IMPORTANT NEWS: I am flying to Omaha next week for an interview!!! (On their dime, of course) Dudes! I don't even know! But yeah, next week: Nebraska. Wish me luck!

And on to other stuff: Yesterday morning started out with a trip to yet another Farmers Market, this time to ostensibly pick up our CSA share, as our usual person had plans. I got there, and it turns out our CSA ended last week! Not too big a deal, although I did get out of bed before 8am :(. Since I was there, of course I took a few turns around and picked up a few things (produce will forever and always be my grocery budget downfall)! I started out just grabbing a few onions, as I was pretty sure we didn't have enough left at home for everything on today's to-cook list. At the same table I was seduced by leeks (a soup staple!) and grabbed a bunch. Which led me to some beautiful yukon gold potatoes. I also picked up some seconds tomatoes, for use in chili and maybe a cucumber salad. Plus I treated myself to a pit beef sandwich. Swung by the grocery store on the way home to pick up butter (for the chocolate chip banana bread and cheesecake crust) and eggs.Proceeded to make: 2 loaves of choc chip banana bread and added pear butter to one loaf; acorn squash-potato soup; leek and celery root soup (instead of vichysois), carrot dill soup and some delicious pumpkin cheesecake! So the cooking went pretty darn well, the freezer is looking pretty stocked and there's more to come!

That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,
And the people of Earth stood and
stared as they descended,
Waiting, dry-mouthed, to find out what waited inside for us
And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn't notice it because

That day, the day the saucers came, by some coincidence,
Was the day that the graves gave up their dead
And the zombies pushed up through the soft earth
or erupted, shambling and dull-eyed, unstoppable,
Cam towards us, the living, and we screamed and ran,
But you did not notice this because

On the saucer day, which was the zombie day, it was
Ragnarok also, and the television screens showed us
A ship built of dead-men's nails, a serpent, a wolf,
All bigger than the mid could hold,
and the cameraman could
Not get far enough away, and then the gods came out
But you did not see them because

On the saucer-zombie-battling-gods
day the floodgates broke
And each of us was engulfed by genies and sprites
Offering us wishes and wonders and eternities
And charm and cleverness and true
brave hearts and pots of gold
While giants feefofummed across
the land, and killer bees,
But you had no idea of any of this because

Afternoon on a Hill

I will be the gladdest thing
  Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
  And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds
  With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
  And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
  Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
  And then start down!

maggie and milly and molly and may 
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang 
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing 
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone 
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) 
it's always ourselves we find in the sea