Tomato Pie

Hubby baked this tomato pie to welcome me returning home from my trip to Long Island. Tomato in a pie is a very intriguing idea. I snapped some pictures when Hubby was assembling the pie. It was very tasty, and of course, a bit fatty. The original recipe was a vegetarian dish. Hubby is by no means a vegetarian, so he added fried bacon, which was why this pie was a bit fatty to my taste. However, it is worthy trying if one gets too many tomatoes, like us. Our veggie garden provided us with quite a bit of them, even though the late blight took most of our crop.

Audrey's New Bookshelf

Hubby bought this Dollhouse bookshelf for Audrey. Hubby finally got time to assemble it after I came back from Long Island.

It is in pink and purple, really pretty. Audrey was so surprised to see it after waking up from her nap. She even said "Thank you, Baba" to Hubby. It was very sweet!

See how excited she got:

Conference at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is the Silicon Valley of IT in science. I wanted to go there so badly all these years ever since I stepped into the scientific field. After years' anticipation, I finally got the chance. I paid a visit to CSHL between Aug. 25-29, 2009.

I did not enjoy the science part of the conference much since it was not not related to my field very much. However, I enjoyed the food and the campus very much. Additionally, I had a cool room mate at Best Western Woodbury Inn, whose company made my stay at CSHL interesting.

A Taste of Summer-2009

Summer seems to be in a hurry on the way to upstate NY this year. We had about 10 days with the temperatures in the upper 80s.

We bought a pool for the little one before the long-due summer came here. At one point, we even thought this pool was another dust collector in the garage. However, we put it into use when the temperature finally went up to the upper 80s. Audrey absolutely loved it. Since she was still too little to play alone in the pool, so hubby had to sit by the pool the whole time she was in the water. I offered them some water toys. They had great fun splashing each other.