Look at my baby boy laying in the dirt. Isn't he grand? I'll tell you a little secret about him: the pads on the bottom of his feet are chocolate brown. I could seriously eat him up, he is so stinking cute. I can honestly say that I'm in deep love with this little guy.
In case you're wondering, they're all allowed outside under supervision, never alone, and only for about 30 minutes on weekdays. On the weekends, they get to go out more, and we stay out longer with them, but their weekday treat is 30 minutes outside playing hard. I need to get video!
Higgins sleeping is heaven because when she's awake, it's a nightmare. She never stops, and she's always thinking, thinking, thinking. She's a trasher, too. When I leave their living room, it's nice and tidy. It doesn't take long for Higgins to do some serious trashing. But isn't she precious?!
Then, there's my baby Oscar. Perfect (and huge) in every way. Every now and then, he'll cuddle with me. He's giant and plush and cuddles with Oscar are the best.
Okay, so Crocktober. That's a thing, and I only just found out about it. But then, I researched it online and the threads for Crocktober were endless. It's been a thing for a long time! I can't tell if finding this out makes me feel under obligation to begin collecting recipes to try for Crocktober, or if I'm just overly excited about it (comparison: a trained border collie taking a walk, only to come up on a field of sheep who need herded - it's that level of excitement). Anyway, I feel like there could be some very good vegetarian crockpot recipes out there, so that gives me something to get excited bout for Autumn (as if I need an excuse).
I am hesitant to keep putting it out in the universe, but we really have been blessed with our weather this summer. It hasn't been miserable. I did notice that this weekend looks pretty warm, but it IS summer, after all. I'll take advantage of the weekend heat in some way; maybe an ice cream or shaved ice treat.
Today, though, I have a killer headache. In fact, it woke me up at 2:17 a.m. to the point where I thought "Lord, Jesus, this is it, take me now if you must but make it quick." I don't even think I was kidding on some levels. I mean, it hurt. It's a bit better now. I got up and made a very strong pot of coffee and drank a cup of it, along with two OTC pills. It's easing a bit but won't ease completely until our weather system rolls over top of us. So, we start today with our weather-predictive headache, which told me to prepare for heavy rain before I ever looked up today's forecast- 80 percent rain and thunderstorms.
I do love a summer storm as long as it doesn't go nuts and create havoc and devastation. We are in the mid to low 60s at night, and honestly - it's really nice when you wake up and that cool air hits you the first time you take the border collie out for a quick run (my dog is pure heaven).
Today is a day for listening to true crime podcasts at the office (I'm isolated at this time, which is good since this whole Covid thing came along). I'm not gonna lie - today's food is going to be a cup of English Toffee coffee with whatever chocolate is rolling around in my snack drawer at work. It's just that kind of day. I'll take the rainy day over a high-heat day any day of the week, though.
Here's to gentle summer storms and Crocktober recipe hunting season! My goal is to do one crockpot recipe a week during Crocktober. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year AND on a full moon! I'll have to come up with something special for that!
Happy Friday Eve to you. We've almost made it to the weekend!
3 comments:
Where did you get your English Toffee coffee? I haven't used my crockpot in a decade. Doesn't seem worth it for two people.
I usually make stuff in the crockpot that can be frozen in batches or that we eat on for lunch that week. Chili is good and freezes well, vegetable soup (loaded with a lot of veg since we don't eat meat), cream corn to go over biscuits - made some of this recently in the crockpot. etc. Some casseroles can be made in the crockpot, too. The cheese or a cracker or bread crumbled topping will brown up nicely in the crockpot, at least it has for me.
Also, the English Toffee coffee is from Ollie's BUT it's in pods for the Keurig . . ..
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