animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

drizzle in the valley

The weather was not ideal for this year’s Thunder in the Valley, but we managed to go downtown a couple of times (albeit without the bikes). Thursday night, we caught half of a set from the Eric Tessmer Band. I could have listened to them all night. The band was …

poor alice

Alice had to have some lumps removed (5 to be exact). Poor dog. She’s doing well. Though, she’s not allowed to go on walks or anything for two weeks. Prior to her surgery, the vet did some routine bloodwork. Everything was good except her triglycerides. They were 1,500. They’re supposed …

fushing feefs

So, I was all excited the other week because my fruit trees were bearing fruit. I went to the trouble of ordering nylon footies to put on each piece of fruit so that they would not get eaten by bugs. One day recently, I noticed one of the nylon footies …

predator

This was a novel by Patricia Cornwell. I’ve read some of her stuff in the past and it was ok, but I just could not get into this book. I was trying to slog through it because I got the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel for Mother’s Day and was anxious …

black swan

Cripes. I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to blog about this movie, which we watched last Friday. Saturday we had a wedding and Sunday Jake had a belated birthday pool party with his friends at my in-laws’ pool. Beyond that, we have been spending time at the office …