Saying goodbye

This morning I dropped off Elena at the airport for her South Korea trip. She'll be gone a year or two. Or who knows. It didn't hit me until she was hugging me goodbye, and then I started to cry and still well up every time I think about it.

We had an impromptu party with Papa John's pizza (a rare treat!). I had gone to the farm before I went home, and we all shared half a yellow watermelon. People were fascinated (and suspicious). A couple people sniffed it and said "It seems to smell like a watermelon" and then took several slices. It's just so...watery and sweet.

This week's share:

• 2 Yellow watermelons.
• 1 cantaloupe.
• 2 heavily bee-stung peaches, ugly but sweet.
• 2 heads of lettuce.
• 1 head of garlic.
• 10 collard greens.
• 4 field tomatoes.
• 1 bag of mix n' match, and I chose, peppers, an eggplant, corn, hot peppers, and scallions.
• Pick your own tomatoes, including cherry tomatoes, some small tomatoes, and a couple heirlooms.
• 1 pint of beans.
• Lots of herbs.
• 37 stems of flowers...it being Elena's last day, I hunted around the patch some more and came up with a pretty cool bouquet.

Jean moves in next week, so she'll have plenty to eat!