Domestic Bliss For The Dog

Yes.  The entire living room.  Dog World.  This is what happens when the house is too large and the dog is so adorable.  Notice the TWO baskets of toys to the far left?  This is a tidy picture.  Usually the entire carpet is covered in toys and beef bones.  I noticed Spot was looking at me last night.  Riley was in the kitchen up against the radiator.

Yesterday I met a friend and we walked around the Rec Center track for a little more than an hour.  Around and around.  I think my daughter mentioned 36 laps equals 4 miles.  We may have done 3 miles.  It's dry, its warm and there is a water fountain and toilets.  This was "left behind" when the government closed the navy base in our little Town---along with the runway, new traffic control tower etc.  747's can land on that runway--it's that long.  Those giant C-5's were the usual.  Carrying tanks and helicopters to war zones.  This was my first visit to the base in 20 plus years of living here.

My friend walks the hour on the track--while reading a book.  Waiting for the ice to melt off the city street.  She walks. Everyday.  Last year she slipped and fell and now is more cautious.

G and stopped in Freeport to buy another bag of the delicious artisan rolls.  They are so GOOD.  Crunchy, chewy crust and a moist, yeasty interior.  Like a fat, short baguette.  G also purchased Frosty's donuts.  Sigh.  A raspberry filled one for me.

Today--making a pot of rice in the slow cooker to be eaten with the black eyed peas.  Boiling the two new bones for Riley.  Eating the last portion of lentil soup if it's still safe to eat.  Sewing hems into more 20 cent pants.  I will be threading the machine with appropriate colored thread and using the open arm.  Swearing like a sailor.  While I enjoy sewing--I do not enjoy the mechanics of the sewing machine.  I would do the hems by hand--but they are 20 cent pants.  Not deserving of hand sewn hems.  And I want them all DONE as quickly as possible.  Today the size 20's and possibly the size 18's as well.  If things go well--- I could even do the 16's.   There were no size 14 20 cent pants to be found.  But that might be far too optimistic in the weight department.

 My "test pants" are 14's.  And  if I get close, I usually can only count on fitting into them during the summer months.  When I am busy in the perennial yard and in my own garden at home. And they are corduroy.  So, not going to be wearing them.

I have four piles of pants in the closet now.  Feels like "money in the bank".

Now, the electric rice cooker.  I'll be attempting Brown Rice today.