Yes, I CAN!

Picklers.

Sara & Jason Smuckwell, Frank in the background, pickles in fore.

HOT PICKLE

So, we have been pickling our cucumbers, and I am proud to say that
everyone wants my hot pickle. Here is the basic idea for the brine:
11/4 cup vinegar (5% acidity white vinegar), 2 cups of water, 2tbps
sugar, 3tbps kosher salt, 2tbps corriander. Fill a clean jar with
cucumbers (you can also do blanched carrots, green beans, or
asparagus), 6 garlic cloves, 2 hot chili peppers (orange makes your
jar look nice), and a big handful of dill. The brine recipe makes 2
jars worth. 24 hours and you will have yummy hot pickle. Impress
your friends.

Tomatoes were generous this year

Garden Spoils

I have been gardening like mad this season, and we have been rewarded
with copious tomatoes, baseball-bat sized summer squash, cucumbers,
green beans, radishes, peppers, and loads of herbs. We spent the
Monday of labor day weekend pickling some of our produce. I love
gardening in our neighborhood, because everyone loves to show off
their plot, trade secrets and starts, and share our results. Super
fun. I have a flat of seedlings that I started myself, and am looking
forward to a fall/winter garden that I will have taken cradle to grave.

Dahlias!

Birthday Indian Feast!

Cupcakes!

I was a total bridezilla about my birthday party, and I demanded
Indian food, cupcakes, cocktails, and dahlias. Alison made everything
happen perfectly. Lovely.

Parrot at the BBQ

This pretty bird was one of my first guests at my 32nd birthday
party. We fed him figs and watermelon, so it was a good move on his
part to drop in. We tried to catch him (we figured out that he
belonged to a neighbor) but he said "live free or die". He looked
well fed and was very pretty.

SAM Sculpture Park

Stacey comes to Seattle!

Our dear friend Stacey Mclean (half of the McScreiber duo) came out to
Seattle for a weekend visit. She is a landscape architect, so we
stole an hour to go to the Olympic Sculpture Park. She was geeking
out on the design of the gutter system and the grading. It was a
perfect (coffee-in-hand) Seattle morning.

I heart SF

Macintaco

Julie J. Pants all proud like

Pride SF 2009

Amy turns out for the dyke march every year.

Still legit!!

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Originally uploaded by jonschreiber

The supreme court of CA says I am still married, which is great. Sadly, the decision is not so good for all but the 18 thousand couples that made it in before the election deadline. Attitudes will change.

I am a patent holder

I found this out through a news article.

I am officially an inventor :) My opus is pictured above.

Seattle To Portland

Last year in July, Alison and her father (Don, pictured) did the first day of the Seattle to Portland ride (~100 of the 220 miles). Don is 65, and he had only ridden 7-8mile trips on his bike before the STP. All three of us are doing it together this year, and I am pretty much just hoping to keep up with Don, who has been training a lot more and may very well dust my ass.

2 legit 2 quit

We got legally married in San Francisco on October 21. More pics at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonschreiber/sets/72157608806163145/

Julie graduates!

Went to LA recently to see my little feral friend get a few more
letters by her name. Art Center gave her a fancy award, and she was
honored for her "collaborative leadership style".... Julie is about as
collaborative as a bulldozer. It was great to see the sun and her.