WEX

Mr. Toad's wild ride

Mr. Toad's wild ride, the most outrageous kids ride in all of Disney land. Once you get on a car, a steering wheel is thrust upon you and they expect you to suddenly start driving. It doesn't take long before you're driving through some unwary owl's library before charging out threw his chimney. It was a nice stroll through the woods turning here and there but nothing was wrong with the ride. There were some owls cooing gently in the trees, sure it was dark but with crickets chirping peacefully without a care in the wold. The track turned making us skillful slide past the bush without a scratch. A rustle of a bush and a dead end shattered the silence as a cop burst forth from the bushes. My brother next to me starts talking in a great British accent about not having time to stop as he whips the wheel around speed out of the forest, and almost hitting the random cars and driving off a dock. All around you there were horns blaring and people shouting. Eventually we flew into a court room where a judge just instantly commanded that we were guilty and sent us into a warehouse full of TNT. Why was that connected to a court? Suddenly all the TNT begins to explode blinding you and leaving your ears ringing as you curve back and forth on the way out. As if that wasn't enough, we leave the warehouse only to bed hit by a train! That was what finally did us in, buying us a trip straight to hell. Demons danced around our cherry red car as we drove through the ever warm hell. After several turns my brother stopped talking in his British accent and we just found a magic door that lead us back out to where we started. From what I take from that story, driving through a peaceful London forest can be quite deadly.



Charlotte

It was WEX, Charlotte had just left the room to check on the other class. For a time it was quiet and everyone was writing. There were just a few people having an ongoing conversation but most people were writing, then someone just popped their head in the door, yelled a random word, then ducked out. That was the end of that silence thing we had going for us. People were yelling across the room, things were flying through the air only a few people were still working, with obvious difficulty. This raged on for several minutes before Charlotte came in. Charlotte's nostrils flared at all the fun being had in the classroom. Everyone stopped mid tag, throw or sentence and turned towards the monster that had just come in, Charlotte stomped across the classroom glaring at anyone who didn't have their nose in their books and were writing. She growled angrily as she sat down on her chair, noticing a moment too late that there was a tack on it. She yelped in pain as she stood up and looked around the room, motioning for everyone who found humor in that outside. Several people ended up coming with her, as she did one last sweep of the room. The students looked as if they'd rather be dead, and lucky them! They might be, as they were never seen again.



Annoying

I was sitting in the kitchen, finally installing wotlk after a long day of school. The patches were finally installed after what seemed like hours, but then my mom came into the kitchen and told me to do the laundry. I walked into the burning hot garage and opened up the washed and dryer, yet there was nothing in either of them. I left the garage and hurried back to the computer after being away for less then a minute, so of course during that time, my brother had stolen the computer. He refused to let me on, nor email the work I was doing while I waited for wotlk to download. Even though I wasn't the one playing wotlk after I had installed it, I still hung around to see the new areas in the expansion. My brother was getting annoyed, for I was helping him with his quests even though he didn't want me to. I eventually left, but I took the box with me, for I hadn't gotten a chance to look at it yet.

Food blog

Why are you doing this recipe?

We are growing an herb garden not only to save costs on buying the herbs, but also in order to try to live more sustainably by having a plant that we grew ourselves and can continue to grow and be harvested multiple times without a dramatic effect on the environment. By actually using what we grow we are saving resources, instead of growing a plant we can't eat any part of, and just having it exist instead of help us to have more sustainable foods without destroying the earth. Though is does not seem that a classroom full of kids can make a difference, but every little part helps, and it can really add up if we take with us the work we did here throughout our lives and grow plants that we can eat. The two essential questions in our project were, "Why don’t people live more sustainably?" and "How can I convince them to do so?" I think that it relates to the first one with the fact of how hard it was to grow our herbs. Ours specifically got attacked by bugs in the ground, which ended up killing one of our herbs plants, and made it harder during the cooking stage, by limiting our resources. It was a difficult process and could be hard to remember to take care of them on a regular basis.

How did you make it?

First of all I got the recipe I used here. (http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1950,145171-243192,00.html)
When harvesting I didn't want to take very much, but thought I might need a bit while cooking. I was cutting off only outlying leaves and trying not to cut off groupings of leaves or ones that were smaller, and instead got a few larger leaves. I spread out the area in which I was harvesting, due to many conflicting reports about where to cut off the leaves, and instead focused on which ones seemed fully grown and healthy.

The recipe I used was fairly simple. All you need was a stick of butter, basil, carrots, and syrup. Starting out I had to chop up tons of carrots in order to fill the bottom of a small sauce pan, instead of using full sized carrots, I ended up using baby carrots and filling it up until it seemed the correct amount of carrots for the recipe. I then had to fill up the pan with just enough water to cover the carrots, and put it on the stove to boil for 10 minutes while preparing the other ingredients, making sure that the water wasn't boiling too hard.
(pics of process)

Gonna need to chop up a lot of carrots!

Starting to boil!

As for preparing the ingredients, I had to start off by measuring 3 table spoons of butter and cutting that off to put in. I then took the basil and layered it, tied it tight into a ball, and cut that into smaller pieces. Once the carrots were done boiling, I added the cut up basil, butter, and measured out two tablespoons of syrup and added those to it, stirred it in, and set it to boil for another 12 minutes, stirring it repeatedly throughout the duration.

Choppin up basil


With ingredients freshly added

Be sure to stir it!


mmmm sweet carrots

How did it go?

The recipe didn't turn out all that different from things I had tried before, but was still delicious. The only problem I can think of was maybe having too many carrots in there so that the ingredients didn't show as much taste. If I was to do this again I would probably have cooked the food the day before so the basil would be fresher, and possibly have used less carrots so you could taste the ingredients more. I'm not sure that this has completely swayed me to grow more food myself. It was a very difficult process with much luck involved and hard work and remembering. There are also so many things that can go wrong and just end up killing the plant and wasting your time, effort, and money. It does seem like quite a bit of effort to add a bit of extra flavor. There just seems to be too much that can mess it up, unless you do it larger scale, which I'm not sure if I would have the time to spare.

I believe

http://thisibelieve.org/dsp_ShowEssay.php?uid=7949&themelist=nature&yval=0&start=10
Though she loves solitude, she believes that she must not get too caught up in that or she will miss things around her and become detached with the world, and hurt those around her, not to mention she can miss out on huge things that affect her.

Blogger food blog

OMG GIANT SOURCE

The barefoot kitchen witch

Love examples and different tools shown.

Joy the baker

Mmm looks like the jam my mom makes. Has great humor too.

Recipes

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/283/Chicken_with_Fresh_Sweet_Basil22799.shtml
Sweet basil and garlic
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/1789/parmesan-garlic-popcorn.html
Garlic popcorn
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/12855/stir-fry-chicken-with-garlic-sauce.html
A different chicken recipe

Sustainability visits

1. What is your name and your role here at the farmers market?

Carey Atig

2. Why do you choose to shop here/garden here/support this CSA?

The food here is just great, and it is not too far from my home. It is well worth it to wait until Thursday to do some of my shopping.

3. When did you first start coming here?

A few years ago.

4. Do you garden at home? Why or why not?

I don't, I live in an apartment, so I don't have the room to garden, I did try it anyway though, and lets just say I do not have a green thumb.

5. How did you find out about this place?

I saw signs about it while driving around in the area, and decided to stop by after looking it up one night, and decided it would be interesting to check out, so here I am!

6. What would be your advice to get others to do what you do?

It's not hard and is easy to pick up! Looking up a few guides for gardeneing never hurts and the food at the farmer's market is great and worth trying.

Ecologic intelligence

Though I have an even better picture at the bottom, I added this one just to be safe.

Ways the world is already becoming better!

1. What is ecological intelligence? Ecological intelligence is when instead of looking at just the last phase of production for what products they used, looking at the whole thing along the way to see if it is truly good for the environment before you just consider it "green".
2. This connects to the essential question of why people do not live more sustainably. When going to buy a product, one will generally look for something "green" but in reality it can be just as bad or worse then something that is not green. When people shop they are not sure to trust what it says or not, because it is not always telling the truth.
3. I generally give a lot of thought when buying something even if it says that it is green. I try not to buy too much and keep it to a minimum. I do try to figure out where everything came from when I can, though that is not always possible. I do feel that is our responsibility to know what we are buying before we go out and buy it. Some companies should not be allowed to say that they are green, and should have more warnings on the packaging of where things come from.