Our Smart Dog!

Dinner at the Oasis with Giselle

not gone

I'm not gone, I just haven't been posting ever since my Sprint pictures stopped posting.  When life makes it difficult for me to update here, well, I can take a hint.  I haven't given up and when Sprint pictures work again I'll be back with more adventures from our life.
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My First Tattoo!

It's only a henna one, not real ink, but it was fun and I think I'm going to do it again.  I like that it wore off just about the time that I got tired of it!

Bread Storage Wars

Giselle's Science Fair project for this year.  Not bad for her first one!

Small Appliance Death

Well, it took me 4 years to do it but I succeeded in killing another blender!  Yea me!  I bought the Krups blender back in June of 2008 and this morning it gave up.  Fortunately I have enough Green Juice made to last for 2 more days, albeit a little chunkier than I usually make it, so I've got some time to shop and ship.  Wish me luck.

"Bushfire" by Bindi Irwin - a book review by Paul

This book review is by my about-to-be 3rd-grade son who had to read this book for school in August of 2012.  Yes, I'm a mean homeschool teacher who assigns books and book reports all summer long.

Bushfire by Bindi Irwin

The book Bushfire by Bindi Irwin is about a group of people who have to help animals from a fire. The people in the story are Richard, he is a vet who is Rosie's dad. Bindi is the daughter of Steve Irwin and she owns the Australia Zoo. Rosie is Bindi's best friend.

At the start of the book, Bindi, her friend Rosie, and Rosie's dad Richard were hiking in the Australian mountains. They saw smoke in the distance so the rushed back home to help out at the animal hospital that Richard works at. Then they went to help out at the fire line. While at the fireline someone brought in a burn echidna and a burnt pregnant koala. The girls brought those two and other animals back to the hospital where they helped take care of them.

In the end, the fire got put out by rain. The momma koala died from her injuries but the baby survived and so did the echidna. Bindi and Rosie worked as hard as the grown-ups to save the animals. The animals were important to them so they were willing to work hard. Bushfire was a good book and I would like to read more of Bindi's Wildlife Adventures.

Farmers Market

We're home from the market and now to once again deal with trying to find a place for all of this:
2 dozen eggs
5 lbs cucumbers
5 lbs pipian squash
10 lbs heirloom Kellogg's Breakfast tomatoes
1 - 10 lb watermelon
10 lbs orange California Wonder peppers
5 lbs pears
5 lbs Juliette tomatoes
10 large onions
1 gallon of milk
and half a case of 2nds of heirloom tomatoes

I'll be saucing and canning the 2nds tomatoes just like last week.  I'll probably roast and can the peppers like I did back in 2008 - they go great with the jalapeno cream cheese from Full Quiver Farms.  And I'm going to cut and freeze the cucumbers to use in my green juice over the winter. So none of that needs to go in the fridge.

A dog and his 'dillo

Upside down dog of the day!

Green bean and onion fritata for dinner

Dinner with the family

Minifigs at Cheddar's

Dinner at the Texas Chili Parlor

Mini figs not included.

Birthday Doughnuts!

If you touch it, it's yours!

Way to go HEB!

HEB's house brand now has Texas Style Borracho Beans made with Shiner Bock!

Upside Down Dog

This time with a different friend.

Up-sidepdown Dog

And friend!

The Remains of the Day

Salt Lick on 1826

Up-side-down Dog

As soon as he realized that I had taken this picture he rolled over and went to bed. Goofy dog!

Now THAT'S a raspberry iced latte!!!

I hope it's still 4 shots of espresso not just 4 shots of raspberry syrup, which isn't really what I asked for!!