20th July 2009

Fruits of our labor

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Today we thinned out the beets.  We had two sizes–itty bitty embryonic beets, and almost-beet-sized beets.  We ate the mess of embryonic beets, cooked with their greens, and it was yummy.  Tomorrow or the next day, we will eat the almost-beet-sized beets.

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Sunday, OmegaDad made homemade peach ice cream, brownies, and bread.  Saturday, he brought home two pints of the best blueberries I’ve had in ages.  It’s been a few days of eatin’ around here!

ETA:  Oh!  I forgot!  Today was the anniversary of the first moon landing.  I don’t remember it very well, but do remember watching it at my grandmother’s house down in Jacksonville.  We were telling the dotter about it, and she kept asking, “He was the first man ever to walk on the moon?!  EVER?!”  Then she asked who was the first woman to walk on the moon.  We said no woman has ever walked on the moon.  Now she wants to be the first.  Anyway, in honor of this occasion (warning:  language, but quite appropriately inappropriate!):

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There are currently 4 responses to “Fruits of our labor”

  1. 1 On July 20th, 2009, GrannyJ said:

    Those beets look absolutely scrumptuous! BTW, Neighbor Dana has brought me more of those to-die-for tomatoes; you did get some, didn’t you?

  2. 2 On July 21st, 2009, Omega Unk said:

    Armstrongs vocabulary was limited, but highly expressive.

    Unk

    PS I’m trying for some winter tomatos.

  3. 3 On July 21st, 2009, boomer said:

    Mmmm…. beets. We belong to an organic CSA, and they kept pushing beets at us. And we kept not knowing what to do with them. But we found a good borscht recipe and have been making massive amounts of borscht the last few weeks. One of the great make-on-Sunday-eat-throughout-the-week dishes.

    Haven’t really gotten around to the greens yet, but we’ve learned to love collards.

  4. 4 On July 23rd, 2009, Theresa said:

    Ah Omegadotter is a girl after my own heart. Hope she makes it to the moon. I was almost 5 in 69 and remember still how fascinating it was to watch the first moonwalk. We took pictures of the scenes on the TV and of us watching it. My older brother built all those models of the rockets and the lunar module. But my favorite astronaut-er cosmonaut-was Valentina Tereshcova-the first woman in space. I also thought she had the coolest name.I even wanted to name one of my dolls after her but ended up going for something conventional.

    Omegadotter can look up info about Valentina Tereshcova and among other things she will always get one Trivial Pursuit question right since most Americans make the mistake of thinking the first woman in space was Sally Ride.

    Keep dreaming big OD!

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