Organic fruits and veggies

A few weeks ago, Steph and I signed up for Farm Fresh Delivery, and they bring us an assortment of organic fruits and vegetables every other Thursday, including some we wouldn't ordinarily buy. It's been fun to try new kinds of produce, and we can change the items if we find we can't face another head of broccoli or more apples one week. (If you should decide to sign up, please use my name as your referrer and we'll get a discount of some sort on our next order.)

I recently came across two articles online (unfortunately, I didn't save the links) that listed foods that derive the most benefit from being produced organically and those for which it doesn't matter as much. Here they are.

Foods that benefit the most from organic production:
beef
milk
coffee
peaches
apples
peppers
celery
strawberries
lettuce
grapes
potatoes
tomatoes
nectarines
cherries
pears

Foods that don't contain a lot of pesticides anyway if they're not produced organically:
watermelon
tangerines
oranges
grapefruit
bananas
peas
broccoli
cabbage
radishes
onions
blueberries
kiwi
pineapples
cauliflower
Brussels sprouts
raspberries
eggplant
mushrooms
asparagus
papaya
mango
avocadoes

Fortune cookie weirdness

Tonight my fortune cookie was enigmatic:

Treasure your good memories and you need not worry about ending a banquet.

Huh?

Bottle caps and more bottle caps

The art car project is moving along slowly. I currently have somewhere between 8000 and 9000 bottle caps, and I've sorted many of them. (Anyone who wants to come over for a bottle cap sorting party is welcome, by the way.) We're fashioning a bottle cap flattener to unbend the caps that didn't come off their bottles cleanly. I'm dying to attach a test cap to the car, but it needs to be dry and 40 degrees F outside for a 24-hour period afterwards, and that hasn't happened yet.

The distinctive smell of the bottle caps takes me back to when I was a kid. My family attended Labor Day pig roasts at the home of one of my dad's co-workers, and there were many kinds of soda and beer every year. I always got to keep the bottle caps. I especially like the stale beer smell for some reason, which is odd because I don't like beer.