Do I dare?

[susandennis]

It is lovely and cool today inside and out. I'm thinking that the air conditioner could maybe be done for the year. Do I dare put it up for the winter? Or is that just asking for a heat wave. hmmmm

Yesterday I got a delightful surprise. ljtourist came over with some treats from the road trip he got back from on Friday. Among the delicious items he brought were four fabulous tomatoes. He got them in Colorado. Seattle does not have fabulous tomatoes. Our sun is just not strong enough or long enough and I think our dirt is not tomato friendly but whatever, even our very best August/September tomatoes are lame. But, these Colorado rascals were pretty darned excellent. I ate one like an apple and then I had one in a sandwich for dinner last night. Sunday night is breakfast for dinner and I love a good tomato with eggs and sausage. Yum yum.

He led the boys in a rousing game of Stickie. Here's Biggie just after Frank left.



The Smalls was too tired to even get on the bed. He was passed out on the floor.

The ballgame was good. We ended up winning with a homerun in the 10. Sadly, I fell asleep in the 9th but they apparently didn't need me. Fine.

I thought there was an early soccer game this morning that would hose up the traffic around here so I was going to skip swimming but I got up and looked at that treadmill and decided fuck it. I'll sit in traffic if necessary. (See, treadmill even does double duty!) Turned out, the soccer game isn't til 3 so I swam and then went to Trader Joe's before I came home. I'm loving the swim suits made with my new pattern. They are a dream to swim in and, since they aren't lined, they take up very little room in my swim bag on the way home. I have fabric for two more in house. I think I'll be making them up this week.

I started to describe my plans for today as low key but I think a more apt description would be usual. Watch baseball, crochet, play with cats. Ha. Suits me fine, thank you.

First, though, I need to take some garbage down to the dumpsters before it starts stinking up the joint.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I've been purchasing tomatoes at the Farmers Market two blocks from my building. However, I'm still in search of a tomato that tastes like those I remember from my childhood. I stopped and bought some Colorado peaches for some of the ladies in my building last Wednesday and enjoyed two peaches this morning for breakfast. They were delicious, so I'm wondering if I can get Colorado tomatoes somewhere here in the Twin Cities. Tomatoes are actually my favorite fruit! :) ljtourist is a very good friend indeed!

Fun to see the kitties exhausted from their game!

[susandennis]

Interestingly we get zero even remotely decent peaches here - ever. So he's also always on the lookout for those. The peaches he found in Colorado were just like Seattle's. The peach hunt here continues.

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

The only thing I miss about living in New Jersey are *cheap*, *delicious* tomatoes sold on the roadside *everywhere*. You have to pay something crazy like $5.99 a pound to get a decent one here in Maine.

I grew up on tomato sandwiches.

[susandennis]

I'd almost go so far as to say that there is nothing in life better than a New Jersey tomato. Seriously. Nothing. Just thinking about them now, this time of year, makes me want to book a flight.

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

If I ever visit Seattle I will visit during Jersey tomato season and bring you a bunch!

[susandennis]

heaven - tomatoes but having you here ain't too shabby a thot either!

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

If you are looking for good peaches, the ones grown in the Okanagan Valley in BC are pretty good. Had some delicious juicy ones (but expensive) this year.

I see you named "Biggie" ironically. "Frank" is the other Blackie? (I hope your cats don't object to be called "Blackies". It's not so much a race thing as a fur thing for them.) One of my favourite furry babies was a Blackie I called "Smudge" because he always had a smudge of colour on his nose from pushing his face into everything.

I've never done A/C. Always fans. Something comforting about the breeze across my skin. Or I'm just weird.

[susandennis]

Both cats are black - not a white mark on either one. When they first got here, one was substantially bigger than the other. (They are from the same litter.) So I called him Biggie and the other one, The Smalls. Biggie is still bigger not The Smalls is catching up.