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March 26, 2008
Cat + String = $$$
Sorry for the blog silence, everybody! The last week has been a little rough here around la casa...
Dave the Cat took ill very suddenly a week ago this last Sunday. He wouldn't eat... he wouldn't drink... and we couldn't figure it out!
After a day and a half of this nonsense, he went off to the vet. X-rays, bloodwork, IV fluids... ultimately the doctor couldn't give me a definite diagnosis, but his gut told him that Dave had eaten something and that surgery was the answer.
After a day full of drama over how I would pay for this, Dave went under the knife. Thank GOD(DESS), I got a mid-day call with the news that he was A-OK. The verdict? He had eaten some thread (snuck off a bobbin from a recent project left in a basket on my kitchen table) - a LOT of thread. It had looped behind his tongue, so it was hanging down his throat down into his tummy. :( Blech!
Well, the next day I got to bring him home and he has been spoiled ROTTEN since then. The poor little bugger went 6 days with no food! It has been a regular smorgasbord around here. Time to fatten him back up!
Subsequently, I spent my weekend moving every single craft supply I own into my second bedroom. It's all locked up tight now and I'll spend the upcoming weekend organizing everything completely. Never again will as much as a scrap be outside the newly built craft prison.
So, the moral of the story, fellow crafters, is LOCK UP YO STRING. For reals. This was the most expensive mistake I've made yet. :)
PS - Poor Dave is Frankenkitty until next week when his staples come out. Yes - staples! EEEK. The next time you think about being reckless and leaving your spools of thread laying about, try to remember this:
:( Poor Dave! Why do they make thread so tasty?
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March 17, 2008
Baby Bonanza (aka Jennie's Baby Shower)
Oh lordy.
Jennie's baby shower was yesterday and it was a FAB time. :) Jennie was all aglow, as usual! There was yummy food and a house full of fun folks to chat it up with.
And to top it all off, we were graced with the presence of two beautiful young ladies.
Penelope is getting so big! This girl looooves the camera.
Okay, I know she's not smiling here, but I loooove this pic. Hee hee.
Oh Natalia! I've been lucky enough to hang with this little lady before, but on Sunday we bonded.
More cutesy pics of the baby photo shoot can be found right over here.
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March 8, 2008
Mmm...Cupcakes!
A favorite co-worker of mine celebrated her birthday this week - so you know I had to bake something special to contribute to the party. :)
Yes - I went back to one of the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks... I can't help it! I had been dying to try out the recipe for her coconut cupcakes.
The verdict? I have to tell you - in all modesty, as this was not my skill, but the recipe which stood out - THESE WERE THE BEST CUPCAKES I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE. Delicate cake, flavored with vanilla, almond and shredded coconut topped with a mound of the most delicious cream cheese frosting I have ever tasted. You top it all off with shredded coconut... OMG. As soon as I hit "publish" on this bitch, I am running to the icebox - I have a couple left... but not for long. :)
Go. Make them. Like, now.
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March 4, 2008
Nantucket Progress
So, I tend to forget to blog about knitting... as I have become more and more obsessed with the wonder that is Ravelry.
In the spirit of sharing, I have just finished the back of my Nantucket Jacket and am thrilled to finally be moving onto the front pieces. :)
I'm trying reeeeally hard not to give into temptation.
I will not start another knitting project.
I will not start another knitting project.
I will not start another knitting project.
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March 2, 2008
Enjoying Winter While It Lasts...
Ah, snow. It's been absent most of this Winter here in Connecticut and I have been sobbing about it for almost 2 months. Well, we were finally treated to some of the white stuff over the past week and it was kind enough to stick around long enough for a little snowshoe on the AT up in Kent.
The trail ended up being waaaay longer than expected. The road was snowed out, so we had to shoe down to whole dirt road to get to the trail head. :) We were two tired, sore little peeps by the time we made it back to the truck...
Here we are midway through our return:
Our hike was followed by a tasty little pigout at CaraLee's in town. Yum! I wish every day was Sunday... sigh.
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March 1, 2008
Marvelous Maine
So, it's taken me all week, but I finally pulled together my photos from our trip to Maine last weekend.
I am thrilled to report it was a fantastic, incident free trip! Well, we did drive up on Friday in a snowstorm... but we made it through without a scratch! And there was the incident where my right snowshoe broke through some ice and my leg plunged into a brook of icy water... but I managed to keep all my toes! That goes down as a success in my book.
On Saturday, Andy and Missy took us out for some snowshoeing down the road from The Lake. We shoed out to a really RAD little pond, which houses a blue heron rookery in the warmer seasons. You can't get anywhere near this place when the birds are in town - they don't put up with us humans. But, being it was February, they were on hiatus and we strolled out onto the frozen pond and wandered amidst their nest laden trees.
We eventually made our way up to the top of Big Hill (really - that's it's name. Mainers ain't the pretentious sort...) and were treated to a great vista. Our trek back to the car was a little longer and - for some of us - a little wetter. We eventually worked our way around a lot of thin ice and rushing water to find our way back to the Jeep. It was a hard day's work - you'd better believe showers and beers were the first items on the agenda when we got back to the house...
Sunday was another great, sunny day. We headed out to the outer part of Acadia National Park to hike the Wonderland trail for a walk on the coast. It was fantastic. I love the ocean - and to spend an afternoon exploring in the Winter, was a special treat. We headed down the road to take a peek at the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse and then went into Bar Harbor for dinner at Geddy's. Yum!
So, it was a perfectly lovely weekend. SteveKam was introduced to 2 more relatives, snowshoeing, and my beloved Downeast Maine all in one trip. Quite a productive couple of days!
Oh - AND - Kyra got to run around on top of the lake with some new doggy pals and I went on a snowmobile adventure with my Uncle! :)
I will now begin my countdown to July when I get to go back for a whole week.
Only 124 days to go.
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