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Monkey Monday: my birthday came early edition 27 August 2007 11:02 pm

Posted by Tracy in : eating, eugene, friends, garden, restaurants, summer, vegan, vegetarian , 4 comments

My birthday isn’t for a little under an hour in this time zone, but it feels like I’ve been celebrating for days. As previously mentioned, my parents are visiting, and today I got home from work just in time to watch Peter put the final brushes of blue paint on the trim of our newly yellow house. Yay! (Every time my parents visit, they do a project. This one is extra awesome.) Also, yesterday was Kitchen Garden Day and we had a fabulous dinner, and we also ate a super-delicious family-style dinner at Iraila the night before that (Saturday). The festivities will really kick into gear with a total lunar eclipse that’s just a few hours away (more astronomy nerdery here), but that’s not exactly edible (except in the Cookie Monster song “If Moon Were Cookie”) so the rest of this post will be about more delicious celebrations and my plans for making this Green Bean Appreciation Week. (more…)