Erik, Mae, in addition to I were lucky to instruct a pelting suspension this morning time for our trip to the Portland Farmer's Market. What a treat! Our in conclusion several outings to a farmer's marketplace position receive got been to the Beaverton market, but today nosotros headed into the Park Blocks on the campus of my alma mater, Portland State University.
It's the i marketplace position where nosotros tin instruct our favorite breakfast of huevos rancheros. There's unremarkably a big draw of piece of job for this, but today in that location was none. We watched them cooking the vegetables in addition to frying the eggs.
The tortillas are made on site. And man, oh, man. This is the best breakfast going. Yum.
From there, nosotros shopped around. I was on the hunt for some love apple tree starts. Along the agency nosotros saw lots of pretty vegetables, including this regal broccoli.
Honestly, if I'd taken pictures of every blooming thing, we'd soundless live on there, in addition to hence I express myself to only a few daffodils...
in addition to mixed arrangements...
in addition to lovely lavender. Mmmmmmm...I honey the aroma of lavender.
I was intrigued yesteryear these vinegars, in addition to I tasted every one. There were to a greater extent than to the left of this image. The ones pictured hither are "drinking vinegars," intended to live on mixed amongst alcoholic beverages or else sparkling water. They tin live on used on salads too.
We were tempted yesteryear these niggling tarts.
This is greenish garlic. I idea nearly purchasing some, but decided against it. I receive got a recipe for a greenish garlic aioli, but it didn't talk to me correct at the moment.
Instead, I picked upwards 2 bottles of the culinary vinegar in addition to i of the drinking vinegar. Lately, I've been drinking sparkling H2O because of our diet.
When nosotros got dorsum to Erik in addition to Mae's house, Cricket posed for her picture. Clementine made herself scarce. I'm going to create their pawtraits i of these days.
Also, I picked upwards the post service Erik in addition to Mae receive got been belongings for me. This was my outset chance to come across my swap postcard inwards person. Isn't this the cutest thing? Karen did such a non bad project on it.
Thank yous again, Karen. It's perfect, in addition to I honey it.
Also...at some point, I won some buttons inwards a giveaway or a challenge or something...I honestly can't hollo upwards because it's been hence long. I had them sent to Erik in addition to Mae because I feared they wouldn't brand it earlier nosotros left habitation in conclusion fall.
I was able to select some buttons from her website. Of course, I picked the cats.
And these...I similar my buttons similar I similar my bindings. Stripes or polka dots. Cute, huh?
So that was a fun bundle to open.
After I left Erik in addition to Mae, I had a dyad of errands to run. There were no love apple tree starts at the farmer's market, but I was determined to instruct some. I ended upwards going to a local plant nursery where I establish these beauties. I got 10 Roma's in addition to i cherry tomato.
Now...we actually demand to create clean out the greenhouse. For now, they've taken upwards residence inwards the laundry room.
Speaking of tomatoes, I finished my niggling love apple tree quilt top. I'm calling this quilt "The More the Marinarier." (Did yous come across what I did there?)
Yesterday nosotros had vino shipments to alternative up. It's hence lovely driving out into the rural countryside on these excursions. It was an awful twenty-four hours of weather, in addition to hence I didn't accept many pictures. Here are a dyad from ameliorate weather condition days. We stopped off at Sokol-Blosser:
And Domaine Drouhin:
And our favorite, Witness Tree:
At Witness Tree, I did accept this i film of the sign on their restroom door. Take a expect at the paradigm above, in addition to and then banking concern complaint how someone went to the problem of digitizing their logo for the restroom sign...and in addition to then they machine embroidered it in addition to made a niggling tiny quilt from it!
Okay, in addition to and then the most exciting affair to date...We took the newly-opened Newberg-Dundee Bypass home.
Now this requires a flake of explanation because the route that goes through our niggling town of Newberg in addition to heads through the fifty-fifty smaller town of Dundee is also i of the chief routes to the Oregon coast. On weekends, the traffic through those 2 niggling towns is absolutely horrendous. It's made worse yesteryear i stinking stoplight inwards the middle of Dundee. Sometimes traffic backs upwards in that location for miles inwards both directions. So...our shipping department, inwards its wisdom, built a bypass around the 2 towns. It was years inwards the planning in addition to building, in addition to it opened patch nosotros were traveling. (Click on that link for the big news!) This was our outset fourth dimension driving it.
And don't yous know nosotros were waiting on tenterhooks for this calorie-free to alter hence nosotros could come across what all the hubbub was about. Always a killjoy ruddy light. Am I correct nearly that?
And whoa...we went over...
And nosotros went under...
And my navigation unit of measurement didn't fifty-fifty know the route was there. It idea nosotros were driving across opened upwards farmland.
We crossed the Tualatin River...no swimming or drinking...it's polluted.
And inwards nearly 4 miles (or thereabouts) the thrill came to an end.
Apparently the calorie-free is ruddy at both ends.
I in all likelihood should receive got warned yous nearly all that excitement. I promise no i had a pump attack.
So in that location are to a greater extent than errands to run this afternoon, in addition to I actually demand to instruct some cooking done for our dinner amongst the kids tomorrow. Before I go, however, I wanted to say yous that I finally position the hummingbird feeders out. This morning time I saw the outset hummer.
Spring is coming...really, it is.