Posts from June 2014

Maybe I would like it I'd it if I were a middle aged suburban woman. A lot of the stuff is the trinkets about wine and their dogs I feel like old people just fill their houses with.

It wasn't too hot though, and I got to walk around with @paul. The people watching was interesting too - it's the intersection of a lot of different groups of people in one place.

At work today, I had to go out in a boat with some of my coworkers and inspect the Black Rock Canal park dock. It's so decayed - you can poke through the webs and flanges of the steel beams with your finger. I'd almost be scared to go underneath with the boat but it's stood for this long. Good thing it is closed.

We didn't have the right ingredients to make a curry with paneer, so instead @terry and I made a Tricolor Pulao. It was super simple - just cook some vegetables with cumin, chili powder and some other spices, and then add the rice to cook with the vegetables. It turned out okay, but adding habanero salsa added enough spice.

Yesterday @terry, @paul and I went down after the pouring stopped to go to the first square of the year. Shaggy was playing - not only was he really bad (half the songs were him talking over other top 40 songs), he thought he was in Albany. The music might have been better after but we left to make dinner.

Another month, another bierklub. This month had a bunch of pale ales, and a few IPAs. The weirdest was probably a pineapple beer - it was so sweet and light it might as well have been a wine cooler. After, we got back and played bocce (better than board games to me).

Last night we headed over to my parents' for Daniel's 18th birthday. It was actually on June 1st, but they were in NYC for the Colbert Report and Daily Show that weekend.

My mom made kebobs, quinoa and fruit salad, stuffed shells, and then we had three different desserts. I tried to make goat cheese brownies, but the goat cheese I bought had thyme in it. Instead, I just made regular ones.


The grass I planted last year is sort of alive!


Nerd

Der beste Hund





Cake - I wish I recorded it because birthday cake and candles makes Midnight bark along to "happy birthday"

Basra is a lot smarter than you'd think. I came home to find that he has moved the canoe right up against the wood barrier and started banging it open. Soon enough he'll be able to climb out if we don't reinforce it - he can't be tamed.


He's also a huge bastard. He ripped open this bag of wood chips and spread it all over the yard.

Last night, @terry and I made burritos again, and had dinner with @heidi, @Dianne and @YesThatCasey. They turned out even better than last time I think - I really need to switch my protein source to more beans.







In the morning, Terry showed me how to make his cheesy eggs.

Saturday night after dinner, we headed out with @mike, Mickey, and @flacidness. We went to Q and Cathode - both were kind of lame, but I still had fun anyone. Mike put on a fashion show at Cathode.




Sassmaster

Model shot - watch out @flacidness


Later we went home and hung out with Brandon and Ben, the Block Club guys. It ended up with a rooftop sunrise. Not sure how it got that late that fast. @terry and I had a interesting time up there though.

After gardening all morning and afternoon, we headed up to Fort Erie to cool off at Windmill Point. The weather was perfect for it (minus the swarms of bugs on the way back).


Riding over to Canada - the construction closed the one sidewalk, it was nice to see the view on the other side
@paul wanted to stop and swim at this beach on the bike path. Until we walked down and smelled this water

This ultra modern house was being constructed in Ft. Erie. It has a cantilevered second floor jutting out towards the lake.

The water was a mix of warm and cold, but very clean.

@terry chasing the shade

Paul warming up
I think the best view of Buffalo is from Fort Erie. It looks so much more dense and tree-d than it actually is.