Last night, after the play ("Kicking a Dead Horse" by Sam Shepard) we had to pick up the CSA vegetables. It was midnight by the time we made it home. This week's haul looks pretty good: there's some beans, a lot of different lettuces, turnips (I think) and something that looks an awful lot like kale (oh no, not again!).
A word on the play: it was just "okay. "My first impression was that it was very reminiscent of Beckett's "Happy Days" (which I also saw this year at BAM): the stage, the setting, the limited cast (really just one person; the single "other character" in both plays doesn't talk), the dialogue as monologue, and to some extent the subject matter (looking on the sum of one's life is a theme of both). After reading the Playbill it said that the main actor (Stephen Rea) had worked with Samuel Beckett and Sam Shepard before; the fact that Rea had worked with Beckett is something that impressed Sam Shepard. Despite that history, I find it hard to believe that Shepard wrote the play with Rea in mind. "Bob" and I both think that it could've been a much stronger play with a different lead actor...but there you go. End of theater review.
This morning I got up and started pitting the cherries from Iz's tree. Turns out that a bobby pin does indeed do a good job. After discarding a bunch of decomposing cherries, I wound up with nearly 2 lbs of recipe-ready fruit!
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