bon appetit

Saturday we had our Julia Child dinner. A very yummy and very simple Potato and Leek soup. I mean how much easier can it get. Chopped potatoes, sliced leeks, boiled in water, then pureed with a stick blender right in the pot. Then some yummy whipping cream added before you serve it. This was great fun. I hope you try it sometime.

My Little Cutie!

teehee! :)

Soda 3

The third soda was...

The first orange cream soda of the bunch.

Virgil's soda comes from the company REED's Inc. Which started with all natural ginger soda's. They now have many flavors of ginger sodas, energy elixers, ginger candy, ginger ice creams, Virgil's sodas(which are all the classic soda flavors), China Cola(cola with special chinese herbs), and sparking juice drinks, and are very proud of all their products. Ginger ice cream sounds very interesting, as does a rasberry ginger soda. Hmmm...

Check out their website:
http://www.reedsinc.com/

They were very very wordy about how they made this soda, and how amazing it is. Like it was you'll think it was 'made in heaven.'

I'm starting to realize that since I grew up on orange sodas made with everything but natural ingredients that its actually a little hard for me to equate the 'natural flavors orange soda' with the 'orange soda' flavor I know, and that might be throwing off my judgement of 'good' or 'bad'.

So I'd say this soda was just too rich for me. I also felt like the vanilla cream and the orange flavors didn't mix together well. I wonder now if I maybe should've slightly shaken it before I opened it, but the thought of shaking a soda is something you always stray away from.
It did smell really good if that helps. haha

Sunny Day

What a nice day. We all enjoyed the sunshine. Tom went down into the creek bed this morning and found that a coffee can that used to be in his shed was uncovered by the storm. Along with the can he found two large bolts. He said that for the coffee can being under the dirt for five years that it was amazingly in good shape. We hope you are enjoying your sunny day.

PS. Nessa played with her new toys for about 3 hours straight, with two 20 minutes breaks with it close at hand. It was fun watching her swat it out of her own mouth.

A very interesting day.

The rain has been off and on today. Nothing to really worry about. The creek is flowing in its channel, so no worries there. It looks like we got another inch of rain since last night. I took a drive out today, still lots of flooded areas but what was really beautiful is the snow. It got down to a really low level. There was a dusting of snow on the mountain behind Vons, that doesn't happen to often as well as a dusting on the mountain behind the elementary school. I purchased some cat toys, the little mice. Nessa is very busy with her new obsession. Its keeping her busy. Purr-fect for a rainy day.
As you noticed no photos today. Nora adds the photos for me and she is not here. She is at Disneyland. Making a rainy day memory for sure.

Stay dry, and find a new toy to pass the time.

Later in the day...

In many ways this was a much quieter day. In other ways not so QUIET! Around 6 pm we had a nice thunder storm roll over us. When it started, 2 cats and 1 dog were in the house. Which proved interesting because not one of them liked it. Then I realized that one cat was still outside. So when I went out onto the porch, I expected to have to look for him, but no, he was sitting on the railing just waiting for the next flash. Everyone is so different, even in the animal world. When the hail started pelting against the house, everyone got extra excited, except Tamaki. Eventually it stopped and all seemed to settle down. So I took a breather and sat on the couch. A few moments later the pillow that I was leaning on started to move. Aaaagh! It was just Quincy, hiding from all the noise.
We did get another inch of rain today. Bringing the total since Monday to 8 inches. I sure hope you are all dry where you are, or at least you found a dry spot, or you were able to find a pillow to hide under til it all passed.

As of 11am