Iron Chef: Burd vs Kramer

(Please forgive the not so awesome photos... )

The ingredients:

ZUCCHINI

CARROT

BEET

HOT ITALIAN SAUSAGE

The competitors:

BURD vs KRAMER

KRAMER

Here Kramer is preparing a masterful blend of sausage and zucchini to fill his handmade pasta pockets!

 KRAMER

Here we see Kramer's beet and goat cheese salad!

 KRAMER

Here is Kramer's winning dish, carrot soup. Masterfully seasoned.

 BURD

Burd is preparing her zucchini to fry!

 BURD

Burd presents her sausage sliders, roasted beets and carrots, with fried zucchini! Delicious!

 BURD

Today was so fun! First we spent several hours in the garden thinning out the carrots and beets. Then we picked zucchini. THEN we decided to do iron chef home edition and compete against each other. We cooked for 2 hours, and when it was all over Zed's carrot soup was the winning dish.

on the crust of a supervolcano...

Then on to Yellowstone.

We arrived minutes before Old Faithful spewed up. (It goes off about every 2 hours-ish).

Best treat of the day by far was getting up close to this guy. He is so cute!  Reminds me of bobby. Well! Look at how fuzzy his head is! cute.

See how close I was to it! about 30 feet!!

Okay. I also really enjoyed LOVED the thermal pools.

BE WARNED:

There are a lot of photos of them...

This is Chromatic Pool.

I am just so fascinated by how different they all are from one to the next. And I love how being on the caldera reminds me of how old, old can be.

wyoming

Mom and aunt Terri and I made it to Thayne, WY today to visit Rozellen. It's gorgeous here... and tomorrow we are going to Yellowstone!!

miss you zed! hope you're enjoying a little time for yourself.

we did it!!

For the record, I am not collapsing in this photo. I am grinning big and getting ready to jump up and down.

It took a long time (3 hours 3 minutes) but we didn't stop running for ANYTHING, for 13.32 miles! It was longer than 13.1 because we started running behind the start line, and I know precisely what we ran because I was wearing my dad's GPS watch!

Big NEWS! Zed placed in the top 100 male racers of his age group 30-34. He placed 98! haha! better than me though, I didn't place at all... even though I was one step ahead of him at the finish line!

Garden update

I ate our first carrot today. It tasted mighty good. And I gave away a head of lettuce to our lovely neighbors. I am anxiously awaiting tomatoes and green onion...

Tomorrow is race day. I'm feeling a little anxious about it. Nothing specifically to worry about, there will just be so much going on in a short amount of time... I hope it all goes smoothly. Zed is worried about getting up at 4am, so we decided he could probably get away with sleeping in until 4:10am.

Race starts at 6am, party starts at 9am!

Happy 4th!

We had a great day, and I hope you did too. I made flan, we went to 2 parties, and we sat on our lawn and admired our garden and simultaneously our lives. We are so happy and grateful.

And after all that I am so sleepy and just want some puppy.