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posted by Paul @ 4/01/2008 09:30:00 PM 0 comments

Remember when....

A long time ago, Skittle could fetch too! Now he just sits around and chews his paws.

posted by ML @ 2/08/2007 08:38:00 PM 0 comments

Siena, the amazing fetching cat

'Nuff said.

posted by ML @ 2/08/2007 08:17:00 PM 1 comments

Can you see me?

 

posted by ML @ 11/13/2006 08:37:00 PM 2 comments

Yay for new hobbies!

Siena always loses her toys. I don't know what she does with them but every time we give her a toy, she will squirrel it away. If we're lucky, we'll find a collection of them either under the dishwasher or under the couch, but sometimes they just disappear.

So I have taken to crocheting her little toys (no more Pet Club toys for you young lady!) -- the first attempt was a sad blue shrimp which was ridiculed by all who came by. As I scoured the web to find mouse patterns I could trust, I came across this incredibly cute crochet craft called amigurumi. My life has never been the same again.

Here are my amigurumi pals, Beany the Octopus, Hippy the Hippo (named by Paul), and Anty the Reindeer head Christmas ornament. Also have a photo of them next to little Miss Siena for a size comparison. =)



Patterns for Hippy and Anty courtesy of Crochetville and Roxycraft. Beany was my freeform pattern.

posted by ML @ 11/12/2006 01:12:00 PM 5 comments

Can't believe it's taken me so long to do this, but here is a picture of Skittle (known as Flash in his previous life) when he was still a little kiddo. Poor little guy was fished out of a drain in South SF by Jeri Dopp (http://www.safehavenforcats.com/) who does a wonderful job of rescuing kittens and advocating cat "spas".

Pictures courtesy of www.safehavenforcats.com.

posted by ML @ 10/13/2006 06:14:00 PM 1 comments

Good ole farmers marketing

Nothing terribly exciting this week, so I'm just posting pictures from our trip to the San Francisco Farmers Market a few weeks ago. It was our first time there and we were amazed by the multitude of shops. Got some lovely cherry tomatoes to munch on and sampled lots of peaches and nectarines. I looove peach season!

Here's Paul reaching happily into his bag of cherry tomatoes (he liked eating them so much he couldn't keep his hand out of the bag even though he was posing for a picture).

Next year, we should definitely grow cherry tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes. Our 6 Roma tomatoes are fruiting immensely, which is amazing, but a tad boring. We get over 20 tomatoes a week, and since I hate wasting food, we have been actively eating them every weekend. Roma tomato overload! 

posted by ML @ 9/10/2006 10:58:00 PM 0 comments

In the running for cutest kittens ever

Skittle and Siena say hi in their own special way. Took these photos with the lousy camera on my phone so you're going to have to forgive the quality.

posted by ML @ 9/04/2006 10:19:00 PM 0 comments

Californian Safari?

Who knew that there is a safari just north of San Francisco? Paul and I decided to make it our one-year anniversary holiday and trek up to Santa Rosa to spend a day with the giraffes at Safari West. We got up close and personal with a wide range of Afrian savannah wildlife -- wildebeests, zebras, assortedboks, Watusi cattle, and of course, the giraffes.

My favorite part was when our guide introduced us to the herd of Watusi cattle and we noticed that some of them looked strangely like domestic cows. True enough, two cows had wandered over from the neighbouring farm and had settled in with their African friends. Yay for silliness!

The cool thing about the safari was that we got to ride around in a jeep. The extra cool thing is that we got to sit up top! We giggled like two little children throughout the safari, yelling things like "zebra" and "springbok!", and we had a whale of a time.

Side note - Paul fell down the stairs on Saturday (his foot slipped), causing him to slide down and make a huge ruckus. He ended up with a bruise on his back. *I* on the other hand was innocently and quietly lounging on the sofa with Skittle on my lap. When Paul fell, Skittle was so startled by the loud commotion that he sprang off my lap in a panic, leaving huge gouge marks on my left thigh that bled for the next 15 minutes. The boy falls down the stairs and gets a bruise, while I do *not* fall down the stairs, but get scar-leaving jaggedy scratches. Grrrr. Paul laughed himself senseless for the next hour. 

posted by ML @ 9/04/2006 09:56:00 PM 1 comments

Post what post?

We are back! What, it's only been more than a year since our last post. Nothing really major happened though -- we just got married, one of us moved countries, changed jobs and strangely enough discovered a keen interest in gardening, the other one just had to change his lifestyle to accomodate the new distraction. ;)

posted by ML @ 8/31/2006 10:31:00 PM 2 comments

LED Candles

I want a whole set of these:



They come in all sorts of different shapes too.

posted by Paul @ 6/30/2005 05:10:00 PM 0 comments

A gadget that I could use

This Powerseed device is an eating metronome.



It emits a beep every few seconds, telling you when you're allowed to take another bite of food. Then every five minutes or so, it emits another tone, at which time you're supposed to pause and consider whether you're full or not.

To anyone who has nearly lost a finger at one of my feeding times -- I'm sure you understand.

posted by Paul @ 5/10/2005 03:03:00 PM 0 comments