On Sunday morning we went for a walk around the Dish (in Stanford recreation area), about 6 km. The weather was cloudy but still clear, weather can be so odd here sometimes. Well, it was so clear I could even see San Francisco from the hills and that's about 60 km away. When we'd managed to get to the end it was 10 and we're just in time for Farmers Market at California St, Palo Alto. This time of year is the best there. Lots and lots of fresh and inexpensive vegetables. I bought Heirloom tomatoes for $2 / pound (those are about $5 / pound on Safeway). For breakfast that morning I made scrambled eggs with spinach, squash, fennel, pesto and tomatoes. With that I had fresh squeezed (by myself) orange juice and a couple of strawberries. Such a delicious breakfast! Joakim of course had oatmeal as usual, and I think he might have been a tiny bit jealous on my delicious plate of food ;)
(I promise to bring my camera next weekend for the walk and Farmers market.)
Last night we put the first curtain rod up, in the bedroom where we needed it the most. I haven't decided which curtains to get, but when we moved from Maplewood Ave I took the lime green colored ones that Joakim and I installed when the old curtains were falling down.
The lime green curtains doesn't work to well with the colors on the walls, at least not with the accent walls that are dark brown (chocolate color). Plus, they are too short and are pretty bad sunburnt on the back side, but what the ..... it's a good start and that's all that matters.
Here's just a car parked like most cars park here, hardly ever do you see a car that's actually in the middle of the parking spot...
Well, that's it for now, hopefully we'll get some more curtain rods up.
kramar
Camilla
This week has been really slow here. I've been sick and Joakim has been working a lot.
On Sunday morning we went for a walk around the Dish (in Stanford recreation area), about 6 km. The weather was cloudy but still clear, weather can be so odd here sometimes. Well, it was so clear I could even see San Francisco from the hills and that's about 60 km away. When we'd managed to get to the end it was 10 and we're just in time for Farmers Market at California St, Palo Alto. This time of year is the best there. Lots and lots of fresh and inexpensive vegetables. I bought Heirloom tomatoes for $2 / pound (those are about $5 / pound on Safeway). For breakfast that morning I made scrambled eggs with spinach, squash, fennel, pesto and tomatoes. With that I had fresh squeezed (by myself) orange juice and a couple of strawberries. Such a delicious breakfast! Joakim of course had oatmeal as usual, and I think he might have been a tiny bit jealous on my delicious plate of food ;)
I've been here three weeks today. Weather has been nice even though we've had a heat spell for a week. After so many days with temperature between 30 and 37 C it felt nice and cold when the temp went back down to 23 C.
Last weekend (labor weekend, three days) we went biking by the bay. We're looking for a bike path that goes around NASA Ames (where I did the research for my thesis). Found the path, but it was closed of by a gate so we were unfortunately not able to bike around Ames. We also went wine tasting in Sonoma Valley on a sunny. As always we had a delicious port wine at Loxton Cellars plus we tried two new wineries. In Sonoma the wineries are getting ready for harvest. The vines were full of grapes and they were so sweet and flavorful. On the way back home we went across Golden Gate Bridge, and I took some pictures to add here.
Yesterday I went to get the last KTH student who is going to study at Stanford this year. As always there's a problem fitting the bags. Fortunately Erik was going to throw one bag away as soon as he was unpacked. Because of the space issue in the car we decided to unpack his 23 kg of clothes into the back seat of the car.