Busy week

Just a quick post to say that we have had a busy couple of weeks. My apologies for the lack of posts.

We took a short vacation to Virginia Beach over the weekend and had some great local food and saw a lot of wildlife on our hikes and bicycle rides.

Food recommendations: Steamed hardshell crabs. Fantastic. Fresh. Local. A little on the pricey side, but how often do you get to have fresh crabs? We got ours at Bubba's on the corner of Shore Dr. and Vista.

Restaurant: Hot Tuna. Ask what their fresh, local catch of the day is. We had Tilapia with a spinach and crab "topping." Their "she crab" soup is incredible as well.

The wildlife we saw at First Landing State Park included Osprey, Green Herons, Chicken turtles, painted turtles, one huge cottonmouth, and a water snake.

I've also been busy researching improvements to our home's insulation (starting with increasing our attic's R value to at least 49 with blown in cellulose insulation), composting projects for my little garden, looking into local foods that I can store for the winter (potatoes, apples, onions, garlic, squash, etc.), and getting back into practicing taiji (tai chi) daily. My wife is also a professional opera singer. I help manage her business on the side and this is a busy time of year for her business as well.

If anyone has any recommendations in regards to where to buy large-ish quantities of local (preferably organic) foods for winter storage please leave a comment. I'm planning on checking out the farmer's markets in the area, but haven't had a chance to do so yet.

Happy Harvesting!