§ Rabbit rabbit. Happy May.

§ I drove a pickup truck for the first time.

I needed to rent one from the local big box store to bring home 4x8' polycarbonate panels for the greenhouse’s roof. The surprisingly good visibility made the drive a much less anxiety inducing expirence compared to similarly sized cargo vans I have driven in the past. The downside was that I kept forgetting how long the vehicle really is—this is where a backup camera would have helped tremendously.

I managed to install the new roof right before the start of an endlessly rainy week. This was good for testing the roof, I suppose, but bad for getting any other garden work accomplished.

§ Caroline and I are planning a weekend trip to Confluence, Pennsylvania for my birthday later this month. The plan is to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house and the Ohiopyle State Park. Exciting!

§ Caroline brought home a bunch of porcelain tiles she made. We are trying to figure out a fun way to incorporate them into the greenhouse.

§ Links

§ Recipes

I finally got the opportunity to use a bunch of the—extremely prolific—chives from the garden in a mushroom risotto this week. Would it have been better to make this recipe when I was growing my own mushrooms? Absolutely. Why didn’t I? Who knows!