mixed city lights and foggy hills

[alchimie]

Life is continuing apace with the usual things in it; I have dealt with another round of upset stomachs, organised and run another Girl Scout meeting, attended one child's concert, helped the other child finish her large project which is due tomorrow (and which she did admirably on both in planning and execution), and in the cracks between read a little and watched some American Idol. Sleep is still very lacking but spring break is next week, and I am not ill this time, so hopefully it will be a good mix of fun things with my children and getting to sleep later than usual because it is vacation and we do not have to be anywhere at specific times. Spouse is recovering by leaps and bounds and it is very pleasant seeing his playful side return as he feels better & better post-surgery.

Smol daughter and I did another farmer's market run on Sunday and acquired more grapefruit, some beautiful little cherry/plum tomatoes, fava beans for my spouse (they are one of his favourites), and five baby plants: a jalapeno, a farmer's eggplant, a Hungarian magyar pepper (suitable for drying and grinding for sweet paprika but I will doubtless just eat them raw), a Black Beauty tomato and a Haley's Purple Comet tomato -- this last one is smaller, the Black Beauty fairly large. When we got home we had lunch on a blanket in the backyard by smol son's request, then weeded our planter box and large pots and planted the various seedlings. I am hoping they do well.