Lunch!

Pinto bean stew (pintos, tomatoes, corn, chili); cherries; corn bread, spinach salad with mushrooms and crumbled blue cheese. Small covered container includes balsamic vinagrette.

Camping!

Rob asked his employer to give him the holiday weekend off, adding as an extra wheedle that it is our 20th anniversary coming up (the 5th). Wonder of wonders, they granted the request! We are leaving tonight to go camping at Rice Lake State Park, near Owatonna. We will come back Monday night, so we can join in the huge block party held every year among our neighbors.

Inspired by the opportunity for a three-day camp, I went out and bought this kitchen box. Am very pleased with it. It created a problem, however, because now we have too much camping stuff to put in our car. I called my sister to ask if we could borrow their car-top carrier, and my brother-in-law said we could just have it; they haven't used it in five years. Problem solved!

edited to add: Aw, nuts. kiramartin just let me know that the yearly block party was moved from the 3rd to the 1st, so we are going to miss it anyway. And we'll be coming back earlier than we need to for nothing. I would have liked to have had somebody TELL us. Damm.