I'm home! Jason and I took turns driving the U-Haul. It was my first experience driving one, not to mention pulling a trailer with a car attached. Either I'm a better driver than I thought or it is surprisingly easy to do. We didn't arrive until well after three o'clock Tuesday morning and slept for a few hours before unloading Jason's stuff. ( Read more... )

Last call for the dog treats I mentioned in this entry. I'm baking the final batch today and will be mailing out samples for taste-testing tomorrow. Everyone should get their box-o-treats mid next week. The initial testing with Ferguson went well, so I took a couple of the treats over to my parents' house. Their neighbor has three dogs, two of ( Read more... )

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( and a bonus (short) video of ferguson being extra special cute )

I'm home! The drive back from Greenbank was a little over three hours. All in all, not a bad drive, though most of it is on country roads through obscure places. The mini-vacation was lovely--good fun and very relaxing ( Read more... )

Ferguson thanks everyone for their good thoughts yesterday and today. He's doing much better, back to near 100% of his doggie self. I had no idea he would have such drastic reaction to the medicine the vet injected him with ( Read more... )

Where am I going on Friday? Where? To the casita!!!

( onward, to abiquiu! )

Eeee!!!! I just booked the Casita de Chuparosa (Little House of Hummingbirds!) for a couple nights in early October. I'm super excited about seeing Abiquiu (pronouced Ab-i-kyoo) and Taos and all the beautiful landscapes. The owners have promised to stock the fridge with organic breakfast foods - bagels, cream cheese, waffle mix, syrup, fruits, ( Read more... )