OMG! WHAT IS IT?!?!

A coworker found this in his yard. Already dead, but we think it might be faking. Its a bug, but it looks kind of like a fetus and kind of like evil. Its huge too, look how it dwarfs the quarter. The pictures are small so you don't have to look at it too closely.

Honey I Ate the Kid....

While I was on vacation the plants kept a-growing (Thanks Thuy!). The basil and thyme and sage and salad greens are all approaching regular plant size, or at least micro green-ness. The tomato shot up a bit, and I transplanted the second tomato into its own cubby with the poppies and spinach, on the theory that tomato one was winning.
Thuy's plants are also coming along as well. (Sorry for the blur- this is not my usual camera) She has mini planters with tomato, sage, spinach and nasturtium, and some peas went home with her. I think they get a little more natural light where she is.
Finally, in a horrifying ritual of paternal cannibalism, we ate the first fruit of our labor! A tiny pea pod with one tiny pea inside of it. It was damn good, albeit slightly unsatisfying split between two. I'm keeping on with a quest to increase yield- I think we're going to try sub irrigation methods next.

What we did in Thailand.

We ate street foods.

We rode in pink taxi cabs and lime green tuk-tuks

We hung on Ao Nang beach.

We made a wish.

We took a cooking class.

We drank fruity beverages and beers.

We got dinner at the so-called "night market" in Krabi town which was more of a "late afternoon/early evening market."

We discovered that the vegetarian festival is not just a sissy veggie eating thing, but also a time to practice possession by the gods, dance barefoot on firecrackers and ritually puncture your cheeks with swords.

We snorkeled.

We visited a very shiny temple, on a very hot day and saw the emerald buddha wearing his rain gear.

We eated seafoods.

We shopped, and Jacob picked up some protective amulets at the amulet market.

Did I mention we ate lots of food?