Crazy Organic

The Dishwasher

Bob — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:39:16 +0000

Until recently the dishwasher has been a lovely appliance, lately it’s been me. We’ve had an off and on relationship with dishwashers over the years…

When we got married, our first place didn’t have a dishwasher. That was alright, because we were in wedded bliss and didn’t care if a sink full of dirty dishes sat for more than a day.
Our first Condo had a dishwasher and we realized that we were stupid in wedded bliss. The dishwasher is one amazing appliance.
Our first house in the country didn’t have a dishwasher and we thought we could tough it out and wash dishes by hand.
When our son was born, we were enlightened as to exactly how fragile we are. A dishwasher was quickly installed into our kitchen.
When we moved from the country back to the beach, the house we moved into didn’t have a dishwasher and we mourned our loss and gnashed our teeth.
Finally we moved to the house we are now in, a dishwasher wasn’t installed. We fixed that in short order.

That, my dear friends is our dishwasher story.

Don’t feed the Animals

Bob — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:07:30 +0000

Normal isn’t a word used very much in our household. Despite the fact that the dog kennel has been a fixture in our living room her entire life, Olive has just now noticed it. She has taken to caging herself in with the dog and hanging out in the kennel.

We don’t really mind it all that much.

Nike…

Bob — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:48:26 +0000

You’ve gone to far this time.

Confession

Bob — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:06:31 +0000

I have a dream, it is to one day run a food truck not unlike this one. Although the cool monster on the side would be replaced with a flying pig . . .

OMG where have you been?

root — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:11:32 +0000

So the other day I started a new diet (4hr body) and after two days I’m already down 5lbs. I don’t necessarily know if that’s good or if I am so fat that 5lbs is nothing. Anyhow, in my reading it was recommended that eggs should be cooked with ghee. Being intreigued, by a new cooking method for what has now become a staple of my diet I thought to give it a try. Alas, no ghee in my local grocery store. However, being a man of the internetz I found that ghee is nothing more than butter cooked down and separated from the milk solids (how to make ghee).

Now, instead of just one buttery wonder product I have TWO! Ghee, is simply amazing, but it’s the milk solids that have the family and I in absolute wonder this evening. Taking the silky, creamy, salty milk solids and adding them to airpop popcorn is as close to nirvana that we can imagine.

Family Photo

root — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:59:36 +0000

For those of you who wonder what we look like, here is a lovely photo that was taken at my brothers wedding on December 17th 2010. It actually is a rather nice photo of the family, no one is blinking (my wife) looking away (my son) crying (my daughter) or angry at the photographer (me).

The Crazy Organic.

Rain, Rain, holy crap!

root — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:34:45 +0000

Creek from Bob Erdman on Vimeo.

So, I’ve been living near San Juan Creek for nearly 40 years and this is as full as I’ve ever seen it.