Oct

28

rhubarb, pumpkins, and dreams

Filed under food, mundane, seasons at 8:53 pm 

Here are a few random thoughts to round out the week.

Thought #1: I’ve often dreamed of owning a house and paying someone to do all the yard work. Life would be so carefree without having the lawn mowing hanging over your head all week. Well, I realized today I’ve achieved that dream, and it’s nothing like I anticipated. We still own our house in G.R. and get to pay someone to do all the yard work. The problem is we’re not there to enjoy it. Hmmm. Did I mention we’re trying to sell our house?

Thought #2: I’ve heard it said you know you have a good grasp of a foreign language when you start dreaming in that language. A year of German at Calvin was enough to convince me that something like that’s possible. I don’t always remember my dreams, but this morning I woke up remembering dreaming in Perl and PHP. I’m not sure what that means, other than the weekend came just in time.

Thought #3: Rachel and I both have a green thumb gene somewhere in our families (e.g., her Dekker grandparents, my Grandma Vugteveen). However, pie we’re fairly certain that gene skipped over us. We have a very difficult time keeping any plants alive, let alone anything one might consider a garden. Rhubarb seems to be something that grows in spite of us, and for that we’re thankful. We have some rhubarb we transplanted from my Grandma Vugteveen that has now moved with us three times, and it keeps on growing. I tell you all that only to share that Rachel was able to find enough time to bake a rhubarb pie this week. Delicious.

Thought #4: I enjoy the season of fall. I’m pleased that Virginia has this season, too. :-P The trees (and there are a ton of them around here) havefall colors been turning colors very gradually over the last several weeks. This is a picture in the neighborhood where we’re currently living. I also enjoy pumpkin-flavored things, such as a Pumpkin Mr. Pumpkin and our niece Spice Latte at Starbucks. Mmmm. Speaking of pumpkins, Lori (my sister-in-law) carved up this jack-o-lantern in about 2 minutes. (She’s good at art stuff.)

Comments

2 Responses to “rhubarb, pumpkins, and dreams”

  1. brian on October 29th, 2006 6:33 pm

    mmmmm….. pie…. gnaaarllll….
    Hey man, just a little public affirmation (aren’t you glad that you turned comments on?) but having just spent a long weekend at a blogging conference Andy and I agree that we’re really glad you’re blogging. Way to go!

  2. bcp on October 31st, 2006 6:15 pm

    Andy’s just excited that I mentioned rhubarb. Bring back fond childhood memories Andy?! :-P

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