Title: Prepping the carrots for the CSA
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 20 Sep 2009 - 10:35am

I arrived back in Vancouver from the farm Monday evening and just got my last few photos up now.

I had another great time out there and glad I was able to make it. Something about being out on the farm and eating mostly food that was picked that day that just really relaxes you. The greenhouse they put up in the spring when I was there had done quite well for them and saved them from losing their entire tomato crop (it was a really tough year weather wise for everyone on the east coast this year).

Title: The three Hadfield boys
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 16 Sep 2009 - 7:53am

My dad and I flew out to New Brunswick on Monday evening (overnight flight) to visit the farm. We both wanted to visit Mike again and thought it would be great to spend a bit of time out on the farm as well. I was out previously in the spring when they were mostly prepping. So this will be a good contrast to catch some of the harvesting.

Title: foot prints
Author: Scott Hadfield
Taken: 21 Jan 2009 - 2:40pm
footprints heading into the atlantic on ipanema beach, rio

I bought the last of my tickets for the 3rd leg and 3rd continent of my round the world with Sam the other day. We're heading to Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and then Southern Africa. And I'm super excited about all of it. My primary disappointment right now is that I don't think I'll be able to spend as much time as I'd like in any of the locations.

I commonly get asked two questions (normally one after the other):

• What are you up to lately?
• How do you afford this?

Today marks my last day with NowPublic. I've been with the company almost exactly 1.5 years now... I started November 26, 2007. The decision to leave NowPublic didn't come easily but I just felt quite strongly that it was time for me to work on my own projects. The team at NowPublic is made up of extremely smart people and I'm definitely going to miss working with them.

Starting on Monday I'll be focusing on a new product idea I'm planning with Sam, random development ideas, and traveling. The product idea isn't really at a state ready to be discussed in a public forum just yet but we're hoping to have something out the door towards the end of summer (as a hint, I recently registered disposablewebsites.com which I'll possibly be using as part of this).

This will be the first time that I can remember that I just have all of my time to work on my own things so I'm pretty excited for the next several months until I run out of cash ;-).

Just thought I'd write a quick post to wish my blog a happy 5th birthday :). This site's been running on 4 different platforms: MoveableType -> home grown blogging software -> Wordpress -> Drupal, 3 different servers: Home server -> co-hosted -> VPS, and has 232 posts. Which implies I post just under once a week.

I've been neglecting the blog a little since I've been in New York, but definitely not because I have a lack of things to say... mostly just that those things are really boring.

Oh, and also happy Cinco de Mayo! For those who don't know, the 5th of May is /not/ Mexico's independence day, but celebrates the day that the Mexican army defeated the french when attempting to take over the country in the 1800s. I don't recall any Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Vancouver, but it seems quite popular here... there's also better mexican food. Maybe the two are somehow connected...