I had been looking forward to Tuff Scramblers for a while because it was going to be my first opportunity in 2012 to compete! As has been well documented here, I love me some challenging events, but until then I hadn’t done one where I went all out! Of course, approximately 1 mile into the race last Saturday, I found the concept of pushing my body to the limits a bit overrated.

At the open house I had some samples of my newest smoothie creations but I am a slacker who is just now putting it up!!!

As we were closing up shop the other night, I scanned the space and said rather incredulously “I guess there’s not much else to do around here!” And it’s mostly true! Roughly 2 months later, the awesomeness/badass/coolness/sexiness development center is complete! Of course, like your house (and mine), it will never really be done-done! Here are the highlights of our building efforts and examples of how they are used:

Lost in the chaos of the relocation project was the Save the Bay Swim! This is typically myfavorite event of the summer! Usually my father “spots” me in a kayak, but since he couldn’t be pried away from Block Island, I was fortunate enough to utilize the First Laidy’s nautical prowess as a backup plan! Here’s a quick video of the early part of the swim.

A while ago we went to dinner at this little byob right near the new studio and had an amazing meal made with seafood and tomatoes! There was just something about these tomatoes that made them special so when the chef came to our table to see how our meal was he explained that he roasted them for hours before putting them into our dinner!! So since our garden’s been producing lately I thought I would copy his idea and roast some of our tomatoes! I took 4 ripe better boy tomatoes and cut them in half or into thick (1″ or more) sections, placed them on wax paper on a cookie sheet then added olive oil, salt, pepper and some garlic over them. Baked these babies in the oven at 220 degrees for 3 hours.