Not that my identity has ever been too mysterious on here, but with my new married name has come a new, super web site

Thanks to Paul's API system, I can pull in content from my journal here directly to my site. For those of you who have other web domains and a willingness to muck around with some PHP, it's a great way to spruce up your site.

Found on BuffaloPundit

This clip from youtube is a lesson in how not to act in a legal deposition.

Ever wondered what happens when you combine Diet Coke and Mentos?


In other news, we have our sailboat set up in our slip. We had a very nice sail out past the breakwall on Sunday night with some good friends, and another last night, just taking it out for a spin with the jib sail.
Abby gets nervous walking on the docks, but seems very much at ease when on the boat. She has a tendancy to climb up in my lap while I'm at the tiller.

I attacked my dog with scissors last night. The temperature in our apartment crept past 91, and to see the poor girl panting in front of our lone fan (the other air conditioners are still in the basement) was just too much. So, I chopped her locks and she now looks like an oversized puppy. I might have gone too far with my trimming, but as I tell myself whenever I get a bad haircut, it will always grow back.

Anyway, my father-in-law has subscribed me to Mother Earth News for a few years now, and this month's edition includes an article on organic pet foods. Considering that my dog has been known to eat sticks, grass, dead (?) creatures and her own vomit, worrying about the quality of her diet shouldn't be an issue. However, adding some "healthier" brands of food into her meals, along with all the exercise she gets, should insure that she'll be healthy and happy for a long time.

Here are links from the article to hippie dog foods.

Canidae
Natura Pet
Halo Pets
Nature's Variety
Newman's Own
Petguard
Pet Promise
Solid Gold
OMH Pet

And here's a recipe for a regular meal, also from the magazine:
3 cups cooked oatmeal or cream of wheat
2 cups cooked ground beef
2 tbsp plain yogurt
1 small apple, chopped or sliced into small pieces. Mix and serve at room temp.
(I would cut this in half for my dog to see how she handles it; the vet recommended for her size, she should eat about 3-3/12 cups a day.)

And a link to my recipe for treats

And so my dog isn't the only thing I write about tonight, go Sabres.

In the past week, I traveled to Europe for the first of hopefully several times. We spent a week in Ireland, scurrying to Northern Ireland for a few days in the middle. We saw coasts and hills, ate huge breakfasts, met interesting people, and had a blast shopping in their grocery stores. After 1500 km., dozens of hair-raising, stomach-churning and nail-biting blind curves, 5 B&Bs, and thousands of pictures, my new husband and I have made it back to the States safe and sound.
I'll be posting the best of our Ireland pictures to my flickr account as soon as we unpack our bags, send off the thank you notes, and reunite with the puppy.