DST

Anyone who knows me understands I target 9:30 pm for bedtime and anything later is often a miracle. I'm old, I likes me sleep - so sue me! Anyhoo, this evening as I was watching TV, I decided to congratulate myself for staying up so late. I was truly proud.

...then I realized it was only 6:30 pm.

Daylight Savings Time, you and your concept stink. "Fall Back" THIS!

I hope you're all coping better than this ol' bird :)

Sunday Part Two

So...I decided to tack on a few more tasks to today's agenda including a self-pedicure, baking cinnamon-chocolate chip cookies, and burgers for dinner. As usual, I did all of them simultaneously trying to maximize my use of time.

Good news: Cookies and burgers turned out well. Cookies are tasty! Pedi even survived the cookie fiasco.

Bad news: There was a cookie fiasco.

Oh! You don't know what I mean? Well, I may have accidentally bumped the Kitchenaid switch while dumping flour in the mixer. Let me show you.

Good stuff :)

Sidebar: Feet with the toe-separators in make feet look more gnarly than usual. The flour footprint, however, is bad ass.

Ruff Sunday

Reaping the rewards of a few miles biking and a couple running. I hope you are as at peace with the world as these jokers! Happy Sunday everyone!

Fall Baking!

To commemorate the beautiful Fall day today, I ran 2 miles with Sammie and biked a mile with Kirby. I am so thankful Kirby does well running alongside my bike...not perfect, but good enough that I don't fall off and she gets her exercise :) we make a good team I think!

Tuckered out, it was time for dog napping and Mommy baking! A couple weeks ago I bought a bucket o' pears at the Farmer's Market and it's time to finally use them. I googled pear galette and found a fab recipe on epicurious.com for an Almond-Pear Galette: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Almond-Pear-Galette-236924

It was pretty easy to make, but took a little time between steps; perfect for a Fall day! Give it a try, it turned out yummy!!

All Hallows

As a late addition to this Halloween, my neighbors smelled gas in their house so... LCFD to the rescue!! Fire trucks and sirens and flashing lights! Wooohooo! Everything turned out okay, so that's good news for all.

Also, the kids who came to the door said both: "it's not as scary as last year" and "it's the scariest house ever!!" Some of the parents were also joking they had to bribe the kids to come up to our door cuz it was so scary... Yay, I guess? :D

Happy Halloween everyone!

Bikes & 'Cakes

Today was gorgeous outside, yay!! Sunny, breezy, perfect temperature. Lauren and I biked from my house to a local cupcake shop, Rise Cupcakes (www.risecupcakes.com). They just opened in September and I will definitely go back. Moist cake, strong flavors and cute decor. All in all we biked almost 12 miles round trip!! Woohoo! I expect a sore butt-crotch tomorrow from the journey, but it will have been well worth it :)

I hope you all had a bright and sweet weekend!

Mmmmm

It's a New Age and Jersey Girl kind of night.
...someone here might be jealous.

Bounty!

A cool front came through last night, so I was able to finally get a reprieve from the mosquitoes and tend to the garden. This is probably close to the season's last fruits...

Hot

A little "post-run with Mommy" fat tongue. So hot!!

Note: Mommy is also sweating profusely from the brief run x2 in capri pants and a long sleeve tshirt, but you will not see any pix of that! Separate runs with each dog, since both are too much to handle for me at one time = double sweat!! Why the full-body cover in 80+ degree weather? Yep, still skeeto infested here!

I hope you're living skeetie-free!

Ahhhhhhh...

This is the way to spend a morning with your husband! Cup of tea, breezy air and foot cuddles :)