hi my name is lauren

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rockaway beach

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lagrange OH

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drive in MT

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mikoshika

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glendive MT

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kuskia ID

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anaconda MT

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WA

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clarkston WA

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Idaho

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the museum

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Berkley Pit

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Glendive MT

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inside

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outside

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the basement

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tomatoes

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florida

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07.04.09

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glutton post

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first 4x5

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mulberries

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We've also got wild strawberries, wild blackberries and concord grapes.

Garden number two.

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Garden number two is behind the goat pasture.

It doesnt look like much.

But its full of hills of sprouting pumpkins, melons, squash and cucumbers.

Here are some okra sprouts. We are also growing beets, tomatoes, corn, potatoes and onions.

the garden

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We weeded the whole garden today, it looks a lot different now.

Squash sprouts.

Radishes.

Broccoli.

Some of our first tomatoes!

First Harvest.

We are growing: Lettuce,
Peppers (red, yellow, orange, green, purple, chocolate bell peppers, gypsy, anaheim, jalapeno, thai hot, cayenne, hot banana, habanero),
Tomatoes (Super marmande, black krim, cherokee purple, white, emerald forest, persimmon, mr stripey, oxheart, yellow oxheart, aunt ruby's german green, san marzano, mountain fresh, giant belgian, black cherry, sweet 100, sweet million, early girl, lemon boy)
Tomatillos, Gooseberries, eggplant, zucchini, broccoli, okra, onions, potatoes (yukon gold, red, sweet potatoes)
Squash (butternut, spaghetti, acorn, buttercup, many kinds of pumpkins)
Watermelon, Cantaloupe, peas, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, pickling cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, regular cucumbers, artichokes, corn (early, silver queen, incredible, butter and sugar, indian corn, strawberry popcorn, blue popcorn)
Herbs.

I am probably forgetting a few things..

kittens

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show!

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wish you were here!

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home

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3.01.09

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some KY some OH

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2/28/09

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sassafras

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new ohio

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new thing

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.

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more sugar

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some KY

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again again

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trying drawing again

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my raw converter is busted

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some stuff

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summers

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intestinepop

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bloodypop round 2

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bloodypops

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some candy talking

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What date did you receive a kidney transplant?

Have you been on a dialysis machine?

in progress

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Halloween

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sugar suspension

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This is my first try. I am planning on making tile shapes with organ meats suspended inside.

fishing!

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Today I went swimming for Helen's photoshoot and I caught this in my foot:
I am a great catch!

p.s. don't worry I got a tetanus shot.

test

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for eva

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Tyvek - Cauldron Born

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for Brock.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3b6b90eb7563f41ad2db6fb9a8902bda

food project

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Boris

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Boris is my neighbors cat. He likes to hang out on the porch and smoke cigarettes.

some things from syracuse

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desolation part two

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desolation

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They're back!

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Thank you Vitaly from Aquamaster for restoring my records to beautiful, listenable and mold free condition!

new friends

2008-08-31T16:47:00.000-07:00

Today I saw two praying mantis (ii, ae, es?) in the shrubs next to my front porch. Here is a picture of one.

self storage pt.2

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all of my records look like this

self storage pt. 1

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So my storage unit flooded over the summer and today I had to throw about 80% of my clothes away.

I love oberlin

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Heirloom tomatoes, bell peppers, corn, zucchini and peaches courtesy of the local farmstands.

close encounters

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I woke up this morning a sound reminiscent of a big dog scratching on my door. I was really confused and thought that Dave had brought a dog into the house. The noise was actually from a squirrel destroying a cardboard box on the porch outside my room. It was a good thing I didn't go outside to see what was going on and let the squirrel into the house!

This is not the first time I saw a squirrel on my porch.
You can't really tell from the picture but this squirrel was really fat.
The aftermath:

some advice

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the bats

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There have been a few bat incidents here in Syracuse. On two separate occasions we saw bats in the house but only one bat and one sighting each time. Today was different. Around eight I saw a bat in the kitchen, around nine I saw one upstairs and Amina saw two outside her bedroom. One flew into her protective sleeping bag and she fell to the ground in terror. The bat sightings continued throughout the night. After seeing a bat fly out the front door we thought the house was safe but we were wrong. A bat was hiding in Dave's room. John caught it and here it is.

The bat is actually pretty cool looking and I recommend enlarging the pictures.

On another note, Amina and I got Kombucha scobies and started our first batch today.

the pepper wager

2008-08-06T20:52:00.000-07:00

Last week I convinced dave to eat four hot green chili peppers in exchange for a steak and eggs breakfast for dinner the following night.

Dave ate the peppers and began to regret his decision.
I thought it was pretty funny.
Dave ran to the kitchen for relief, we had learned on food detectives that dairy is the most effective treatment for hot pepper burn.
Amina thought it was pretty funny too. Even dave is smiling a little...
Dave moved on to yogurt after drinking all of the milk

I was distressed over the bruise on this tomato.
The Payoff:

So the following night I made a grilled T bone steak with garlic and herb compound butter, eggs over easy from the co-op, grilled toast and homefries with rosemary and garlic.
It was totally worth it.

Light Work Blog

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John Choi has made a blog about our time at lightwork. Check it out at Light it up!

farmers market

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blueberries, fried green tomatoes, corn salad.
Our new garden!
tomatoes, garlic and donut peaches.
Ducks!

dinner

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I made artichokes.
John had coke.Amina made granola.
Dave had pasta.
Tea for tomorrow.

sunny syracuse

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dins

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watermelon, corn, tomato, red onion, avocado, cilantro, lime, mongolian chili oil, salt.

cicada and beetle

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suburban syracuse

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When I woke up this morning it was late, and raining and I had already missed the farmers market so I decided to go to a strip mall. The strip mall had marshalls, bed bath and beyond, panera and michaels, just like the north olmsted mall in ohio.

It also looked like ohio.
I ate lunch at panera bread, a name that translates roughly to bread bread.

I learned that you can buy bottled water, masquerading as liquor, for a discount at home goods.
And I saw this sign. Nothing but noodles offers noodles, salads, soups and deserts. Does this mean that the salads, soups and deserts are noodle based? Is noodle kugel a desert? Macaroni salad? Chicken noodle soup? What makes a noodle global? This sign generates many questions, but what I really want to know is, what is a pan seared soup?

euclid avenue

2008-07-12T19:14:00.000-07:00

I am staying in a six bedroom somewhat maintained house in the university area. The house is pretty much a frat house. The guys who live here are on the crew team and have a lot of school spirit. There are large Syracuse University banners hanging in the living room and all of the bedrooms have sports paraphanelia in them. There is a huge tv in the living room and a tv in every bedroom. There is also a beer pong room, a pool table and a cardboard sign that says "Ladies 2 for 1 night".

Here is a sampling of the sweet decor in the room that I chose:

Dispatch!!

I love the skyline, I had one in my room last year.

Note the American flag, that little square next to it is the constitution and the declaration of independence. That door is the totally sweet porch off of my bedroom!!

So one of the guys who lives here during the year came up to orient me and give me the keys which was super nice. I asked some general questions about the area and where to shop, and he mentioned that Westcott street had "weird" people living there. I asked 'weird how' and he said, 'you know, like a different style of living' which turned out to mean hippies. Anyway, I went there and found a new age bookstore that sells scented oils and they pointed me to a food co-op that is really close to my house. I got a watermelon and some other stuff at the co-op but more importantly I learned about a farmers market on sundays that is AT THE MALL!! So tomorrow I am going to go to the market at the mall which happens to be on a lake.

Anyway, for dinner I made lentils with onions, garlic, carrots, garlic scapes and broccoli. I was really happy to see garlic scapes at the co-op because I have heard a lot about them but have never seen them. Incase you dont know, a garlic scape is a green stem that shoots up from the garlic bulb, they have to be picked off because if left on the garlic wont grow bigger. Anyway, here is a picture of some scapes and the terrible knives I had to work with:

And this is my really shitty knifework.:

Tomorrow I am going to buy a decent knife at the mall, and a bigger cutting board. I am also going to get an immersion blender because apparently the best way to eat garlic scapes is by making them into pesto and I fully intend to do that.

from nyc to cny

2008-07-12T19:01:00.000-07:00

Today I drove from Brooklyn to Syracuse. The drive was ok except for everything related to New Jersey. I stopped at a farmstand in Pennslyvania and got some blackberries and I listened to greenday, bikini kill and built to spill.

The blackberries stained my fingers.

This is from the first rest stop in New York on I-81 north. It was a relief be back in New York after driving through New Jersey and Pennslyvania.

I learned that Binghamton is the carousel capital of the country.

i love magic

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car trouble

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So two days ago I was backing out of my driveway trying to avoid two full garbage cans that were at the foot of the driveway and my car got stuck on a short fencepost. The post wedged itsself between my front bumper and wheel and when I disentangled my car from the post two large pieces of plastic had fallen out from between the bumper and the wheel. Today I took the car to the shop to get it fixed before I drive to Syracuse on saturday and they gave me this jeep to drive in the meantime. The breaks on the car were whining the whole time on my 10 minute drive home but my friend didn't think it was a big deal so I kept going. As soon as I parked in my driveway and turned off the car I heard a loud boom and a rushing noise. Smoke was ballooning from under the hood and about a gallon of neon green liquid was leaking from the bottom. My neighbor told me it looks like brake fluid. I called the autoshop and they told me not to drive it and they would get it tomorrow. To top things off the green stuff splattered all over my garage door, I am sure this will thrill the people who are slated to buy my house. Great.

american fries

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