I love making breakfast from whatever vegetables we have in the fridge. She's becoming fill-in-the-blanks hash expert. Apparently Meadow also loves mom's Sunday morning hash surprises. My mom wants a new knife set for her birthday. That gave us an excuse to check out the Restaurant Depot in Brooklyn Center. I've always heard this location was open to public and we finally got around to checking it out for reals.  This used to be the Best Buy that I worked at for two years. It looked nothing like the place I worked at.  We stocked up on a few good deals. They had Organic Valley butter for way cheaper than what we pay for other butter at the co-op. We've also started a love affair with Oaxaca cheese and decided it was a good idea to get some of the best tortillas in town, La Perla . We used some of the tortillas right away to accompany our leftover tacos el pastor. Since we didn't get to go apple picking with Emma when w...

The first frost was finally coming. It was time to clean out the garden and harvest what was remaining. Here's are first success at celery.  Our best garden yet. Next year we have a new plan on where to plant things since most plants die from being crowded by others.  They were crowded because someone didn't read the many rules of square-foot gardening. Planting four brussels sprouts next to one another is not the way to do it. Anyways...a few days later... We still haven't turned on our heat. I thought using the oven today would be a good idea. I made big pancake for breakfast and Scott says, "I'm getting sick of big pancake." How can you get sick of big pancake? It's really tasty and all, but there some many other options. Meadow watched from below.  And above.  She's really getting interested in food. A few more months little bear. Meadow has been very grabby lately. Especially during feedings. T...