Well, Wes, I'll see if I can put some interesting information on this post for you.

Green smoothie time. I made some after work today for me and Jen to take to Champaign tomorrow morning. I didn't have any bananas though so I substituted strawberries, making it not quite so green. Anyway, it will be even more delicious like this.

The fire trucks at our house would be Jeremy's doing. He was burning the pasture and things got a little out of hand...Nothing structural burnt though. A couple of the fire trucks got stuck in the field so it was a good thing Jeff Mueller was around with a backhoe to keep them moving. I was under strict instructions not to put anything about this on the blog but considering the fact that at the Leman cousin get together last night, we talked of little else, I'm guessing he won't be able to help himself. He'll talk about it. So your instructions are NOT TO MENTION IT tomorrow night and see if he brings it up.

I swung by Strawberry Fields in Urbana yesterday and got my kale and some strawberries. I was quite frankly, not impressed with their berries. The blueberries looked pathetic really. I took a picture of these cool tea canisters. They could be repurposed for so many cool things, right ladies? SF has a large selection of beauty supplies too - and even more beautiful were the free samples. I snagged a vanilla and blood orange body milk - smelled divine.

Also yesterday, I had the foresight to take some leftovers to work for lunch. So did Alaa. I have no idea what the names of his stuff are but the round thing was good. It's sticky rice with spices wrapped around turkey (ground and fried) and almond slices and then it's fried. The flat thing was some kind of bread dough with ground lamb and herbs mixed together. It was a little heavy on the parsley so I wasn't a fan. We shared some with Seka and Alla (the Russian) and this morning Alla told me "thank God" I put the Italian beef on the plate since she didn't like the other stuff. :)

Russians have a saying, according to Alla, that says something like, "You don't wait until you're on the toilet to look for the paper. You get that first." This came up yesterday because the bistro, at around 11, realized that they needed hummus. For lunch. That day. As it happened, we didn't have any chickpeas at the bakehouse so Seka had to run to the bistro and get some and then bring them to Alaa so he could get hummus made in time and then run the hummus back over. Such is life at Pekara.