I don’t care if it is supposed to snow tomorrow–I did some gardening today. Granted, it was in the house (I planted tomato seeds), but it was gardening nonetheless. Actually the weather has been kind of messing me up a little. My onions always turn out small, so I was going to see if planting them early had any effect on their size. But, the weather hasn’t cooperated for that experiment, so I’m not going to get them in much earlier than I usually do.
think twice
Another fast-paced book from Lisa Scottoline’s Bennie Rosato series. Her writing style reminds me of James Patterson’s–not that they are writing about the same subject matter, but she writes short chapters (seriously–there were 128 chapters in the 372 page book) that keep you engaged. Before you know it, you’re done with the book.
This was only the second book I’ve read in the series, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that all of these books involve Bennie’s “evil twin” who is either trying to impersonate or kill Bennie (or both). But, I’ve only read two, so maybe I’m wrong. I think I have a few more of these books. I should probably look up what order to read them in, though I don’t know that it really matters.
bill and ted’s excellent adventure
Somehow I missed seeing this movie when I was a teen. I probably would have enjoyed it more back then. It was ok. Jake liked it. Brian slept through it–probably due to starting P90X this week–though he did see it numerous times before. Somehow, Jake thought this movie was going to be Wayne’s World, so we’re going to watch that next. Kind of in the same theme, but Wayne’s World was better, if I am remembering correctly.
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 some things that it’s worth keeping.
The two big things with Buster are barking and car sickness. Whenever Buster is in a barking mood, if I put the shirt on him, he just stands there like a zombie. Some people might think this is a negative, but it’s actually an improvement on his normal behavior.
The big test came yesterday–Buster always gets car sick. I mean always. I don’t remember a trip in the car that didn’t involve me cleaning up dog vomit upon returning home. That is, until yesterday. Buster had a vet appointment so I thought that would be the perfect time to give the shirt a try. While he got pretty drooly early into the trip, he did not get sick yesterday! Now, I will say that the vet’s office is only 15 minutes from the house, but seeing that he’s gotten sick in less time in the car than that, we’ll call it a winner. I hope to desensitize him to the car by taking him on longer and longer trips.
The shirt did not pass the thunder test, however. Both Buster and Alice are afraid of thunder. During one of the recent storms, they each had a turn in the shirt, but I did not notice any change in their behavior.
Still, definitely worth keeping.
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 lot about it (other than the fact that Steve Carell’s character was awesome).