Guess what's in the oven???

Bagels!

MMMMMMMM......

And cookies:

 Fall leaves and apples and acorns, and pumpkins...

And last night, my husband had a bachelor version of fish and chips for his supper he prepared all by himself. (tuna and corn chips.)

 

I also made pasta, but didn't take any pictures of it. But it's delicious!

 

That's what I spent all my free time on this past week!

Trisha.

I'm still alive....

Whew! Life has been exhausting lately and I can hardly wait for tomorrow. I have it off from work!

Last night, we went to the library and on the way we saw my sister! So I embarrassed her by hopping out of the car at a red light, racing around it, and opening her passenger door which was unlocked... and yelling "Hi! Happy Birthday!" Then closing the door and running back to my car. That's what she gets for having her phone off and not having her voicemail set up yet... So there!

So happy birthday my sister!

Anyways, at the library, we are happily visiting in one of the isles (very quietly I promise!) and a librarian organizing books says "SHHHHHHHHHHH" from the isle next to us. My husband asked me "did you hear her laugh from way over there a little bit ago?" So my husband goes over to another section crowded with people where she just happened to be and when she started laughing again, said "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" so loud, I could hear it from 4 isles away.....  Got her back huh?

My body has been feeling much better lately and I've had more energy and feel like I have raw power. I actually feel stronger and can lift more on my heavy trays now at work. So even though work has been stressful, I'm able to survive there. I hope our resident count goes up so we can get more hours and have extra servers on per meal. I'm dying from overload at work with everyone else.

I have been making guacamole fresh and am so proud of my recipe I have finally figured out. It is bursting with so much flavor but I should tone down the garlic a bit. Maybe I might add Jalapeno. I came home from work last night and my husband was convinced I had eaten spaghetti (now how do you do that on raw foods?) because my breath smelled of garlic from eating 2 avocados worth of guacamole that morning for breakfast. PEEEEW! huh? That means I smelled of garlic all day! EM-Bare-A- SING!

Pup Pup looks much different from the last picture you saw of him. he's much more normal looking now.

 He waits and waits next to wherever you are hoping he'll get some kind of petting he don't care how.

 I have been saving up my Armenian cucumbers from the garden. They started to split from the rains. I am planning on making pickles again! (those are soaked almonds in the jar. 1/2 are peeled.)

 And puppy likes to sleep. He still picks a bed to sleep on. Then fluffs it. Then crashes. Sometimes he fluffs both together... I might be weird to think he's absolutely adorable when he's asleep.

Trisha.

AAAAAK!

This was my surprise when I came home last night:

My puppy has no hair! "She" (as the ladies who cleaned him up said) was a good "girl"! They must clean so many dogs that they don't notice wieners anymore. Here is our new dog for summer. And to think I had just taken that picture of him with all his fur out in the sun the other day.

See you later! I have a beast now!
Trisha.

Now that I've pulled my head out from under my pillow...

I can live again!

I've had a puky migraine for 2 1/2 days now. I think it's gone now. I only feel little twinges of it reminding me to take it slow and easy or it will come back full force again. It feels like I just woke up. I'm re-energized and actually felt like eating today! I've survived mainly on water and tea the last few days.

So now that life has somewhat returned to normal, I shall show you what caused great excitement in my life this morning!
My lone surviving cucumber plant IS my Armenian cucumber!

 And my green balls is all cantaloupes! I cut one open not fully ripe (cause I couldn't wait) and MMMMMMMMM! notice the baby watermelon starting to grow???

 And 1 big watermelon:

 and thousands more baby watermelons...

 And this puppy. Every time he goes out, he likes to lay in the sun and sunbathe.

 Holy Cow! I never thought I could grow a plant this long! It's all from the pot on top! It shall take over the patio soon! Like a snake...

Have a happy happy day! Cause I shall. (sick of hearing shall yet?) My headaches gone and it shall not return!
Trisha.

Birthday aftermath

Yesterday we spent celebrating my sister's 25th birthday party even though it was on Saturday.

This morning, my garbage can smells like birthday. Chocolate cake, pop cups and candles.

And this:

Makes me smile. My baby nephew did this. With 2 fingers. 2 chubby fingers pinching together pulling the moss out little by little. Why I think this is cute I'll never know, but I would just love to have so may messes like this I would just be weary on seeing the next because then it would mean I'd have my own baby.

My other nephew spent some time with this tonka truck collecting rocks and driving around.

He also looked like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes after I spiked his hair.

So that is the total of my aftermath.

Happy birthday my sister! You're now a quarter of a century old now!
Now I'm not the only kid from our family turning the corner!
Trisha.

Again

Vroom... Vroom...

Smash

Smash

Squish

When you have neighbors as lovely enough to do this to your yard, it really makes you want to move.

What would drive them to go 4 wheeling through my yard?????

I give up. I don't know how to keep this cactus alive. We'll see if it makes it this time. It barely recovered from someone hacking off all it's arms, and now I'm back again where I started. We're restarting almost every year now from 1 stick. I had to cut the the 3 smashed ones off today as they were starting to wrinkle up. The remaining one is smashed and wrinkly too but may survive.

We'll see.

I truly believe someone is out there who doesn't want my yard to look pretty.

Trisha.

Clean fresh smelling car

This is the back of my car:

Here is the seat. X conveniently marks the spot even though I didn't put it there.

Here are the tools:

Yup! My car is clean now! It's only been about a month since Ollie peed in my car....

Nice and fresh now!

Trisha.