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Got our next farm shipment yesterday. Included in the farm shipment is a squash the likes of which you’ve never seen. Oh - you wish you’ve seen something like it - but we both know you haven’t:

My parents are in town - we went down to their condo to go fishing.  The fishing was most excellent.  While I was fishing, Anna was wandering around taking artsy photographs.  Here they are!

We have somewhat of a downtown tradition now when we go to Rockies games.  First we hit up a place called Mexico City Restaurant in Denver.  They deep-fry their taco shells with the meat in them, throw in cheese, veggies, and avocado - perfect.

Taylor is a brewer at a brewery known as Great Divide Brewery.  Sometimes we go there for a beer or three after we eat our food before going to the game.

Then we head on into Coors Field to watch the Rockies lose.

Well, let’s see.  Virginia Tech lost a bunch of players to the draft (or free agency!)- basically all of their wide recievers and the majority of their linebacker and defensive line corps.

Then, we kicked our top running back off of the team because he was a douche.  Then, his backup, the new starter, got injured.

We had zero WR’s this year - they were all drafted.  So our projected top WR in the depth chart is now out for the season.

On the plus side, after being absolutely terrible the past two years, our offensive line should be pretty good.  Too bad we’ll have nobody to run the ball and Glennon to throw the ball.  He doesn’t exactly fill any VT fan with confidence.

Even though we’re going to suck - there’s nobody better on our side of the ACC!  Hooray!

This might be a good replacement for the aging Winnie.

Can’t do nuclear, can’t do wind, can’t do coal, can’t do oil, and now, can’t do solar.  Start collecting firewood - perhaps we’ll still be able to burn that for a few more days?

UPDATE:  Hooray!

I play a lot of board games with a handful of guys that I work with.  They’re usually involved board games - much more complicated than something like Monopoly or Scrabble.  I was introduced to them by an old co-worker and haven’t really looked back since.  I know a lot of you have played some of the same games and know what I’m talking about.

In playing different games with the same guys over and over, just like repeated activity of anything else, you learn their patterns.  Mind out of the gutter!

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Went fishing, more on that later.  Overheard conversation between two fly fishermen out in North Lake:

Fisherman 1:  “I almost got one that was seventeen inches!”

Fisherman 2: “Me too, when I was trying to get the keys out of my pocket.”

After Grandpa died, I think I decided I was done caring about politics - or at least anything to the level that I did prior.  There’s just much more important stuff in life to be concerned with.  Like bow-fishing:

I don’t have any answers.  I think I do - but I don’t know any better than most people.  I think I’ve made my peace with that - or I am continuing to, anyway.  I can get angry or try and talk to people, but they’ll believe what they want, and I can save my breath and keep friends.  Or at least the appearance of friendliness.

I get a kick right now about the polls that show Obama winning or with an early margin.  Or show McCain winning with a margin.  Or how they’re tied.  I guess this is something to report in lieu of news, which is fine - obviously some people care a lot.  Or maybe they’re trying - four months early, to give the impression that the race is over, and there’s no need to go through the rest of the election.  I’d be fine with that.

I do know in a scientifically accurate poll of two people at work, Obama has a 100% lead over McCain, but it doesn’t matter because humanity is doomed anyway.  I wonder how that demographic fits in!

“What the hell is a Kohlrabi?”

This is:

We started getting out farm shipments yesterday.  We joined Monroe Organic Farms.  We got butter lettuce, some other kind of lettuce, some fresh peas, some onions, and … kohlrabi?  Imagine being on an alien planet and being handed a plant that has purple bulbous growth and these weird purple spaghetti-stems.  We honestly didn’t know what to eat, the leaves or the root!

Turns out you can eat both, but you’re only really supposed to eat the root.  So we peeled the purple off of the root and cubed it and put it in salad.  Not too shabby.  It tastes cabbage-y, but maybe a bit sweeter.  Neat.

I think this picture works a little better, because you see it as it grows - how weird is that?  What dude went up to this plant and was like “ARR NUMM NUMMMM!”