New Year - Better Posting

Oh my gosh!!! I will soon be updating this a lot more often. Got a Xmas gift that will make it most easy to post. :)

Hope everyone is having a fabulous Holiday and Cheers to a fantastic New Year!

I think I might be so busy over the holidays, the next time I post will be 2010.

Watch the wonders of our cat

People often think this is not possible, but our cat actually likes to have his claws clipped!! Watch as Woody has his spa day:



In other news, this weekend we went on a behind the scenes tour of the MOCA museum. They really showed us everything including the permanent storage and the non-public library. Pretty cool. We also enjoyed lunch at Clifton's Cafeteria which was a strange place that has been open for lunch in downtown LA since the 30s.

Long Time been gone

Argh I know I have not been keeping up with updates lately...hence the reason I never joined facebook....I would never update.
Things have been pretty dull around the ole homestead. My parents came for a fast visit which was great and I miss them already. We are gearing up for a visit from Jon's brother tomorrow night.
I have been doing little homey things like baking bread and tonight I spent about an hour putting teak oil on one chair...yeah...one chair. Many small sections on that one chair.
I am not sure if it was the busy factor being away from the gym, or the fact that the hammock had been dried out in the sun for the last three years, but I heard a tiny rip rip ripping and found myself on the ground. :(Fourth of July was spent at the beach and then watching the fireworks from our friend's rooftop. We ended the evening with some sparklers.I think I will cap the evening with a lime fruit flo jo and call it a night. Hope all is well with everyone.

Anyone have apricot recipes?

Our first harvest from our apricot tree in our backyard. When we first moved in our landlord said that the tree might just be ornamental, but we tried one last week and they are really good. Now I am thinking either jam or crumble with these. I think I would need a few more for jam so it may have to be crumble. :)
This might entice me to set up some vegetables in the backyard as well. At the moment it is all landscaped, but if I decided to move one of the plants and maybe start some beans or something else, I do not think they would say no.
I also need to remember to start a friendship bread bag. A person at work requested one and I have not started it just yet. Maybe this evening would be a good time to do that. I have decided that most of the friendship bread should be completely given away so as not to temp me.

At this precise moment, I am trying to figure out if the neighbors out back (we share this lot with a garage that has living upstairs) are going away this weekend or if they are staying in town.....the reason being is that they have a granddaughter who likes to have parties while they are gone and she brings all sorts of unsavory characters around. Personally I think they are all pretty good kids, from good families, but who knows what kind of shenanigans they can get into. I think I am starting to sound like that old lady neighbor on Bewitched who always used to look through the curtains. Next thing you know I am going to start setting up neighborhood watches and take in all the stray cats in the area.

This weekend does not hold any huge events, which is pretty nice. Tonight I am thinking a low key dinner and movie.

Update on neighbor watch 09: the truck has moved, but the grandlady is still in the nest, repeat, still in the nest. Looks like it might be a full weekend at the ranch.

Oh, shout out to my sister....she just turned another year younger yesterday. :)