My time at the Vacation House is drawing to a close, sigh, and soon it will be back to hot-box trailer and roommates and disgruntled, neglected cats. Bob and Renee sure have a knack for going on vacation and leaving me to watch their little blue B&B-for-one during the hottest days of the year, thank you very much. Last week reached a heat-index of 106 and when I got behind the rototiller it was, no question, the hottest I'd ever been in my life. I discovered that my thighs had the capability to sweat through my pants. hm. now I know. We did major, major work that week, by the way, weeding like mad til the fairies came out 3 of the 5 nights and all day Saturday. My mom visited the farm and did her fair share a couple of the days, helping with the CSA harvest, weeding onions and reminiscing about her former farm-life and cooking a kick ass barbecue Tuesday night. We had grilled salmon, bison burgers, DREAM BARS, an array of salads and grilled veg... bliss! Most of the farm-folks came (to the vacation house, of course) and it was wonderful. Let me just tell you: kohlrabi+green apple+ fennel+ some of those feathery little fennel fronds+ yogurt= DO IT. My mom was also here for her birthday, which we celebrated together weeding parsnips and then over a meal of Japanese curry.

Since my family reunion at end of last month til now I've been staying awake a lot later which, surprisingly, hasn't been too shabby. Most of this is situational but the extra hours at work, chance adventures, favorite movies, and the glories of the internet are pushing me into the wee hours (read:10:30 or later. nothing too crazy here). I went to Michelle's birthday dinner at Harvest Cafe, watched The Departed one night, read Cloud Atlas the next, road-tripped to South Pork Farm over an hour away with Mustard to buy 7 gallons of raw milk and started learning Catalan. All in a week's work, or a week's worth of extracurricular time-- the busiest week so far, I might add. However... my sacred weekend has begun, it's 9:21pm and I am cooking bacon for the BLTs (plus some As for Avocado) I'm scheming up for my lunch tomorrow. It will be a day of picnics! BLTs at the Bloomington Market, Roast beef at Shakespeare in the park, many pastries and snackies between. I think I'll put off cleaning this place up til Sunday morning...