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Day 37 of 365

Our little runaway.

Last Friday, our dog decided to make a run for it and escape from us and getting a taste of what it's like to be living " on the wild" side. :-)
He didn't get far. Down the street from us, he saw a female dog that he just couldn't resist and tried to dig his way into her yard. Well , her owner saw that and wasn't too pleased and called the dog catcher on him. His freedom was very short lived.
Monday morning we found out he was in doggy jail.
Well, my husband paid his "bail" (fine) and brought him back home. :-)
He seemed to be very happy to be back home again and we are very happy to have him back. We missed him A LOT !!!!!
Little rascal.

Look at me. I'm so sweet and innocent. :-)

Day 36 of 365

Day 35 of 365

My picture for today. ;-)

Day 34 of 364

"The little Tomato that could"

I found this little fellow today.

I haven't watered my plants in weeks. There was no use. It has been just way too hot for anything to grow right, so you can imagine how surprised i was when i found this little guy today.
You can see how brown and dead the plant looks, like i mentioned before , i haven't watered in weeks and we haven't had any rain here lately either (unless my dog "watered" it ;-)...)but yet ,it has a tomato growing. I find that amazing. :-)
I'm not sure what to do with it now though? Eat it? Leave it for the birds and ants? Contact the people from the "Guinness Book Of World Record" books and tell them "Look, this tomato grew despite the worst drought on record here in this area!"? ;-)
We'll see.
What would you do with it?

Day 33 of 365

Day 32 of 365

German Goodness !!! :-)

Every once in a while i have the opportunity to shop at one of my favorite (online) stores - GermanDeli.com !! It is a paradise for every expat German living in the USA.
There , you can buy pretty much everything you would get in Germany - candy, meat, cosmetics, breads, soups, sauces, chocolate!!!! , whatever you're craving or missing, you can get it there.
Sadly, i don't get to shop there a lot. Most of their products are imported from Germany, which means they can be a bit pricey. Understandably so though. BUT, this week i was able to order a few things. One of the items were poppy seed hard rolls. One of my favorites. I used to eat that stuff all the time. Anything that had poppy seeds in them , i ate - rolls, cakes.....mmmmmm...my tummy growls just thinking about it. :-)
This morning my daughter and i had 'fresh out of the oven' poppy seed rolls. We spread Nutella on them and let me tell you , they were SO delicious !!!! Mmmmmm....I might bake some more tomorrow !

Don't they look scrumptious?!

Deliciousness x2

Day 31 of 365

Meet Handy Smurf and Baker Smurf.

Day 30 of 365

View from inside a mailbox looking out.

Day 29 of 365

Self portrait ;-)

Day 28 of 365

Tonight's sunset

Day 27 of 365

Day 26 of 365

"Love is in the air" ;-)

Day 25 of 365

My daughter made me a "cupcake" today. All organic too. ;-)

Day 24 of 365

The inside of my favorite place!

Day 23 of 365

We went to a another birthday party today. This time it was the birthday of one of our church friends - Andrew. Old guy turned a whoopin' 25 today. ha
I asked him how he felt ,he replied " Not a bit different." and i said "Just wait until you hit 30 - it's all down hill from there." haha
So Enjoy your last 5 years of youth while you can. :-)
(just kidding ,of course. ;-) )

We had a great time. His mom made a very delicious potato salad and rice. I'm guessing it was Nicaraguan rice? I'm not sure but it was SOOO good. mmmmm
It had olives in it , among other ingredients...- and i don't like olives, at all , but i loved them in that rice. Weird, huh? ;-)

Here is a picture of his birthday cake.
( i didn't eat any because i was stuffed with rice and potato salad. ;-) )

I forgot to mention that it was a surprise party! He had no idea that everyone gathered at his parents house right after church. I would say the surprise part was a full success and his wife, Amber, did an awesome job executing it ! Great job Amber! :-)

Day 22 of 365

My daughter and i went to our friend's house today to celebrate her daughter's 1st Birthday. We had a lot of fun. My daughter had a blast playing with all the other kids and i enjoyed my time around adults. ;-)
It was a good day.
Here are a few pictures of the birthday girl and her first birthday cake.

Hmm?? This is cake?

Let me touch that. Careful.

Taste it. Hmmm...not quite sure just yet.

Let's try that again with a spoon.

What are you looking at? Don't even think about it. That's my cake.

This stuff's pretty yummy.

Thanks for giving me spoons full of this delicious sweet stuff, Nana. You're the best.

Look. All gone. Mmmmm

I LOVE birthday's. Especially mine. We should do this more often.

Want some, Nana?

HA! Tricked you ! Allll mine !!! muahahaha

She is such a ham. Just like her big sister. They're both way too cute and funny.

Day 21

Dinner is ready. :-)

5 minutes later , the ant , or whatever it was, was gone.

Day 20

I didn't take any pictures today :-(
so i looked through some of the pictures on my computer and found this one.
It's a picture of a slice of fresh, delicious German rye bread with a little bit of butter and oh so sweet Nutella !!! Mmm , mmm GOOD !!!!!!

Day 19 of 365

The result of yesterday's rain. ;-)