Well, I made it through my birthday. Pretty uneventful, and even though Sarah did a lot for me, there still seems to be no cake in sight . . . Oh well . . .
We went to Ann and Rich's on Friday night for a lobster dinner with them and Sarah's mom. It was fun and low-key.
Saturday I put together baby stuff an worried about where everything is going to go, and then that evening we went out to dinner with her mom. It just so happened that the restaurant I picked in Paoli was right beside a kitchen store. We spent some time in there because they had a lot of nice things. I had been thinking about borrowing Ann's food mill again this fall to make applesauce, and I've looked for those in stores but never found them - I was beginning to think I'd only find one in an antique store. But, they had one, so I was excited about that. Dinner was at Le Saigon, a French-influenced Vietnamese place that was very good and very reasonably priced. I can't wait to go back. We finished the evening with the requisite stop at Handel's for some awesome ice cream. Sarah's mom got me an awesome belt buckle. I actually had this one a couple years ago and I love it, but part of it broke and I haven't been able to find another since. I'll post a picture when I can.
Today (Sunday) Sarah cooked me a nice breakfast of french toast. After that, Sarah, Lincoln, and I went to the 250 acre pick-your-own orchard that we love. It was hotter than hell, but we picked 58 lbs of fruit, including tons of early-season Lodi apples, which are great for applesauce, lots of peaches, some apricots, and a good amount of plums and a quart of blueberries. Everything is delicious. The only thing they had in season that we didn't pick were blackberries - we figured 58 lbs was enough. We really love that place. If we lived closer I'd get a second job there - I really want to learn about growing all those fruits.
Lincoln and I took Sarah on a walk down to Valley Forge Creek here in Chesterbrook to see something Lincoln and I found last night. There is a wide part of the creek where a tons of bats seem to congregate at dusk to catch bugs. There were none at 8:30 when we got there, and by 8:45 there must have been 30. It was pretty awesome. They were bigger and lighter in color than ones I'm used to, and they would fly REALLY close to us before veering off.
All in all, it was a pretty good weekend, even though I still don't have a cake.
1 comment:
Happy belated birthday, Jason! If you want cake, go buy yourself a box of Little Debbies (j/k).
I hope your summer is going well (aside from the usual work-related b.s). I have not heard about that orchard; sounds like a nice place.
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