The simple thrill of excavating my choice of vegetables right out of the ground. A local organic farmer who has joined the WW group, has a dig-your-own-day every Thursday and Friday now until I don’t remember when. You give the farmer $20 and the farmer offers you a knife and a brown paper bag. The knife was quite different from the knife I thought I was so smart to bring. Having never done this, I had no idea that the best knife for the job is similar to what a machete would look like if you cut it bluntly in half. At first glance I was tempted to fill my bag only with fennel, parsley and celeriac. But the temptation was great and two bags later I had harvested the above plus: a red cabbage that looks like a rose, a leafy white cabbage with the finesse of a B. Potter illustration, 3 heads of lettuce in 3 colors, the smallest of turnips which just popped out of the soil when you gave a small tug on the leaves, they look like white marbles glued to tender, leafy stems, purple kale leaves, green kale leave, leeks, dill, rainbow chard, green chard, 2 Italian chicory heads, 1 frisee head and 5 sunflowers peeking out of the top of the bag. Oh yes, and the farmer added 6-large-just-dug-potatoes to the mix. Company was on the horizon and this was going to be a feast.