our weekend. brought to you by the letter "C"
Cucumbers. grown right on the science barge. i took a tour friday. such a smart idea and great tool for educating. if new york made use of its rooftops for hydroponic greenhouses and green-roof gardening, we would be able to grow enough food to feed the entire city, if not most of the metro area. incredible. complete space efficiency and no importing!
the barge and its components are constructed almost completely of re-used or recycled materials and operates on the power its solar array panels and wind turbines collect. no pesticides, no chemical treatments, just vitamins and minerals fed to the plants through the recirculating hydroponic system. the water they use is a combination of collected rainwater and water pumped strait up from the hudson, which they filter using a reverse osmosis system. the whole thing was amazing and exciting. the tour guide was british and used the word "reckon" which made me love that little barge even more. the tomatoes, butter lettuce and cucumbers grown right there on the barge (and graciously given to our little group) made a great salad with friday night's home-made pizza.
Cape. eve's good friend turned three on saturday, so i made him a reversible cape. one side is superman while the other is personalized for said friend, whose name happens to begin with a "C." i was inspired by the reversible superman/batman cape my mother-in-law gave eve on her third birthday, which is worn daily around here. this was a lot of fun to make. i love felt. i love cutting through it. i love sewing on it. and i love love love superheroes, especially when they're three years old.
eve was adorable during the process, "you working on my friend's superman cape, mom? you workin hard. ooh, i love dat cape mommy. so special!" she also loved trying it on and testing it out before it was wrapped up and given away.
Cheesecake. happy father's day chip. since you are one of the skinnier men i've ever known, let me try to fatten you up by making you this unbelievably good cheesesake that just happens to have 514 grams of fat packed into it's pretty little cakey body. 514!! FIVE bars of cream cheese, 1/4cup heavy cream, one PINT of sour cream, SEVEN eggs, some butter and some graham crackers and you've got 514 fat grams begging to be consumed and double the size of my love handles, while adding nothing to chip. but, it is really, really good, and i fool myself into thinking it isn't so bad for me if i have a few fresh raspberries with it.
no picture with this one. after all the revealing of its fat contents i'm too emabarassed (and horrified) to show how much we've eaten in just two days.
Console. oh, fine, it's a desk. we've been planning to have the desk stretch from wall to wall since we moved in a year and a half ago. this weekend it finally happened. one and a three-quarter solid-core doors painted and joined together. a chair for the computer and a chair for the sewing machine. now chip and i won't have to breathe down each other's necks asking "are you finished? are you almost done? so, how much longer are you going to be working here? . . ." every other minute when one of us is in the chair and the other wants to sit and work. it's no craft room (sigh) but it feels good. . . almost as good as when we got our couch and realized we could both lay down, fully stretched out without having to touch each other. now we just need to find a way to upgrade the double bed. . .
the weekend. there it is, or at least the "c" parts. you're missing out on the tantrums, the general destruction and the drawing everywhere with pen and marker, but i'm going to pretend that none of that ever happened.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 06:33AM
Reader Comments (7)
Very interesting about the science barge.
Love the new desk/console. Looks very chic.
ok, I need to see more pics of your apartment. That desk area looks brilliant and so does the little bit of the bedroom I saw. I just know your place is adorable. I so wish I knew how to decorate and make spaces look nice... YOU'RE AN ADORABLE FAMILY WHO LIVES IN A STYLISH APARTMENT IN BROOKLYN! AWESOME!
I want that cape, it is awesome!! I also need your cheesecake recipe, couse it sounds a whole lot more fattening than mine, so it must be better right? Oh, THANKS FOR THE SALT WATERS!! woo-hoo I love them! Love you!
oh, i almost forgot, i LOVE your new banner deal. soooo perfectly cute!
I, too, love the new banner background. So cute! Is that some of Eve's work? I'd also like to put in a second request for photos of your apartment. The small glimpses I get seem like you're making great use of space - I'd love to see more. And I don't know if it's just the angle of the picture or if that crib is actually really, really long...? Ok, and I also want the cheesecak recipe. Cute cape, cute desk, cute quotes from Eve. You guys are awesome. And the science barge sounds fascinating and it made me crave butter lettuce. :)
Putting in my dibs on a personalized cape. Perhaps it wouldn't look as cute as it did on your own kids and the child to whom it was made for, but gosh darnit if I don't want to still give it a good ole fashion try. Although as I'm typing this I'm wondering to myself "can I drive with this cape on and will it hinder me in any of my secretarial activities throughout the day?" but no matter the answer I think I could totally rock it out.
And a 'word' or maybe just a letter cause that's shorter and less used.... wait... anyway, the console looks very cool. It makes me want to lay across it just cause it looks like I can. I won't for fear I would ruin the cool console and well I'm all the way here in the SLC but I would be tempted to.
Chip and Randall (my daddio) should be required to eat that cheesecake on a daily basis.
And to round this long post out, cucumbers are excellent on a salad. I even, on rare occassions will sneak one out of the salad and eat it all on it's own. I was about to confuse cucumbers with zucchini and say that I love them in bread, but luckily I caught myself cause while maybe it's good, the idea of cucumber bread doesn't excite me the my mom's chocolate zucchini bread does. I could fake excitement but I'm already making this way way too long and I'm sure I lost you up there on the Tara in a cape.
what kind of sewing machine is that? I LOVE the plastic cover... my machine is great, but i have to keep it in this hideous black bag, that is so simple, clean and pretty!