And for dinner that same night I made some baked potatoes with bacon, dill and garlic. Quite possibly a match made in heaven.
Other good things that have happened recently: Michael Hanes and Jen Brown came to visit! Mike was here for a conference so Jen decided she'd come along and visit us as well. While they were here we went to the sea and my, oh my, it was such a beautiful day!
While walking along the beach we found this fantastic shack that someone had built for people to hang out in. It was at least two years old and had been written all over. There were plenty of "Chris was here" type of things and amusing anecdotes. Someone had also left a glass jar full of paper scraps and pens for people to write on while hanging out at the shack.
View from the shack.
After we hung out there for a while Mike went for a swim in the ICE. COLD. NORTHWESTERN. PACIFIC.
On our way to the beach we stopped and picked up this large seedpod/fruit that was growing wild. Then a couple days after it being on my shelf it opened up and looked like this!
Then Mike went off to the conference and we literally never saw him again. That week Jen, Clara and I hung out together walking around Alberta and then made dinner together.
We had blackberry-glazed salmon with farm mixed-vegetables and a side of quinoa.
Jen, Joel and I all went to the farm co-op and got an awesome load: carrots, spinach and lettuce, summer squash, blackberries, logan berries, onions and elephant garlic!
That night we made hamburgers and more mixed farm veggies, yum!
Then Jen and Mike went home and life went back to normal, sort of. We had family dinner with our housemates last tuesday.
And then we told them we were moving to Philadelphia in October!
