Hi!

A quick post, just to say all is well in Alabamie...Tropical Storm Lee gave us about 68 inches of much needed rain on Monday! Not great weather for a Labor Day BBQ, but we appreciated it nonetheless since we only got an inch of rain in all of August! The garden is looking quite sated and lush. It's just herbs, peppers, and eggplants right now. Hopefully this weekend it will be nice weather to actually get some work done. It's crazy that just last week we had 100 degree weather and now it is a cool 75 degrees with no humidity. Fall is upon us!! Let's hope anyhow!! I'm ready for jeans, cooking up soups, and wearing down booties around the house. The whole town seems to be in happier spirits in general due to the weather! I guess living with 4 months of unbearable weather makes you relish a single day of mild temperature with childish giddiness...

Milder temperatures means it's time to start brewing beer again! Vija is in the market for a bike and we'll try to visit a bike mechanic in Birmingham this weekend and hit up some other big city spots - Alabrew, the organic market, a coffee shop that knows its way around a soy latte, etc...can't wait!

Anyhow, just wanted to let you know that although quiet on the blog, things are going quite well in general, just very busy - football has started up again (spicy and sweet wings and mac n cheese at the Alcove last week (which has newly expanded to the shop next door), we can only hope the same this week for the away game at Penn State!), I have been working a lot on the lab migration to our upstairs lab of awesomeness (we have windows! I should take pics!), having Vija here in the south has been great fun, and having Dan back in the house ain't all that bad either!! Hannah is still strutting her cuteness in exchange for gobs of peanut butter. Hopefully we'll do some picture worthy things this week and I'll upload those...

xo