The Moussaka was a raging success! Oh so tasty. And it tends to get better as the days go on which always amazes me, but it seems to happen with most saucy type things like this. Anyway - I didn't drop it, even though it was probably just as heavy as the previously dropped one. The secret is oven mitts! Not tea towels, which was my previously preferred method of removing steaming hot fare from the oven. Check out my recipe & some pics here.
Yesterday Mark & I took the babies out for a stroll in the evening sun. It was gorgeous, we took them up to the park and let them off the lead for a run. They bolted around like maniacs, and kept eying people off as if they were going to eat them (this was Arnie mainly, Jeff was happy barrelling after the ball Mark & I were throwing for him). Arnie can't seem to get used to walking properly on the lead. He pulls, veers of in random directions and just generally works his hardest to annoy the cr@p out of Mark. Jeff on the other hand, hates walking on grass. I know! He's a DOG!! It's because there seem to be a lot of bindis at the moment, and they stick into his little paws. When we get off a bindi patch, I bend down and remove them all from his paws, but the poor bugger is scarred from the pokey experience.
Not long now and Mark & I will be off and away to Vanuatu!! I can't wait. We've discussed doing the Advanced Open Water PADI course as we are both Open Water divers who never do anything with it - we figure we might as well take the chance we've got to refresh and do some diving! I'm really excited - diving still scares me so I can't wait to do it and work my way towards not being terrified!
I'm off to see the Oral surgeon at lunch time today. I've got this ridiculous looking fat lip that's been there for about a month now. It was MASSIVE at one stage and didn't appear to be getting any better, but just as my appointment rolls around, it goes down and is now not even nearly as offensive as it was for the past 4 weeks.
- B xx
Monday, October 25, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Sunday 24 October 2010
What a miserable day weather-wise!! We had gorgeous sun yesterday, I got out in the yard in the morning to do some tidying up - I had mown the lawn on Friday afternoon, and wanted to finish off the edges. But a fight with the whipper snipper ensued, and I've only been able to complete about 1/4 of the job. We have 3 whipper snippers. One is battery powered, and cuts about 3 blades of grass before it's out of juice. One is electric, and once the line that cuts the grass has gone it won't come out again and you've got the take the whole thing apart, feed it through manually and then keep snipping. The third one is petrol powered, but can't be started because my Dad wrenched the rip cord out once when he was feuding with it. To be fair, the electric and petrol ones were both given to us by my parents because when they break one, they simply buy another. Mark is very handy and plans to fix the broken rip cord, and we're going out today to buy something to fix the feeding problem too. Then hopefully we can do the edges together and complete the job in half the time.
When I was doing my 3 minutes of edging, Jeff took a dislike to the whipper snipper (battery powered). He decided firstly to try and bite it. Obviously it came as quite an offensive shock to him to almost have his nose removed by this noisy apparatus. So then, much to my delight, he decided to bark at it! Jeff almost NEVER barks. He can bark, as we discovered on a puppy-play date with my brother's pooches a few weeks ago. He just chooses not to - nothing really excites him enough to warrant a woof. But he barked and barked and barked at the whipper snipper!! I like it when he woofs because I feel like he's expressing himself. I think Mark thinks I'm a bit mental for thinking this.
I've revived my garden! Check out some pics and details about it here. I'm really happy, gardening makes me feel calm and I love being amongst all the green. I'm excited about possibly growing with my own hands food that we can eat!! I grew a million tomatoes about 2 years ago, and I've got those in again and some other stuff - chilli, capsicum, lettuce etc.
Because it's such a horrid rainy day, we've let the dogs be inside since this morning. Jeff curled himself up into a little ball so I covered them with a blanket. They are such big babies, I love them!! Arnie hasn't moved since I covered them over, he's all snuggled in the blankie and lovin' it.
I'm going to retry the ill-fated Moussaka today. Wish me luck.
- B xxx
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Friday 22 October 2010
Last night when I got home I went out into the backyard to see the pooches. Arnie was waiting at the door to greet me - cute little head peering up, waiting for a pat. But Jeff was nowhere to be seen! I called out, "Black dog!" as I often call him, but he didn't come. I left the house to search for him and walked up the street calling his name for a while until I heard Mark shout my name. So I went back and Jeff was wagging his whole self waiting for me at the door! When I asked Mark where he was, he said he'd accidently locked him in the garage 2 hours earlier!!
I expected to find my motorbike (oh yes, forgot to mention...I bought a motorbike!) torn to shreds and all sorts of other chaos - but nothing. Li'l Jeff must've just curled up and had a sleep!!
I expected to find my motorbike (oh yes, forgot to mention...I bought a motorbike!) torn to shreds and all sorts of other chaos - but nothing. Li'l Jeff must've just curled up and had a sleep!!
Oh about the motorbike - it's a lime green Kawasaki Ninja. It was in pretty bad shape when I got it, and Mark did loads of work on restoring it to get it ready for rego. A few weeks ago he rode it down and got it all registered, so now it is sitting waiting in the garage for me to...ummm... ride it. I need to get my licence and I really MUST stop putting off practising!! I am thinking I might just book the two day course and force myself to learn to balance in time. Since I only learnt to ride a bicycle a few months ago, riding a motorcycle is quite a step up you see.
- B xx
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
Oh so much has happened!! Blogging is hard to keep up with, I really must be more diligent!!
Jeff turned 1 at the weekend! I got him and his little brother Arnie MASSIVE bones to celebrate. They walked around looking like furry little barrels with legs for 3 days afterwards and needed about 1/2 their normal amount of food because they were still digesting these ridiculously large bones.
Mark and I have been moving towards a Primal lifestyle. I'm starting another blog to track our progress, challenges and general lamenting of the absence of all things sweet and processed in our diets. Actually, to be fair, our transition so far has been pretty positive. Luckily it hasn't been Easter Show time and I haven't desperately wanted that big bag of fairy floss. Check out my new blog here: A Primal Life: Our Story.
On Tuesday this week I was in hospital with the worst tummy pains I've ever had. Mark was a gem, sat beside me the whole day while they poked and prodded me, wheeled me off for this or that test. Now he's contracted some weird Himalayan Nose virus (he's got a cold...) from his time keeping me company in the emergency room. I was there from 7am to 9pm, and they still don't know what was wrong with me. I'm becoming more and more suspicious of doctors and medicine in general. I've spent heaps of money on specialists and tests, missed work for this or that and they still can't work out what keep going wrong in my belly. I had been on a great run though, and then had quite a lot of KFC - so perhaps Primal living is the way to go for me.
Soon Mark and I are going to Vanuatu for a very looked-forward-to break. Mark hasn't had a proper holiday in about 5 years (apart from the 4 days we spent in the retirement village that is Forster in June...) so we are looking forward to getting some sun, relaxing and coming back refreshed. Hoping to do some diving while we are there too.
That's the shortened version of debauched for now. There is probably loads of stuff I could moan about but so much has been happening that it is all I can do to just stay above water!! Oh oh oh, one awesome thing - my Aunt wanted to get rid of some Tupperware containers she had, they were collapsible and in OK condition but didn't fold out all the way any more. I called Tupperware and asked for them to be replaced and they gave me brand newies!!
Oh also, I rescued my plant from my Bondi days from the clutches of the plant killer that is my mother. I can't believe how little water she must have been giving them!! The frangipani has NO leaves at all yet!! They are now safely on my front porch where she can't harm them any more, and where the dogs can't eat/knock over/dig/gratuitously tear to shreds/wee on them.
- B xx
Jeff turned 1 at the weekend! I got him and his little brother Arnie MASSIVE bones to celebrate. They walked around looking like furry little barrels with legs for 3 days afterwards and needed about 1/2 their normal amount of food because they were still digesting these ridiculously large bones.
Mark and I have been moving towards a Primal lifestyle. I'm starting another blog to track our progress, challenges and general lamenting of the absence of all things sweet and processed in our diets. Actually, to be fair, our transition so far has been pretty positive. Luckily it hasn't been Easter Show time and I haven't desperately wanted that big bag of fairy floss. Check out my new blog here: A Primal Life: Our Story.
On Tuesday this week I was in hospital with the worst tummy pains I've ever had. Mark was a gem, sat beside me the whole day while they poked and prodded me, wheeled me off for this or that test. Now he's contracted some weird Himalayan Nose virus (he's got a cold...) from his time keeping me company in the emergency room. I was there from 7am to 9pm, and they still don't know what was wrong with me. I'm becoming more and more suspicious of doctors and medicine in general. I've spent heaps of money on specialists and tests, missed work for this or that and they still can't work out what keep going wrong in my belly. I had been on a great run though, and then had quite a lot of KFC - so perhaps Primal living is the way to go for me.
Soon Mark and I are going to Vanuatu for a very looked-forward-to break. Mark hasn't had a proper holiday in about 5 years (apart from the 4 days we spent in the retirement village that is Forster in June...) so we are looking forward to getting some sun, relaxing and coming back refreshed. Hoping to do some diving while we are there too.
That's the shortened version of debauched for now. There is probably loads of stuff I could moan about but so much has been happening that it is all I can do to just stay above water!! Oh oh oh, one awesome thing - my Aunt wanted to get rid of some Tupperware containers she had, they were collapsible and in OK condition but didn't fold out all the way any more. I called Tupperware and asked for them to be replaced and they gave me brand newies!!
Oh also, I rescued my plant from my Bondi days from the clutches of the plant killer that is my mother. I can't believe how little water she must have been giving them!! The frangipani has NO leaves at all yet!! They are now safely on my front porch where she can't harm them any more, and where the dogs can't eat/knock over/dig/gratuitously tear to shreds/wee on them.
- B xx
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