Plugged Melon and G Diapers

Okay, I know I said I'd be taking a summer-blog break but one friend is leaving the country at the end of the month and I don't want to "let the wires go dead" just yet. Just wanted a quick post about a few things, free-association style:

Moving Up Day was really wonderful. I told you about how I am such a sucker for processsions: the children processed single-file, down a long aisle in the church and the music teacher played "Pomp and Circumstance." It was too much. We bit our quivering lips and snapped pictures to keep our arms from going weak.

When my old roommate, Katiebird, gave me the "Poor Poet's Cookbook," I don't think she predicted how essential it would become to our cooking life. Anyway, we made the "Plugged Melon" recipe. We made it once on Hyde Park Ave. in Boston. We got a cantaloupe from the Food Not Bombs box at Harvest, took it home. There, Geoff seeded it, and poured rum in it, I think. And then corked it back up and sealed it with a masking-tape X. We refrigerated it over night. The result was cold and delicious. The other night we tried it with this white wine that comes in a neon green box, I got for risotto. Geoff threw the wine in and some of the anemic little blueberries from the bottom of the pint. This time, the result was tart but the melon was ripe and sweet. The blueberries were a really fun addition. In retrospect, the neon wine is best for risotto. Maybe we'll get Lillet or something sweeter.

Geoff described my decorating style as "Ten Thousand Anthropologies." I think this is a good example of how I tend toward poshy excess but have my conscience bound up in the third world plight and frankly just enjoy things that look like they were pillaged from pirate ships. I am at peace with my contradictions. Anyway, I don't consider wear my ecology on my sleeve, generally speaking. But having two little girls in disposable diapers has me really scratching my head. "Oh, the landfills!" I keep thinking. So, Khiet, the closest likeness I'll ever meet to St. Francis, introduced Geoff to G diapers. They're flushable! They have a cloth cover and I have been rotating in cloth pre-folds that we've had since I attempted diapers with Manny back in the day. These are the non-bulky, clean, and rather easy solution we have been waiting for!