
a beautiful Asian fan!
I had the best Birthday ever!!
thanks Tiana and Cara!!!




A few of the "charactors" from Parade the Circle




My Beautiful Birthday cake!!  Yum!!

I'm a fan of Asian fans!!


10 June 2011

My Remains of the Day Journal

I recently took an online course taught by Mary Ann Moss, on how to make a Remains of the Day Journal.


I decided (a few months ago, actually)to create a "Remains of the Day" or "ROD" journal to highlight my life during the next year.  I entitled it "53" as that will be my age.  I made the cover out of scraps of fabric, lace and other fun things.  I am still working on the inside "signatures" and will begin sewing them in as I finish.  



My favorite colors - green and blue!



Here is how it looks laid out.

To close it, I wrap the loooong tie closure.

04 June 2011

Blog-Worthy

Not a day goes by that I don't observe, experience, think of ... things that I would consider
 "BLOG-WORTHY".

Take the other day for example;
My son (the one in S Carolina) called to tell me what my 4 year old grandson Alex was up to.
He told me he'd heard the following conversation between Alex and my daughter in law, Erica..
Alex:   "Mommy, can you show me how to cut out a circle?"
Erica: "Sure, buddy.  Whatcha makin'?"
Alex: " I want to make a DVD."
Erica: "Oh, great! What is your movie going to be about?"
Alex: "I'm not making a movie, I'm making a DVD!"

...later that evening, after Alex was in bed, Mike and Erica decide to watch a DVD together, only to find the DVD player wouldn't work because...
"someone" had stuffed circular pieces of paper in the DVD player!! 


(my grandson, Alex)