sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug...
and sometimes you just ride a bike.

i haven't posted in a while, my apologies
(um, to all 3 of you readers)

these are the entertaining things going on...
*tomato plants are growing, and blooming
*a man in a rental moving truck hit my parked car. grrrr.
*i had three flat tires on my bike within 3 hours
*vanessa jean made her first appearance at last thursday on alberta street. so much fun passing out 'duct tape stickers' and chattin' people up for 4 hours. special thanks to sarah for helping out.
*orders: when it rains, it pours
*indy racing league (more info to come)
*i want a trailer for my bike
*i made a new friend!
*being perfect (thanks mom!)
*happy birthday grandma! (my world traveling grandma!)
*large men gardening in kilts
*odd men stringing peanuts (covered in peanut butter) from trees to see what the squirrels would do.

happy weekend all! happy spring. happy happy-ing!

scary things

* waterproof pants
i am brilliant, and yesterday lost the waterproof pants i was borrowing (and had just received the prior day) during my delivery route. then it rained and hailed. i was 1) sad to lose the pants and 2) really wet and cold when it rained and i was 40 blocks from home base. it did make for some good jokes at the meeting that afternoon as i was the first person to lose her pants at work.

ha!

amazing things:
-pulling a burley trailer by bike for the first time (in the rain!)
-attending my first neighborhood association meeting
-actually pondering travel cross-country by non-airplane (i swear i swore off this...but it always seems like so much fun...especially if you're not tote-ing your life belongings...maybe just some bikes)
-realizing i will regain my weird back tan again this summer - yessss!
-waterproof pants
-blackbean, corn & stewed tomato salad with salami(i need cornbread)
-mystery hot dates

life is so beautiful.

last night i went to see this phenomenal and inspiring documentary broken limbs: apples, agriculture and the new american farmer. it was an amazing portrait of the struggles small farmers go through, the effects of globalization and how some small farmers are getting creative to make farming work for them...and the introduction of sustainable agriculture into the new small farming system. an added reason, and a personalized one, to buy locally grown food. support your local farmers. if you live in washington it will be on pbs again (schedule on site), and if you don't...well, i hope you get to see it one day.

i love my bike, and i love my (sort of recent) transition to be a bikier person and an (almost) non-car person, and i so much admire people who are all-bike people, and i aspire to be as hard core as the portland folks who move by bike. by that i mean...move all their stuff to a new apartment by bike. that's hot. these are the best photos ever here and here.

from kitchen cabinet (from other places) about automobile political tendencies.

the spring line is here!
click here to see the newest and hottest in duct tape fashion accessories.

cheers to spring!

vote for vanessa jean!

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thanks folks!

i'm going to do something that i don't usually do...experience a weekend. i'm going to go on garage sale adventures, the scrap sale, knitting time, biking time, and party time. weekends...what a novel concept.

about a fish going to the homeland, from a cat.

what would we do without the internet?