Picture Time!

I went to the beach with Ted, Dantzel, John and James earlier this month. We grabbed take-out Teriyaki and drove down by the water. The tide was mostly in, but after lunch we found a strip of sand to explore for a bit.








This picture makes me start playing the FF8 opening theme in my head.

In baking news, earlier this week I bought two large naval oranges for a dessert I plan on completing this weekend. I carefully separated the fruit from the peel and started preparing the only part of the orange that I really care about.


Mmmm delicious.

Then I had to figure out what to do with the boring inside part.



I ended up making fresh squeezed orange juice. Two large oranges only gets you 1 cup juice! Seems like a pretty big waste to me.

In gardening news, my pallet is starting to fill out nicely.



The sunflowers are doing really well, but the top two rows of flowers are taking their time sprouting. The rest of the pallet is looking pretty great. One confession though - the strawberry bulbs I planted earlier this spring never sprouted, so I bought and planted the healthy looking ones on the left side of this picture. The biggest bonus to buying them fully grown is that they started sprouting fruit right away.

I don't mind telling you that these tasted fantastic.