The Thing With The Stuff

Garden fresh

I really love being able to walk out my front door and pick a handful of arugula to put on my sandwich. And that I made this bread yesterday. Yum.

I’m so glad we bought our home last year

The Portland real estate market is crazy these days — when we bought our house last year, this was the fifth formal offer we had made — but this article about how one small business owner included one free pizza a month for life in their offer on a house makes me really glad we’reContinue reading “I’m so glad we bought our home last year”

Handsome

Overheard from the other room this morning: Amelia: “Bax, come here.” Bax, whiny: “No, I don’t want to have my hair bwushed.” Amelia: “Don’t you want to look handsome?” Bax: “I already AM handsome!” He let her brush it eventually. 🙂 When done, she kissed him and said, “There, now you look cute.” Bax, interrupting:Continue reading “Handsome”

Fun at the Milwaukee Farmers Market

We had a fantastic time again this Sunday at the Milwaukie Farmers Market. We biked there and back (sorry, forgot to get bike photos), got some great produce (another half flat of strawberries! Hood River fruit this time!), had a bite to eat and listened to the music.

I may eat this whole jar today

I went to the Asian market this weekend, hoping to find some of the good brands of tamari, curry paste, and fish sauce that I learned about in that cooking class I took the other week. I only found the “right” brand of curry paste, but I did find a great, made-in-Tacoma kim chi thatContinue reading “I may eat this whole jar today “

Bad night

Amelia had anxiety-insomnia between 11:30pm and 1:30am (at least) last night, with Bax waking up a few times in there just for good measure. We’re accustomed to the kids sleeping peacefully through the night these days, so I’m pretty wrecked this morning — which calls for strong measures. I made myself coffee instead ofContinue reading “Bad night”

Homemade marshmallows!

Yesterday, Tom made a batch of peppermint marshmallows, and this morning he and the kids cut them up and put them away for the big all-school family camping trip we have coming up in June. Here are the kids, supervising Tom cutting the candy after breakfast and getting wee tastes (and larger tastes). Then onceContinue reading “Homemade marshmallows! “

Learning face

We’re learning about worms, with an eye to start vermicomposting. Portland has public composting, in which you can put all your food waste into the yard waste bin and have it taken away by the city every week. Since we mived to Milwaukie, we have been putting our food waste in the trash, andContinue reading “Learning face”