this week's CSA basket

new potatoes

kale

3 heads butter lettuce

1 head green leaf lettuce

2 enormous onions

2 heads garlic

6 zucchini (with blossoms attached!)

5 summer squash (with blossoms)

2 kinds of basil (possible Thai and Genovese)

2 garlic bulbils (These are garlic blossoms that have not yet burst open to display their white garlic-scented petals. Apparently they taste like garlicky asparagus.)

Coming soon: beets, carrots, iceberg lettuce (apparently this is supposed to be rather tasty iceberg lettuce), sweet corn, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, 2nd crop of spinach, watermelon.
In the Fall: winter squash, leeks, fennel, celery, sunflowers

latest playlist

I've been on a bit of a doom/dark/atmospheric music kick this late afternoon.

"Mother Earth" ~ Within Temptation

"Lastdance" ~ Lacrimas Profundere

"Wisdom Floats" ~ Decoryah

"The Silent Enigma" ~ Anathema

"The Beauty Of A Witch" ~ Tristania

"J'ai Fait une Promesse" ~ Anathema

"Neverending Story" ~ Within Temptation

(has nothing to do with the movie)

Komödia III, The Meeting" ~ Dreams Of Sanity

Just in case you needed some gloomy background music.
(I guess that's not totally accurate... Dreams Of Sanity has a rather hopeful sound.)

goodbye, tv!

We've cancelled cable.

Well, sort of.

We cancelled most of the cable. We now have Basic Cable, which includes the major networks & all of the PBS channels, plus a couple more. We realized that we weren't really watching most of the channels that we were paying for, so we got rid of them. We have enough TV shows taped that we haven't even watched, so if we want to watch TV & *really* can't find anything to watch, we can watch a tape.

Considering it's saving us $40 a month, I think I can live with that. :)