Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Arrived safely at my hotel, and as you can see, for once there is actually a free and working wireless connection! I downloaded le monde and am getting ready for an hour of reading before bed.

YAY! Wireless!

[kennyc]

Free wireless is probably better than free food.

[devilsadvocate]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Free wireless is probably better than free food.

Depends on the food. Also depends on if you have a Droid X

[badgoodDeb]

Free wireless is usually better than free food, as cheap easy wireless is easier to obtain than cheap easy (and still good) food!

[bjones6416]

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

[SneakySnake]

That stuff looks great!

[phenomshel]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

Wow, I'm jealous. I can't even find a place to buy fresh eggs here (in season, of course).

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

That looks yummie!
The "green store" has the same kind of thing but their veg and fruit always looks so bad. I know that it will never look as good as fruit and veg that has been treated with pesticides but yuk. I might check if the new green store has this, their products look much better (plus the owner is much nicer).

[bjones6416]

Anybody know where Pooh is? He hasn't posted at all since the weekend. Hope he didn't go slip-sliding away on the ice!

[montsnmags]

That fruit'n'veg looks beautiful, Betty! Today I needed green tomatoes, small cucumbers, leek and green cucumbers. Guess what the local supermarket didn't have any of? (It's petty of me to complain, of course. The shortages are not due to bad stock control, but the damage and demand and supply problems from the floods).

Anyway, what am I doing? Well, I'm wondering if, with an iLiad and an iPad, I need the 6" Kindle 3G wiffy (are they just calling it the Kindle 3?). It's a hypothetical wonder, of course, because I pulled the trigger on the buy last night (that and the apple-green lighted case). It's purely for research purposes - I might be buyin' one for me mum.

Cheers,
Marc

[SneakySnake]

I am sitting here sweating after (finally) doing something useful. The rubbish bin is now full of dead and some live golden cane fronds. Geeze I hate that bluddy 80's relic (modesty plant between our pool stairs and next door upstairs verandah!). It is so hard to get the dead ones off you end up cutting them and then poking your eye out on the stumps whilst hunting for more!

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

That looks very nice. At our local Green Store I had such a box for a time. I got a lot of carrots though, these big ones, so I quit. Must be a kind of surprise-present each week, or can you look on their webside to see what's in the next box? I also just love goat- cheese.

I didn't see Pooh either, nor Desert-grandma.

[Iridal]

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

That looks great ! I love fresh-out-of-the-garden vegetables that haven't been treated with pesticides. Maybe it's me but I do taste a difference in flavour. Lucky for me my parents have their own HUGE vegetable garden, I just take everything I need from them

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

I enjoy pretty much all of my classes, but I, too have the reading bug and I can't indulge in it now that I have exams coming up... I feel your pain! I do read before I go to sleep (I don't thing I've ever fallen asleep without reading. Ever, no matter what time or in what state I've gone to bed), but I really wish I had the time to sit back and enjoy a novel from start to finish. Soon, our time will come soon!

that pretty much holds true for me as well except for during Basic Training (simply impossible), and on technical rock climbs where we actually roped into the rock overnight, just not a good mix. I did always sacrifice to bring a book backpacking though. my friends always thought I had a screw or 3 loose

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

I agree -- frog legs .NOT. .EQ. dinner in my world. Or frog legs <> dinner, depending on your coding language. Or !=
Hey Natasha_fawn -- what kind of cat is that in your picture? At least, I think it's in the cat family?

I SO love frogs legs! and schnecken! and!!! oh *sigh*! bringing my kids back from Germany was so difficult! they had always eaten like proper little German children. trying to explain that frog legs and snails are not available at the local restaurant is pretty difficult!

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Dreading w***. Doggie, I feel your pain. It's bitter cold here and going to get colder, and since I'm not working service desk tonight, I'll be out in it, getting carts. I have on every layer I own, and taking scarf and thick gloves with me. Why can't people return their own shopping carts to the store??

when I was in Wyoming, you got a gift certificate every time you walked IN the door with a cart

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I was gonna say: 26 books @ $9.99 each woulda been pretty spendy.

Do you picture him falling asleep on a new Kindle?

I quite often sleep on my kindle! not intentionally though!

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Having an outrageously priced beer at the airport. I think I'll have wine in the plane and arrive in Budapest properly plastered.

I am typically a wine drinker. for some reason my go to drink while flying is always a Bloody Mary. I usually stop at a bar prior to boarding and get one for my coffee cup that I fly with. maybe it's because I can have my drink and eat it too!

Originally Posted by bjones6416

I joined a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) this year, and I picked up my first 1/4 share weekly box (suitable for one person) today. I think I'm really going to like this one because it's a multi-farm one, which can give a little more variety. It's still pretty early in the season, but this is what I got. Just finished eating a baked sweet potato, collard greens, and some brown rice. Yum! They also offer add-ons, and I got the cheese add-on today -- natural rind cheddar and mild goat cheese. OMG the goat cheese is so good I just had to put it out of sight to stop eating it!

our local food alliance is really growing and becoming an influential entity here. I joined quite some time ago when it looked like a lost cause. we now even have pushed through permissions for backyard chickens in the local cities! I haven't eaten anything other than local meat, chicken and fish for 5 years other than traveling and in restaurants. more and more of the independent restaurants are now also making a point of serving as much local as possible

Originally Posted by phenomshel

Wow, I'm jealous. I can't even find a place to buy fresh eggs here (in season, of course).

I think I am getting chickens this spring ;o). the local butcher and green store both carry local eggs and milk. the milk is still WAY too high! 6 bucks a quart is over the top!

Originally Posted by desertblues

That looks very nice. At our local Green Store I had such a box for a time. I got a lot of carrots though, these big ones, so I quit. Must be a kind of surprise-present each week, or can you look on their webside to see what's in the next box? I also just love goat- cheese.

I didn't see Pooh either, nor Desert-grandma.

when I did that, you got an email 3 or 4 days ahead of time and you could make 2 or 3 substitutions as well as having a couple of "never-evers"

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

when I did that, you got an email 3 or 4 days ahead of time and you could make 2 or 3 substitutions as well as having a couple of "never-evers"

No, that wasn't possible. The other reason I quit, besides the big carrots, was that they imported beans or pears from all over the world, to put in that box. And I also got receipies with instructions like " put the carrots in the oven for 60 minutes'. At that point I realized that 'green vegetables' isn't the same as 'environment-friendly'.