The Monday before Christmas

The Monday before Xmas Lara and I had to move all the Parmesan, Piave, Gruyere, & Gouda from the tables and then move everything out of the department for the floors to be cleaned.

We are tanks and got it done before 11pm

New Suit Case

At the thrift store, soo cute, with my initials.

I wanted the whole set but they were pretty stinky.

First Snow of the Year in Boston

Snow on the field at Fenway, getting drinks at the Bleacher bar

My Vegan Thanksgiving

Stuffed Acorn Squash

John, Lauren and Stephen

Menu:

+Wild rice stuffed Acorn Squash

+Vegan Mashed Potatoes & Gravy

+Vegan Candied Sweet Potatoes

+Vegan Stuffing

+Candied Carrots

+Vegan Spinach Quiche

+ Canned Cranberry Sauce

+ 18lb. Turkey for the meat eaters

+Warm Apple Cider, with Orange nutmeg & cinnamon

+Hot vegan apple pie and vanilla ice cream

Turkey

puppy dog

I lost my spot on the couch

Facing the Facts

I've been in denial since August, but to be completely honest I gave up on the garden about halfway through the Summer. 

I started real strong and excited to get the seedlings I started in March, in the basement, out into the soil, but with 1 week of rain, followed by another week of rain, on top of days of cloud... I really bailed on the whole thing.

So I got about 200 cherry tomatoes and a couple dozen slicers, some peppers and zucchinis and a half dozen eggplant but thats it. 

Last year was just too good.

and today it's snowing.

ugh.

Jalapeno Jelly

I have so much on my plate already but I really want to make my Jelly.

A gal I work with in "cheese land" makes and sells Salsa.

She's had it tested and everything.

Could my Jelly be that good....

Last year it was amazing.

I want to make a living doing fun stuff.

Hiding in the Garden

is this teeny tiny flower growing into a bottle in the dirt

Deconstruction

So it's the end of the season, time to take everything down.

here is my list:

-Squash- they died extremely early this year, thanks to Vine Borers.

From the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture

- Zucchini- produced a lot in the beginning and then died off by Aug.

- Watermelon- produced 2 small unedible  melons thanks to the pest problem

-Spaghetti Squash- while pulling the tomatoes I found 1!!!!! It hasn't ripened yet but soon will.

You can see it at the bottom hanging from the Morning Glory

- Tomatoes go (I ended up getting Late Bight, Oct. is better than July...)

- Remove tomato supports

The pile of tomato supports and strawberry buckets, they took over every container in the garden

- Prune & tie back Blackberries

- Pull dead/dying flowers

October Garden

My very sad looking October Garden.

She is already planning her 2010 debut.

ps can you spot Sienna?

John & Sienna

Aaron left his glass at work the other night so I brought them home with me.

Sienna looks much better in them.

Work

here are a list of the shows I've worked:

6/2 Gomez & Steel Train

6/4 Dirty Projectors

6/5 Gogol Bordello

6/6 (I forget)

6/7 Doves

6/12 (I forget)

6/18 Matt & Kim

6/27 Taking Back Sunday

7/1 Richard Cheese

7/7 Reel Big Fish

7/14 Asher Roth

7/18 The Dead Weather

7/24 Paolo Nutini

7/25 Sneaker Pimps

7/26 Pete Yorn

7/28-29 Rise Against & Rancid

7/30 Queensryche

7/31 Tracy Chapman

8/2 Xavier Rudd

8/4 Eagles of Death Metal

8/5 Old Crow Medicine Show

8/28 The Neville Brothers/ Dr. John

9/2 Maxwell

9/3 Toots & the Maytals

9/5 Pet Shop Boys

9/6 Motorhead

9/8 Mos Def & Talib Kwali

9/9 Mitchel Musso

9/13 Down & The Melvins

9/14 Lady Hawk

9/15 Its Always Funny in Philadelphia

9/17 Rusted Root

9/19 Lebowski Fest

9/20 Secondhand Serenade

9/21 Regina Spektor

9/22 Streetlight Manifesto

9/23 Matt Kearny

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9/26 KMFDM

9/27 Porcupine Tree

9/28 Sunny Day Real Estate

10/2 Brandi Carlile

10/3 In Flames & Between the Buried & Me

10/4 Every Time I Die

10/9 The Bravery

UPDATE:

10/10 Psychadelic Furs

10/11  Them Crooked Vultures

10/16  Yonder Mountain String Band

10/17   Gaslight Anthem

10/18  The Avett Brothers & Black Sea

10/19  Paramore

10/22  STS9

10/23  The Used

10/25  AFI & The Unseen

10/29  The James Montgomery Band

10/30  Say Anything

11/01 SNOOP DOGG

11/03 Girl Talk

11/05  The Academy is & Set your goals

11/07  Wolfmother

11/08  Roger Daltrey

11/12 Mutemath

11/13 Medeski Martin and Wood 

Along with working at Whole Foods, I have a full schedule. ohh and did I mention I'm trying to finish school.

Tomato

14 lbs of Tomatoes 

Roma

Rainbow Cherry

Mortgage Lifter

Black Krim

For Sale

I'm selling my 1972 Peugeot Mixte UO-18

It's in such good condition and riding as a single speed now.

I'm looking to get $300

Damn Rats

These are what would have been my largest Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes of the season,

atleast 2 lbs. each.

The rats got to them.

UGHHHHH

Cats with Fleas

Johns cats, Pizza & Jeffrey have fleas.

The problem is that his house has tons of cats and they all have fleas, 

so the solution was to put them in the empty room in my house, give them Frontline, and hope they go away before Sept. 1st.

So far so good.

Canning Salsa

The Bounty

Josh & I went down to Haymarket and City Hall Plaza for the Boston Green Festival.

Sorry no pictures, after riding our bikes the 5 or so miles there we were too hot to think about anything.

I Bought:

4lbs. roma tomatoes = $3

1lb. strawberries = $1

5 bulbs garlic = $1

4lbs. cherries = $3

2lbs. onions = $1

5 bell peppers = $2

1/2 lb. jalapenos = $.50

1/2 lb. long hot peppers = $.50

What I had (from the garden):

2 lbs. Roma, Black Krim, & Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes

a handful of Jalapenos

3 HOT green peppers (I have no clue what they were)

Roasting peppers

Prep.

Josh doing 2 things at once

Salsa, 3 pints of fresh canned salsa

Sienna & the New Couch

The new couch is so comfy, Sienna will tell ya.

New Table

$10

Bought a new table Friday, I'm going to do a "before" and "after" I'm just not done with it. 

So far I've sanded it down and primed it white. 

I have no idea what color to paint it.

I'm thinking.......

Thrifting

$4

$4

I've been buying dresses and skirts from the thrift store near my house and then fixing them to my liking, here are the 2 newest buys.

The top one is pretty fine on its own, little elephant pattern, I love how crazy it is.

The bottom one looks like a scarf but is way too long, so I'm going to hem it.

HAHAHAHA

Sienna in the cat bed.

Heather sent this to me a few days ago.

The New Couch

John went to see Blink 182 so I had the zipcar for a few hours.

I drove the Salvation Army on rt 1 and found this fantastic couch

$30.

I made Dan drive me there the next day.

It matches the living room perfectly.