When Jess got back from her trip to Kentucky Lake for her friend Jamie's wedding, I got miserably sick. I'd had a bbq at the house earlier that night, and woke up at 3am nauseous, with an incredible headache. I thought for sure I'd poisoned all my guests with some off meat or something, and came to find out that it wasn't the case. I probably got it from the neighbors who had picked up a 24 our flu bug from their kid.
Jess spent the day nursing me back to health when I returned home from work after just an hour and a half at the office. Her tending to me in bed for a full day started our week in a very "homey" and comfy way. When I was feeling better Jess made me pancakes with bananas and walnuts. She doesn't like pancakes, and I can't remember her ever making them for me before, which made them were extra special. She even tried to make one really big one!
I think we got a little more inspired when we finally got a rain storm. We woke up on Thursday night to thunder!!! I went out to look, and sure enough the water was dumping out of the sky. We were so excited about it that we went outside and danced in the next rain storm on Saturday night.
The weekend continued. The cats have fleas. We've been locking them out of our bedroom and treating them with the "spot" stuff on their necks, but it hasn't been working too well. Not having a good vacuum probably isn't helping. We got this Dirt Devil "stick" vacuum off Craigslist a few months ago, and it sucks (a little) and otherwise doesn't do much of anything but make a LOT of noise.
I had the day off on Monday (for Admissions Day, the day California was admitted to the Union in 1850 when we'd killed-off or otherwise suppressed the Mexicans and Native Americans), and decided what better way to celebrate then to go to Sears to get a decent vacuum. I checked Consumer Reports and found the best one for pet hair, which happened to be on sale at Sears. (Oddly enough, Consumer Reports also said this Dirt Devil piece of $#!* was the best in its class for pet fur... Luckily, they didn't screw up on this suggestion). We got a whole new cat from the fur it collected (see the video below). I treated the carpets with flea powder while I was at it too.
And then there's the gas grill. We got it a couple of weeks ago on sale for 200 bucks! It's GREAT! Has a rotisserie and EVERYTHING! I've got this awesome recipe for rotisserie chicken. And I've made a couple other things too (the video shows one of my special recipes). Look for more meaty installments on the blog down the road...
So now I'm home alone again for a few days while Jess is in Canada visiting a client. I have yet another project up my sleeve... one involving apples and electric motors. More on that later, but for now, here's a video of highlights from this entry... Enjoy!
Jess spent the day nursing me back to health when I returned home from work after just an hour and a half at the office. Her tending to me in bed for a full day started our week in a very "homey" and comfy way. When I was feeling better Jess made me pancakes with bananas and walnuts. She doesn't like pancakes, and I can't remember her ever making them for me before, which made them were extra special. She even tried to make one really big one!
I think we got a little more inspired when we finally got a rain storm. We woke up on Thursday night to thunder!!! I went out to look, and sure enough the water was dumping out of the sky. We were so excited about it that we went outside and danced in the next rain storm on Saturday night.
The weekend continued. The cats have fleas. We've been locking them out of our bedroom and treating them with the "spot" stuff on their necks, but it hasn't been working too well. Not having a good vacuum probably isn't helping. We got this Dirt Devil "stick" vacuum off Craigslist a few months ago, and it sucks (a little) and otherwise doesn't do much of anything but make a LOT of noise.
I had the day off on Monday (for Admissions Day, the day California was admitted to the Union in 1850 when we'd killed-off or otherwise suppressed the Mexicans and Native Americans), and decided what better way to celebrate then to go to Sears to get a decent vacuum. I checked Consumer Reports and found the best one for pet hair, which happened to be on sale at Sears. (Oddly enough, Consumer Reports also said this Dirt Devil piece of $#!* was the best in its class for pet fur... Luckily, they didn't screw up on this suggestion). We got a whole new cat from the fur it collected (see the video below). I treated the carpets with flea powder while I was at it too.
And then there's the gas grill. We got it a couple of weeks ago on sale for 200 bucks! It's GREAT! Has a rotisserie and EVERYTHING! I've got this awesome recipe for rotisserie chicken. And I've made a couple other things too (the video shows one of my special recipes). Look for more meaty installments on the blog down the road...
So now I'm home alone again for a few days while Jess is in Canada visiting a client. I have yet another project up my sleeve... one involving apples and electric motors. More on that later, but for now, here's a video of highlights from this entry... Enjoy!
You two are hilarious with your excitement about rain. Then again, I feel the same way out here in Montana.
ReplyDeleteWe could use a good vacuum cleaner as well, since we have cat hair in places you can't imagine. . . but we only have the 1 little shedding furball.