What is your favorite spice to cook with and why? What do you make a lot with that spice, and what is the dish that seemes the 'oddest' to use that spice in where it worked really well ( Read more... )

Having quit the job that took most of my time has been very interesting. Having so much more free time is exciting. I've been fussing my house together, playing with my animals and reading a lot ( Read more... )

So money has been short and will continue to be short for a while so I'm delving back into cooking a lot. I realize that I've missed it quite a bit. It fills me with Content. Pun intended ( Read more... )

Today was an amazing day for Ariel and animals. This morning I went to do a couple of cat visits for my pet sitting work and at the first place I found some blood and tufts of fur under the dining room table. The cats were nowhere to be seen, but for these cats this is normal. Blood, on the other hand, is not normal. No good ( Read more... )

I took Layla down to San Diego this weekend. My family houses are dog friendly. My Mama got a new puppy, a little (5 lbs right now) black miniture poodle boy, Piper. When Layla and Piper first met he was a bit scared of her cuz she's so big but by the end of the weekend he was jumping all over her and pawing at her and playing tug! She could have ( Read more... )

Remind me that I need to make a Layla Post. She deserves a post all her own. She is the best dog.

This weekend I went down to San Diego to have Seder with my family. As usual there were 12 at dinner. One person couldn't make it so it was smaller than usual. But it was still fun and choatic and more fun. Oliver was there, he is part of our family now weather he likes it or not. Though I think he does like it ( Read more... )

Such that it doesn't seem that my life is only drama filled I'm gonna post some random stuff ( Read more... )

So I finally found a tenant for Bag End! We sign paper work on Sunday and I hand over the key. Then I am free from that place! Well, at least until mid July when I have to make sure all is well in thew house and that the sub-letters didn't damage a bunch of stuff. I can't really explain how happy this makes me. I feel like a huge weight has been ( Read more... )

I can't wait to get out of this house. I found anothr Creepy Letter. This bring my Creepy Letter count to 5. I wonder how many more I'm gonna get before I'm completly moved? Wanna make a guess ( Read more... )