Delirity

Jesse and I have been playing tag around the house. Sometimes he’s here. Sometimes I’m here. Occasionally we’re both here… but not too much (18 days in May and only 6 days during the first 3 weeks of June). Definitely an improvement from when he was working in Bellingham, but still not a full time thing yet (that should happen after the 3rd week of June).

When we are together, and even when we aren’t, a lot of time is currently being taken up by figuring out the startup of Jesse’s chiropractic office. We’re checking out locations, trying to get realtors to call us back (you’d think that in an economy where there are lots of vacant spots it wouldn’t be that hard to get a return call!), getting in touch with banks, trying to choose the perfect table, checking out other practices (to help us figure out what to do and what not to do), and Jesse is doing a lot of reading.

It’s exciting. And if all goes well, we’ll be in business by August 1st (or some point shortly thereafter). So much to do and so little time! Sometimes I wish I could help more, but sadly there are other things in my life to be dealt with at a higher priority (since Jesse really should take the lead on his own business). Wish us luck! It’s a super exciting, though very busy and stressful time.

Our local farm share started up this past week. For 24 weeks this year, we’ll be loaded up with fresh veggies and 2 dozen free range eggs. Fruit and honey will be coming from the local farmer’s market on Saturdays. I’m hoping that this means we can decrease our grocery store trips to every 2 weeks or so (for meat and bananas and whatever other random essentials we need).

We’re really hoping that embracing our farm share will help us to clean up our eating (there’s been just a little too much sugar involved recently!). When we did this 2 years ago we frequently had food that we never got to. Our goal this year is to consume everything (except fava beans)… we’ve learned a lot in the past 2 years and have a plan of attack:

1. I “process” all the fresh food immediately upon getting home. This goes something like: empty produce from awesome organic cotton bags, wash with veggie wash and filtered water, and put into the many vented containers we have. That means it’s really easy to eat stuff when we want it.
2. Anything we have a large quantity gets made into smoothies made by the vitamix we received last year for Christmas. This should really help with the huge amounts of greens we get – particularly during the first half of the season!

This week’s share (“small” since it’s the first week) contains mixed lettuces, spinach, mild mustard greens, pea greens, kale, radishes, chives, and a cherry tomato plant (which I’m attempting to grow on our back patio in a pot – cross your fingers for enough sun!). Since Jesse is out of town this week, it’s up to me to eat it all! So far I’m actually making fairly good progress on it. I’ve been making smoothies (with lots of greens mixed in!) and kale crispies (in fact, all the kale is gone now!). And, the radishes are actually mild enough to eat like a carrot!

We’re gonna be so healthy