A New Tradition...I Hope

I know a lot of people do this but I read about it last year and tucked it away for this November. Each day for the month of November, Ken and I are writing something that we are thankful for on a little card. At the end of the month, we will read them together and get to see what the other person was thankful for. No peeksies!

I'm a little surprised that Ken didn't put up any complaints about the whole thing (maybe that should go on one of my cards...I wasn't expecting it to be so easy!). He did, however, write himself a little grocery list on the back of one of the cards that I left sitting out as his friendly reminder to fill it out from missing the day before. Funny, he still has yet to fill out the card and he never went to the store. Mission hopefully accomplished for a new tradition every November! We shall see in another year how motivated I am.

It's easy to take things for granted and life can be challenging at times, so this little project seemed very fitting to remind us that we truly have a lot to be thankful for!

Pushed to the Limit

Since bringing the cat home, all she does is stay in her little room. When it's nighttime though, and she can hear the dogs and Ken snoring, she tiptoes all around the house. Poor cat doesn't realize she sounds like a clumsy horse that weighs a million and one pounds. I'm sure she thinks no one can hear her...

Anyway, we've been trying to expand her comfort zone and you can see from these pictures that being forced to socialize in the living room with the family does not make her happy. We give her the best goodies in an effort to trick her into being part of the clan but she's not having us yet.

Happy Election Day!

Did you vote?

I didn't.

I registered though.

Catnip: Speed for Kitties

Impulse Buys

We went to the new Sam's Club yesterday. While we were there, we grabbed some apples for an apple crisp recipe I wanted to try from Pinterest (it turned out to be a total Pinterest Do by the way as we made it twice in 12 hours). Some lady told us we had to peel the apples for the apple crisp. Lo and behold, a man came around five minutes later handing out little orange tickets that said to go to the booth in front of the frozen food section for a free stainless steel produce peeler. So I was in. I had apples to peel!

Well, before you get your free peeler you have to watch the five minute presentation on the stainless steel food slicer, which I will admit was pretty snazzy. After it was over, we got our freebie peeler and headed toward the checkout line. Next thing I know, I've been tricked by Ken into talking to a girl that was selling a flat iron I didn't want (didn't he notice me deliberately flirting with the floor so I wouldn't have to talk to her?) and he disappears. What does he come back with? An impulse buy. The snazzy food slicer that slices food like a mother (take that how you will). Guess what else it slices?

Fingers.

Yep, it slices fingers so well that I was asked to look for the rest of Ken's thumb in the cabbage he was just cutting. I found it resting on the underside of the slicer blade...

Guess I'm glad we got it because my apples were sliced to perfection. Can't say the same about Ken's thumb.

Happy 80th Birthday!

Sky's Gift from the Feline Gods