Love: Water Right's Made in America (Oregon's Wilammette Valley, to be precise) garden hose. It looks and works better than any other hose I've ever tried - strong but thin, light-weight and easy to move around - and it's nice to support a company that describes its mission as: "to make great garden hoses, take exceptional care of our employees and customers, and promote an American standard of quality, safety, and innovation."
Like: Modelo Especial, particularly in the can, as post yard-work refreshment.
Discovery: Comal, Berkeley's swanky new Mexican joint, has a very cool back courtyard patio where you can wait for your table with a drink by a fire pit. Surrounded by other buildings, it has that NYC back patio feeling, a rarity here.
Obsession: Badminton. I went crazy for it when it was a gym class unit in high school, and couldn't get enough of it when, back in the day, GSP had a badminton court on the 3rd floor of our office. We finally ordered a set for our backyard where, granted, the width of the play area is likely half of regulation, leading to a doubled-up, ghetto-looking net. Now I'm counting down the days until our daily evening fog bank gives way to Indian summer for sunny after-work matches.
(Alice Waters-Approved) Complaint: Deep planting boxes plus kick-ass compost from American Soil = out of control cherry tomato plants. It's hard to even get in there to water them and pick the ripe tomatoes. On the bright side, our Meyer Lemon tree, which we had to cut way back a few years ago as it was blocking our view of the Bay, is finally beginning to produce lemons again, with green buds popping up all around its branches.
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