Fancy Schmancy Weekend
By Keiti | June 17, 2008
After taking some time to hibernate, I actually spent this past weekend outside enjoying the beautiful weather. I’ll be down in the insane heat of Florida in about two weeks so I just had to take advantage of the more temperate climate.
At any rate, my morning started off by taking a walk down to the local farmer’s market. The hotel I’ve been staying in is (as you may recall) right on Lake Michigan and I sauntered along the sidewalk that runs next to the lake. On the way to the farmer’s market I spent most of my time avoiding this:
That, ladies and gentlemen, is 100% pure duck goose poop. And it’s everywhere! A five-minute walk to the farmer’s market took twice as long because I spent the vast majority of the time avoiding the poop.
Once I made it to the farmer’s market I picked up to things:
Fresh Asparagus:
(You can’t really tell from the picture, but most of the asparagus is as big around as my thumb!)
and
Radishes
(these are about three times as large as the puny little things you get at the grocery store.)
I spent the rest of the day lounging around doing not much of anything. It was awesome!
Sunday, DH invited me over to have home cooked food and since I’d said something about it weeks ago we decided to go play a round of putt-putt. He completely kicked my butt.
So, here’s DH looking oh so pleased with himself. (not really - he’s too busy concentrating on hitting the ball…and all the astro turf water hazards…)
And here’s me looking like I’m concentrating, but I’m so not…
(It looks like I actually have cleavage…)
After a round of giggling at all the drunk people and wanting to strangle all the little kids whose parents haven’t seem to have taught them anything even remotely resembling manners we moseyed back to DH’s for food and additional company in the form of his friend, M. We ate, we picked on DH, and we left. Sort of like a food-eatin’, pickin’ on DH drive-by.
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June 17th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Just to clarify, I’m 99% positive that 99+% of the dung you were avoiding was goose droppings and not duck droppings. Ducks have a shorter intestinal track and it’s more liquid than solid when it comes out, much like a “normal bird”, but geese deposit the quasi dog turd looking things….just thought you’d like to know.
All the other details looked pretty much correct.
dh
June 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Clarification made. I laugh at myself because all I saw on Saturday were geese, so I have no clue why I wrote duck…
June 17th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
oh man! that asparagus looks a-ma-zing!!! wow! wish we could get that fresh at our local farmers’ market! So cool! YUM!
we visited the Parthenon replica in Nashville one summer on the way home to Texas from North Carolina and there were SO many of those nasty, giagantic piles of poo everywhere- it smelled pretty freakin’ nasty too.
BTW- your hair looks so cute!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I know! The asparagus in Florida is way puny! And it is yummy. I’ve been having to eat it raw because I’m still living in a hotel and have no way to cook it, but it’s just as good.
Yep - the poop is nasty!
Thanks for the comment on my hair - I’ve still got a bunch of layers to grow out which is why I’ve always got it pulled back, but that should mostly be grown out in a couple of months.
I hope.
