Casa Walsh

Last week I signed up for organic produce delivery through Boston Organics. I chose the $25 50/50 box delivered weekly, on Wednesdays. Since last Wednesday, when I received my confirmation email, I’ve been counting down the days until the first delivery. I considered skipping my class so I could race right home and rescue the box from the porch.

As soon I was released from class I called Elias to check on “the box”. He couldn’t find it. No box. I nearly cried. Elias called back a few minutes later to say that he found the box on our upstairs neighbor’s landing. I would have been more surprised by this mix-up if I hadn’t introduced myself to our neighbor just a few days ago. Yes, we’ve been living a ceiling apart for almost six months, but I’ve never run into any of the three guys that live above us. Last week was the first street cleaning of the year and as the freaky pre-recorded bullhorn cruised down our street announcing “street cleaning – all cars on the even numbered side will be tagged and towed – street cleaning…” and at 7:30 am I managed to remember that DEB 100 was indeed on the even-numbered side of the street. Elias is even more useless at 7:30 am than I am, so I got up to move the car. And I ran into (literally) my neighbor putting out his trash. Rob introduced himself. “I’m Amanda,” I said. “Oh, I know your name,” he replied. “The mailman leaves your mail in our mailbox all the time.” Huh. I guess we’ll have to put #1 on our door and mailbox.

Moving on. I know I’m the guinea pig in this organic delivery service experiment, so for all of you dying to know what’s in the box, here you go:

2 apples, 3 oranges, 2 pears, 1 avocado, 1 pint of strawberries, 1 grapefruit, 1 green pepper, 1 bunch of brocolli and spring kale, 1 head of lettuce, and 9 potatoes. An impressive variety of produce.

My camera was out of batteries, so I asked Elias to snap the pictures. That explains this shot:

I’m just so excited. Yay.