Miscellaneous…

I got a load (one cord) of firewood today. If I spent an hour a night stacking, it’ll take me over a week to get it all nice & neat. And somehow the tarp over my seasoned stack blew off or got removed, so now all that’s wet, too.

Bob’s on week 3 of rehab, and right now he’s no better off than the night he went in. The place isn’t too bad, it’s clean and the food is edible. He finished his course of antibiotics as they dropped his prednisone, and his lungs filled up again. So they upped his prednisone again- now he’s back at square one. The point of being there was to get him OFF the prednisone.

Ghirardelli chocolate is way better than Hershey's.

My barn owner is getting yet another new horse. They’re driving to Michigan this weekend to pick her up. So I’m barn-sitting yet again this weekend. Which now involves lugging 5 gallon pails of water to 2 stalls in the indoor, which is about double the distance from the water spigot to the barn. Plus the additional other “new” horse, which requires water. I’m going to be schlepping pails all weekend.

I can either do the French Country Star in variegated green, or the La-D-Da “’Tis Red” ornament in green. (Just because I’m tired of red.)

I hope all that noise the little cat is making is because it’s found a mouse.

Haven’t heard about the bone marrow match yet.

I really could go for something with cream cheese frosting on it. Maybe I should just make the frosting and eat that and save the cake calories…………….

Now THIS is a diet I like!

This nutrition professor decided to test his theory that losing weight is a function of cutting calories, rather than what you eat.

Behold: The Twinkie Diet

Well, maybe I DID get my money’s worth!

An interesting story about grade inflation; my daughter graduated with many “A”s from BU. Take that Harvard!

Since

I need a post, here’s my update of Quaker Halloween:

Here’s a close-up of the skeleton heads:

I  still haven’t figured how I’m going to personalize it- I’m thinking all my black pets’ names, or maybe my family names/initials.

We had our rabble-rowser victory party this afternoon; I came home early to walk Chicken and to watch the Breeder’s Cup race. Zenyatta lost by a head. %^(

All I really want….

Is some sleep! It’s been 3 weeks in a row of 5:30 am wake-ups, and my body has just about had it. And since I came “home” from barn-sitting for 11 days, it seems I’ve been out doing things every single night.

I’d show my progress on Quaker Halloween, but I don’t have a clear space or good light to take a picture. I still have to find & start my November ornament. I’m thinking another monochromatic from the JCS mag, but done in a complementary variegated green.

My BO brought her Appaloosa World Champion home for the first time. She’s owned him for two years, but he’s been with the trainer in Washington state all this time. He’s very pretty, for an Appaloosa. (You horsey people know what I mean!) Now she’s thinking of buying another 2-year-old- it got 4 first place ribbons at Worlds. She can squeeze another horse in the barn, but it’s become a logistical nightmare I prefer not to have to handle.

This NaBloPoMo thing is getting intimidating: I feel like I’ve already hit the wall on day 5!

Those Crazy Canucks!

 

Jane from my stitching group passed this along. Try not to say “Awwwwww!”:

 

Wicked Wednesday Wrecipe

These look deliciously sinful:

Maple Nut Oatmeal Cream pies

I’m baking a double batch of my Mostess cupcakes, and a batch of Ree’s Homemade Restaurant Salsa for a Victory party this weekend with my merry band of whacko vigilantes (as we’ve been *AHEM*  affectionately called here in town). Not much other cooking yet.