What about pickles?

While enjoying a celebration dinner at our favorite sandwich place:
DD4: Look they put a handle on my pickle, so I can hold it!
Me: (laughing, a little) That's the stem.
DD4: Huh?
Me: The stem, you know the part you don't eat on the grapes.  That was a cucumber.  Now it's a pickle.
DD4: Oh.
*I am not sure if that was an "okay, I get it" kind of oh or an "okay be quiet now, Mommy" kind of oh.
Sure we go get our CSA basket each week, but we have a long way to go....

~Tracy

Changing of Seasons Already?

I cannot believe that this week marks the end of our summer CSA season!  I have been so busy researching and preparing all of the bountiful harvest, that I have missed publishing all the great recipes I have discovered.  

Maybe there will be some down time in the fall to catch-up.

We are also at the end of our busy summer season and starting the fall season and a more normal schedule-you could almost say a routine. I am looking forward to a more predictable schedule with sprinklings of play dates and celebrations thrown in to keep things interesting.

In a few weeks, our winter CSA begins.  Time to think about squash, red potatoes, squash, turnips, beets, did I mention squash?  

Enjoy the summer pics of the girls, it's hard to catch them being still :-)

~Tracy

Happy Birthday to my Brother

Just had to post a Happy 39th Birthday to my brother!
9-09-09 (It's just fun to say, try it.)
Last Birthday in his 30's
Last time we have single digits in the date (Until Jan. 1, 2101....)
*He's a pretty cool baby brother
**I probably don't tell him that enough
***and I am very behind in posting :-)
~Tracy