Day-sleeping

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Blast evil cellulite? Do tell!

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The Peach Fairy

I came home yesterday morning to find this large box of peaches on my front porch. They were left there by my friend/co-resident Meg, whose small peach tree is producing more peaches than she knows what to do with. Holland was THRILLED and almost immediately stuffed two into his mouth. Hopefully I'll find time to make some cobbler.

IMC night float

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Delicious breakfast at the Park after our first night of night float (working 630pm- 630am shifts, which we will be doing for the next two weeks)! We were wondering where all the hipsters were, then realized oh yeah they're still asleep. How old are we now?


Also, pardon my up-all-night roughness but these sunflowers are HUGE!

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Brunch at Eggs in the City

This was taken with Holland's fancy new iPhone, onto which he has downloaded an app that balances light/dark very nicely using a prolonged exposure time. Which is why Holland's arm has a weird motion quality to it.

Looks like a fun job to me

Late night construction worker at the neighborhood grocery sto'


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Invasion, YUCK!

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Korean Food!

My chopsticks are poised just above my delicious Korean BBQ pork. The little bowl in front of me is a searingly hot little Dutch oven-like bowl of ramen noodle soft tofu soup. It is WONDERFUL - especially in the winter when you are freezing cold. The little flat bowls in the middle contain various "condiments" - caramelized potatoes, broccoli and bean sprouts in some sort of sesame dressing, little pickles and kimchi (pickled cabbage). They're like funny little snacks that you eat with the Korean food. The white porcelain bowl with blue on the side contains a raw egg that you crack into the tofu soup and it cooks because the soup is so hot!
And here is a picture of Holland's dish - it's a big rice bowl with all sorts of colorful things (as you can see). It's called Bi-Bim-Bap.

Almost like a fall day

The weather here has been very nice since this weekend. I had to turn my AC off this morning because it was actually a little cool outside! I did still get fairly hot running today, unfortunately.

I can't remember much about last summer but I guess this is probably normal summer behavior around here - hotness with intermittent nice snaps. But a southern girl can't feel temperatures like that and not think FALL! It's my favorite season and always carried some sort of excitement and mystery to it. Football season! Halloween! Good hair and no melting makeup!

Weather.com says the low tonight is 65, high tomorrow 88.

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The Utahans are getting to me

Today I made raspberry jam...like a true Utah pioneer woman!











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Slug

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sigh (again)

These are the jugs of coolant that I bought today at the auto supply store. Unfortunately, my car is leaking coolant yet again. This is the third time this has happened. It usually seems to be when there is some extreme in temperature here - it happened last year about this time and then this winter during a particularly cold snap. I've spent more money than I like to think about replacing my radiator, tubing, and water pump, each time thinking that I will fix this one thing and then maybe my car will get me though another year or two (it's currently 11 years old).

Each time it breaks, my AC or my heat will quit working then I look down at the temperature gauge and apparently my engine is about to blow up. The first time it happened, my coolant tank actually melted because I didn't realize that I need to turn the car off right away. But now I know better. I checked my coolant tank after it happened again yesterday and it was empty. I filled it up and now I'm stocking up on coolant in anticipation of future refills. The last time this happened, it was a fairly brisk leak and I had to refill the tank every 1.5 or so days. Best case scenario, maybe this one will be slower and I can put off the expensive repair for a little while.

I think I really probably just need to bite the bullet and buy a new(er) car. It's just really unfortunate timing for me financially. =( I love my little car and feel so sad that it keeps breaking!

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Present!

A couple of months ago, Holland and I were visiting a bookshop in Park City when I showed him this cookbook that I thought was awesome. Unbeknownst to me, Holland took careful note and remembered it much later when he was buying a book for himself on the internets. He got this for me at the same time as a very sweet and thoughtful present-for-no-good-reason. It is fabulous and shows me how to make all sorts of neat things that I hope I'll get to try one day (although most of them would be much easier if I lived on a farm!). It teaches you how to make various jams and preserves. There is also an entire section devoted to how to make things from milk (butter, yogurt, cheese) all by yourself if you can get your hands on some that is nonhomogenized. Raspberry jam and pickled peaches, here we come!

P.S. See how great Mom's flowers still look? =)

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