Weekend Round-Up: Valley of the Sun

I forgot my camera this weekend, so these photos are all from my cell. No bother – cell is the new Polaroid, right? I was under the weather on Friday, so we just stayed in with Margaret and ordered Chinese food.

Up early the next morning to drive to Fresno. Rob’s dad was demoing solar cooking at the Fresno Earth Day celebration. I used my best trade-show skills to pass out fliers and tell people about how easy it is to cook with the sun.

I was pretty well “solar-cooked” myself by the end of the day! In the evening we had tri-tip and trout cooked in the solar oven. Chores after dinner, feeding the goats, horses, geese, fish and and then the goats again. At dusk, we waited out in the garden for the barn owl to fly out for the night. Local dessert wine and chocolates as a special treat before bed.

Oatmeal for breakfast before hitting the road on the tandem bike. Rob and I did 30 miles up in the rolling oak foothills behind Fresno. Very pretty and green. VWe even saw a rattlesnake along the road.

Rob gave his parents a tour on the bike before we hit the road home.

On the way home, we stopped at Target for some garden supplies. Rob put together a lovely wood storage bench while I fertilized, weeded and planted. It’s so nice to have some dirt to play in again after a hiatus with our last apartment.

In the evening, we met up with an old friend of mine down the street for some wine and truffle fries.