so adorable!

This video is from A Place To Bark's youtube channel, it's some puggle puppies that were rescued from a puppymill. And of course I have to show you because my puppy is a puggle and they are just the darned cutest things.


Anyway, A Place to Bark is having their annual fundraiser, and I really recommend that you read their latest blog post. Obviously everyone knows we are all having a hard time with the economy the way it is, but it's so heartbreaking to read about the hard time they are having because they rely on donations. So if you have anything that you are able to donate, I encourage you to help these rescued animals as much as you can (as little as that may be). Even if it's just $3. They also need items donated, so if you have anything to donate - towels, blankets, collars, leashes, etc.

Please check out their blog & website (you can even follow them on Twitter!

Happy Day

Today is a beautiful day! The sun is shining, there are few clouds in the sky, it doesn't matter that it's 35 degrees. And ask me if I care about the temp.? I do not. I opened my sunroof, blasted the radio (CD player actually, but really it's just a technicality). I was running some errands and then all of a sudden...I see the Open signs, turn the truck around and pull into Baja Taco. (this was from the photo scavenger hunt last year)
The sign said they were open daily 10-2 (it'll change in May at least), did I care that it was 5 minutes to 2? Nope. I was getting a milkshake! Hot damn! That was like the cherry on top let me tell you, the day can't get any better.

When you've lived someplace like California most of your life, you don't know how much you'll miss the sun when it's gone and how happy it will make you when you do get some sunshine. It really makes me happy. Love it!
I tried to get a picture of my milkshake, but Roxy really wanted it, she wouldn't get out of the way.


Clearly she loves milkshakes too.

I can't wait for summer!

These first 4 pictures were taken in March 2008.








What a difference a year makes... this is today

Shop 'til she drops

We have been doing a lot of shopping while in Anchorage, and some of that includes stocking up. So we were at Costco and we got 2 big bags of dog food as well as 3 things of canned dog food and a new bed for Roxy. So the checkout people asked how many dogs we had... we said 1 they laughed, but then we explained where we live (and they seemed to understand that we needed to stock up). Then as we were getting everything into the trunk, we took Roxy out of the car and a couple of guys walking past said it looked like we were trying to grow a bigger dog... What do you think - does it look like we're trying to grow a bigger dog?



She's a year old now (her birthday was on Tuesday), so she's not getting any bigger. But I don't think the bed is too big for her. And maybe she'll share with her little dog friends (there's room for all of the ankle biters - Dublin, Bailey & Bullet) ;)

Chairman of the Board

In the back of housing is the best hills and the kids love to go sledding back there. One of the kids' friends has a snowboard and let Ashley ride it. It's a special board I guess for kids, you don't need special boots, it has straps that you just put your feet into. So here she is having fun (she looks so grown up...so scary LOL).



Thank you, Kelli, for taking the pictures!!

Top Chef

Originally uploaded by knittymel

Tonight was the Blue & Gold Banquet for Cub Scouts, and Brett's den's theme was New Orleans, so he said we had to make jambalaya. He loves, loves loves, jambalaya. I told him he had to help, so he cut up the sausage & the chicken, and followed the directions and made it himself.


Edited to add: Here's their decorations


they were going to play "Jambalaya" by Hank Williams, but they hadn't practiced and there weren't enough words to go around, so after getting ready they did nothing...Oh well.

Designing women

I love to knit (and I think pretty much anyone that knows me knows this). I have made patterns up in my head - or sometimes not even in my head, just on the needles as I go, but I wouldn't say I designed anything. I made Ashley some wrist warmers for part of her Halloween costume (she was an 80s pop star - I said pop star, she said 80s, she's so awesome:)), and just made the pattern up. I didn't look for a pattern and really they were only ribbed, nothing special or difficult, but I did write it down with intents to blog the pattern... And here we are 3-4 months later and I still haven't. I've never written a design or anything, so I worry that it's not right or someone will find flaws with it.

I'm sure I'll get the courage to post it at some point...