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Sustainability Saturdays: Farmer’s Market, Zucchini Bread & Playground Fireworks

Jul 5

Posted by Aaron in Foodities, Friends, Family & Pets, Ziggy aka Sullivan | No Comments

Mark and I had a lot of fun last time when we went berry picking on our bike ride. I’m hoping this becomes more of a regular thing; it’s a lot of fun to go leisurely biking around town.

Image courtesy Google Maps (2009)

Image courtesy Google Maps (2009)

This past Saturday (July 4), Mark’s plan of action was to go to the farmer’s market on North “A” between 6th and 7th street.

It’s pretty informal — a bunch of local farmer’s bring some of their latest crops to a public parking lot, and sell their vegetables for cash. Pretty cheaply too!

I knew that they did this on Tuesdays, but apparently some of them also come down on Saturdays too!

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Receiving the Santa Hat

Dec 23

Posted by Aaron in Friends, Family & Pets, Musings | 1 Comment

“Aaron, wake up; it’s Xmas!” Melissa whispered, lying next to me in bed. The sun was just barely up; I figured it was about half-past seven.

“No it’s not, it’s only the 21st.” I was close — it was the 22nd. She smiled at me and we got out of bed.

Flashback a few years ago. the house where I grew up in Pennsylvania, December 24th, around eleven PM. My mom and I are the last people awake after my little brother went to sleep a little while ago.

“Are you going to help me?” Mom asked me. It was genuinely inquisitive, not rhetorical. I think I was either watching the color television or cleaning up in the kitchen. I’m a bit of a night owl. 

“Help you with what?” I replied. 

“Put the presents out.”

I was a little surprised, partly because I had forgotten that it was Xmas eve, but also because every year prior I had also been asleep, or at least out of the room, when the presents were laid out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Mabon

Sep 25

Posted by Aaron in Friends, Family & Pets, Secular Life | No Comments

Pumpkin patchThis past Sunday, we celebrated Mabon - a harvest celebration. Mabon is traditionally a Pagan holiday, although I’d say it now falls under the more modern categorical moniker “Secular Holiday” (which is a bit of an oxymoron), to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox.

The Fall / Autumnal Equinox is the day when the amount of daylight and night-time are equal in duration. Most people know it more commonly as “the first day of fall,” if you go by the “Astronomical” scale rather than the Meteorogical scale.

It’s a point of transition — Summer ends, Autumn begins. Most plants begin to wilt, tree-leaves start to change, the air gets a bit chillier and takes on a drier, more musty-smelling flavor. Read the rest of this entry »

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