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Dallas thinks I’m gonna jinx it by declaring our Indian Summer as arrived, but I don’t believe in that. So on that note – Indian Summer has arrived! Whee! Yay for summer in SF! It is 3:15p and 91°F. I guess to officially be an Indian Summer it has to remain above 70°F for seven days after the autumnal equinox, but my point is that its hot, and nice, and warm, and hot, and lovely. 

It might be a tad more lovely if i were floating on a raft down this lake.  Ahhhh…

From Wikipedia:

“In San Francisco, as an example, Indian summer is a less useful phrase because winter and summer temperatures do not vary much and September is the warmest month.”

“In some regions, such as the southeastern United States, Indian summer is colloquially used to describe the hottest times of the year, typically in late July or August. These, however, are more accurately known as dog days in reference to the prominence of a star during that period.”

 

Keep an eye out for the grand opening of Nettie’s Crab Shack, a new restaurant by Living Room Events chef/partner Brian Leitner! I’m excited that there is finally going to be a good mid-range seafood eatery in SF. How sad it is that in a city known for its seafood, all we have to show for it is the Fisherman’s Wharf. 

“Located in San Francisco’s Marina district and expected to open this fall, Brian’s new venture will focus on regional seafood highlighting New England and New Orleans specialties.”

Check out the recent post on the Foodie 411 blog! 

 

This is what $40 can buy you at the Berkeley Tuesday Farmers Market…

 

– Sungold cherry tomatoes

– Red cherry tomatoes

– Carrots, 2 bunches

– Sweet Corn, 3 ears

– Apricots

– Seascape Strawberries, 3 baskets

– Red Butter Lettuce, 1 large head

– Celery

– Figs, 1 basket

– Garlic, 2 heads

– Yellow Tomato

– Scallions

– Parsley

– Chocolate Pecan Chewy Cookie (not shown)

 

 

A little BBQing over at Heidi’s on Memorial Day.  

Our new recycling and compost cans were just delivered.  They are significantly larger than our old cans. We do fill our small trash can every week, but we always have extra recycling and compost that doesn’t fit.  In SF the larger blue and green carts are FREE and have no additional pick-up charges!  Yay!  I think now with the larger green and blue carts we will have less that goes into our black cart.  So cool.  

San Francisco makes it super easy to recycle.  Everything goes into the same can, and they will recycle practically anything.  Also the compost program here is great! The green can takes all food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimmings.  So between the two cans we get rid of most of our waste.  

This weekend in the Mission District of San Francisco is the annual Carnaval Festival.  The parade route goes right by our house.  Its pretty amazing to see, and all just by walking out the front door.  Although the festivities make normal life a little more difficult (our street is closed to traffic, there is no parking anywhere in the mission, and there are people camped out everywhere), its always pretty exciting. San Franciscans love their street fairs and parades! Pretty much every weekend during the summer months there is a festival of some sort in some neighborhood celebrating something.  Is pretty amazing really.

 

“The Festival draws hundreds of thousands of people for two days of dancing Salsa, Samba, Reggae, Tango, Hip- Hop, Merengue, Calypso, Cha Cha Cha, Cumbia, and Mambo into the evening. Food vendors offer traditional delicacies, while others sell crafts native to the Carnaval countries of their heritage.”