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After returning from Austin, and Austin City limits Festival, we are both battling colds which put a damper on our weekend. Despite our colds, I think we were reasonably productive.
Friday evening I baked a pie, not from scratch, but still quite good none the less. I used the apples we picked at Kimball's fruit farm with Joe, Katie, Kristen and David.
On Saturday morning, we visited the final day of the farmers market to get our weeks produce, and bagels. It's sad that it's over, but I think the participating vendors are happy for it to be done for the season. After speaking with a few of them, they indicated that the numbers have been steadily declining since the start of school. This was our first year shopping there, and we really enjoy supporting the local farmers. So, I hope when they return next July, not only are the numbers strong, but we will be one of them!
In the afternoon T mowed the lawn, while I cleaned the garage. After noting the increased amount of scalping on the lawn, I think we may have some work to do on the tractor. I hit a rock while mowing the stony field earlier this summer, after which I replaced a severely bent blade, but I think I may have bent a shaft. So that will require some further investigation, and perhaps money.
I spent the evening Saturday converting my recipe bookmarks to Evernote. I was using google reader because it's where I find most of the recipes I want to make but relying on RSS and live bookmarks just doesn't work. People delete, move, and change content. After searching out some recipes that interested me a while back, and finding more and more dead links, I thought it was best to capture the content incase the link goes dead. It was also a nice chace to take inventory of the recipes I've collected, and logically sort them. Now if I could only have all my cookbooks digitized, I could find all the great recipes I'm missing.
We had a lazy Sunday, I went grocery shopping, cashing in some coins for an amazon gift certificate. I wonder if they realize that with amazon prime, and the fact that amazon sells grocery type stuff, they are losing a sale by charging for coin star and not GC's.
While I was shopping T cleaned up the coop, the girls are acting a little more like layers each day. Some of their cheeks have become quite red, and we've seen them hanging out in the coop under the nesting boxes. However we have still not been able to gather that elusive $1000 egg.
Later in the afternoon, T and I visited the girls at Silver Oak Alpacas. It was nice to see the farm they are at, and to see the ones I've never seen. We are still pondering names for the two young boys.
After visiting the girls, I whipped up a loaf of bread, and made some slaw. Not bad for a 'sick' weekend... Heck, I even posted a blog entry.