01/26/11 10:18 - 28.ºF - ID#53500

Skye's blanket

My friend Jennie is in the process of adopting a beautiful baby girl and I'm going to the baby shower saturday. It seems unlikely that I'll manage to finish the afghan by then. :-( I have the middles done (five strips) and one round on all, plus two more rounds on one, leaving eight more rounds plus stitching them together and edging everything.The yarn isn't as awesome as Bodhi's last year, (e:heidi,51217) but it's very pretty. Yarn: Plymoth yarn encore 0450 & encore colorspun 7713. I got it at a shop in Snyder, Have Ewe Any Wool? Yarn Shop

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Category: pets

01/24/11 06:47 - 19.ºF - ID#53490

Cat on turtle

I don't remember ever seeing china on nisha's turtle, but she sure is cute!

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: friends

01/23/11 09:21 - -1.ºF - ID#53486

No cheating ;-)

Qwirkle with 4! 204, 82,175, 170

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Category: friends

01/18/11 06:58 - 37.ºF - ID#53454

Stupid girl party

Married straight women with kids love to have these stupid parties (variations on the classic tupperware party). This time it's purses and jewelry. Tacky gaudy jewelry. Purses? Ew. How to torture a heidi. However, Jill's new addition is gorgeous. Kelly & i introduced her to ikea :-)

Her husband found this awesome vintage phone booth. It functions as their home phone. The light turns on when you close the door.

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Category: friends

01/16/11 03:31 - 22.ºF - ID#53447

An even awesomer game of qwirkle

Close to maximum efficiency. Final score was within 2 points for two players.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: pets

01/15/11 09:46 - 24.ºF - ID#53443

Eating habits of the picky poodle

Nisha likes Kibbles & Bits, but only the bits. She'll leave the kibbles in her bowl until she gets _really_ hungry. This is like time lapse photography of her food dish.

Day 1 before feeding

Full bowl

Day 2

tinypliny writes at 02:48:48 01/21/11 - Comment #60276: Hilarious - what is the composition difference between the things she eats and the things she leaves out?

lauren writes at 09:56:41 01/19/11 - Comment #60249: This is too funny, because Ralphie does a very similar thing, except we feed him with this little ball that is hollow in the middle. You put the food in the ball and has to push it around for the food to come out, except he eats all the light brown food and doesn't like the darker stuff, which we think is harder for him to chew on, so there are little black food particles all over my house that he won't eat!

heidi writes at 02:38:03 01/16/11 - Comment #60241: (e:libertad) - I got her kibbles & bits because my aunt had it for her dog and Nisha liked it -I hadn't thought very hard about it because Nisha's not with me much, but yeah, I'm going to get her some good food. I recently switched China Cat's food to something much higher quality and she loves the food, her coat is gorgeous, she lost a little weight, and she's got much fewer hairballs. At A's, Nisha just gets whatever the household buys. A's dog is large so they go through food very quickly.

paul writes at 02:26:03 01/16/11 - Comment #60240: The tortoise used to be like that but now that he is older he is less picky. That and for the last year I started mushing all his food together.

libertad writes at 09:35:45 01/16/11 - Comment #60234: I loved their old commercial, just loved it. I feel like I wrote about it before but I can't remember. :::link:::

Won't she eat any other kind of food? The first two ingredients are corn and soybean meal. An animal protein should be the first ingredient as dogs are primarily carnivorous. There are lots of very decent foods out there that don't necessarily cost a lot. PETsMART has a brand of their own (I hate them) that has corn in their food but it follows chicken, chicken meal and brown rice. :::link:::

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Category: friends

01/14/11 10:42 - 22.ºF - ID#53437

Qwirkle

A particularly awesome game of qwirkle last week... Three ocd-leaning folks and one chaotic neutral.

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Category: weather

01/14/11 10:38 - 22.ºF - ID#53436

Best snow removal

Snow!

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 01/14/11 11:00

Category: taxes

01/14/11 08:40 - 23.ºF - ID#53435

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