What a beautiful start to the day! I said I was going to keep things light this week and I kept my promise. I popped into the North Market just to see how the grilling fest was going and see if I could find any currants, but it's been a cool week and they just didn't ripen. But I did buy some sugar snap peas and dill - I have lots of buttermilk leftover from my butter-making adventures, so I think I'm going to make some buttermilk dill sauce for some salmon or something this week.
I stopped by Rhoad's farms, where Ms. Rhoads showed me picture of their straberry season-ending hail storm which happened on Monday. Alas, they did have red raspberries and sugarsnap peas this week. I think I am going to go out to their farm for a tour sometime soon. I will, of course, write all about it.
It wasn't my week to pick up the CSA, so I'll have to wait until I hear from my friend to see what was in this week's box, but it looked like there might have been beef this week. Now that I have my freezer, I'll be able to stock up on local beef from happy cows.
And then I was off to Clintonville, where my friend Jen was passing out samples of Snowville Creamer milk! I drank some 2%, marveled at how sweet it was and how it tasted nothing like grocery store milk, and was pleased to see they had run out of milk to sell (you can, however, buy it at the Clintonville Co Op, the Greener Grocer in the North Market, and at the Pearl Alley Market. They will only be at the Clintonville Community Market when there is room. I ran into an old friend from high school, who grew up to be a preacher with tatoos and a Vespa, and I saw one of the guests from my dinner, who has begun making her own butter (Yay MB!)
And then I stopped by the Scooter place in Clintonville (next to Yao Lee) and looked at some scooters because, listen up: the Widow household is getting scooters. That's right. We are in the process of scoping some out and hope to buy some before gas goes to $5. That being said, hooray for a 3 mile commute!! We've driven a grand total of 150 miles this week, and that's only because I drove out to Sawmill Rd and Husband drove to Worthington. Hey, if you own a store which sells scooters and you'd like to sponser me with one, and I promise to take a picture of it and put it on my website with a link to your website and tell everyone where I got it, send me an email and we'll talk. This didn't work for my camera purchase, but who knows.