Farmer’s Market Saturday

Yesterday turned into a relaxing evening at home. After leaving the office early to grab a glass of wine and appetizers with some folks from work, Isaac and I just decided to head home and just hang out. We took Olive for a nice little walk around the hood and then watched The Great Gatsby. I’ve actually never read the book or seen the movie so it was interesting for me, however, we had only made it half-way through before I started to get sleepy and coaxed Isaac into heading to bed.

I had big plans to go on a morning run with the meetup.com ladies boot camp group, but after getting a second opinion on my knee injury this week I’ve realized that I really need to take a break from running and other high impact activities. It stinks because I was just getting to know everyone in the group and now I’ll need to refrain from going for a while.

I won’t bore you with the details of the doctors visit, but the outcome is that I’m suppose to do strength training exercises for my left leg (particularly the hamstring), take a prescription grade anti-inflammatory, buy and use ankle weights, and I need to be ellipticaling, biking, walking, or doing other low impact activities for cardio rather than stair climbing or running (of course, my two favorites). I go back for a check-up in 8 weeks so hopefully things have improved and the swelling has decreased, then I should be able to go back to higher impact activities. I’m going to try very hard to stick to these guidelines as I really want it to heal properly.

Enough about the injury- instead of going for a run this morning, Isaac and I woke up early and went to the South of the James Farmer’s Market. I was hungry as soon as my feet hit the floor so I whipped up a bowl of banana chia oats before heading to the market.

Yes, I’m stilling using Better N’ PB – and, yes I still like it.

We had to be quick at the Farmer’s market because Isaac had big plans to tailgate all day for the Nascar race. Do you think it makes you more of a redneck if you go to the Nascar race parking lot to tailgate but you don’t even have a ticket for the race? I’m torn- it could go either way.

I had to take a picture of the most unique vegetable I saw today.

I thought it was a huge butternut squash but apparently this is a special variety of pumpkin.

I’m still upset they weren’t actually butternut squash- think about all the fries one of those babies could make.

My favorite purchase: fuzzy flowers!!

I have no idea what type of flower these are, but I saw them and couldn’t resist. They’re just so pretty!

I also got some yellow baby tomatoes.

And a bag of fresh arugula.

For lunch I put my purchases to use and made an arugula salad with orange bell pepper, tomatoes, broccoli, avocado, cucumber, mushroom, and locally made herbed tofu.

I topped the salad with TJ’s goddess dressing after the photo- it was quite tasty.

I’m off to hit up Dick’s (seriously why is it named this?) for the ankle weights I need and then perhaps swinging by the mall for a little clothes shopping.

I hope the weather is as beautiful where you are as it is here!

- Brittany

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