what i want to buy

• what: skagen watch
• from: billion dollar babes [sample sale]
• material: stainless steel, mother of pearl
• price: $109 from $295
  

things ive seen

this potentially could encompass everything ...ever. but mostly im focusing on the last week at work.

long island does in fact have squirrels. i thought only stray cats and large marsupials that mostly end up as road kill. oddly enough after i took this not so great picture i almost ran over another squirrel.

a new car! that ive now put 250+ miles on... work is a bummer. really. but at least i have use of the brand new company civic. instead of the ghetto ass old audi that made horrid creaking noises when it turned to the left. it also had 108,000 miles on it...and it wasnt a honda. ie well past the end of its lifespan.

"the best stuff on earth just got better". well i have to say plumagranate while tasting like i have no idea what... [i like the idea of pomegranate flavoring but it really just tastes like red juicy with a little crunch] ..is rather tasty. being diet it is full of chemicals [instead of sugar] but doesnt have the cloying aftertaste of some drinks. its not overly sweet or too flavored like the peach version. and blah blah its probably not made from hand picked sustainable leaves and mixed with the tears of organic puppies... but it was cheap. and unlike vita coco, the $2.59 new craze of hipster brooklyn [now spreading like an infestation], it doesnt taste like someone pissed in a coconut and then stuck a straw in it. which really, to their credit, is how coconut water actually tastes. having had a freshly machete-ed open honduran green coconut, with a straw stuck in it, i can personally verify this.

these creepy motherfuckers are all over suburbia. who ever thought it was a good idea to nail a face to a tree? cos really.. tree momma is creepin on mr toad. he just wants to go for a wild ride and/or not get hit by a lawnmower.

more gardening

tomatoes ..hopefully about to ripen so i can eat them

another batch of snow peas and green beans

my first eggplant and squash

a saute explosion!

side dish for dinner made entirely from the garden [except the kecap manis and sesame oil. those are difficult to grow..]

mini harvest

only a few beans.. i ate the rest before i could manage a picture. and i dont remember but these are some kind of yellow bell i believe. kind of small, but they were too close to the ground for my taste. i dont like produce rotting on the vine.

broccolini! or broccoli raab. idk what the difference is. but its ripe! and one of the stalks should have been picked sooner as its flowering.. but nonetheless it will be tasty sauteed in garlic and oil!

the first of many yellow squash on my gigantic plant

baby eggplant!

all my basil is surviving.. from seed! this is some sort of miracle!

back to black

i wore this for what i thought was my last day of field inspections. several of the guys questioned if i was going out dancing [no], going to the beach after work [no], or if i had dressed up for the trucker that had worn a plaid shirt the day prior [no]. mostly it was 90 degrees and sunny and i was driving the black work car around, and the black leather interior = stupidest idea ever. plus i was tired of wearing jeans, and its only concrete rip-out. im not standing close enough to the back hoe or for it to be dangerous, minus the time i nearly got taken out by a tree the old man was pushing down the street. needless to say, the guys all came running over laughing their asses off. but its not a frikkin hard hat/steel toed boots construction site.

also, wearing purple flipflops i frolicked on [measured] newly stamped concrete covered in 1" of concrete dust. leaving the parking lot after, i realized i had left a trail of dusty duck footprints all the way back to my car.

• tube top: urban outfitters [$5 clearance]
• skirt: pac sun

• dress: old navy
• scarf: unknown
• leggings: target

here is an example of how we remove trees. it turns out the scooper is also an instant hosta remover, effective on hostas of up to 4' in diameter!