Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Friendship

Do you have friends who make you laugh? I’m not talking about a polite chuckle. I’m talking about laughing so hard you cross your legs, your stomach hurts, your hands sweat, you cry until your glasses steam up and your nose runs. Laughter that leaves you unable to talk and gasping for breath. THAT kind of laughter. Do you? I hope so! At work there are a couple people who can do that to me. I’m blessed by my friends.

Last night we had our sew night after work. Who would have thought that one person could get up off the floor where they had been quietly hand stitching and say something SO unexpected that it caused that kind of sustained laughter…and then went on to say something else that just made it worse (or better?). I’m still smiling as I write this. I’d love to give you the details but much like Vegas we have a rule…what happens on sew night stays at sew night.

Wishing you much laughter….

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Food Wishes

Tristan is finishing up his 2nd year in Japan. As much as he loves it there when he comes home there are certain foods he looks forward to because he can't get them in Japan. I suspect lasagna fell off the list because while visiting him I figured out how he can make it in his toaster oven. He's coming home for the wedding so I got the following email with this year's list of food wishes:


I know it's gonna be busy, so if we don't get to all of it, that's cool, but this is what I've got so far.

Food to eat out/order in
Chinese food
Pizza (Papa Johns! extra garlic butter sauce!)
Burgerville
Gustav
Hawaiian Cafe
Taco bell for Tacos

Food at home:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/big-sur-bakery-hide-bread-recipe.html
honey nut cheerios
waffles
sourdough bread
Fajitas
chimichangas with mexican meat mix!
Connecticut beef supper
Steak dinner (with the typical side dishes) :)


We have 2 1/2 weeks to get as many things as possible checked off the list! Wish us luck!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy 4th!

Here's Patriotic Eeyore wishing everyone a safe and happy 4th!
Patriotic Eeyore

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Oliver

Can you find the kitty in the picture?
japanese maple

Oliver is my shy kitty. He's a big scaredy cat. You will never meet him. Not if he has anything to say about it!

Our backyard is fenced with a Purrfect Fence and while our installation didn't go as smoothly as planned it has been purrfect at keeping the cats in during the past year. But Oliver would run under the deck and hide and I believe the other kitties were using it as a litter box under there so we had to block it off.
fence

After we did that Oliver got a little panicked because there was no where outside to hide. He spent a day in his house inside but eventually wandered back out. Then I went looking and I couldn't find him. We searched and searched and eventually I figured it out. Can you see him now?
oliver hiding

AH HA!
oliverface

Since I found him he figured he might as well come out...he loves me...or maybe he was trying to get away from the camera.
oliver body

He is evidently very camera shy as well. I was trying to get pictures of him.
oliver

and when he saw the camera he actually GOT UP and turned around to face the wall!
oliver hiding

His head was actually touching the wall. Silly boy! But oh so loveable.
oliver in grass