Short takes

There's a brand new park in Boston, the South Boston Maritime Park, at Northern Avenue at D Street across from Fish Pier. This article describes some of the neat nautical-themed features. Note to self: go check it out.

The people who had been in the hospital both came home, within hours of each other. (Just like they went in within hours of each other. Odd.)

Waiting for a call that should come "soon" can be frustrating. Extremely frustrating. Did I mention frustrating?

No wonder my arm hurt yesterday: I've used over 36 yards of tape in about a day of taping art to manuscript. Did I mention waiting, and frustration?

I must must must do laundry tonight, to ensure that I have clothes for Monday's wedding. Other things to do while waiting for the phone to ring: cook whatever produce is in the farm share, transplant herbs, make preserved lemons. Porch note: I currently have a dozen small green tomatoes!

Good Boggle words from the lunchtime games: lammed, littler, trundles, tingles, election, ingles.

Farm share, week 2

Another big bag of stuff. I was too rushed to grab the newsletter (there's no easy parking nearby, and traffic coming...), so it looks like I have

• a medium bag of spinach
  
• a pint of strawberries
  
• a fairly big bag of peas
  
• a bunch of basil (roots and all!)
  
• three medium beets, with greens
  
• a bunch of cilantro (bringing that to the move tonight; someone is sure to take it)
  
• a red leaf lettuce of some sort (narrower leaves then the usual)
  
• a huge Boston lettuce
  
• three garlic scapes
  
• two medium zucchinis
  
• two cousa summer squashes (the light green ones, that I always think of as Israeli, since that was where I first saw them, and that was the only summer squash I could find)
  
• a pattypan squash

From the amount of water in the bag, I can tell that some stuff has been washed, but I'm sure there's still a healthy amount of dirt in the lettuces (another difference between farm veggies and supermarket ones). Still no arugula, but the red leaf makes up for it in other ways.

Notes: the strawberries have been inhaled, and the squashes are roasting with onions and tomatoes.

Completely off-topic: has the box for the main body of a post always been labeled "Event"? I just noticed it now and it strikes me as odd.