cme_1976 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cme_1976) wrote,@ 2007-08-25 17:38:00 |
|
Tennis
and tennis and more tennis. That's what we've been up to... and I don't even play (so I'm racking up "good wife" points.). A started teaching this week and they had a home match on Thursday and we had a spaghetti dinner with the girls last week as well. Today A played in a benefit tournament for a tennis mom who has cancer. It's really sad, she's a wonderful lady. I worked shifts the t-shirt registration line and the silent auction. I think we're ending up with a year of coffee (or at least a pound a month) from a local roastery coffee shop and some gift certificates at places we eat anyway since I signed us up for a few items. We didn't stay until the end though, so if we're lucky we may have been outbid... we'll see.
Tonight will be tennis-free though, our neighborhood is having a potluck and "dance" at the quarry. It should be interesting. Hopefully we'll meet some nice neighbors. I'm dying to find someone in the neighborhood to swim laps with at the quarry, sometimes I'm not that excited about going down there alone when no one else is around. There is a neighborhood e-mail list and I've thought about writing in, but I figured I'd wait until I met a few people at least and asked around. I have seen people headed down there with kickboards before.
I went to the farmers market this morning and bought some daylilies for the house at the annual daylily sale. Orange ones of course... like the ones blooming at the wedding venue. Not sure where I'm putting them yet, but we don't have much yet in the way of landscaping and I'll figure it out. I also found out more about the "localvore" challenge that A and I are going to particpate in in September for a week. I think we're going to try 14 meals- 21 seems too daunting. I think we can do 14 meals with mostly locally sourced ingredients though (I think we're "allowed" to use olive oil and spices)- it's self policed anyway and you can go as hardcore as you want. The idea is just to think more about where our food comes from and about transportation costs to get veggies from South American and apples from New Zealand to our table. I just read Barbara Kingslover's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" so I think it might be fun to try for a week. Luckily the organizers have encouraged local resterants to also join in and have "localvore" entrees for the week(and published a list on their website of them) so if we don't feel like cooking we can eat out. Septemeber is a good month too because we get most of the summer veggies a lot of spring ones (like lettuce) start to come back and we can get local cheese, pork, trout, beef, chicken, eggs, and bread (most of which we had at the wedding too- we had a "Columbia-vore" heavy wedding menu.
I'll post links to uploaded honeymoon pics, Missouri River flood pics, wedding pics, and hopefully new house and quarry pics (right now the camera is not doing so well and the house is a wreck) soon.
Izzy is sitting in my lap right now and sends her love to all the friends and kitties out there.
and tennis and more tennis. That's what we've been up to... and I don't even play (so I'm racking up "good wife" points.). A started teaching this week and they had a home match on Thursday and we had a spaghetti dinner with the girls last week as well. Today A played in a benefit tournament for a tennis mom who has cancer. It's really sad, she's a wonderful lady. I worked shifts the t-shirt registration line and the silent auction. I think we're ending up with a year of coffee (or at least a pound a month) from a local roastery coffee shop and some gift certificates at places we eat anyway since I signed us up for a few items. We didn't stay until the end though, so if we're lucky we may have been outbid... we'll see.
Tonight will be tennis-free though, our neighborhood is having a potluck and "dance" at the quarry. It should be interesting. Hopefully we'll meet some nice neighbors. I'm dying to find someone in the neighborhood to swim laps with at the quarry, sometimes I'm not that excited about going down there alone when no one else is around. There is a neighborhood e-mail list and I've thought about writing in, but I figured I'd wait until I met a few people at least and asked around. I have seen people headed down there with kickboards before.
I went to the farmers market this morning and bought some daylilies for the house at the annual daylily sale. Orange ones of course... like the ones blooming at the wedding venue. Not sure where I'm putting them yet, but we don't have much yet in the way of landscaping and I'll figure it out. I also found out more about the "localvore" challenge that A and I are going to particpate in in September for a week. I think we're going to try 14 meals- 21 seems too daunting. I think we can do 14 meals with mostly locally sourced ingredients though (I think we're "allowed" to use olive oil and spices)- it's self policed anyway and you can go as hardcore as you want. The idea is just to think more about where our food comes from and about transportation costs to get veggies from South American and apples from New Zealand to our table. I just read Barbara Kingslover's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" so I think it might be fun to try for a week. Luckily the organizers have encouraged local resterants to also join in and have "localvore" entrees for the week(and published a list on their website of them) so if we don't feel like cooking we can eat out. Septemeber is a good month too because we get most of the summer veggies a lot of spring ones (like lettuce) start to come back and we can get local cheese, pork, trout, beef, chicken, eggs, and bread (most of which we had at the wedding too- we had a "Columbia-vore" heavy wedding menu.
I'll post links to uploaded honeymoon pics, Missouri River flood pics, wedding pics, and hopefully new house and quarry pics (right now the camera is not doing so well and the house is a wreck) soon.
Izzy is sitting in my lap right now and sends her love to all the friends and kitties out there.
