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coraaOh! On a happier note, we got our first shipment of Pioneer Organics vegetables this week.
For about $34, we got:
3 large beets
1 bunch broccoli
1 bunch carrots
1 1/2 lb Yukon Gold potatoes
1 lb parsnips
2 large grapefruits
3 granny smith apples
1/3 lb snap peas
2 Bosc pears
3 kiwis
2 lb bananas
1 bulb garlic
1 head romaine lettuce
(This is how much we get every two weeks; it's the 'small' order.) Everything is organic. Everything that can be grown locally is, although, it's winter, it's Washington, it's root vegetables, apples, and pears. The greenery won't be local until it gets a leetle bit warmer. (Theoretically it'd be nice to Eat Local, but I just don't have it in me to eat nothing but parsnips and potatoes until May....) Niftily, you can tell them what you never, ever want (for us, that's okra -- which I hate -- and Brussels sprouts -- which the boy doesn't much like), so there was a chance of nice surprises, but not much chance of really nasty ones.
Plus I added three-quarters of a pound of bison sirloin for an additional ten or so dollars, because I'm trying to edge us over to organic/free-range/cruelty-free/I'm-okay-with-killing-them-I-just-don't-want-to-torture-them-first meat.
The food seems to be very good quality. I haven't cooked with the veg yet, but the bananas and grapefruit are extremely fresh, high-quality and tasty. I've buried the root veg in buckets full of sand and put them on our covered back stairs (where they will be outdoors and thus cool, but not rained on and thus rotten). I feel like a pioneer woman.
For about $34, we got:
3 large beets
1 bunch broccoli
1 bunch carrots
1 1/2 lb Yukon Gold potatoes
1 lb parsnips
2 large grapefruits
3 granny smith apples
1/3 lb snap peas
2 Bosc pears
3 kiwis
2 lb bananas
1 bulb garlic
1 head romaine lettuce
(This is how much we get every two weeks; it's the 'small' order.) Everything is organic. Everything that can be grown locally is, although, it's winter, it's Washington, it's root vegetables, apples, and pears. The greenery won't be local until it gets a leetle bit warmer. (Theoretically it'd be nice to Eat Local, but I just don't have it in me to eat nothing but parsnips and potatoes until May....) Niftily, you can tell them what you never, ever want (for us, that's okra -- which I hate -- and Brussels sprouts -- which the boy doesn't much like), so there was a chance of nice surprises, but not much chance of really nasty ones.
Plus I added three-quarters of a pound of bison sirloin for an additional ten or so dollars, because I'm trying to edge us over to organic/free-range/cruelty-free/I'm-okay-with-killing-them-I-just-don't-want-to-torture-them-first meat.
The food seems to be very good quality. I haven't cooked with the veg yet, but the bananas and grapefruit are extremely fresh, high-quality and tasty. I've buried the root veg in buckets full of sand and put them on our covered back stairs (where they will be outdoors and thus cool, but not rained on and thus rotten). I feel like a pioneer woman.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:40 am (UTC)//wince Oh man, I feel that....if he has obstructive sleep apnea, which I do, that really fucking sucks. Aaaaaaghghg.
Also, it's so quiet and lovely at this time of night....
I know! It's a great feeling. There's a great quotation in the Alice Sheldon bio where she talks about flying down the DC expressway at something like three ayem to turn in her work and feeling like nobody and nothing could get at her....I'm a total night owl and it's usually when I do my best work, to the despair of most people who know me.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:49 am (UTC)Yeah. He snores pretty badly, which, if that were all, I'd just buy some earplugs. *grin* But he also wakes up groggy, is much too tired for the sleep he gets, and generally doesn't rest well. We both agreed for years that he should see someone, and then he finally did and they pretty much immediately confirmed that something is wrong. So today's session is 'what is it, and how to ameliorate it.' Fingers crossed.
feeling like nobody and nothing could get at her
Yes, exactly! the hours between 1 and 6, I feel like no one has any expectations of me, no one's going to bother me, they're mine. And that's so nice. It's not even that I have a lot of people demanding things of me during the day, but it's not as inherently private and solitary.
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Date: 2008-02-12 04:01 am (UTC)Wow. That must be so nice.