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~Thirteen~
These are thirteen of my favorite pictures. The bottom picture is of Greta with her first litter of pups back in 2006. We will know in two weeks if she is expecting her next litter! I’ve got my fingers crossed!
It was a very busy day for me today, but all in a good way, so there will be no complaining. Here is how I spent this wonderful spring day.
After getting up and making breakfast and sending Hubby off to ski (Day 57), I poured myself a coffee and got the two new pillows I’d purchased a few days ago, put them back in their bag and tossed them in the trunk of the car to return to the store.
Those of you who have been with me a while will recall that I have major pillow problems and my quest for the right pillow continues to this day. I thought I had found a good pillow last week, but alas, I was incorrect and found that these pillows were so hard that we felt like we were sleeping on concrete! So back they have gone. Now the quest begins again! This isn’t a complaint, just more of a long term search that isn’t over yet.
After I dropped those off, I went to a coffee shop and met up with my girlfriend, Barbie, for a coffee and a chat. We sat there for a long time talking and laughing and speculating on whether or not Greta is with children. Barbie is the proud Mama of Greta’s boyfriend, Bernie.
We dropped in at LL Bean and I found the cutest tote for myself, an LL Bean tote with a dachshund on it! I mean, it is so totally ME!
I said good-bye to Barbie then and hopped on the highway to head back north, intending to shop for food at the grocery and personal items at Wal-Mart. I was enjoying the ride, as today was just a perfect spring day, sunny, about 70 degrees (F) and not a cloud in the sky. I put on the satellite radio and sang my heart out!
Just then my cell phone went off and it was Hubby. He was done for the day skiing and was heading home. I explained what I was up to and he decided to meet me at the grocery store and then go out to our favorite Chinese Buffet for lunch. I just love this place because they have so many wonderful vegetables and salads and I do not have to stray from my Weight Watchers program.
So I drove to Wal-Mart and got the things I needed there and then met Hubby at the grocery store. We got that job done quickly and then we both needed to stop and fill up our cars with gas. Okay, we all know the price of gas, so I won’t go into how much we paid. Let’s just say we’re spending our kid’s inheritance each time we need to fill up!
Lunch was so relaxing and the food was great. I had my vegetable egg foo yung and hot and sour soup and salad. Yum, yum, yum!!!
We drove home, put everything away and played outside with the dogs for a bit, before sitting down to check our e-mail. I was going through mine and I saw a post from Hubby. I read it and it was such a funny joke that I started laughing and he knew immediately what I was laughing about and he started to laugh again too. Yep, life on the Internet!
Kimmie was over right after school today with a book she’d taken out of the school library. She came up to the door and asked for Hubby! Then she came in and wanted to read with him. It was so much fun to watch them.
I made a new recipe tonight using Dover Sole, Baby Bok Choy, and lots of ginger. It actually came out pretty well, although next time I will do a few things a little differently. However, I just adore the Baby Bok Choy. Oh, that is just the best!
Now the day is ending, and I’m sitting here with Greta beside me. I’m hoping she is pregnant. I am sort of thinking that she is. There is just something in the way she is acting. Keep your fingers crossed!
Time for a cup of tea. The perfect end to a perfect day!
Thirteen things that I love that start with the letter G
1. Greta! Yes, my girl Greta has brought so much sunshine into my life.
2. Gardening. I love to have my vegetable garden each summer. In fact I’m already starting my seeds to be replanted in the garden at the end of May.
3. Grands. I love having Grand Nephews and Grand Nieces. It’s so wonderful to see the next generation coming along!
4. Grandparents. I was so lucky to have a set of really wonderful grandparents. With out them, I’m not sure I would be the person I am.
5. Gingerbread. Oh boy, do I love gingerbread! Yum!
6. Goonies. One of my favorite movies. I just love the kids in it, especially Chunk!
7. Garlic. Mmmmmmmm. I love the sweet taste of garlic!
8. Grill. I love to grill foods outside in the summer. I am very partial to using charcoal in the grill to do this. The taste is great!
9. Girls. I was so happy that when I had children I had two girls! It was so much fun dressing them up and playing barbie dolls with them!
10. George. The name of my most favorite Uncle. He taught me to swim and dive and bowl, and never made me feel like a silly kid. When I married Hubby Uncle George walked me down the isle.
11. Gardenia. Probably my favorite flower. The scent is lovely and the flower itself is so fragile.
12. Grass. I love the feel of grass between my toes in the middle of the summer. Green and fresh!
13. Gift. Well, there are all sorts of gifts aren’t there? The gift of love, of friendship, of time of food or just your usual birthday or Christmas gift. I love the gift of love the best.
With the fan fixed and the laptop no longer threatening to burst into flames, I went down to the shop today and brought her home. It’s a sad thing, you know. I’d had such high hopes for her back when she arrived. The excitement I felt, the happiness, and now I know that her time with me can be counted in mere months.
My computer Guru got her together enough that I can use her, but she will never be together enough again for me to bring anywhere and use on the road. However this does buy me some time to search for a new machine.
It was another beautiful day here in New Hampshire, with temperatures in the upper 50’s and lots and lots of melting! Hubby went for his 55th day of skiing, and had fairly good conditions as well as beautiful views!
I re-potted my basil plant and decided that my first planting of Eggplants did not germinate, so I’m off tomorrow to get another packet of seeds to sow. In another 10 days I will start the rest of my vegetable seeds for the garden. Oh how good it will be to have fresh vegetables from my own garden!
Ah yes, spring has finally come to New Hampshire and I sure am ready for it!
My laptop is in the shop again and the news isn’t good. This time the problems are not anything covered by my warranty, so we took it to my local shop. His guess-ta-mate is that it may cost as much as $400.00 to fix.
Now I may not be the brightest bulb in the lamp, but I am thinking that I have already put a lot of money into this silly machine, and I’m not sure I want to put any more into it, considering that with this machines known problems, next week it could suffer a bout of chicken pox or worse yet, the bubonic plague!
So I am looking, and thinking…..
In other news, we went out today to have Hubby refitted for ski boots. He has recently purchased new skis
and now finds a problem with his old (18 year old) boots. Much has changed with Hubby’s legs since his double knee replacements and so I’m pushing him to go out and just do it!
I am thinking Anneliese could be close to going into heat. She is starting to have episodes of PMS, and this leads me to believe that it may be close at hand. Her victim today was poor Arnie. Now my boy Arnie has to be the sweetest boy on the face of the earth so when she gets after him I have to wonder!
Since I am now sequestered in the office with our main desktop computer, I decided to scan in this very old picture. I was all of 19 years old and this is Mandy in my arms. It’s always been a favorite of mine, so I thought I’d share it with you!
I’ve also been playing with the macro lens on my camera and I came up with this picture
of one of the roses from our anniversary bouquet. I just loved the color of that flower!
As always you can click to enlarge these pictures. Also congratulations and thank-you to Ted in NY for being my 47,000 reader!!! And thank-you to all for visiting me each day!!!
Sunday was a nice, fairly quiet day, with the exception of our trip out to the Chinese Buffet for lunch. Sundays they have King Crab legs on the buffet and it is really wonderful! So off we went. Surprisingly, the restaurant was not overburdened with customers. So we ate and enjoyed and when we were done we left for home.
Hubby decided to take the scenic route across a hill around a lake. Normally this wouldn’t be bad, but with temperatures in the 50’s and all the melting we have had, we are smack dab in the middle of “MUD SEASON”!!! We were driving along a scenic road when we found a sea of mud in front of us. The worst part was, we had no place else to go but forward. It took us the better part of an hour to work our way home though the muddy roads of central New Hampshire before we found tarred roads. We stopped for a full car wash before returning home. Was I a happy girl!
One truly precious thing happened today. I was getting dressed while Hubby was skiing and Kimmie was waiting for me. I opened the door quietly to check on her and what did I see? There Kimmie was, sitting in my chair with the dogs all around her and she was reading the Dick and Jane books to them. It was just the sweetest thing ever.
On Saturday I drove down to the closest “big city” to us. Mandy drove up and we met at a local bookstore well known for their double cappuccino’s! After Mandy arrived, we got our coffees and then got into my car and headed over to the Mall. We stopped first at Applebees and had lunch and then the shopping commenced!
This is actually a pretty good mall, as malls go, and Mandy, who has also been dieting and lost even more weight than me, needed some new office clothes. We started in “Coldwater Creek” where there was a “70% Sale” sign in the window! I have to say that Mandy looks adorable in clothes, and I enjoyed watching her trying on different outfits.
I hadn’t intended to buy anything, but recently I had experienced our anniversary where I literally had NOTHING to wear. I did not want to buy anything that I really liked because I know in another 6 months it won’t fit, but I decided to try on a new pair of coral colored denim jeans, and a flowery top that matched. Both fit nicely, and the jeans were a size 12 and the blouse was a medium!!!
That was all I bought, but Mandy has an office job, so she truly needed a few outfits, and luckily, she found them and at sale prices.
Dinner was at a local placed called “The Common Man”. We met up with my cousin Janet. The place was mobbed! Talk about a place where you really want to either have a reservation or perhaps eliminate from your weekend dining list. They told us it would be over 1 hour, but we could wait in the bar!!!
We sat in there and decided that we would order dinner sitting at the bar. We ordered salads and lobster corn chowder.
Janet and I talked and talked and it was so nice. I’d brought with me old pictures that I’d gotten when my sister and I were going through things from our parents home. There were great pictures of Janet’s parents, grandmother and yes, even her brother. I was so happy to be able to give them to her. We also exchanged Christmas gifts! Janet gave me
My cell phone went off twice (I’d set it to vibrate), thus giving me a short thrill and the experience of trying to talk over so many bar patrons! I’ve decided that I like the thrill, but not the talking in a crowded bar.
I got home late. A first for me, the original country mouse who is usually in pajamas by 7:30!!!
Today? Well, I’m tired, but happily so!
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~Twist~
Fritz likes to twist after he goes for a swim!
It was back to reality today after all the planning of our anniversary celebration, and then the actual enjoying of it.
Hubby went off to ski in what will probably be his last ski day of the year. Heavy rain is forecast for this weekend, and the areas are all closing on Sunday.
Meanwhile I stayed home with the fur kids doing laundry, and tidying up the house. You know, the usual stuff.
It was absolutely glorious today. Bright sunshine, warm temperatures, and blue skies. It gave me hope that spring is on it’s way. The tulip bulbs I planted last year are poking through the snow, and things are actually MELTING!!!
Greta is nearing the end of her heat and will be out of her sexy little panties by tomorrow. Then it’s just a matter of three more weeks until we find out if she is expecting or not. I have a feeling that she is, but it’s just a vague sort of feeling. (Probably just me hoping!)
I’m going to put up my feet tonight and watch some mindless TV. Tomorrow I am cooking Hubby his favorite Sauer Braten (German spiced pot roast). It’s my family’s recipe, straight from Mülheim an der Ruhr where my Papa and his family came from!
Our Anniversary was full of surprises. This year I decided to become a true romantic and I had planned our “Anniversary Date” completely. When I called for reservations at The Woodshed I asked them to have a bottle of chilled champagne at our table. Hubby was pleasantly surprised and we toasted our 20 years together.
For our appetizers we ordered an artichoke dip for me, which was divine and Hubby got French Onion Soup, one of his favorite things to eat.
We talked and laughed and reminisced while we ate, looking back over the last 20 years with laughter and smiles.
Next came our tossed salads with blue cheese dressing. Crisp lettuce greens with a dressing that was equally yummy!
Then our dinners came. I must confess that this is not a meal you would find on any Weight Watchers menus! No I will probably burn in Hell for tonight’s indiscretion! LOL!!! Here is what we had:
We each had Prime Rib of Beef, with a Lobster Tail on top, a twice baked potato, mixed vegetables and horseradish. Also they served their own home-baked bread, which I did have some of, but managed to leave half of on the plate. I also did not eat all of my Prime Rib, and brought it home for a left over treat for Hubby.
As we sat drinking coffee my last surprise arrived, a small chocolate cake with butter-creme frosting and a drizzle of chocolate on the top. We each had a small piece and then we brought the rest home for the neighborhood kids.
It was a splendid celebration, made even more so by the little surprises that I’d planned for my sweetheart!!!
Happy Anniversary, Darling!!!