Make a secret compartment book?

Cutting up books makes me twitch. It is possible I could bear to cut up a Readers' Digest Condensed Book or the Left Behind series.

I have no CSA, but I have lettuce, basil, and some peas form my own garden, and cuke, spinach, carrots, mushrooms and strawberries from the farmer's market at the hospital by work. My kettuce was just beginning to bolt. I hope it's not too bitter yet.

Cutting up books makes me twitch. It is possible I could bear to cut up a Readers' Digest Condensed Book or the Left Behind series.

I feel the same way, but I have lots of outdated textbooks.

Emmett and I discovered that he had a Best Buy gift card leftover from xmas that had never been used, so we planned to spend it today.

Since the Best Buy south of Market has a great taco truck, that's where we went for lunch.

Emmett had never had Taco Truck tacos so he was blown away by their tastiness.

The Best Buy smelled of some horrible combination of melted plastic and industrial cleaner. So we perused briefly but could not find the Avatar S3 or Teen Titans S3 we were seeking. He settled for Forgetting Sara Marshall. But we asked a staffperson to look it up and they said they had copies of the Avatar season at the Colma store.

We looked it up on Emmett's iPhone and hit the freeway. It was only 15 minutes away and we scored our DVDs. Driving back through Colma though we spotted the entrance to Woodlawn Cemetary and I decided we should go in.

Emmett was dubious.

But once we got up into it he was really intrigued by all the tombstones and dates and implied stories. Even if Some of the stories were heartbreaking.

On the way out, we stumbled across this Very Famous Person's tombstone completely by accident. Cool!

My family often enjoys a trip to the cemetary. Ooh, I should suggest that for a grandmotherly outing soon.

Ok, CSA share items identified. Huge variety this week compared to the first 4 weeks...

Baby greens, kale, green leaf lettuce, chard, radishes, bunch beets, green onions, snow peas, garlic scapes, summer squash and zucchini.

Noms galore!

Oh, I meant to add that with all the shopping I did this afternoon, the only bags that were used were my reusable TJ's bags. Beauty Secrets, Blockbuster, Costco and my CSA pickup. Woot.

My family often enjoys a trip to the cemetary. Ooh, I should suggest that for a grandmotherly outing soon.

When I was living in a trailer park in Oregon (about age 5) we lived near a graveyard that had apple trees in it. I'd go there with an older boy (age 9) and we'd climb the trees and eat green apples in the graveyard.

Best name seen today: Valdemer Jorgensson! A mighty Viking name.

We like Mount Auburn.

We like Mount Auburn.

I've been there! My gothish Boston girlfriend liked to wander around there.

Emmett and I wound up talking a lot about what kind of tombstone I'd like.

I've never much liked the trend towards cremation because you don't have graveyards for one thing. And I always liked the idea of visiting a grave, but my mom's ashes are scattered somewhere on Biscayne Bay.

Emmett said, "It's weird because in a cemetery you're surrounded by death, but it's making me think about Matilda's life. I wonder what she's going to be like. I want to see her grow up. Being in a cemetery makes you think about things that you don't usually think about."