1. Why didn't anyone tell me before now that barbecue can be vinegar-based?! This week I had my first experience with Carolina-style barbecue. Oh, the brilliance of a tangy sauce instead of a sweet one! I rescued all the leftovers and have been eating it as often as is reasonable for the past three days. You can just put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon like cereal. (Well, maybe you can't. I can. I might be alone in my desire to eat bowlfuls of sour, salty meat.)
2. I parallel parked that huge green pickup truck this week in the middle of downtown. I had forgotten that I can't parallel park, then realized that I've imperceptibly learned how, in a half-ton pickup.
3. This week in the community garden, one of the HFS women and I chatted back and forth for a couple of hours as we worked, fertilized, and pulled weeds together. Suddenly I recalled how overwhelming the garden had been on my very first day at HFS, as this same woman and her friend kept up a steady conversation that I could barely understand through their thick, Southern African American accents. I was thrilled to find that now I was chattering with her just as steadily, and hardly missing a word.
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