Great Cupcakes
Yesterday was our weekly pinochle game and the very first hand I had a double run. In two hands we skunked the other team. It was great. I should have just quit after that first hand, I very seldom discover I have a run until after the bidding is over. Needless to say I’m not the greatest player and it drives the people that keep track of every card played nuts because they never know what I’ll do next. But a great big thank you to the people who patiently watched over my shoulder for months to teach me how to play at all. I always make dessert, I like making dessert and I break one of the rules, I try new rceipes all the time. I made Martha Stewarts Boston Creme Pie cupcakes they looked great and tasted great, for the topping I used my chocolate Icing rceipe. Everyone said they liked them.
This morning Zoey went for her second set of shots, so we can start going out a little more. Adventures are on the way. This morning Jim was playing fetch in the hallway with her and both balls ended up together. You should have seen her trying to pick up the second ball, she has a big mouth but she can’t carry two tennis balls. She would roll one a little ways, then try to pick it up again. Somewhere one afternoon this week she found a golfball that she carried upstairs while she played with it I reveiwed the rules for the hemlich on dogs. I took it away from her but who knows what she’ll find next. She has discovered she can play ball by herself she drops it down the steps and runs down trying to catch it on the way. By the way she stayed dry in the kitchen while we were gone for about 5 hours last night, I came home with visions of having to mop the kitchen. She messed up after we got home.
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This morning I didn’t want to get up and muse on line because I was afraid if I got up I would have to take Zoey outside. Going out in the middle of the night isn’t fun, in case you wondered. She doesn’t have to go everynight and she does go back in her crate with out a problem. And of course I went back to sleep and was sleeping great when the alarm went off. Yesterday because it was icky outside Zoey didn’t get a lot of exercise so I was playing ball with her in the hallway. She’s out growing that, she kept hitting the walls when she would spin to go get the ball. After a few trips she would bring it back and drop it on the top step and run down the steps and get it and bring it back. Today the sun is shining so I took her outside to play ball, all she wanted to do is dig. She’s learning to return the ball, but outside she get distracted by the cars, birds, digging. One week she was terrified of the cars and would run for the door, the next she wants to chase some of them, haven’t been able to figure out why some are different. I’m going to make cupcakes this afternoon and she afraid of the mixer or she was the last time I used it. I can’t decide do I make the cupcakes the regular size or do I make the larger more like a bakery size. decisions decisions to be made. Recipe makes 18 regular size, I have 18 regular size, but only 6 of the larger size so I have to make proably 2 batchs. They’re going to be individual boston creme pie cupcakes. Ok back to the real world.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Zoey is the smartest
This morning after I was ready to go to my sewing group, I told Zoey it was time to go downstairs and she promptly went in her crate and came back out and turned around and went back in, the third time she came out with a toy that mostly stays in there, then she carried it downstairs to the kitchen and put it in the bed in the kitchen where she stays when we are gone. Isn’t that the greatest? After sewing I took her for a ride in the car, thank goodness we keep a lot of junk in the backseat because when I got almost home she threw up. Something to be said for not being the neatest person around. At sewing everyone was talking about their dogs and cats and how they act and react to whats going on, a couple of people have puppies. I bragged on Zoey for how well she had done in the car, shouldn’t have done it. Right now she has a ball playing with it right under my feet.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Welcome to a new blog
Thanks to my daughter I now have a blog of my own. I’m not sure what I’ll write about or what I’ll share, that will be sorta of on the fly. If I can follow her directions, the daughters not the dogs, maybe I can post pictures of Zoey, she won’t object to being a public figure. That’s one of the great thing about the dog, she will always pose for a picture. Maybe if you’re nice sometime I’ll show pictures that I drew on the wall hince the name of the blog.
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