8/6/14

1. Apartment was actually below 80 degrees in the morning!
2. Eventually succeeding in getting the heatmap color gradient into the legend.
3. Making it to the August meeting of the Portland Preservation Society.
4. Getting my top choices at the trade, including a raspberry gin and various syrups with vanilla and lavender.
5. Lots of interest in my pickled sweet cherries! And I thought they wouldn't go at all.
6. Hitting 10k steps thanks to the walk out for lunch, an afternoon walk to the smoothie shop, and biking to/from work and to/from the PPS meeting.

A year ago today.

8/5/14

1. Radish-chive cream cheese-salami-corned beef on olive bread sandwich for lunch.
2. Fixing a bug in with the color gradient scale.
3. Grabbing pizza from the PDX Ruby meetup for dinner.
4. Vegan chocolate cupcake and peach cobbler for dessert.
5. Actually comfortable temperature outside for the bike ride home.
6. Didn't take too long to can up the figs into fig jam.

A year ago today.

8/4/14

1. Bringing corn-chorizo soup for lunch instead of everything that would be needed for panzanella salad instead.
2. Getting a bunch of fresh figs from LC!
3. Figuring out how to set up the new heatmap color gradient scale.
4. Panzanella salad for dinner.
5. Team doing well at bar trivia, got quite a few good answers, though still lost by a point in the end.
6. Finding some fig jam recipes that would let me just macerate them overnight.

A year ago today.

8/3/14

1. Getting a full 8 hours of sleep for the first time in a couple nights.
2. Dan patiently driving me to two different farmers markets and two different Fred Meyers.
3. Picking up a few basil, Swiss chard, and carrot plants to give planting them by the house a go.
4. Making a panzanella salad for a late lunch.
5. Really fun and exciting Portland Thorns soccer game!
6. Getting our car from the parking garage quickly and home by 9:20.

A year ago today.

8/2/14

1. Driving out to Sauvie Island in the morning and picking peaches, berries, and corn.
2. Going home to get the free bread coupons for a few loaves of bread to go with the soup.
3. Feeling revived after a quick nap, re-hydrating, and taking a couple Advil.
4. Making corn-chorizo soup.
5. Peach jams (salted brown sugar and vanilla) and blueberry maple jams turning out pretty awesome.
6. Showering off the sweat and dust from the day.

A year ago today.

8/1/14

1. Dan giving me a ride to work in the morning.
2. Demo going well, lots of praise for how much the team's accomplished.
3. Talking to LM, a family friend, about getting an engineering job.
4. Having a fun time at AB/L's going-away BBQ.
5. Discovering grilled haloumi to be delicious!
6. Bringing home a bunch of the pantry stuff that AB/L were giving away, including pretty much their entire vinegar collection.

A year ago today.

7/31/14

1. Wearing my new woven leather loafer flats ("huaraches") out.
2. Microwaving the potato-zucchini mixture for 5 minutes helping to cook them through and balanced well with unsalted scrambled eggs with basil and cherry tomatoes from the CSA.
3. Stopping by the Thursday farmer's market all ready to check it out, couldn't bring it home then but one of the fruit farmers has canning specials of a box of peaches for $20...next time!
4. Getting my hair color freshened up, colors a little on the bluer end of aqua this time around, as I wanted them.
5. Finding Preserving by the Pint on sale at Powell's for 30% off and full of interesting recipes to try!
6. Dropping in to the Home & Garden store for the first time and realizing that Home = Cooking + Craft books too, dangerous.

A year ago today.