Today we attended an outdoor “Spring is here!” party.  It was like 40 degrees, grey and rainy…not very springy!  Also, it was in a garden that is still all dead and brown, which didn’t scream spring either.  Still, we were there hoping we could get a plot this year, both to grow some food for ourselves and so Evie could have a *little* green space here in the city.  There was actually a lot of really good food and everybody was really nice, even though we didn’t talk to that many people.  There was obviously a sense of community.  A few of the people were…interesting, to say the least.  It is a very eclectic group of people, that’s for sure.

The strangest thing that happened while we were there was some sort of protest / performance art that took place.  There were people linking arms and digging in the dirt with hands and the next thing I know we were repeating things like “they are poisoning our food supply” and “we embrace Mother Earth.”  As Sara said, it was “worth the price of admission.”  The best part was the disclaimer that the views represented were “not necessarily the views of the gardeners, the experimental station, or the performers themselves.”  Well, who’s views are they exactly??

Last weekend a very strange coincidence happened.  I was browsing one of my favorite blogs, Hyde Park Progress (see over there on the right ->), but it is on hiatus at the moment, so there wasn’t much time killing to be found there.  Next I flowed over to I Hate My Developer for the Woodlawn perspective, which I fully intend to spend more time reading.  There I found a post pointing me to another Woodlawn blogger, Swim and Glitter, with a very nice review.  So I started reading that and lo and behold, I find out that I know that person!!  Well I kind of know the person; they used to be our landlords!  I don’t know how much time you spend on the Internet, gentle reader, but it is a very large place!  So, to stumble randomly upon someone you have had contact with in the real world is very startling.  Needless to say I have subsequently been cyber-stalking her.  Her blog is everything I wish mine could be, so pop on over there for T.M.I. and some frank talking.

Finally, I will leave you with the pinnacle of human achievement.  Gentlemen, I give you…the Dough-Nu-Matic!  And yes my friend, there is a video.  Okay, it’s not quite the pinnacle of human achievement, because Tony Vegas came up with a rotating conveyor belt with 3 Dough-Nu-Matics on it, rotating once per minute so you were never without a doughnut popping in your mouth.  Apparently, even the perfect can be improved upon!