Digging for potatoes!

I love digging up potatoes in the fall.  It is a bit like an easter egg hunt, digging through the dark dirt looking for the light brown skin of the potatoes. Jackpot!

I enlisted jack's help this year. He was responsible for putting the potatoes into the box

He preferred to dig in the dirt and look for "erms". We talked a lot about how to hold them gently and not cut them with our spades. Our worms are huge this year which always makes me happy. I know they are working hard converting our heavy clayish soil to lovely rich dark soil

This is about half of the potatoes. We will leave the rest in the ground for now. Not a bad haul considering we didn't plant any new potatoes these are from the little baby potatoes that we missed last year

Unrelated but cute pictures of jack! I couldn't decide which pictures to cut out so you get to see them all!

Play date with Mary

Jack and I met Lacy and Mary at OMSI last week and as always had a good time.

We have hired a new dishwasher...*

*Yes I know he shouldn't be holding a microplane, I don't know why no one took it away from him...
So much for mother of the year!

Monday is garbage day

Monday is the day they pick up our garbage. Jack loves to see the big trucks and when he hears them rumbling down the street he races out of whatever corner of the house he is in to watch.

Jack made sure to get monkey and wrinkles in the windowsill so they could see too. He is such a good friend!

Boo!

Carving pumpkins

Jack was saying quack quack

A duck from oregon, not an U of O Duck grandpa we promise!

Jack waiting for the tricker treaters. He couldn't wait to pass out treats to the kids but got nervous and ran away when they came to the door!

Happy Halloween Everybody!

Downtown with Lacy and Mary

 Last week Jack and I met Mary and her mom Lacy downtown. I wanted to take Lacy to one of my favorite food carts called DC Vegetarian. It was a beautiful but chilly day and we had a fun time.

I was apparently too busy eating my sandwich to take a picture but this is from last time we ate at DC Veg

 Jack liked his sandwich!

 We took our sandwiches down to the waterfront to eat and we saw a gaggle of geese taking a break before heading south.

 Mary loved the water and kept running across the path to see the geese!

 Dessert! A chocolate peanut butter cup. So good!

Out to breakfast

 

(repeat post from vegging out)

Lance,Jack and I went out for breakfast today. Breakfast is my favorite meal to eat out so I was super excited. We decided to go cup and saucer on hawthorne. I had been there once before when I still ate meat and remember it being good.

Jack and Lance

 For a restaurant on hawthorne I was expecting a lot of vegan options. They did have a long list of scrambles and vegan pancakes. I didn't feel like a scramble so I ordered the pancakes even though I wasn't quite sure about cornmeal-spelt blueberry pancakes. They were really good. Much more filling then regular pancakes. I made the mistake of ordering 2 but 1 was more then enough. I also ordered a side of vegan sausage and I know it has been awhile since I last ate a real sausage but it was good,it was "I made Lance taste it to make sure that it wasn't pork sausage good". Morningstar is the company that makes it. 

Jack loved the pancakes and ate most of one of them.