Some Dirt

Before dating, Greg and I spent many lunch breaks, as science nerds do, talk about the technicality of gardening. Does the soil have the right pH? nitrogen? or potassium?

Steming from our past (pun intended), we recently began our adventure together on growing heirloom tomatoes together. Despite that it looks borderline illegal, needless to say, we will soon be proud parents of specialty heirlooms! The funny green plant is a Shamrock slowly working its way to join the compost pile.

The seeds were purchased from the good ole internet (http://www.rareseeds.com/) under Red Tomatoes. They are the "German Red Strawberry" and the Principe Borghese, which won the 2006 Seattle Tilth Tomatoe Tasting http://www.seattletilth.org/events/06ttresults.

I spent the most of my April Fool's Day preparing the soil for my tomatoes plants. I reckon it will take another 3 weeks before I can do so!

BitterSweet Send-Off

Thursday night, we said farewell to our friends George and Karen. With them, we also had to say goodbye to their beautiful 13 months old daughter, Olivia "Livy", and their dogs, Buster and Ginger. After their 3 years living in Ballard area of Seattle, they are heading eastwards to Hamilton, Montana. Less than 500miles away, there will be plenty of opportunities to visit them. Nevertheless, we will miss our dear friends greatly!

the PATH

The University Journal was sitting on the dinner table, while Greg and I had breakfast together. It was carpool day, so Greg was over for breakfast before we went to work. On the cover of the journal was about a local Seattle company called PATH, located in the Ballard area. I figure the best way to understand this non-profit organization but pasting their mission statement.

"Our mission statement is to improve the health of people around the world by advancing technologies, strengthenig systems, and encouraging healthy behaviors."

website: http://www.path.org

By the end of breakfast, Greg and I signed ourselves up for their monthly tour. Sounds exciting. They also work on improving mother and child nutrition around the world, which is what Greg studied (Nutrition and Dietitics) in Uni. World! Here we come!