Don’t worry. We won’t.
I mean, really. Everyone knows how flimsy that Good Grips brand is.
We are getting our veggies this summer, too, though.
See?
Really. There’s zucchini in here.
Along with the cocoa, sugar and butter….
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I love the library. I once or twice worked in a library. I volunteer for the library. I love Ben Franklin for coming up with the public library system (much more impressive than that kite in thunderstorm deal). I love the library.
Lately, the hubs and I have been watching a British series called Ballykissangel. It’s a cute, funny, ensemble show set in an Irish village, circa late 90′s.
So, I am rewatching the show from the start with the hub’s first viewing, and we’ve gotten several dvd’s from the library.
The library, it’s not just for books anymore!
The library, don’t need to read to use it!
So, perhaps it’s the heat, or maybe my brain cells are lonely and dying off from abuse just getting too old to function (I’ll blame the heat), but I seem to have a problem remembering what dvd’s we’ve seen and what ones we want to see.
The idiot’s confession bottom line is this: at my beloved library, I recently learned the reason I couldn’t do an online renewal of a Ballykissangel dvd was because there was a hold on it. So I opted to watch the last two episodes on the disc and incur the relatively new and definitely obscenely high daily late fees.
Only to find out……….
There was a hold on that dvd alright.
By yours truly.
Yes, I love the library. I, however, do not love the library so much as to voluntarily impose late fees on myself.
Just call me, library idiot.
And when did I realize the true depth of my stupidity? When that same dvd appeared on the Holds shelf for me the next day.
What is this doing here? Didn’t we watch this one already? Oooooooohhhhhhhhhh, crap.
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This past weekend was the annual salmon smoking event at Chez Letthedogin! Which means the hubs would divorce me for not blogging about it I just have to share this thrilling news with you all!
If you missed it last year, here is my tutorial post on smoking fish.
And that event last year must have blazed a mark in the dog’s walnut brain because she was Johnny-on-the-spot (not to be confused with jennyonthespot) this year.
I’m grateful she is not a drooler, or the driveway would have flooded.
She didn’t just watch either. When the hubs was hanging more fish in the smoker, the pooch thought she’d use that time to help herself.
And we have the proof. Note the muddy paw prints.
Luckily, the hubs put paper over the fish, to protect from wasps and flies, he thought. He forgot about the DOGflies we have.
Yes, she was ever-present and always watching us.
Dog is God spelled backwards, after all.
Don’t feel bad. She did get some, though.
And some more.
And she got to lick the First Jar of the batch!
Yum.
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Tagged salmon, smoking fish
Yesterday, the Kid, Hubs and I were running errands and picking on each other spending quality time together and began to discuss the following:
Which sip is the best one of an icy, cold glass of Coke?
Yes, we are that deep.
The Hubs told the Kid it was the last one, the one that has been lingering with the ice the longest.
I cannot believe he’s teasing her again, I thought to myself.
Next, he’ll tell her how much fun it is to paint the fence.
Then I realized he was serious.
The last sip? Furrealz?? Who is this person I married??
First off, I said, don’t you mean the first sip, since that’s the one with the most rum in it? (ba-da-ching!)
But, even if it is rum-free, still, it is the first sip that’s the best. Right?
All bubbly and fresh, not flat and watery and tasteless.
You’re with me on this, right?
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Seattle Center fountain
We have clouds and rain forecasted this week, but that just means we can reflect fondly on our sweltering, record-breaking hot days a week ago.
And love our clouds today.
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The hubs has a project, as usual. A painting-the-whole-house project.
Which naturally means I now have a hole in my bedroom wall. You follow that logic?
He stopped painting and claims our house must be two colors until he gets all the new windows in. Which might make sense if I knew anything about house projects I ever felt like agreeing with him.
Today he’s putting in a window, leftover from the replacing windows project of 1843, although this is not technically replacing a window. So, perhaps this is a separate create-a-window-where-there-never-was-a-window project also of 1843?
But do you notice anything about this photo? Like, he’s not there?
Right. He cut this hole first thing in the morning leaving time to be sure it’s in by bedtime this afternoon, and now is on the phone dealing with some work-related catastrophe.
I’m just praying he doesn’t have to leave town right away, too.
Leaving me with this engraved mosquito invitation called a hole.
Not to mention a two-toned house. No, not mentioning that.
At least, the house looks mostly done from the street.
And he does good work, of course.
UPDATE: Amazingly enough, he did it! The window was sealed by bedtime (before actually). I worry so needlessly….
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I just finished reading to the Kid the original version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which initially was entitled The Emerald City but the publishing industry had a superstition against using jewels in book titles in 1900–little factoid for ya, there).
It was a long journey, the reading of it, but interesting in terms of seeing what Hollywood’s version left out or changed (TONS).
Did you know the ruby slippers were SILVER? Costumer couldn’t find silver ones? Red just looks better on the big screen?
Like often happens with novels, the author here, L. Frank Baum, subtly included his own opinions and values here and there. Which is fine with me, future novelist that I am.
But an obvious one made me chuckle out loud.
When Oz leaves the Emerald City, he puts the Scarecrow in charge. The people of Oz like the Scarecrow and are proud he’s their new leader.
“For,” they said, “there is not another city in all the world that is ruled by a stuffed man.” And, so far as they knew, they were quite right.
Wonder who he was talking about? Could be any politician, actually.
The scarecrow may have been stuffed, but at least he had a brain. Can’t say that for all of ‘em.
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