Blog

My favorite summer salad, best enjoyed outside on the patio in the comforting embrace of an Adirondack chair. Spring mix, goat cheese, strawberries, grilled chicken and pecans – no dressing required.

We are becoming water tester extraordinaires, thanks to Mav. Water testing happens at least once every other day in our house and our bar is littered with test tubes, chemical bottles, instruction booklets, and test result charts. It’s kind of fun.

For Easter I dyed the eggs psychedelic style – just add 3 Tbsp. of white vinegar to each tablet, 1/2 cup of hot water, and 1 tsp. of melted butter. Groovy. Easter breakfast in my family was always had-boiled eggs with Polish sausage. If I’m feeling particularly crafty, I might try silk-dyed eggs next year.

And, finally, Mav.

This is all you get of Girlfriend this week. Mostly because this is all we’re getting of Girlfriend lately as well. She’s a trooper and has been enduring a pretty wicked going-on-2-week nitrite spike as we cycle her tank, so her preference has been to stay in her cave, rearrange all the gravel, and dig to China. We’re hoping the spike starts to taper off soon so we can see more of our sweet, playful Mav again. As soon as her tank is fully cycled we’re thinking of adding in a fish or two for her to stalk.

How was your weekend?