Birthday post

Today... I am 24.

We had a lovely cookout last night in our yard with our closest friends and it was everything I could have ever wanted.

We grilled up a bunch of veggie dogs, some marinated veggies, and corn. We made a bunch of dips and had margaritas. The weather was perfect and we had a really nice time chatting and sitting amongst our large garden.
Ahhh... friends and grills and summer weather.

I was awoken this morning with breakfast and coffee in bed by my sweet sweet boyfriend. He made up a little menu of everything in the kitchen that we could have and made check boxes for me to choose what I wanted to eat.

I chose toast and watermelon and we sat and drank coffee and chatted the morning away.

We took care of the chickens and worked in the garden a bit later on in the morning, tore out the bad lettuce and planted more peppers and tomatoes. We will have many many tomatoes and peppers, so we must learn to make salsa quick.

Then we went to peruse the arts festival in downtown Columbus and gawk at all the expensive art we will never own. It was nice. Its also nice knowing that we never HAVE to own that kind of shit.

Then we headed to the north market in search of some special watermelon. I am on a watermelon kick in case you couldn't tell. They didn't have it... but we got some more sweet corn and zucchini instead.

Once we got home we decided to "hit the f-in town" with Jy and Kelly. We had a late lunch at the Happy Greek in the short north then walked around there for awhile. We got chased by a nasty thunderstorm and we ran from the lightening. We found shelter in a coffee shop and read newspapers and played a competitive game of scrabble before heading home.

There is nothing better to do on a rainy day but lounge around so we did that for a bit before Greg and I took a little walk through the neighborhood and found a few sweet cherry trees and some mulberry trees to snack on.

All in all its been a lovely 24th birthday spent with those I love most.

We are now onto a glass of red wine and some harry potter...