Happy Mother's Day to all the great women in my life and Happy Name Day baby Isi.
! I think this day should be Happy Woman's Day because you don't need to be a mom to play the nurturing role of a woman. We enjoyed going out for breakfast than I didn't do a chore the rest of the day. My kids all got me cute little gifts and my amazing husband gave me an iPod nano. Finally I can stop stealing my kids MP3
players!
Above is a picture of a dust storm coming in. My mom experienced one of these while she was here. They are pretty neat if your in a safe area. This one didn't hit us too bad but just south of us people were in accidents and pulling off to the side of the road all over the place because visibility was so bad.
We have decided to jump on the 'make your own dog food' band wagon with the pet food scare. I have been doing a lot of reading and can't believe what is in dog food. Nothing worthy of human consumption, that's for sure. We have thought we were doing a good thing buying Java good quality dog food and taking him for regular vet visits and vaccines. We have officially changed our minds. This Sunday we whipped up a big batch of ground beef, rice and left over roasted veggies for the little guy. During the week leftovers will also be added to the mix. We have been doing this for three weeks now and it hasn't been a huge effort plus Java has changed. It's little changes like his breath doesn't stink, neither do his ears and he is way more relaxed. It also hasn't been expensive because I just pull out any odds and ends from the pantry and fridge saving on stuff that would normally get chucked. Now we are thinking are yearly vaccines really necessary as well? Somewhere in our brains we know this may not be right but we want to trust our vets and what media pushes, I think we should start listening to our guts. I'd be happy to share recipes if anyone is interested.
We have also had major ant infestations. They keep finding something else to get into in the house so we finally called an exterminator. I am very against this but feel we had no choice. Finally I am not cleaning like mad every time someone touches food. People here are in shock that we never did this sooner but, up until this point, as long as things are cleaned up we haven't had problems. It's just a bad time of year for bugs.
Speaking of insects, lately our pool constantly has a ton of bugs we have to fish out before swimming. Along with a cockroach, flies and spiders we fished out a three inch scorpion. The first one we have seen here so far. It was pretty cool. That same morning Ted fished out what he thought was a dead baby bird. Turned out is was very much alive! We were worried it would die if we couldn't get it back in the nest however, once the little guy recovered, we found he could fly all by himself.
I am currently felting my bag (it's in the dryer as I write this). After three bouts through the washing machine and a cycle through the dryer it is finally turning into the size of a purse. Poor Ted keeps wondering what smells so bad, I keep forgetting to tell him it's wet wool. My camera battery is dead otherwise I would show you an updated picture. Oh well, just more to show next week. Right now my bedroom and living room are a wreak due to painting and redoing stuff, I hope to post pictures of that soon as well. Chat more soon!
Have a great week,
The Sfikas House
