Maxima

Mona is a snarfer.  That is the official scientific description by the vet of what kind of eater Mona is.  The vet says some dogs eat slow and some dogs are snarfers (inhale their food).  I felt bad that Mona only gets 1.5 cups of dog food and eats it in about 30 seconds and then stares at us……like where is the rest of it???  The vet said we could feed her double and she would probably eat it in almost the same amount of time and give us the same pathetic look.

BUT….aaaahaaaa!  The gal at the pet food store said for a snarfer, to put the dog food on a cookie sheet.  That way the dog has to chase it and it slows them down a bit.  (Mona does not do this but I guess some dogs eat so fast that they…you know, “ralph”…..euwwww.)

Mona was home alone 13 hours Friday and her dinner was 4 hours late.  I knew she would inhale her food even faster, so I got out the cookie sheet.  It worked great.  Here she is enjoying her dinner and it took her about 5 times longer to eat it.  Nice solution.

My mom was at my brother’s in St Cloud, so we went to join the family for Easter.  We had a short but nice day.  Orleen had all the traditional foods and we added croisants, spinach salad, and an impulse purchase……chocolate drizzled macaroons.  We did cut the macaroons in half to minimize the damage.

The favorite part of the day for the kids was the egg decorating.  Here is Molly in the pink showing her art skills and effort in her expression.  Molly is always dressed in something fashionable.  Elijah shows his hands after painting eggs.  And at the table are Kelly and Jessica.  Jessica is very witty and cleaver and a hockey star.  I was looking for hockey sticks tattoed on those eggs.  There were some very fancy eggs at the end of the project.

Tomorrow Summer and Asha are at our house.  Summer is making Yankie Pot Roast for Blips birthday.  It is one of his favorite meals and we have not seen Sum since before his birthday.  She works alot.

You know how I love clocks.  And last night we had to turn our clocks ahead one hour.  Daylight savings time came really early this year.  After the first few, it occured to me that it was quite a job to turn all those clocks ahead. 

So, to the person who can guess the correct number of clocks that I had to turn ahead last night…..ta da….drum roll please……I will send some cookies.

How many clocks did I turn ahead last night?  Yes, the Harry Potter station clock counts as two.

We had a nice day last Thursday.  We both were off work and we started out the day with coffee from Sati Coffee.  It is very European tasting.  We were running late so we got a scone which is presently forbidden so I thought it would be twice as delicious.  Blips got a cinnamon chip scone.  It was doey and not flakey.  bummer  I had a chocolate chip cherry scone.  That also was doey and not flakey.  I did not even finish mine. 

We then headed for our annual meeting with our great financial advisor.  After discussing American politics we got around to rebalancing our portfolio.  It is nice to trust our financial planner.  As I tell him, I would trust him with my children.  What a testamonial

Next we headed for downtown Minneapolis for our eye appointment.  We have just enough time to eat at our favorite Indian restaurant.  It has been completely remodeled and is now called Bombay Bistro.  It has both  Northern (hotter spice) and Southern(milder spice) food.  mmmmmmmmmmm and we end it with rice pudding. 

We have a wonderful eye doctor and we even pay to park.  You know how I hate to pay to park.  We talk alot about grandchildren since he has a new granddaughter about the same age as Jarne.  As we head home for the day, I think that retirement won’t be bad at all.  We have so much fun together that it will be rather nice to spend our days together.  I think we will be ok with retirement when it finally gets here.

I had to beg to get permission to put this mornings birthday pictures on my blog.  Yes, blips had a birthday today.  We started the day with pancakes,  even Mona got some.  Then we went to Caribou for coffee.  Blips coffee was free……mmmmmm large mocha.  Next was Chinese buffet but we were so full from the coffee that we only had one plate.  That’s ok, we are both losing weight.  Yes, the scale is finally budging for me.

I don’t think Mona has been allowed in bed with us for years.  She sometimes sneaks in bed when we are gone if I don’t hook the baby gate at the bedroom door.  So, here she is waking up Blips on his birthday.  She thinks she has to sit on the pillow.

Well, all I have to say about this birthday is that 58 is the new 38

The best part of the whole day was the phone calls from K and M.  That made it a perfect day.