Market Day, round 2

the Moose's 1st full day at market  :D  btw - it turns out that being next to the bathroom is an excellent locations; most everyone has to walk passed you at some point!  plus, we're actually at one of the 2 entrances & I never have to scope out the bathroom line before heading over LOL

she did SO well - we even had other vendors commenting to us at the end of the day about how surprised they were at how well-behaved she was all day  :D  she met all kinds of people, hoo-hoo'd a lot of dogs, and ate all kinds of yummy foods.  she also got incredibly dirty.  note to self: babies who still mostly crawl should NOT wear white sweaters to market.

oh yeah, market was pretty good, too   :D   we sold all kinds of yummy things & ate all kinds of other yummy things.  we talked to loads of new people & met a bloodhound for the first time - I had NO idea they were so big!  since we had the kid & the plants this time, we borrowed Yobo's dad's truck since our car can only do one or the other - that thing is a beast!  I had to stop by Mimi's house on the way home, knew she'd get a kick out of me driving an enormous vehicle; but I tell you what, the drive from Eagle River back into town was the scariest drive ever!  thankfully it got a little easier with practice & I had to run some errands back in town LOL

Happy birthday!

We had a 5-day birthday "weekend"  :D   What a weekend!  We were vendors at our first ever farmers' market, went on our 1st ever family road trip, had visits with both grandmas, played our first round of Travel Scrabble, ate a whole lot of wonderfully bad (& wonderful!) food, ran a bunch of errands, did loads of gardening, and the Moose had her first real play-date today (she was so good & had a lot of fun)!  Happy birthday indeed.

on the road to Kenai / Nikiski - look at all that snow!

I know it wasn't long ago that we still had snow here, but man! it seems like forever ago now that the grass is green & the sun is shining  :)

the back bed - strawberries on the right, garlic in the left & middle.  the short green plant behind the left plank are some of my first ever dahlias  :)  the tall green in the upper left corner is an Indian pea a fellow vendor gave us at the Market - it's supposed to have lovely purple flowers!  and, of course, the gnomes are ever watchful; mine is also, as usual, helping fertilize the plants  ;)

daddy & baby checking on the kiwi vines  :D  LOVE LOVE LOVE this!

papa bear explaining kiwi buds to baby moose - she was SO interested, I think mostly because she got to hold onto the wall of water & look into it LOL  it was pretty freaking adorable.

poor baby is letting mama know how indecent it is that she's been told "no hands" on the apple buds  :p

Market Day

Well, it was actually yesterday, but what a day it was!  We had a great time; I love the people at the Spenard Farmers' Market - they were such wonderful, gracious hosts, and we couldn't have asked for a better vendor neighbor.  

our little table that Yobo built

The picture was taken earlier in the morning, but we sold over half of what's on the table, plus the tray underneath.  Our 1st Market = SUCCESS!  

We brought a bunch of paracress with us & man that was a hit!  We had little containers of the seeds (in addition to the starts), which are, basically, the flowers busted open.  And since the flowers are the most potent part, letting people sample the seeds in their mouths was FANTASTIC!  It was so great to watch the facial expressions when their mouths went a little tingly hahaha   We hope to go again this weekend, next weekend for sure - we'll be making a new sign "baby teething woes?  we can help!" or something along those lines  :)  

Though it wasn't exactly sunny out, the wind never picked up more than a breeze & it only tried to rain once (only felt a couple of drops).  We completely sold out of tomatoes!  That was some unexpected awesome  :)  Yobo's mama was so wonderful & watched the Moose while we were at Market.  They even made a guest appearance LOL  Thank you mama for taking the kid out & for all of other incredibly lovely things you did for us yesterday.

We also had a number of friends who came by to provide moral support & some of them even bought stuff   :)  One of them even ended up selling US something!  She had another friend who was getting rid of some homemade garden wagons & willing to sell them cheap.  Boy oh boy, they sure do make taking plants out to harden them off during the day & dragging them back into the shed at night SOOOO much easier!!!!!!  Major score!

All in all, you could say yesterday was a damned good day  :)

Bike to Work Day 2012

Oh man is my pubic bone a wee angry right about now.  I didn't do much riding at all last year & today was the first time this year - 7 1/2 miles from home to work.  All of the cars were pretty well behaved this morning  :)  Another cyclist, however, was not. 

I was going along, about 4 miles in, crossing a street, went to turn right when SMASH! there she was!  First of all, she was behind me, did not know which way I was going, knew she was going straight, and SHOULD have come in on my left.  Secondly, she SHOULD have made a peep of some sort - bell, horn, "hello!", "on your right!", "*&%$#%(!", or even sneezed, SOMETHING that would have alerted me to her.  INSTEAD, she came up, quiet as a mouse, on the inside (right), which was just BEGGING for a crash and I gave her one.  There's not much damage to me & the bike seems to be just fine (will confirm tonight when Yobo can take a look at it).  My "injuries" are a sore right hip, a scratched up right shin & knee, and a welt on my left forearm with some scratching along the forearm & elbow. 

Out of the 18 people at work today, ELEVEN of us rode in!  We had someone stop in that asked if it was a holiday or something because there were no cars in the parking lot LOL  nope, our bike rack is just around back  :)




and wouldn't ya know, I'm right in the middle of it all!

 

Heaven in a Jar

Yobo & I just split this - SO yummy!

It was LOVELY out tonight!

my pine cones!

awww... I share  :)

she looks like a pooping Korean baby!  (thankfully, she wasn't)

is she eating pepero or a stick?

Escapades in the Yard

mmm... strawberries & garlic under the hoops.  we "planted" the lawn potatoes (wet soil) this morning! 

garlic in the back bed!  and my lovely gardening shoes  :)

more strawberries!

and kiwi vines hidden amongst walls of waters!

and I think the Moose was hiding behind this martian costume  ;)