some of the good bits

[iridium]

it's been a pretty rough week or two, but today had many good bits. a few of them:

. sleep! a couple of nights of mostly good, solid sleep. i've been needing that, badly.

. made it to the farmer's market this morning, after missing the last two weeks. we're getting towards the end of this round of summer-fruit, and some of it is less good, but i got the last half-flat of excellent strawberries from the usual stand, plus a few interesting tomatoes (bright yellow ones shaped like peppers, little green stripey ones), some big sweet yellow-green pluots and white nectarines, and a big bunch of basil. pasta sauce soon! also the fancy-chocolate-man has two new flavors, including an espresso-chocolate sauce that would make really good hot cocoa.

. l_stboy came with me to investigate my sekrit-ninja blackberries, and we found that not only are they just beginning to ripen, we were also just in time to collect the last ripe plums off of the trees. there are at least four or five different plum trees: tiny deep-red ones, slightly larger and sweeter dusty-burgundy ones with a little bit of russeting, a few beautiful dawn-colored ones on a growing-straight-up sort of tree, and a bunch of honey-sweet mid-size bright yellow ones. i've got a few more pounds of plums to pit & freeze for jam, and about a quart of very tasty tart blackberries. and *so many blackberries* to look forward to.

. cookies! a surprise-care-package from nacht_musik, with lots and lots of homemade chai-spice sugar cookies and a book of short stories by de Lint, Brust, and several other authors. if i had a little more energy i'd get up and make tea to go with the cookies, but as it is i'm just going to be lazy, nibble a bit while i'm typing, and then curl up with the book to go to sleep. i am happy. and tomorrow i will have tea and cookies!

. Angelfish! mmmmmmmsushi. the aji and hamachi were meltingly good, and l_stboy & i split the chef's-choice sashimi (excellent as always) and a bit of green tea ice cream; a fine ending to a fine day.

and now, another bite or two of the cookie-pieces, then to bed and sleeping. tomorrow i might go see Boostamonte's show at the Hotel Utah, if anybody's interested in coming with.

Comments

[nacht_musik]

*hugs* glad things are starting to get better...

[iridium.livejournal.com]

me too, very much so. though i had one of my worst nightmares last night, and i'm surprised i didn't wake up crying.

but i'm awake, and the dream is washed away, and i might go out and see the singing mime troupe with asarwate and liz this afternoon. should go to lab and all, but as usual it's really hard to convince myself to go to work on a sunday.

[snowninja7.livejournal.com]

So... where are the seekrit ninja blackberries?

[iridium.livejournal.com]

come picking with me sometime, and i'll show you. ;)

also -- do you still have room in that chest-freezer of yours for more fruit? my freezer is getting awfully full. (not that there's going to be *that* much more fruit to go in it, since it's getting towards the end of the season for stone-fruit & all.)

[(Anonymous)]

okey-dokey! When do you want to go? Some morning this week?

Also, my chest freezer has more room. Bring it on. Would you like turkey stock?

[iridium.livejournal.com]

i think i still have some of my own turkey stock in my freezer, so i'm all good on that count. now i just need to make soup with it, so it gets eaten.

mornings are still pretty much not working for me. got any time this weekend?