Our sweet boy Lewey left us earlier this week. He was a few months away from being 14, so while it wasn’t exactly a surprise, it has been a tough week. He was such a sweet, funny boy. That photo is fairly recent, here are some older memories.
And that’s all I have to say about that. It’s still pretty sad around here without him.
I’m going to try to be better about posting, I’m blaming my lack of motivation on the mess that is 2020.
…doesn’t necessarily stay in Bean Club. I’ve mentioned the Rancho Gordo bean club before. It’s a hot ticket item, and there is a perpetual waiting list to get a spot. With the pandemic, their regular store offerings also tend to sell out quickly. It’s a quarterly shipment of 6 pounds of beans (and occasional peas and lentils), along with fun stuff.
Of course you want to see it, right?
It also came with a jar of real Spanish paprika, and a fun gift:
It’s a bean passport! With stickers! And you guessed it, the Coronas are getting cooked today. Actually what’s cooking is a pound of Coronas from a prior shipment. These are huge runner beans, very creamy when cooked up. They are sort of perpetually sold out, but worth hoarding and eating.
Here’s what they look like compared to pintos.
I’m cooking those simply with some sliced onion, olive oil, and fresh herbs from the garden. I’m also cooking up a bunch of pintos to go into the refrigerator for later in the week.
I also buy a lot of beans from Purcell Mountain Farms. They have the Coronas in stock if you can’t wait!
RG also sends their branded tissue paper in the box with every shipment. Lewey isn’t sure about it, but he’s pretty cute in his tissue paper bandana!
Lewey is helping me knit.
We are having a great time at the beach. The weather has been in the 60’s-70’s, sunny, cool at night. Just heavenly.
This is my favorite beach photo so far. John took this last night when we were walking on the beach.
