Much better day physically today.  Took Zoey to the vets for her rabies shot.  Too bad we didn't take care of that when we were having her treated for asthma, as it cost us another charge for a physical.  I then went to the hardware store to get the replacement register for the kitchen.  As I parked, I noticed the muffler shop across the street had ( Read more... )

We've just watched our first QI show.  Ee gads, it's a good thing it only happens once a week, and it's only half an hour.  Because it clearly could be addictive.  Great fun ( Read more... )

The vinyl tile for our new kitchen floor is ordered.   I'm not messing around.  I'm getting Armstrong commercial grade tile, because it's color-all-the-way-through, not just printed on the surface.  With two 70-lb dogs, I figure nothing less will do ( Read more... )

Skinned and deboned the chicken I roasted last night.  Started cooking the bones for stock.  House smells fabulous ( Read more... )

A coworker at Wegmans told me my truck tires looked low, so I asked Ray to check them out and he said they were okay but it still bothered me so I drove to a gas station on one of these freezing cold days and checked and sure enough, the one that looked the worst had less than 20 pounds of pressure in it.  Of course, this was only after I'd fed a ( Read more... )

Update on Erin, the woman who was in a car crash mere seconds before I visited her place of work for the first time ( Read more... )

Emily was home this weekend.  For the most part, we had a lovely time.  I made hoppin' John Friday night, which she pretty much scarfed.  Saturday we watched the 1945 movie, Anchors Aweigh together.  My favorite scene is the one where Frank Sinatra mistakes Jose Iturbi for a piano tuner.  Sinatra was absolutely adorable in the movie, so young and ( Read more... )

I finished Cameron's brother's hat.  I like it.

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Thursday I printed another 72 recipe cards for Farmers & Artisans and took them over.  I had a nice chat with Julie about the difference between their clientele and Wegmans'.  One day when I was in, one of their employees told me people asked her, "Can I take one of these?" which I find amazing because at Wegmans, customers will always presume they ( Read more... )

I've been knitting Cameron's hat.  He is Emily's boyfriend, someone of whom we've become absurdly fond.  If you've followed my posts, and Ray's, you know we gave him a laptop for Christmas.  Meanwhile, back at the ranch (as I like to say), I noticed his hair is kept very short, and somewhere in there I asked Emily or him if he'd like a hat.  A ( Read more... )