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Saturday we tidied and attended to grown-up tasks like paying bills, looking at the credit card statement and other brow-furrowing stuff. Saturday night we had waffles and a sort of frittata-ish dish made of various odds and ends.
Sunday I went out with a friend to try out another French bakery. results/pictures/commentary can be viewed here. I also went to the farmer's market and bought most of the vegetables for the week, some pasta (for Friday dinner) and I took some pictures. I probably bought something else. I also went to another bakery and bought some treats for tea. Then more grocery shopping. Because one can never do too much grocery shopping. But I should know better than to do it on a Sunday. It is always an exercise in maintaining calm. Polite aggression seems to be the best way to describe a crowded grocery experience. Dinners are sorted for the week and there are snacky things. Though somehow I forgot to get salt & vinegar crisps for Mr. Jenner. He is going to have to be a brave man and have lunch without crisps for a day or two. Oh the sacrifices that must be made.
I am reading a gardening book that is aimed at growing organic vegetables West of the Cascade Mountains. Very useful stuff for a particular climate that isn't like many other places. Now I can give the author some credit for knowing what he is doing as he has been gardening for about thirty-some years. He is handing out some good advice but his attitude is sometimes irritating. He is very much, "if you don't do it my way, well don't be surprised if a plague of locusts descends upon your garden, your compost pile erupts into flames and you bring about the end of the world." He is a bit of a dick. I suppose I am used to other gardening books that are very cheery and they tell you, "YOU CAN DO IT!" He says things like, "Now you think you are more clever than me, but you aren't." (really. He actually says this.) I am not sure what to make of him or his book. I suppose I have questions because my Mother is a Master Gardener and has grown things pretty well for a long time and some of her advice/approaches differs from his. And there are methods that she follows that he says is worthless worthless worthless and OMG why do you even bother to garden you big git. He is even condescending about some neighbor of his who gardened a particular way. Frankly, some of the horrible methods he decries works well for my Mother and for me. I like his advice for improving bad soil and I may apply that. But some other things I may leave alone. Tempting to write him a letter and say, "you might want to lay off the dickery. It isn't winning you friends." He would then write a letter saying, "well I have been gardening since the dawn of time. Garden of Eden? That was my idea." And then I would send him a letter filled with aphids.
So maybe writing a letter wouldn't be such a good idea. I don't need to be charged by the US postal office with harassment or something.
Sunday I went out with a friend to try out another French bakery. results/pictures/commentary can be viewed here. I also went to the farmer's market and bought most of the vegetables for the week, some pasta (for Friday dinner) and I took some pictures. I probably bought something else. I also went to another bakery and bought some treats for tea. Then more grocery shopping. Because one can never do too much grocery shopping. But I should know better than to do it on a Sunday. It is always an exercise in maintaining calm. Polite aggression seems to be the best way to describe a crowded grocery experience. Dinners are sorted for the week and there are snacky things. Though somehow I forgot to get salt & vinegar crisps for Mr. Jenner. He is going to have to be a brave man and have lunch without crisps for a day or two. Oh the sacrifices that must be made.
I am reading a gardening book that is aimed at growing organic vegetables West of the Cascade Mountains. Very useful stuff for a particular climate that isn't like many other places. Now I can give the author some credit for knowing what he is doing as he has been gardening for about thirty-some years. He is handing out some good advice but his attitude is sometimes irritating. He is very much, "if you don't do it my way, well don't be surprised if a plague of locusts descends upon your garden, your compost pile erupts into flames and you bring about the end of the world." He is a bit of a dick. I suppose I am used to other gardening books that are very cheery and they tell you, "YOU CAN DO IT!" He says things like, "Now you think you are more clever than me, but you aren't." (really. He actually says this.) I am not sure what to make of him or his book. I suppose I have questions because my Mother is a Master Gardener and has grown things pretty well for a long time and some of her advice/approaches differs from his. And there are methods that she follows that he says is worthless worthless worthless and OMG why do you even bother to garden you big git. He is even condescending about some neighbor of his who gardened a particular way. Frankly, some of the horrible methods he decries works well for my Mother and for me. I like his advice for improving bad soil and I may apply that. But some other things I may leave alone. Tempting to write him a letter and say, "you might want to lay off the dickery. It isn't winning you friends." He would then write a letter saying, "well I have been gardening since the dawn of time. Garden of Eden? That was my idea." And then I would send him a letter filled with aphids.
So maybe writing a letter wouldn't be such a good idea. I don't need to be charged by the US postal office with harassment or something.
