vegetables, decisions

tonight i hear a bunch of kids yelling and playing out back their little voices louder and clearer than the car beeps, motorcycle vrooms, and trucks rumbling down the off ramp. go kids go. rich says the little girl sounds like maya, i think she is yelling and singing in spanish.

in our neighborhood at this time of night the sky turns a very cool shade of purplish blue.

today we got our first big bag of vegetables from myfarm. sadly our yard has not turned out to be incredibly productive so we are sharing vegetables with other myfarm members in our neighborhood while we work on boosting our soil, deciding on which plants can thrive back there, etc. the kids got very excited about the bag left in our backyard with apples, lemons, parsley, lemon cucumbers, greens, zucchini, lettuce, big beets, leeks, a turnip, some yellow squash, beans, and two orange squash flowers which i guess i should go online to find out how to cook.

this fits in with my new obsession, the deceptively delicious cookbook by jerry seinfeld's wife (sorry, that doesn't sound very feminist does it). i have been cooking vegetables and pureeing them night and day so i can sneak them into all our food. sweet potatoes in the pancakes, avocado chocolate pudding, choco chip cookies with chickpeas, butternut squash and broccoli in the red sauce for pasta, cauliflower puree in the mac and cheese, you get the picture.

wow, a half page of words and the loud happy kids seem to have quieted down and gone inside. the sky is very dark now with what appears to be a very bright star visible out our center window. laundry is tumbling in the dryer. the zucchini is calling me--put down that laptop, chop me up and make me into a cookie...

i have avoided what i am really thinking about, the decision between after school programs which i must make by tomorrow. it is kind of the whereshouldwelive decision, stick with what we have, which miles enjoys, and work on the kinks, which include safety and security and equity. or switch to a program that is safe and secure and takes us away from each other a little more. that probably only makes sense if i have talked to you about this already.

whoa, if i lean a little to the right now i can see a bright almost full moon shining down on me.

i am 41 and still confused about why the stars and moon seem to move so fast in the night sky. guess i have a lot to learn.

peace out