Pot luck hangover

Ahh, the pot luck last night was fantastic! The food was all beautiful and a lot of it was local. there was a delicious cole slaw, my quinoa salad, a wheatberry salad. An incredible Trinidadian dish (the hostess is trini) made with vegetables and dried fish was the only non vegetarian thing there. there were amazing roasted vegetables with fresh mozzarella and a dip that I'm not even sure what all was in it apart from a home made pepper jelly and beans and shallots. Many of the vegetables came from the farmer's market or from people's rooftop gardens and backyard planters.
There were lots of leftovers so I managed to come home with almost as much food as I took, including two cucumbers, some of the fish dish, and wheatberry salad.

On a different note: I'm continuing the fight with my neighbor about his annoying tree. He came by yesterday to ask me to open my back gate so that he could cut some more branches. I opened it and told him that I'm happy to have the tree gone but that he MUST be sure not to harm any of my food producing plants. He said that he couldn't guarantee the safety of my herbs and tomatoes. I was pretty mad (because my housemate told me that when they went out last time, the neighbor was cutting branches and letting them fall where ever on the theory that as long as I didn't know, it wasn't a big deal) and told him that if my plants were damaged I would expect him to compensate me for them and that he's had ten years to cut the tree down and there is no reason why he needs to be doing it in the middle of the summer putting my stuff at risk.

He stomped off in a huff.