compendium

I have a whole backlog of photographs of what we've been up to for the past two or three weeks, which all of my gardening posts keep pre-empting. So here it is: a big update on what we've been doing with our ample free time, now that the renovations are done:*
*That was sarcasm, by the way.

Going to the farmer's markets at the St Lawrence on Saturdays:


It's really lovely to be able to eat almost entirely local and/or organic vegetables again, and to do it without too much thought. (We buy the vegetables weekly, and we eat what's in the fridge. Very little thought needed.)

When we've not been eating at home, oddly enough, we've been eating Asian fast food:


This is Korean bbq (yum), but in the past ten days we've also had ramen, pho and sushi (twice). They've opened up an Ajisen outpost on Spadina between College and Dundas, which is dangerous but oh-so-good.

I find it kind of strange, though, that a lot of Asian fast food places are getting kind of posh:

I sort of want to tell them that I don't mind bland white utilitarian décore when I'm only spending $15 for all-you-can-eat, plus drinks.

Part of the reason there's been so much Asian fast food is that we've started climbing again, and the tradition is to go out to eat afterwards. Pd's back to doing the roof:


And I'm back to pretending I don't know how to lead climb so I don't have to do it. We're not at our best (at least, I'm not), but it's not as excruciatingly humiliating as it was when we first got back.

I've also been knitting:


The Super Secret Deadline knitting is done (and has been for close to a month now, I think), but I haven't gifted it yet, so no pictures until the recipient has it. The one above is a Véronique from French Girl Knits (Rav link), and it's actually finished now. I don't have anything currently on the needles because all of the projects I want to start require buying yarn, and I am waiting until the Knitters' Frolic to go on a little spree.

And, on nice weekends when we're not too busy (so, not last weekend), we've been going for long walks to the beach. Literally:


This is Kew Gardens, which links up to the boardwalk and Beaches Park. This was Saturday before last, I think, when it was stupendously warm and everyone was out. It turns out that we are only perhaps 15 minutes away from Ashbridges Bay/Woodbine Beach and about the same distance from Queen East and the Beach (if we cut the corner), and we plan on taking outrageous advantage of this when summer comes.