I asked randomdreams, "So your mom eats sausage right?"

*realized what I said, died laughing* So funny.

(I wanted to know if we could go to a Polish restaurant on Wednesday)

I was out watering the yard yesterday and heard the birds making noises I hadn't heard before. "What in the hell are they talking about?" I thought. I went to over to that corner of my yard and found that my Red Mulberry tree had fruited. It has been a few years since it has fruited so I was pretty excited. Mulberries are awesome. I ate a few fistfulls and went to find randomdreams. We filled the bowl with enough to make pancakes the next morning. Today we went out and ate some more. Should be a few days left.
Mulberries are medium sized trees and we only get the low fruit, the birds get the rest.
The green fruits are reputedly hallucinogenic, but I haven't tried.

Urban foraging is one of my favorite hobbies. The Floral Shop at the end of the block has 2 cherry trees LOADED with sour cherries. Part of one of the trees hangs over the church property. We knocked on the florist's door to ask permission to pick the cherries but they weren't in so we just picked cherries from the church side. We pulled about 3lbs off and didn't even make a dent.
It took me about an episode of RadioLab (Guts) to pit all the cherries, they are cooking down now into jam which we will have with fresh goat cheese and warm bread for a midnight snack.

My job requires slacks and chasing down children and my boss is really short, so you know, no heels.
The Oxford!


I found these at TJ Max for $20, but the soles were so slippery I thought they'd been covered in PAM.
I took them to my cobbler.
"Take them back."
"Nooooo! You can fix them! You do magic!"
"Wellll I'll have to replace the heel... and maybe sandpaper might help... maybe. It'll be expensive."
*raises eyebrow*
"$18"

They are now mega grippy. So sticky I was pulling gravel out of their new grooves.
I thanked him again for re-heeling my black leather knee high boots last winter and saving me a hip replacement.

My boss is making us dinner on Friday, I'm bringing dessert.

I am considering Rainbow Cake in a Jar.
However, I am only a moderately talented baker and would make the cakes from scratch and would like to have each color be a different flavor.
The flavors would have to work together and be something that people like.
The frosting is vanilla bean.
Nope, I don't know what she's making.

Idea One: Fruits
Lemon
Lime
Strawberry
Orange
Rhubarb

Idea Two: Spices
Chocolate
Cinnamon
Cardamon
Chile
Vanilla
Szh peppercorn

Idea Three: Florals
Orange blossom
Rose
Hibiscus
Honey
Mint


Honey Lemon Szh peppercorn would be bad ass. As would Hibiscus Orange Curry.

So many choices. Opinions?

Hmm.... this mint plant looks worse and worse every day... I wonder what's wrong with it? *dumps more water on it*
Now THIS OTHER mint plant is looking.... nibbled on???? *side eyes the dog*

I don't mind if she eats herbs because they aren't toxic and if she doesn't eats the herbs then she goes after the house plants.

I get my tomato seeds from Amishland Seeds. They are heartier tomatoes than any other I've tried.
Sadly, this year 80% of my tomatoes are stuck at the "second leaf" stage. The Pink Accordion is about 2 feet tall and has a thick healthy stem, the rest are not doing anything even though they get lots of hot sun, water, and wind.
For the next few weeks I'll keep a heating blanket on beneath them and light on all night over them. Their soil temperature was at 68 degrees and they've been getting 12 hours of sun before I added the blanket and light. Their soil is not too soggy.

Now that the family is going together to see the YSL show, the phone calls have begun.
"What are you wearing?"

Through high school I wore a YSL men's black velvet smoking jacket almost every day. I found it at the thrift store for $5.

About 3 years ago I gave it to Brian. It fits him. I believe at the time I stressed the importance of this particular piece.
I called and asked if I could borrow it back for the show. "One of my ex roommates has it, I think...."
".....It's okay.... Just ask around... It's totally not the end of the world... no one died... I only spent $5 on it...."
I google it to see if I could possibly afford one these days, we both scream.

After a week of looking HE FOUND IT!!!! and brought it right over.
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I think my brother may be wearing YSL as well, presumably from the thrift store.

randomdreams ran over while I was gardening. "We're low on cheese!"
"I think we'll be fine for another week."
"Noooo... I think we're going to run out of cheese and then there will be a cheese crisis!"
"We'll go to the store on Wednesday. Okay?"
*worried noise!*

So I checked. We have 13 different types of cheese from all over the world! Local goat cheese, cheese from Spain, goat cheese from France, colby, muenster, queso fresco, MouCou, mizithra, paneer....
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I made a Strawberry Rhubarb Blueberry pie with little cutouts of bunnies on the top. The way the pie oozed out it makes the bunnies look like they've been shot. :(
Airplane cutouts next time... then it'll look like an airshow where they shoot out the colored contrails...
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I've asked Grandpa repeatedly to stop sending me his Heritage Foundation/Ann Rand garble.
He persists.
I can't just block him because then I would miss the sweet emails about all the people he meets through his red cross work (he takes his RV to disaster sites and volunteers).

So he's getting my views in response.

"It's almost Mother's Day. Is there anything you would like?"
"A roomba."
"I just gave the window guy a down payment of $1,500. Maybe something under $50?"
"Convince your father to water the lawn."
"You have a sprinkler system."
"He's decided he doesn't want to use "that consumerist water" anymore."
"I'll take you brunch!"
"Okay!"


I'm getting mom a YSL at the Denver Art Museum ticket.