Birds, veggies, exercise

Birds: on the way home from work, I gave the conductor my ticket to punch, and then got up and stepped around her to look out the window as we approached the marsh just west of Douglaston station [1]. As I was looking for the ospreys--and saw three sitting on the nest as we passed--she mentioned that that view is the high point of her day.

A couple of days ago, I got into a conversation about gardens and produce with a co-worker, sparked by the person who'd brought in their extra basil, jalapeños, parsley, and tomatoes. This morning, she presented me with a bag from her garden: tomatoes (Roma and cherry), long green peppers (mild, I think these are the ones nancylebov was just posting about, and two kinds of cucumbers. No, not kirbys: the ones I think of as "regular" cucumbers, the basic big green ones, and some small yellow ones called lemon cucumbers for their appearance. I ate the cherry tomatoes as part of lunch, because they clearly wouldn't keep; some of the Romas and one big cucumber were a salad tonight with the remainder of cattitude's fine split pea soup; I peeled and sliced one of the lemon cucumbers, which tastes just like the regular kind, and this one had lots of seeds and pulp, which I like.

I went to the gym after work. It is very pleasant to be greeted by one of the trainers with the words "Here comes the star."

( exercise details )

[1] This is on the North Shore of Long Island (i.e., south coast of Long Island Sound), near the Queens-Nassau border.

Birds, veggies, exercise

Birds: on the way home from work, I gave the conductor my ticket to punch, and then got up and stepped around her to look out the window as we approached the marsh just west of Douglaston station [1]. As I was looking for the ospreys--and saw three sitting on the nest as we passed--she mentioned that that view is the high point of her day.

A couple of days ago, I got into a conversation about gardens and produce with a co-worker, sparked by the person who'd brought in their extra basil, jalapeños, parsley, and tomatoes. This morning, she presented me with a bag from her garden: tomatoes (Roma and cherry), long green peppers (mild, I think these are the ones nancylebov was just posting about, and two kinds of cucumbers. No, not kirbys: the ones I think of as "regular" cucumbers, the basic big green ones, and some small yellow ones called lemon cucumbers for their appearance. I ate the cherry tomatoes as part of lunch, because they clearly wouldn't keep; some of the Romas and one big cucumber were a salad tonight with the remainder of cattitude's fine split pea soup; I peeled and sliced one of the lemon cucumbers, which tastes just like the regular kind, and this one had lots of seeds and pulp, which I like.

I went to the gym after work. It is very pleasant to be greeted by one of the trainers with the words "Here comes the star."

( exercise details )

[1] This is on the North Shore of Long Island (i.e., south coast of Long Island Sound), near the Queens-Nassau border.