The Whatever Club...

Madison just started a club in our basement. It's called the Whatever Club and everyone is included. During club hours, you can go to the basement and do whatever craft you want. In relation to that, I am going to talk about whatever right now. First, I apologize for no pictures. They will be forthcoming.

I have returned from death's door. It was really bad. Not Jason fly home from Uganda bad like Mom suggested, but call my neighbor's for help while crying bad. We have made a good social network here and I am REALLY grateful that friends went to pick up my CSA for me, took Mad to school, came over in the evening and entertained the girls for an hour, and came over in a severe thunderstorm and whisked Meg away for a few hours and brought me tea and a bottle of ginger tablets.

Speaking of CSAs... the first share came in this week! We got:
garlic scapes ( do they have those in the South?)
asparagus
tat soi
spinach
three different kinds of lettuce
spicy greens mix
radishes
haruki ( think Gwen Stefani) turnips w/greens

I will try really hard to take pics of it next week.

My garden- again sorry about the pics. I will have to take some tomorrow fo sho. I regularly go over to Mad's school garden and alternate between drooling over it and being green with envy. It is really large and in full sun and laid out beautifully. Our yard is super shady. Jason built me wonderful raised beds that look so nice but it remains to be seen if they are actually getting enough sun. So I planted some things the same time as them and my stuff seems to be keeping up with the Joneses quite nicely. I have been picking sugar snaps for a few days now, and have enough lettuce for a salad or two ready. The spinach is doing decently and the turnips are getting big. I might actually get a daikon or two. I have a cherry tomato in a pot that has tripled in size already. I just planted more tomatoes, jalapenos, cukes, squash, broccoli ( impulse buy). One thing I tell myself every year after stuff starts to come in- plant more! I thought I started so many sugar snaps that I gave some seedlings away, but while those plants are producing well, I need like double the amount to actually have enough to serve for a meal. Same for the spinach. And I am going to harvest like 8 radishes altogether. I usually seem to do ok with the matos, cukes and eggplant though.

I have to do a 75 hour mentored research immersion as a requirement. My advisor is going on saabatical to Paris in September so she suggested I do it in June and July since I am only taking one class. Sounded like a great idea- I am all for knocking out any requirement asafp. I started for real today- it was kind of neat to hang out in her offices and do actual work. What actual work you say? She studies post traumatic stress syndrome in pregnant women, focusing on sexual abuse survivors. Today I did a ton of reading and had the project coordinator do an orientation. I am going to analyze one data set for my initial project. That sounds good on paper but first I have to learn how to analyze data period. My stats class starts June 17.

Since I am about to start discussing the weather forecast for the next week, I will hop off.