The microwave is off limits for one week! I am challenging my family and myself to not use it. Just seven days. If we are successful, I’d like to get rid of it. It would be nice to free up some counter space. I’ve been reading a lot of nasty news about the magical heat box. I always did have my doubts about it. I never even owned one until a few years ago. It was so easy to fall under it’s convenient spell though. Just google "microwave bad" if you wanna know what I am talking about.

On to happier food subjects…

Almost the end of the spinach from the garden. When it starts to put it’s energy toward making seeds, it grows a bunch of little tiny leaves that are impossible to pick individually, so I just cut off the whole top and then we nibble it off the stems.

Eating spinach is fun!

And because I feel like blabbing some more about my little urban garden, just one of the reasons why summer is my favorite, here’s a closeup…

It’s pink it’s pink! I was so excited to see that it was pink! Grown from seed. This plant takes up so much room in my tiny garden. I didn’t know how big it would get. I unstrategically placed it in the front and it is blocking view of all the things behind it. Last year, it’s first year, it made no flowers but somehow I decided not to rip it out. I wanted to see what color it was and if it was white it was gonna be out of there. But it’s pink! How could I rip out a huge pink flower? There are so many buds on it! Well if it’s gonna stay, it definitely has to move to a better spot. I’ll decide it’s fate at the end of the summer.

For anyone interested in my costume wedding photo album, here it is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pomly/sets/72157605737710223/
Warning! There are 117 photos, edited down from 848!
I’ve been telling people about this day for five years, and now I finally compiled the photos!