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The Amish market in Garrett Park goes on all winter, but the produce can get a little dismal in the middle of winter. Not that there’s anything wrong with turnips, beets, and apples…but brilliant tomatoes and strawberries just look a lot tastier:
The cool thing about the Garret Park market is that it goes on until 1pm, so lazy folks like us can make it there before it closes – we like the Kensington market too, but rarely make it there because it ends at noon.
I’ve apparently had an old, broken version of this plugin listed for a while. Luckily, Christian tried it out and let me know it was broken. Thanks!
Birthdaze is a really simple plugin that adds an admin page to maintain a list of birthdays, plus a widget and template function to display the birthdays on your blog. For a little bit of privacy, only first name and last initial are displayed externally.
Download birthdaze: birthdaze_0.3.zip
Within 24 hours of arriving in Anchorage I was on Kachemak Bay with my dad, looking for oysters and salmon:
I talked my father-in-law into going on a couple of trips, including one with nice weather and fun fishing:
A lot of the Anchorage-area family came down to Homer for Memorial Day weekend, so for a fun trip we went clam digging and mussel gathering in Sadie Cove:
We all went to Bishop’s Beach in Homer to fly kites and turn over rocks before heading back up to Anchorage to fly home:
There are a lot more photos in this Flickr set.
Our friends Darcey and Aliza competed in a crazy race last weekend called a “Muddy Buddy,” where they biked and ran through a course on a trail at a state park near Richmond.
First Darcey started out on the bike…
I’ve been way too lazy posting this – it’s been a whole week and a half…
We met up with my mother in law last weekend for a couple of days in Boston towards the end of April. I’d been there a couple of years ago on a similarly-short trip, I think sometime in the summer. I was mostly on my own that time, so a great deal more shopping was done this time.
