Holiday Express with Tim and Betsy's kids

Took Tim, Betsy, Connor and Kathryn on the Holiday Express. It's a fundraiser for the VNAB maternal child health program.

2009 Nov Holiday Express

2010 Subaru Outback

Just traded in our cars (2000 Subaru Legacy and 2004 Subaru Forester) towards a brand new 2010 Outback Premium with the cold weather package. It was the heated seats that got Debbie's attention. Nice car, although it's now considered an SUV, and just won Motor Trends SUV of the Year (we didn't know this, we just like Subies).

Island Creek Oyster Festival

It's raining like crazy, but that didn't stop us from driving down to Duxbury for the Island Creek Oyster Festival. Lots of chefs cooking up bite sized treats, and tons of oysters. It got a little crowded, but I think if the weather was better everyone would've been more spread out (outside of the tents).
Check out "A Geography of Oysters" by Rowan Jacobsen if you're interested in learning more about them.

Summertime

It's been a rainy summer (more like springtime). Tomato plants got blight and had to be pulled out. Got lots of salad greens, will plant some more for the fall. Cucumbers are doing well, the Zucchini has wilted from the heat, and the eggplants are looking good. Might have to water them, but it's still raining pretty regularly. Somewhere amongst the wildflowers are blueberry and raspberry plants, I'll have to thin out the flowers, but it's only the berry's second year so I don't expect much fruit.

Saw a couple more concerts at the Bank of America Pavillion: The Pretenders, then a few days later saw Bontaj Roulet (Bonnie Raitt and Taj Majal). This weekend we went to a local bar and attended a dress rehearsal for a fundraiser for the family of the guitarist from Lou Miami and the Kozmetix, a Boston area punk band. The soundtrack to our lives would be a pretty diverse mix tape!

Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald

Tickets = 10 dollars each. Beers = 10 dollars each. I guess that the seats would've been empty otherwise, so the Bank of America Pavillion was selling cheap tickets to this show (available if you were already inside the venue at a previous show). Fun, nostalgic, I may have had the fullest head of hair of all the men in the audience, and if not the fullest, the darkest (not grey).

Otow Orchard

I was perusing the interwebs and came across the website for Otow orchard, http://www.otoworchard.com/. I remember visiting the farm as a kid, so reading about it brought back pleasant memories of food, running around the fields, putting wood on the fire, and bags full of dried fruit. I knew that dried persimmon was special (it takes a lot of time and effort to dry), but who would've thought that it'd be on a list of nearly "extinct" foods? Slow Food's Ark

Diana Krall x2

Saturday night at the Bank of America Pavillion, with an orchestra backing up the band. Sunday night at the Providence Performing Arts Center, just her and the band. Excellent shows both.