animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

everybody make a scene

Trick or Treat was last night and Jake and one of his friends handed out our candy. We did full-sized candy bars this year and that was the way to go–no putting a bunch of candy in bags for us and who doesn’t like a full-sized candy bar? We only …

leave no trace

This was a pretty good movie about a father and daughter who live off the grid in the Pacific Northwest. It was directed by the same director as Winter’s Bone, another movie I really liked. Both were kind of in the same vein. My rating: 3.5/5

stinkerbell

The night before Halloween, Esme met up with a skunk. Brian thought he had the smell under control, so he brought her to the office on Thursday. So, now our office also smells like a skunk. Thursday was pretty bad, but it had dissipated a bit by Friday. I also …

this is halloween

Jake and I decorated for Halloween this year. I think we’ve been consistent in decorating the past few years, but we did get away from doing pumpkins. But that got remedied this year. I did the witch and he did the skull. I think they turned out pretty well. Trick …

cutbacks

A couple of weeks ago, I accidentally forgot to give Buster his morning Prozac. I didn’t realize this until the next day (his pills are in a pill case that has the days of the week on it). Normally, if something like this would happen in the past, we would …