alison gordon/wonderlandq

heading home today...i miss the kitties.



beach next to our motel



jerry and i at the wedding.




8 or so more hours of fun, then a red eye home...hopefully i sleep some!! back to real life tomorrow and thankfully, back to home cooked meals!

i've been told that i apparently drink more lemonade than the average person. i feel that in this position, i have the authority to inform you that THIS is the best bottled lemonade you can buy. nothing else comes even close.

Hot Peppers
Winter Squash
Beans
Peppers
Radicchio or Kale/Collards
Onions
Tomatoes

plus surprise fruit and 1/2 dozen eggs.

CSA pickup:

Onions
Orange Carrots
Kale/Collards
Tomatoes
Fennel
Basil
Lettuce
Eggplants
Edamame
Summer Squash
Cucumbers
Watermelon
3 more pounds of peaches
eggs

i might go pick bushels of tomatillos, raspberries, cherries, hot peppers, and shell beans this weekend in the cool rain if anyone wants to join me.

my farm share includes FREE Pick Your Own from the farm...this week's list is NUTS. I WANT TO GO!!!

Raspberries
Ground Cherries
Hot Peppers
Cherry Tomatoes
Tomatillos
Shell Beans
Green & Yellow Beans
Herbs
Flowers

salem willows
skeeball
slush
little caesars
nahant beach
rain
swimming
MORE slush
great friends
sleeping soundly.

fun accomplished.

saturday, walden pond anyone?

please help me with my dress post from last night!

also, is it sad that i totally want to buy these and attach them to my clothes?

jerry got a free underwater digital camera from his co-worker. i took this picture! FUN

there's this water over by our house, technically its the ocean but for some reason i never think of swimming in it...i have no idea why??? MEGAN COME OVER AND GO SWIMMING WITH ME.

i forgot to post last week's CSA info! (this is purely for myself, for next year when i'm like "can i really afford this??")

Onions
Green and Purple Peppers
Eggplant
Lettuce
Cucumbers
Summer Squash/Zucchini
Celery
Broccoli
Cherry Tomatoes
Assorted Herbs
Honey Dew
THREE LBS OF PEACHES!

this week:
Eggplant (we keep getting SO MANY EGGPLANT!)
Green and Purple Peppers
Potatoes
Parsley
Tomatillos (YAY!)
Cucumbers and Summer Squash
Lettuce

You will also get:
Broccoli or Salad Mix Ingredients
Carrots or Corn or Beans
(It will be one or the other at your distribution based on harvests)

And some fruit, they dont tell you in advance...

Pick Your Own:
Cherry Tomatoes
Tomatillos
Shell Beans
Beans
Herbs
Flowers

UGH! I WANT TO PICK MY OWN!!! Maybe I can take a day off next week and go do that...

all this crafty cleaning has got me sooooo inspired to make things, i don't know where to start! i still need to finish cleaning, so it will be a little while before i actually start making anything....

more ideas for local ladies craft nights:



i'm up for trying anything, as soon as this heat goes away...

i'm back to work, perhaps just for the morning...i'm expecting some packages that i missed on friday, so as soon as they come i'll go home to check on jerry.

speaking of jerry, he's doing well! he ended up having 3 procedures done, when most people just get one or two, so it was a longer surgery and a slightly longer recovery.

to celebrate his recovery, he's planning a trip to the Boston Harbor Islands on Sunday, so if you can join him he would be super excited. (I know he already mentioned it to some folks). more details soon.

while in the waiting room, i worked on these two projects:



they are both with both with the same yarn...it helps me with my inability to stay on task with a project. there's actually a surprise about these, but i'll wait until they are done to let you in on the secret.

my craft room reorganization is going REALLY well. when i had my whole sick thing two years ago, i kind of threw everything in there and just stopped. i still make things, but not to the extent that I used to. I was in the middle of Renegade prep, and had all my supplies ready to go...when i started sewing again, i kind of forgot and bought all new stuff. i uncovered like 200 zippers, all these barrettes, and a ton of other things. yesterday was quite fun! like shopping without spending any money.

i also found all my get well cards, and it was so nice to sit and read them all again. if i never thanked you before, thank you. i was heavily medicated, so i dont remember much! i found my "farewell gall bladder" drawing that i often joke about getting tattooed. i'll scan it later to share with you all!

hope you all had a wonderful weekend! i miss the outdoors, but the cleaning has to get done.

i'm preparing for 72 hours of not being able to leave the house. jerry's got his surgery tomorrow (septoplasty and turbinate reduction), and it isn't going to be fun. i've got a ton of stuff to do around the house, so its ok.

i just ran to ikea & target to get some last minute things to help make it through the weekend. Coraline for Jerry and some organizational items for me. i love that ikea is SO close i can just run over the to pick up crap whenever i need it.

i totally got sucked in by these new pillows



BUTTONS!

any time i find some free time, i quilt.

these are loosely based on this, but much smaller. each is about 10 inches across. i made a little pattern in illustrator, made the rings, then surprised myself by inventing a little plan to turn the inside edges in and sew a white circle to the back.

if you haven't yet, sign up for mary's quilting bee. this would be an awesome start to quilting for some of you (SARAH?? you should join with me, marissa, and megan!)

but why? my mind is already at walden pond...

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all done! i'm going to just fix some ends, wash it, and send it off to the recipient! i'll post full sized pictures when i know it has been received

carryboo is starting up another quilting bee for anyone interested!

it is a lot of fun, for not much work! each month, you receive packages of fabric that you sew into two quilt squares. some people are real specific with their instructions, some are very loose about what you do. then, when its your month, you send out your fabric and instructions. in a few weeks, you get back a stack of blocks to assemble!

here's the group mary and i are currently in: http://www.flickr.com/groups/986429@N20/
i'm receiving the red and white blocks

here's an assembled group of lots of quilting bees: http://www.flickr.com/groups/quiltingbeeblocks/

you should join! TWO BLOCKS a month, that's SO little work!

some kind of squash from the farm share...anyone know what it is? i think its a summer squash, the skin seems very thin.

also got:
eggplant
green peppers
onions
beets
tomatoes
cucumbers
mint
lettuce
collards
beans
watermelon
blueberries
and eggs!

local folks, we need to get together on a regular basis for fun crafting (i.e. not fair prep). i propose the following group crafts:

- letterpress
- silkscreening (4 color press over here...)
- sock knitting
- quilting
- crocheting
- embroidery
- paper cutting

anything else to add? i suspect we need to wait until swimming weather is behind us.

my pickles are mushy :(

Scallions
Dill
Cilantro
Tomato (they really do give you just one tomato. too much rain and too many blights this year)
Swiss Chard
Cabbage (i wonder if i can just add this to the sauerkraut i'm making?)
Sweet Corn (YES!!!)
Rainbow Carrots
Cucumbers (SOUR PICKLES HERE WE COME!)
Summer Squash/ Zucchini (seriously? MORE of this crap???)
Lettuce
Raspberries
and maybe Watermelon!