The weather has been so rainy and gloomy lately, that I needed something to brighten things up a bit.
So, I got to mixing, pouring, and really making a big ol’ mess in the kitchen. But, before we knew it we had these little lovelies.
Boy oh boy, did they make for a tasty dinner….treat!
And here it is now….a little over two weeks after we planted our seeds.
Our green beans are crazy huge already and our peas are doing well. It’s hard to see, but the big ol’ dirt area are our red bell peppers. They are just starting to grow. Now, hopefully the weather will cooperate and it won’t rain this weekend so we can get these guys in the ground. Crossing my fingers!Lately, I’ve been thinking about making a few changes here on the good ol’ blog. The biggest change I want to make is our blog address. When I created this blog I didn’t know what I was doing and I just made our address our first and last name. Whatever….it has worked for us. But now we’re thinking that it’s time to ditch the last name.
I’m not really sure what option is going to suit our needs the most. My goal is to not have our blog show up if someone were to google our names. What’s the best way to do that? Do I start over completely with a brand spankin’ new blog? Do I import my blog to a new address? This option would allow me to move all my blog posts to the new blog(but does that solve my google problem?) Have you done anything like this? Any opinions…advice…..anything? Help!
And most importantly……I need to come up with a new blog address. Talk about pressure.
I went to Costco today. I was just there last week, but I needed just a couple of things. Costco can be a dangerous store for me. There’s just something so fun about buying things in crazy huge amounts. I did really good today and only bought what I went there for.
Well, Mark got a phone call today. From the local police station.
Porter was in jail.
So he went down there, paid the fine, and sprung Porter out of the clinker.
Recon(our lab) was literally jumping up to see him. I think he was pretty happy to have his buddy back. I’m really happy that he’s safe and home too.
Dumb dog.
Porter ran away again this afternoon.
You might not be too surprised to hear this because he tends to do this every chance he gets. Usually we find him. Sometimes it takes more work and time to find him, but we always did. Today was different. We searched for him for almost an hour with no luck. We even had a neighbor that we had never met before hop in his car and help look for him too. That is probably one of the nicest things a complete stranger has ever done for us.
Wherever he is, whatever he’s doing I do hope he’s ok. As much as he drives me crazy, I’ve gotten kind of used to having him around.
You’ll never guess what happened at 6:45 this morning.
It snowed.
It wasn’t a heavy snow. It didn’t stick or anything. It was just a little flurry. But it was still snow.
How was I aware that it was snowing at that awful hour in the morning? Well, I was up walking with some friends. That’s right. I went walking this morning. At the butt crack of dawn. In the snow. Who the heck am I?
If you know me well, you will know that I love me my sleep. I’m not a morning person. In fact, I hate waking up early. Something else I kind of hate….exercising. I really want to get better about exercising, and working out at home by myself just wasn’t working really well. It is just too easy for me to find other things I would rather do.
So, I made a change. A really hard change. I’m meeting up with 2-3 other people every weekday morning by 6:30. We walk a big 3 mile loop and we’re done and I’m home by 7:15. It’s actually been pretty fun and the time goes by so fast since we visit the whole time.
Maybe it won’t be so bad. Maybe I’ll get used to waking up when I think all normal people should be asleep. Or maybe, when my alarm goes off at 6:00 tomorrow morning….I’ll wonder what on earth I was thinking when I committed to this.
Saturday was the kind of day that you dream of and live for when you live in Oregon.
It was actually sunny. And warm.
In the six or so years we lived in Salem, I never once went to the capital building. I’d drive by it every once and a while, but that’s about it. We took advantage
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It was the perfect day for my first visit there. Sitting out in the sun was so refreshing. It made my day. If only the good weather would stick around a while longer. I sure wouldn’t mind.
You know what else I wouldn’t mind? I totally wouldn’t mind winning this cool giveaway! She’s celebrating her 1000th post. How amazing is that?! My little blog can hardly wrap it’s head around the thought. So check it out, because if I can’t win, I want you to win.
Except I really want to win.
You know how on tv you see people who set up thousands of dominos in some crazy cool pattern and then knock them all down? I would never want to be the person to set them all up, but I wouldn’t mind being the person to knock over that first domino.
So, Mark emailed me this video yesterday. It kind of reminds me of knocking down all the dominos, but much more cool.
I don’t know who thinks up stuff like this, but they must be a smarty pants. And really, really patient.
I’ve heard so much about it. Everyone seems to love it. So, how on earth did Mark and I not ever try this until last night? 
Have you had Nutella? What’s your favorite way to use it?
