- I've been making tons of jewelry and selling it anywhere and everywhere, including the Phillips Farmers Market (1 sale), a LoveLarisa party (10 sales), Etsy (2 sales), Friends and Family (many sales), cool new local store that was desperate for inventory (none that I know of so far). I've got two more LoveLarisa parties in the works and plan to shamelessly promote myself at my "real job" during the holidays. I'm still loving it, and still realizing that one day I will need to get better at the "business" side of things...but not today.
- I've been training for a triathlon. The one I was training for coincided with a terrible cold, so I ate the $85 entrance fee and signed up for a different one, the Mainiac, on September 17. I did a "dry run" actually a wet run, ha ha, this morning and realized that I am utterly terrified of waves, which is unfortunate since this happens in the ocean. I looked at last year's times and realized that I will likely be the very last person finishing. And I'm pretty unprepared for the bike and run too. But do you think I'm going to give up? Hell no! I'm just going to go all in, totally unprepared and learn how NOT to do it next year. ha! No big deal.
-What else? Well I've been to 2 weddings, gone kayaking once, hiking a few times (Mount Blue and the Appalachian trail near Phillips, I discovered wonderful strawberry and blueberry sources in the Farmingon/Phillips area and the chest freezer is stocked! I've also got pickles and jam and saurkraut brewing. The kraut has been going for 3 weeks and I just checked it and I don't think it's done yet. It's still pretty crunchy. I'm going to give it another week and check it.
-I ran in the Bowdoinham Chicken Run 5k yesterday morning with Jon, my friend Lois and her friend Heather. Lois, a seasoned runner, said it was the hardest 5K she's ever run. There were definitely a lot of hills. Anyway, I finished in 34:22, which is a little slower than my last one, but not bad considering the course. There was also some off road parts on the course, but it was very fun and I got an awesome T-shirt!
-We pulled off the honey last weekend and dropped it off at Rick's for processing. Haven't heard back yet but I think it will be roughly 50 pounds. Jon thinks it'll be more like 100. We'll see. The new pink hive had gorgeous combs and honey. Very neat and tidy. One medium super filled. We put a shallow on top but they did nothing with it. They started early and had it all filled by end of June than nothing. Rick said a lot of people said that and he thought it was because of the lack of rain. The purple hive also had one medium super but with some brood in it. The shallow on top has some honey in it that we need to take off. We're going to cut it out for comb honey. When we pick up the honey from Rick, we'll buy what we need to treat them for mites and then in November we'll wrap them in tar paper and will leave them alone till spring. I'm sersiously considering making mead, though it will take 10 pounds of honey to do it. We should have enough to sacrifice toward that experiment.
Here's some pictures of my dinner, etc.(on a separate note):
Roasting some cherry tomatoes that Mom & Dad gave me today! Yum!
My roasted cherry tomato and brocolli "pizza"
Not quite ready sauerkraut
Making tomato sauce with the tomatoes Mom & Dad brought
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