I don’t usually like posting pictures of myself, but I’ve always wanted a picture of Wolf and me…and Dave caught this one last night

He is so darn cute!!!

Friday: The weekend started off with a lobster dinner…they were $3.99/pound at Market Basket and wth! Lobster cheaper than steak, we’ll take a few!

Saturday: Didn’t hear Dave get up at 6 to go to his daughter’s house to get Ralphy. He hung out there awhile so I could have some quiet before the storm (that is Ralphy lol).

I did two loads of laundry, walked and fed the dog, relaxed with a combo of FB, email & the book I’m reading (Two Coots in a Canoe) and fixed myself a breakfast of leftovers (cold corn off the cob, bbq chicken, cherry tomatoes, radishes with a bit of olive oil, balsamic vinegar & salt). Just as I sat down to eat it, Dave & Ralphy came home. Dave asked me to fix Ralphy something to eat (my turn now lol) but he said “he had food at home and didn’t want anything (this was a theme all day). I had boiled some eggs that morning and noticed one of them had not only cracked but the end of the shell had popped off. I showed it to Ralphy, he giggled and I had him touch it which made him giggle even more. Then he asked if he could taste it, sure! He liked it, so that was his breakfast (with ketchup on top, of course). Funny how those things work out!

Then Ralphy and I went to my boss’s house, she was having a yard sale (Dave went to practice with his brother and some other guys…turned out they had a great time and stayed for almost 5 hours, the brat LOL). Ralphy had the time of his life at her house…her grandson was there, whom Ralphy had met once before at a local park. They played with remote control cars, ran through a sprinkler, and shot baskets (both of them are obsessed with basketball).

While I was there, I got stung by a yellow jacket (there is a nest in the siding of my boss’s house, I am to remind her to CALL THE EXTERMINATOR on Monday). This ruined my string of only getting stung once in my life (I was 3 the first time, I loved grasshoppers and ooh look, there’s one on the stairs, let’s play with it…OUCH! Wrong bug…it was a wasp.) My screams of terror at this yellow jacket on my foot alarmed, then amused the kids. My boss, after apologizing all over the place, laughed and said she’d never seen me move so fast Anyway, we were there for about 4 hours and I was on my feet for a good portion of that time helping the kids shoot baskets.

Came home and fed the snapping turtles down by the slowly dwindling pond.

After that, we crashed for a bit in the AC watching a nature show.

Dave’s older grandson called, he’d just come home from bagging at the local grocery store and said he was bored (when he said that, I could hear my Nana’s voice in my head, telling me, when I once told her I was bored, if you’re bored, you’re boring, and I kept it in my head), so I picked him up and we hung out a bit more til Dave got home, then we descended upon my friend Michelle and went to dinner at a diner near her home and had a great time.

Poor Ralphy had the poops twice (post dinner pre-and during ice cream eating) (he didn’t have ice cream. I did. Ever try to wipe a kid’s butt holding a cone in one hand in a port-a-potty? YUCK!!!) (too much apple juice was the cause, Melissa said). After the second time he said that poop was REALLY loud and I laughed to myself

not poop, but a yummy coffee soft serve

When Dave dropped me off at home, then left to take the kids home, I hopped in bed, read for exactly a millisecond, then I was OUT til 630 the next morning.

Sunday: Same as Saturday, except I had two boiled eggs and watermelon for breakfast.

Dave brought Ralphy over, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts for a iced coffee and a couple munchkins for Ralphy, who was surprised to see there was jelly in the middle!

Then we headed to a nearby lake and did some kayaking, some paddle boating, some fishing (Dave) and more reading (me).

Both of us were tired after that, so we stopped at McDonald’s (don’t judge lol) on the way home and got takeout which we ate at a local water park/playground, so Ralphy could have some more fun. I gotta say, he was a good boy and ate his whole meal, watching the kids play in the water and giggling excitedly from time to time. Adorable! Saw a shiba at the park, too.

How was your weekend?

Recently I took Wolf for a long walk through the woods and around the neighborhood. While walking, I was thinking about why we hold on to the harsh things people say to us and reflect back on them…why don’t we, instead, hold on the the loving things people say and reflect back on them? I’m going to give it a try!

Was going through my Flickr account today looking for a photo when I came across these two shots:

Back when Max was still with us…and could walk! What a difference a year makes. Miss you, Maxiepad!

Dave is a sun worshipper…yes, yes, I know. Anyway, he still had a tan line in November, which is saying something for Massachusetts!

How are you doing?

 
Recently, Dave and I have been going to the same Chinese place for, of all things, their  sushi bar.  It’s one of those all-you-can-eat buffet places, and at first my sushi snobbishness got in the way.  But last Thursday (usually we go on Fridays, but we were going to a concert that day) I finally gave it a chance, and oh boy!  The sushi chef made me some salmon and tuna nigiri to order and it was as fresh and delicious as the nigiri I’d gotten at Whole Foods during the week…and way less expensive.
 
Friday night, Dave and I met Andrea and Bill at Bull Run in Shirley to see the still amazing Johnny Winter.  If you go see him…BRING EAR PLUGS!  Cause, apparently…JOHNNY LIKES IT LOUD!  SO loud, in fact, that to me it sounded distorted.  So I stuck my fingers in my ears…lo and behold, I could hear him sing and play clearly!   That night was pretty foggy and on the way there, I almost hit a cat that decided to do a U-turn in the road.  I was a bit stressed when I got there, and without me saying it, Andrea noticed and just gave me a hug.  It helped!
 
This weekend, we were supposed to watch Dave’s grandsons, but because the younger one was sick, Dave went over there by himself since we didn’t want me exposed to more germs and getting sick again.  So Saturday, Wolf and I took a ride to the beach!  It was a warm-ish (for here) day.  Wolf loved it!  Every time he sees a mussel shell, he tries to bury it in the sand.  Dig, dig, dig, I tell him!  I stopped for a slice of pizza afterwards and parked nearby where the old Frolics used to be.  Many many memories of concerts at that place in my 20s.  I also cleaned the condo, vacuumed and hand washed the floors and did some rearranging.
 
Sunday, I was going to clean and organize more, but … the best of intentions and all that.  I rented the movie, The Help and enjoyed the heck out of it.  Made some buttermilk and cornmeal waffles and buttermilk chicken for dinner.  Both were delicious!  Click on the link for the recipe, if you’re so inclined.  I also made a big pot of 15 bean soup, which I ladled into pint mason jars for my lunch next week (and extra to share with a friend at work who likes my cooking). 
 
And that was about it!
 
How was your weekend?
 

A picture that makes you laugh

Well, this picture USED to make me smile, but now all I can picture is those teeth ripping part of Max’s ear off! Ooooh, I was so mad at Wolf this past Saturday!!!

Max with his beautiful ears

Max with the tip bitten off

Max is feeling much better now and his ear is healing, and apparently is a bitch itchy, since he’s taken to rubbing it on a rough towel. An old friend Julie suggested I change Max’s name to “Notch” or “Tippy”, and Wolf’s to “Tyson”