Almonds, YUM!

I am a Wasabi and Soy sauce kinda girl normally, but I just discovered these. These are very yummy, and they only have 4 carbs/24(ish) almonds. They taste like Cinnamon Life cereal. Es gooood.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Do the stanky leg...

You must watch this...Do the Stanky Leg!

The Neubert Boys Update

For those of you who grew to know "my boys" from Gainesville second hand, through my pictures and stories, here are some updated pics Inga sent me of them at the pumpkin patch this year. They are huge and old! THanks for the pics, Inga!

Jack
Petey Jack-5, Petey-3

Greta Donut

The temperatures have dropped drastically in the past few days here in Atlanta, and poor naked Greta was freezing her little weimaheiney off at night. We like to keep the heat at 60ish at night to create a frosty bedroom, so the poor animals were freezing to death-more than I knew. After consulting with my sewing elders, I decided on this fleece design. Since Greta sleeps on the couch anyway, she just needed a barricade around the sides to hold in some body heat. So I cut a fleece blanket in half ($5), and sewed two 60" tubes out of it. Then stuffed the two tubes with three king sized washable pillows ($12) and cut ties in the fleece at each end of the tubes and tied them off, to create this triangular snuggle donut. $17 dollars total. Beats the $150 dollar Ginat dog beds at the store.

She found it within seconds and hasn't gotten up all night.

Amelia, the cat likes to try to cuddle, but Greta does not approve.

I think Amelia had a plan. But she did eventually get kicked out and was given the extra fleece blanket (purchased, but not used) and has been snuggled up inside since. THe poor animals were freezing to death it seems.

Wintery Drinks

I am bubbling over with fall festiveness as the weather begins to cool. though it's only a fraction of what I wish. I want to wear my booooots, and scarf, and hat. Though I am not looking forward to scraping ice off my car and sliding down hills while in my car. Anyway...I am getting my research done for that fateful day that is to come when I need to snuggle in a blanket and drink warm stuff. While in search, I came across this article about warm sugar-free drink ideas-since we must be low-carb to fit into our nice sweaters. This is the link.
Top 5 Low-carb beverages

The link above includes DaVinci syrups, of which I am well stocked in all my favorite flavors already (you can find them at World Market and often TJMaxx. However, it informed me that they also carry tea concentrates which I didn't know about.
The other thing that was cool was the Big Train Mocha No Sugar Added Blended Ice Coffee. It's a pack of 25 individually wrapped mocha blended iced coffee mix packets for $24.35 at Amazon.

Visitors!

The parents and niece and nephew came to visit:

And Caris found a friend in Greta

(she is between princess dresses at the moment)

We tried to go pet the animals at Yellow River,

but when we got there it was closed for flooding.

So, we fed the deer our crackers and carrots through the fence,

as did everyone else that showed up,

and went and played at the playground for a minute or two.

...which it appears was flooded last week.

Some parts looked better than others.