Sailing Day

This morning we went grocery shopping for the week's supplies. On the menu this week is a white bean soup, a pasta dish with pesto, green beans and new potatoes, portabello mushroom burgers and crispy home fries with red and green bell peppers. Going vegan is definitely cheaper than eating meat products. Even though I am spending more on vegetables by selecting organic over regular, our bill comes to way less than $100. After unloading the groceries I baked up some banana-raisin muffins and some oatmeal-carrot-raisin cookies, both recipes from The Vegetarian Family Cookbook by Nava Atlas. They taste delicious!

We spent the afternoon sailing for a couple of hours. It wasn't very windy but we still managed to cover quite a bit of ground and there were lots of sailboats out with us (we counted about 9 or so). The plan was to try out the spinnaker sail since we haven't tried that yet, but it turned out the sheets were missing for it. Major drag since the wind speed (5-10 MPH) was perfect for trying it out. We stopped by West Marine on the way home and purchased some line and so hopefully next time we can put up the spinnaker. Here is quicktime movie.

On the gardening front, we stopped by Lowes in Anderson after West Marine so I could check out the plants since I don't come out to Anderson very often. I ended up buying a small grouping which I'll plant out this week. I found 3 variegated dogwoods, 3 heucheras, a tray of pink impatiens, 2 lamiums, 1 itea, and 3 kossa regal hostas. That should keep me busy for awhile!