Well, maybe summer isn't officially over but with Sharon's return to Vanderbilt, my summer has officially ended. Last year at this time we both relied on being busy, her with a new school and city and me with my arboretum internship. Sharon has returned to her busy life but I on the other hand have much too much down time. Work is super slow, a half day here, a full day there and a few days totally off make for slim paychecks. Boo. I haven't been totally lazy, I picked up a part-time job working on a 73 foot tall green wall in Drexel's new science building which has been about 1 day a week for the past month or so. I've also been getting the sporadic side job here and there doing tree work and general gardening work. Last week I even managed to sell a brand new tent that I found at a thrift store for a nice little profit on craigslist, so as they say in Haiti "Degaje pa peche" or as I understand it, making it up as you go isn't a sin. Let's hope so.
The guy up on the wall is Andrew, we get to split the wall when we clean it out. I get to do the top down to about 30 feet because I'm a little faster, he finishes the rest because he is super detail oriented. Works out just fine. Those large swaths of brown are from a pretty bad die back of arboricola. Next week I get to replant about 300 of them.
In other news, the day before Sharon left we had an amazing Italian feast with a bunch of friends. We set aside almost the entire day with shopping at the Italian market around 11:00, where we took a coffee/espresso/cannoli break. We went back to the house and started making the sauce, opened a bottle of wine and proceeded to make spinach ravioli and fettucini from scratch, tiramisu, and a caprisi salad. Yum. People started arriving around 7:00 to dig in and so they did. We dined, laughed and had a great time making promises to repeat the event with a new cuisine to focus on....Greek anyone?
Sauce!
Tiramisu assembly 
fini
