Looks like Lena gets a little spoiled when she and Dad are home alone during the day now that school has started. This is about the best 12 week picture we have...
She is such a good dog. Today I took her on a 1.2 mile walk, and she stops traffic. We were walking north and a woman was driving south on the street. The woman slowed, rolled down her window and hollered out..."AWWWWWW WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DOG!!!" This happens almost every time we go out with her. I think that I might have to look into getting a really good picture or two of her and enter her into a contest.
My camera is doodoo and I wish I could afford the camera of my dreams right now. I would really like to get some good pictures of her.
I am still stuck on her name, but narrowed it down. I need to send off her paperwork one of these days.
The options are:
1. Sagecreek Lena Sings the Blues
2. Sagecreek Lena Stormy Weather
3. Sagecreek Stormy Weather Lena
4. Sagecreek Lena's Sweet Song
Any other ideas?
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Wow, I was going to say that today was my birthday but this whole day has gotten away from me without a blog entry. I got some LOVELY, but unnecessary gifts. I guess people really do read my crazy ramblings. My lil' sis sent me some gorgeous flowers, my friend Steph gave me a gift card to buy some clothes (once I lose a little more weight), Emily set me up with a ton of amazing utensils for my kitchen (much needed and so appreciated it was a really thoughtful and generous gift), I got some great cards and some green from my Aunt and MaRo. Oma told me to stroll by my bookcase and gaze at it (since it was an early present) that cracked me up. Lena was all of our gifts to each other this birthday season, but she felt the need to leave me...not one...but two presents of her own on the floor while I was making dinner tonight. How generous of her. C'est la vie. :o)
I wore one of my favorite dresses that Ro made me to work today and spruced myself up. It was nice. I didn't even really mind being there too much. I work with some funny and amazing people so it was nice to be around people you care about on your birthday.
After work I did a little browsing at the store with H.D. to determine how much he had grown over the summer. HOLY COW...he is tall and skinny. He brags that he will soon be taller than me (like that is hard). After shopping, we had a little dinner just the two of us since Scott works nights. We walked the dogs, I worked out to Tony Horton's Power 90 Express video (and sweat my buns off yes, I worked out! and on my b-day even) and had ONE glass of 7 Deadly Zins with Aunt Bee on my back porch. Seems like the perfect way to begin my 34th year.
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So on my last weekend of freedom before the school year starts we did a ton of stuff.
Saturday H.D. had soccer practice at 8:30 am. We got up, made a delicious energy shake from the South Beach cookbook which had plain yogurt, silken tofu (dark chocolate), vanilla soy milk, and pistachios in it. It was soooooo good. My prediction was REVOLTING, boy was I wrong. Even H.D. liked it.
After soccer Emily and I went to the farmers market where I bought Zephyr squash, eggplant we will refer to as Eggie from here on out, and sweet red peppers. It was crazy busy down there, but was such a good time. I love getting to hang out with her whenever we can...so nice having your oldest and closest with you more than once or twice a year.
We went out to Jane and Tom's (Emily's folks) and I raided Jane's little garden and brought home a couple of green peppers, some tomatoes, another squash and some fresh basil. Jane's Market was good to me.
We ran a couple more errands and then back to the house where Emily worked on the internet, and I made mustard crusted steak for our dinner. We watched most of Mamma Mia and ate a yum meal, and H.D. and I walked Lena after Emily left.
Sunday was cooking day. Eggie watched me cook; and I cooked ALL DAY! The following is a list of dishes that I prepared and froze in ziplocs against my recycling and hippie nature (unless I can figure another way of doing it next time). I think I am going to wash and reuse the ziplocs to make myself feel better.
2. Spicy Broccoli (7 servings) Broccoli sauteed with olive oil, anchovy paste, and crushed red pepper. Sounds nasty--tastes DeLICIOUS.
3. Fresh Green Beans (6 servings) steamed.
4. Oven Roasted Veggies (6 servings) yellow squash, zephyr squash, sweet peppers, sweet onions, red onions, asparagus, garlic, and a little olive oil.
5. Kabobs (6 servings) beef, sweet peppers, sweet onions, red onions, tomato, and mushrooms (on some).
6. Pesto Chicken (3 servings)
7. Pork Chop Scallopine (2 servings and 1 plain PC for H.D.)
8. Ginger Chicken and Snow Peas (3 servings)
9. Mustard Crusted Steak (3 servings)
10. Grilled (9) Sirloin Burgers
That was my day. Scott made a Turkey Caesar Salad for our dinner, and lunch was burgers (sans bun for us).
After the cooking extravaganza, we took Lena on her nightly walk and since Scott was home Bij got to go too. She is getting so old and bad. We found another NEW tumor on her back behind her incision from the removal of the camel hump. It has just appeared within the last week and looks to be growing pretty fast. We made the decision as a family that we will not put her through any more surgeries as she has (4 that we can see) tumors and her back end is failing. It really took her a long time to get cooled down after the walk. Poor Old Girl.
Scott and I watched True Blood and I tried to get back on to a normal schedule and went to bed at 11:00. School starts tomorrow. :o)
