I over ordered celery, and in an effort to keep it fresh and crisp, I’m trying to keep one end in water in the fridge. I don’t have a round container, so I improvised with a plastic bag and some kitchen twine. I have read that wrapping celery in tin foil will keep it fresh, but it also hides it from view. Hidden celery doesn’t get consumed in this house!
The tree is up! Shortly after we brought Missy home, we blocked off the office/music room because there was just too much to puppy proof, and she kept piddling on the carpet. It works out well to put the tree there too because it is out of the puppy’s reach. It is also appropriate that the tree is blurry in the photo, as Missy seems to be near sighted. The world is big and fuzzy and she barks at what scares her. Poor wee mite.
I found some boldly striped rainbow fleece material to use for dog toys! I cut the bold stripes apart to make strips, and since there were six colors, learned to do a six strand round braid. It was much nicer to buy one yard of this material than several yards of different colors! The dogs approve of the finished tug toy. I stuffed some extra strips of fleece material into their rubber toys, and they enjoy destuffing those too!
We were hanging outside in the hammocks when my youngest said that the puppy had something, and it was moving! This praying mantis was not happy to be snuffled. It looked like it was getting ready to molt, because its eyes were cloudy and the wings looked glued down. It was safely transferred to a nearby tree out of the puppy’s reach.
When your youngest likes to rearrange her room, and convinces you to let her change rooms, even though you just put up hundreds of pink and glow-in-the-dark stars, and you have to transfer the stars to the new room. In my defense, she first said the stars wouldn’t go to the new room. In her defense, her old room is above the garage and gets cold in the winter. With all that is going on health-wise, spending the winter in a more temperate room is really a no brainer. But so many stars. So many, in fact, that I think some will stay in the new office. Maybe they won’t show on the Zoom meetings.
