For the past few days my mom visited us from Illinois. The main purpose was to start planning for our upcoming wedding next summer... and so it begins.... It has been an intense wedding-plan filled time with me, my mom, and Dan- there's a lot to consider! The biggest accomplishment was that the location and date have been determined, we also really hashed out each of our expectations and desires for the wedding, and we all love the direction it's taking. The location is amaaaaazing! But, I'm going to post that info later this week when I have some pictures to include, so you'll have to sit on the edge of your seat for a few days (well, probably not:)
Let's see, she arrived Sunday during the day. So we went out to the pizza farm and enjoyed a beautiful day, Dan's sister, brother-in-law, and absolutely adorable 3 year niece joined us. We did some preliminary planning and that evening cooked out, a lot of family and friends joined, it was a perfect summer evening. We made a huge salad from the yard, some asparagus with garlic scapes, green onions, and swiss chard from the garden, and wild rice brats with kimchi. Here's a picture of some fresh greens (& a few small carrots!) that were a part of the meal:
Let's see, she arrived Sunday during the day. So we went out to the pizza farm and enjoyed a beautiful day, Dan's sister, brother-in-law, and absolutely adorable 3 year niece joined us. We did some preliminary planning and that evening cooked out, a lot of family and friends joined, it was a perfect summer evening. We made a huge salad from the yard, some asparagus with garlic scapes, green onions, and swiss chard from the garden, and wild rice brats with kimchi. Here's a picture of some fresh greens (& a few small carrots!) that were a part of the meal:
On Monday I worked at the co-op until 1:00 while Dan and my mom drove around checking out wedding venues, visiting liquor stores... a.k.a wedding stuff. I met up and then we headed out to check out what ultimately was the perfect place. Afterwards we celebrated our great fortune by going to The Cow for a few drinks, Daisy joined us on the back deck. When we arrived back at the house, we saw that a friend had dropped off a bunch of Hastas for us to plant in our yard, so we found some time to do a bit of landscaping as well.
On Tuesday we did a lot more planning and re-visited the wedding site with Mickey and Dario (Dan's sister and brother-in-law). Dan and I also took Daisy to the vet, she's an old dog and has some health issues going on right now, she'll pull through though:) My mom and I made it down to the farmers market and bought a beautiful bouquet, we brought this over with a thank you card to the couple that owns the property of our wedding site. Oh, and I bought some beets there! I'm quite excited to cook these, I loooove beets. I also brought my mom over to Spring Wind Farm and SEEDS Farm, we picked the scapes off all of my garlic at Spring Wind and I dropped this off to Becca at SEEDS afterwards to use for our CSA members this week. Later that evening we enjoyed way too many beers at The Tavern, Daisy came along and met A LOT of friends on the patio, lucky pup.
Today I was at the co-op from 7-3 and worked as a support worker from 3-7:30. I'm a job coach for a farmer in town with down syndrome, he's awesome, I really really love working with him. Okay, he was a bit grumpy tonight but it was still fun to hang out. Then I get to drive him home to Simple Harvest Farm Organics in Nerstrand, a peaceful wonderful place with plenty of livestock and a great dog named Olivia. Nick gave me a tour of his "chef" garden tonight, a large herb garden. He's very proud of it and it's looking great! He sells chicken eggs at the co-op, they're called "Nick's Eggs" and are beautiful colors of the rainbow eggs from his Americauna Chickens, they're by far the most popular eggs at the store.
Anyways, I am exhausted. It has been an amazing intense several days and I'm going to bed early tonight. I'll sign off with some recent pictures from the garden....
Anyways, I am exhausted. It has been an amazing intense several days and I'm going to bed early tonight. I'll sign off with some recent pictures from the garden....