Growing! Growing!

Our garden is growing and so are our boys. Today, up went the last 11 foot section of fence to support the growing peas. They are about 4 inches tall and their thin, little tendrils are reaching up to grab onto some support. The radishes are also on their way. The new apple and plum trees are in full bloom now with sweet pale pink blossoms with their lovely scent. The yard is dotted with tulips, all a deep pink color at their absolute peak. The blossoms are huge and showy on their long, sturdy stems. Kade and I picked a ton of ruby red stemmed rhubarb yesterday.

Today, we picked up our first box of produce as members of a CSA. For those who are not familiar, it stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Basically, we pay for a share of vegetables, fresh from the farm - all completely organic - delivered weekly to town where we pick it up. Kade was very excited to go pick up our firxt box. He really liked the idea of getting produce grown for us by a farmer. However, I think he misunderstood a little bit. Our pickup site is very close, less than 5 minutes away. When we arrived at the little blue house nestled in a typical neighborhood- he looked out the window and said "THIS is it??? This farmer doesn't even have cows!!" Hee hee. Apparently he thought we were going to the farm to get it. Never the less, our box was filled with the first bit of spring's bounty. It is still early so it is just the earliest of treats - -thick, fresh wild ramps, fat over-wintered parsnips, a big bag of fresh spinach, lovely chives and sorrel, rhubarb and sunchokes. Yum... I am already planning dinner tonight - Grilled New York Strip with a wild ramp - sorrel -mushroom sauce served with buttered roasted root vegetables - carrots, parsnips, sunchokes and potatoes. Deelish!

Speaking of deelish, Avram is now in love with all words that end with the sound "ee." They all sound vaguely familiar and takes a trained Mom or Dad ear to destinguish. He really loves to emphasize the "ee" sound and says that part in a quick high pitched voice. He walks around saying "dad-DEE" or "kit-TEE" or "dog-EE". The funniest one he says is "tase-TEE" (tasty) which now all food has become. He really stresses the "aye" sound on that one which makes it even funnier - he says "t-aaaye -STEE" What a cute little goof. He is currenlty on the mend from hand-foot and mouth disease. Poor kid was covered in spots! They are almost gone exept for the ones that were bad enough to scab over. Those few looked almost as bad as chicken pox! He is still a sweet little, tasty boy!