Training Log Archive: barb

To store for leeks and buttermilk, and home with backpack.

Often in the morning I decide to go on a diet, which lasts until partway through the day. This morning I decided to go on a modified leek diet. I read about it in a book called something like "how French women eat amazingly delicious food and stay improbably slim." Every once in a while the author eats nothing but leek soup for a weekend. The "modified" part of my diet means I can also eat fruit and maybe scraps left behind on my kids' plates.

Oh, and a fresh-laid egg, poached. I made poached eggs for Dave and David this morning too, and served them with toasted home-made sunflower wheat bread. The eggs poach much nicer than store eggs: they stay together and don't send egg-white streamers all around the pan.

Rode to mid-Cambridge with a bunch of seedlings in the trailer; swapped them for other plants: strawberries, raspberries, inedible shade plants, bee balm, and a couple things for Geoff. I must say I find it mystifying why people would want to spend a lot of effort growing plants you can't eat.

To Davis Sq and back. Had made tentative plans to meet David G at the Burren to listen to the Bag Boys, but neither David nor the Bags were there.

Walked (some of the way) to and from a Boston Breakers game (professional women's soccer). Great game. Great company (bunch of kids and Dave).

It's pretty cool the things we can walk to from our house. Like professional soccer. Red Sox games. Whole Foods. Trader Joes. MIT. Harvard. Work. The T.

To the pagan May Day celebrations by the River Charles with Dave just after sunrise, and back. Then to Arlington for an appointment and back via Dunkin Donuts to work. Later, home.

Busy day. Potluck at school in the evening.

So, Scotland is shaping up. As long as the flu doesn't cancel all travel (and I don't think it will), we have nearly a full house and will possibly occupy the overflow housing as well. August 1-8 we are renting a big house in Perthshire to serve as a base for the Scottish 6-day, on the grounds of Castle Menzies. We've got 16 people signed up now, and can fit as many as 28, but 18 is the minimum I'm hoping for. More information here. Hm, the lodge's web site appears to be down at the time.

I love how the chickens come running up to me when I go into the yard.

We ate our first home-laid egg today! Isabel and Amisi found it in the Eglu nest yesterday afternoon. It was yummy.

Time is approximate. Very slow hot green course at Pine Hill.
Today David did most of an orange course. Isabel and Rachael did white.

Sunday Green Y (raw) - Splits

Sunday Green Y - Splits