Crumbly

Determined to use some of the rhubarb posted a few days ago, and after determining pie (one of my favorite food groups) was slightly too complicated, I googled rhubarb crumble and happily made the recipe in the first result.  Delicious.

Two birthday packages hopefully will go out in the mail tomorrow, which means a)I can post more pictures of a craft project and b)I am woefully behind in all spring birthdays.

Also?  Seriously with the rain?  Ok, so my house hasn’t been blown over by a tornado.  For which I am grateful.  But on Saturday, I am determined to go to the Farmer’s Market and maybe to some yard sales and I will NOT be happy if it rains on my parade.

Red Stalks

I’ve been reading food books again, and its got me thinking.  About food.  About nutrition.  About sustainability.  But not enough to motivate me to go out and cut some of this beautiful rhubarb to eat.  I don’t have a big rhubarb history, so not really sure what to do with this except for putting it in a pie.  Strawberries are coming in the same area, but a little slower. Can I just saute it in some butter?

I’m off tomorrow for Memorial day.  Have a few sewing things planned, also maybe reading.  But depends on the weather.  In the RARE chance it doesn’t rain, I will only be found OUTSIDE.

Bridges

Andrew was able to head out to the midwest last weekend and we headed over to Cincinnati to catch a Reds game.  We had a blast througout the weekend what with all the baseball, bridges, bars, pool playing, campus walking, grilling out, singing the Hola song, being in a vertical city, and planning our next trip later this summer.

Now if I could just get my act together and send out some very belated birthday gifts…

Rabbit Proof Fence

Er, yes, the garden got planted last week.  Sorry for the lack of updates.  Tim has started Summer I classes and work is busybusybusy.  But I am reading about happiness (wow, that sounds cheesy, its not.  I swear), and would still count myself fairly high on a happiness scale.  You know, in general.  8?  8.5?  That’s pretty good! Maybe higher if I lived in Iceland, but certainly lower if I lived in Moldova.

Hope all moms had good Mother’s Day out there!

Mayday

As of 5:00 pm last evening, Tim is done with his second semester!  He has approximately 3.5 days before his next semester starts up again and we will be celebrating by planting our vegetables if the rain ever stops.

Its also graduation weekend here, so lots of traffic, crowds and moving vans.  And once again, it seems strange to be back here.

I was also able to see Barack Obama on Wednesday speaking to a crowd of 14,000 at Assembly Hall.  It was moving, fun and hopefully historic.  In case you live under a rock, Indiana’s primary is on Tuesday.  Don’t forget to vote!