Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

So Gina and I went to the farmer's market again this weekend, Jeremy and Nicole met us there as planned.

Gina and I got there a bit a head of schedule (prolly like 20 minutes), so we had actually gotten most of our shopping done before they showed up.

It was fun. We bought some more bread. Hopefully, with a little luck Emma will not get a hold of it this time. I think I might have forgotten to mention up here on the blog that Emma managed to get a hold of the baguette that we bought last weekend. When we realized it was missing our first thought was "EMMA!!!" Gina found the remaining 1/3 of the baguette in the backyard.

We bought some more tomatoes and more basil. Gina is planning to turn most of the fresh basil into pesto (and freeze) it.

We also bought some snacks and drinks while we were there. I ate a tofu dog that had been rolled in dough with sauerkraut and mustard, it was pretty good. We also bought a beef "arm roast", which will be pot roast on one night and then it will magically turn into Gina's tasty beef and barely soup another night (most likely the following night).

We also went over to IKEA today, I have been wanting to get a laptop table so that when I am sitting on the couch I can do stuff on the laptop without it being on my lap (like it is right now). This laptop table is apparently called DAVE.

Well the Round-Rock IKEA is out of DAVE tables, they were also out of the computer desk that I thought would be perfect for Gina's new room. I guess I probably haven't mentioned that either. Did I forget to mention that Gina bought a Bass recently? Not a Bass Guitar but a string bass, some times referred to as a "double bass".

And with that, she has cleaned out our guest room, as to house her bass and her music stuff. Given the extra room that is now in there (seeing as the queen bed has been removed) I think this one corner desk from IKEA would be perfect in there. Gina has been needing a place of her own in the house, so I am very excited to help her get the room into order to help her feel a bit more at relaxed when she is at home.

The desk I have in mind is the TOVIK.

Jeremy and I will be heading over to Fast Eddie's soon to try and get a spot to play Guitar Hero III before it comes out tomorrow. I have no idea how busy this will be, but I probably actually need to call him in a few minutes and see about us heading over there, cuz I think it is probably going to be swamped. I have enjoyed playing Guitar Hero at the stores and at the Webmaster Jam Session.

Oh yeah, so I had the idea and it is just an idea right now as I haven't had the chance to really look into the details. But here is the idea, Gina makes really, really good dog treats. I mean our dogs love them and from what I heard Kelly's dogs loved them too. So we bought some dog treats down at the farmer's market. They are honestly not very impressive. I think that Gina should make treats and we can sell them down there. I would have fun being down there on Saturday mornings and being part of the local commerce scene.

We have tossed around the idea quite a bit today and Gina seems interested, but skeptical that the dog treats are good enough to sell. I am believe the dog treats are excellent and worthy of selling. Given the number of dogs we saw there last weekend and this weekend, I feel it is safe to say that it is a good venue for us to try and break into the market.

Gina has on occasion also made dog beds, so I think that would be another thing that can be sold. The other thing would be the "belly bands" that Gina has made for Basil. The ones that Gina made do not seem to bug Basil, but the one that she bought at PetSmart did. I mean the one from PetSmart used some elastic in it that looked like it was painful to wear for long periods of time, while the bands that Gina makes do not. Another thought would be to also allow John to sell some of his handcrafted pet furniture down there as well.

In my opinion the folks buying from that particular market are more likely to be interested in good dog treats and dog beds and hand crafted pet furniture than any other farmer's market I have been to. Then again I could be completely wrong.

Like I said, haven't done much investigation. But if the cost of the booth isn't too much, I would be willing to pay for at least a couple of weekends of experimentation.

More to come on the idea of the farmer's market booth.

Time to give Jeremy a call.

Laterz

So this morning, Emma jumped down off the bed (I think she went halfway down the little doggy stairs we have in the bedroom, then jumped).

However, since I was going to be getting up soon anyway I didn't feel like getting up to pick her up and put her on the bed. Did I forget to mention we was doing this little Emma style bark whine thing?

And then out of no where Emma appeared on the bed.

SHE JUMPED ON TO THE BED!!!

This amazed me, even though she has been pretty much back to normal since her FCE episode, this was the first time I saw her jump up onto the bed since.

I mean the bed it pretty tall and while Emma isn't tiny like Curly, she hasn't ever been as vertically capable as our dog Buddy.

Still amazed by the feat of doggy acrobatics I asked Gina she knew that Emma could jump up on the bed. And as most things related to the dogs, I am the last to know. She told me that Emma has been doing that for a while.

Oh well, I was very excited and proud that my little schnauzer mix is probably at about 95% of her normal self after her FCE episode. The last 5% relates to the fact that she doesn't have control over her back left leg as much as she used to and that she still has her left front paw turned over more than we would like.

Lunch is about over back to the grind.

Laterz

YouTube's bandwidth was working well today, so I was able to upload videos at lunch.









Emma & Buddy