animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

thundershirt

Because there’s a sucker born every minute, I bought one of these shirts for Buster recently. The short story is that I’m keeping it (they have a pretty good return policy). While it doesn’t work (for Buster) for everything they have listed on their website, it works well enough for …

despicable me

We watched this movie at the beginning of the month. I just realized that I never blogged about it. It was pretty good, though it’s not my favorite animated movie (I guess that honor would have to go to ‘Up’). I would say more, but I don’t remember a whole …

a touch of dead

Wow did this book kind of suck. On a positive note, it only took a few days to read. It was a collection of short stories based on the Sookie Stackhouse series. The main problem was that I had a hard time reconciling the stories to the timelines in the …

feeling winey

The past couple of days have been a wine extravaganza around here. On Friday, we racked a red wine kit. It’s brand of wine kit that I hadn’t tried before (RJ Spagnols). It has a simplified process, which I like. Plus, the kit had dried grape skins included, which is …

commence gardening

Despite the fact that it’s supposed to snow this week, it’s time to start planting! Well, inside, anyway. I planted a bunch of pepper seeds this evening. I did 24 green bell peppers, 20 cubanelle, and 4 jalapeno. I’ll be sharing with the parents, of course. I haven’t scoped out …