I work for my mom at her off-leash dog park (the first in our ever-expanding town) and coffee stand (where my real passion is). I love making coffee. I love experimenting with new combinations of flavors and ingredients. I love interacting with people when they come to my window and ask what's new or how business is going (we've only been open for a year or so now). I love designing new menu boards and organizing the supplies up on the shelves. I love answering questions about what used to be a tiny town but is now beginning to look like a smaller version of Seattle (I don't love the Seattle part). But also, I love our gardens!
I established what I fondly called the First National Garden of Chelsea this year. We have five flower beds along the edge of our brick patio (which my soon-to-be hubby and I laid by hand the first summer my mom rented the property), and the farthest one on the right as you're looking out toward the river (did I mention our business is right on the river, next to one of the town's parks? I'm a lucky, lucky girl.) is our vegetable garden. Stefen and I planted eggplant, zucchini, scallions, bell peppers, hot peppers, and three different kinds of tomatoes. I can already see little baby peppers and zucchinis starting to take off, and my eggplants have these spectacular purple flowers hanging off of them right now. The other flower beds are just as wonderful with all sorts of flowers and random tomato plants growing in them. I'll post more photos later of all these wonderful things (I dropped my phone in a toilet earlier this week, so I am living in the Mayberry age with no technology attached to my body for the rest of the week. Aaaaah, bliss!!), but for now, I'll just leave you will this awesome picture of me uprooting a milkweed plant the size of a sapling. :D
"Raaaaaaaah! I'm a weed slayer!!"
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