February brings birthdays and a new co-op.

First things, first. Happy Birthday Kitty PotPie and Bernie. Okay, so I know I am posting this on the 2nd and your birthdays are on the 3rd, but I am just excited!! KPP is now EIGHT! Wow! I can't believe she is so old, she is in kitty middle age!

Here are some pictures from the past year.

Now that she is more mature, she is interested in being outside. So occasionally I take her in the backyard. She spends most of the time smelling things, but one day she did decide she needed to be on top of the dog house.

I actually see this a lot, but it still makes me smile every time. She is so pretty
This year she has also taken a liking to Nova's bed, but only occasionally does Nova allow her to stay on it.
This is the most recent picture. She spends a lot of time on the bathroom counter, either sitting there while I get ready or sitting there wait for me to walk by and turn on the faucet.
Another favorite pose, she really is a cuddly kitty, but only if you are me.

Happy birthday, little Kitty!

I don't have any pictures of Bernie, but I will say that he is one of the greats and I am privileged and honored to call him my sDad. Happy Birthday, Bernie!

Now for the food. I had been part of a local food co-op that was run through a organization than did other things to better the community. Well, that organization realized that the co-op was not breaking even like they had hoped, so they shut it down. Which was a total bummer, especially since I had missed like 6 months and the month I decided I was going back they announced it was their last month. SAD!

Luckily, I live in a neighborhood that values inexpensive fresh vegetables and fruits, so the Sugarhouse Co-op was born. There are some changes, but I think they are for the best. It is now every other week! Which is exciting and is totally going to challenge me to eat a ton of fresh veggies/fruit, but it is a good challenge Another change is there are no add-ons (for now) it is strictly produce. Which is fine, though I did love the bread and tamales, but I can get them from other sources. And they have moved to Thursday morning pick-ups instead of Saturday, again this is fine, but challenging, because I like to sleep in and 7a is much earlier than 9a, but it gets me out of bed and going when I am suppose to be getting out of bed and going, so it is not a bad thing.

Today was our first pick-up. For $12, I received the following.

That breaks down to:

4 gala apples

4 fuji apples

3 pears

1 box of strawberries

5 oranges (I had eaten one by the time I took this picture)

1 bunch asparagus

2 bunches of broccoli (I did take an extra bunch from the extra pile)

1 bag of grapes

6 red potatoes

3 onions

2 cucumbers

2 green peppers

1 bag of carrots (which I have so many carrots in my house I am going to turn orange)

1 head of red leaf lettuce

SO MUCH FOOD!! The wonderful woman who is organizing the whole thing, did mention we may drop down to $10, since we are getting so much. I guess with the other co-op they had 30% overhead so for $10 we were only getting $7 worth of food. So at $12, we basically doubled our share sizes.

I am excited about getting all of this. I realize I could probably get better deals on some of the items, but I really like just having someone hand my a box of produce. That way I don't have to decide what I want, it is already decided. :)