Today is an auspicious occasion in our house: It’s Patsy Marie’s fourth birthday!
So she and Daisy Mayhem shall both have bacon cake, which is a can of wet dog food layered with gravy and bacon slices:
Sorry to show you such a disgusting concoction at breakfast time. If the rain holds off, I plan to take the mutts to the beach for a walk.
Later on, I’m going to cook a tray of eggplant parmesan using the eggplants Hubby grew in his garden for that express purpose. What are y’all up to today?
Phylllis
Day trip to Aiken, SC–one of our favorite places-for lunch, a few goodies from Fresh Market, and maybe some looky lou eyeballing of potential retirement neighborhoods.
Betty Cracker
@Phylllis: I know Aiken! Used to have an elderly cousin there (first cousin, thrice removed, I think) whom my grandmother would always drag us to visit! It’s a pretty town.
Mustang Bobby
It’s finally stopped raining in South Florida after getting up to 15″ in some places (according to the Miami Herald).
Off to FedEx Kinko’s to get copies of my new collection of nine short plays made in time for next week’s CityWrights playwriting conference. Yeah, when it comes to my own work, I’m a shameless self-promoter. Thanks for noticing.
Kay
I love that she has two names, Betty.
AdamK
Coincidentally, I just had a breakfast of wet dog food covered with eggplant! Small world!
Phylllis
@Betty Cracker: It has a particular charm all of its own. Charleston-esque without the ‘Republic of Charleston’ attitude. I especially love the story about Fred Astaire (who kept a summer home there) walking to the post office and regularly doing a few dance steps while there for the residents.
PurpleGirl
@Mustang Bobby: Sounds good. You should promote your own work; if you don’t promote your own work, who will?
donnah
I’m dyeing! :-)
Today is clear and breezy, and I will spend my entire day in the kitchen, dyeing wool for my rug hooking. I teach a workshop next weekend and need to boost my supply of wool to sell.
It’s hot, stinky business, but fun. The wool is beautiful when it’s all finished!
Here’s a link to a rug I hooked recently, a mermaid.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/Rughooker/846B19E4-735D-4241-8E55-0F2CA0C26CEB-5567-0000094E6E24FFD1.jpg
Betty Cracker
@donnah: Wow — that’s amazing!
donnah
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks!
BTW, happy Birfday to Patsy Marie. I can remember when she was born! *sniff*
Kristine
Happy birthday to Patsy Marie!
gogol's wife
@AdamK:
No matter what comment I plan for BJ, someone always beats me to it.
Happy Birfday, Daisy!
The sun is out! We didn’t drown!
ETA: I mean Patsy Marie! Where did I get Daisy from?
gogol's wife
Okay, Daisy is the other doggeh. Sorry.
PurpleGirl
@donnah: That’s beautiful. Have fun with the dye pots.
bemused
@donnah:
Wow…beautiful!
We are having a great time with our new 10 week old puppy. She is outrageously adorable, hilarious and sweet.
RaflW
Graduation party for my partner! He has finished three years of UU seminary and a concurrent church internship throughout yrs 2 & 3. Major slog to do all that. He got his M.Div hood a coule weeks ago in the city where his school is (distance learning program – saved our relationship and was a quality deal).
Today it’s a garden party for all our local friends + some out of town family. Actually getting catered dinner: 4 big pans of pastas, plus salads & bread. I’ll bake up a bunch of Italian sausages with peppers as the pasta is all meat-free. Oh, and a big ol chocolate cake. And s’mores later at the fire pit. Booze is BYO so we’ll see what comes.
Whooo!
Citizen_X
@donnah: Wow, gorgeous rug!
quannlace
Skies clearing here in NJ too. Huzzah.
Happy Birthday to the pup! What better way to celebrate than with bacon. Or is that ‘Beggin’?
ruemara
@donnah: That’s really pretty, do you sell them? I can’t imagine walking on it though.
Happy Birfday to Patsy! It’s also the ex’s birfday, I’m trying to get him to celebrate it and I got up with the urge to write some cartoon scripts and get that side of my creative life back in order, so I’m going with it.
donnah
Thanks for the kind words about my rug, everyone! :-)
Here’s what dyed wool looks like. Pretty!
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/Rughooker/458ce50b.jpg
Shortstop
Boxers are perfection. That is all.
lojasmo
Finally getting some sun here in S. Mn. Evidently we have had more precipitation than seattle to date this year.
Running in the woods this morning (and maybe again this afternoon, if my running partner sacks up)
Hanging with the bride, as the boy is going singletrack riding later.
Probably some lawn and garden puttering, a trip to grab some wine (stupid blue laws)
I think that covers it.
Happy birthday, Dawgie!
Shortstop
@RaflW: Congratations! Nothing like a UU party for boozy erudition and geekitude. Everyone always seems to get all the obscure references, no matter how late in the evening.
Francis
Since I’ve managed to land what looks like a really good job, planning a 50th birthday vacation to the Caribbean for my better half and me.
PhoenixRising
Nothing. I’m doing nothing.
By the pool with a drink that ought to have an umbrella in it, but the child used all of those (15 pack from Cost Plus) on some artistic expression of hers.
I’m celebrating turning my book over to the Editor. Who is going to kill me because the first thing she said after the contract was, Of course my schedule is built around a certain degree of flexibility so don’t be too concerned about meeting these deadlines.
Lady, you are nuts! I didn’t reply. Who can not need deadlines in order to ever complete things?
Regardless, it’s now Off My Desk! Whoo-hoo!
PhoenixRising
Also too: You have a dog whose birfday you know?
Wow. You’re in a whole ‘nuther world there. Many bacon-y returns to her!
Violet
Daisy Mahem is an excellent name for a dog! Love it. Happy birthday to Patsy Marie.
I’m heading off soon to a garden tour. Apparently our local neighborhood has revived the garden club and they’re doing tours. The garden we’re touring sounds very cool. Cant’ wait to see it.
bemused
@lojasmo:
Summer sure has been dragging it’s feet getting here. Sunny and warmer, finally, here in NE MN.
My husband just saw several flocks of geese flying north in the last few days…that seems much later than usual to me.
tybee
recipe for said eggplant dish?
Elizabelle
@RaflW:
Congrats. That’s wonderful.
And happy bday to a lucky boxer dog.
RaflW
@Shortstop: The funny thing is, most of the guests aren’t UUs. We’ve not converted many folks… But they do tend to be both smartish and geekish.
ruemara
@PhoenixRising: What’s the book about?
Elizabelle
Belmont Stakes today. Horsies get a sloppy track.
PhoenixRising
@ruemara: I’m the world’s worst self-promoter.
Blog here gives you the flavor that got the contract.
To practice summarizing: As some of y’all know, my then-GF, now-wife and I flew to Cambodia 13 years ago and adopted a baby. The reasons for that included our hope to give a home to an orphan, and support a development program in a country that was in a bad spot.
As it turns out, none of those things are true–she’s hardly an orphan, as we discovered last fall. The man who was running the “orphanage” used the money to buy some hotels currently in use as brothels. Further, there is no amount of money anyone can throw at a development program that seems to have any effect on Cambodia’s poverty.
The book is about 170 pages, and tells the story of our journey to figure out what happened and what we ought to do about it now.
BlueDWarrior
Hearing about all the bullshit that is going around in North Carolina just reminds me of all the bullshit going on in Louisiana.
YellowJournalism
There are some people who say that anything will taste better with bacon in it. I think Betty just proved them wrong.
Happy Birthday, puppeh!
JGabriel
Betty Cracker @ Top:
Mmmm, bacon.
(Shakes head quickly to remove self from reverie.)
Sorry, Betty, what were saying?
Yatsuno
PUPPEHS!!! WIF BIRFAYS!!! YAY!!!
(I read the post one up. Remind me mixie needs a kick.)
trollhattan
My dog would wolf that mess down with zeal. Five minutes later it would be back, with prejudice.
Betty Cracker
@tybee: Recipe below. There’s a bloggy, political story behind how I found that recipe: Back in the early days of the 2008 Democratic primary, I started reading Al Giordano’s “The Field” blog on the Rural Votes site. I was reading him when he only had one or two comments per post.
Giordano steadily became more popular with Obama supporters as the primary wore on, gaining a much wider readership. He had a huge falling out with the peeps who ran the RV site — you know how ugly blog-spats can get! He left Rural Votes and subsequently took up posting at Narco News.
Anyhoo, during the height of the blog slap-fight, one of Giordano’s antagonists on the site, Tracy Russo, if I recall correctly, posted this recipe in an attempt to calm the waters. Even though I was on Al’s side of the foofaraw, I thought it sounded good, so I made it, and ever since, it’s been my go-to eggplant parm recipe!
Lymie
My poor doggies would wolf that down and then, how do you spell PANCRIATITIS!!! zowie.
tybee
@Betty Cracker:
thanks. i’ll give it a whirl. i had 3 eggplants survive winter and have 15 or so fruits that will be ready to go fairly soon….
gogol's wife
@Yatsuno:
Is he ever going to stop? I’ve been getting a lot of reading done offline because this blog has been unreadable lately.
John
If you are sorry to show us that disgusting mess, why, er, show it?
gogol's wife
@John:
Because it’s not really disgusting for people who love animals.
Betty Cracker
@John: Believe it or not, someone actually asked for a photo last time I mentioned it. Hey, at least you don’t have to smell it!
Yatsuno
@gogol’s wife: Betty is our blog saviour. That and JC has done some pretty hilarious drunken rants too.
KRK
@Betty Cracker:
I’m still sad that the old posts & comments got left behind/disappeared when Al moved on to his own space. There were some incredibly insightful discussions in those comments. [ETA: not to mention Al’s own genius and hilarity.]