Monday, March 12, 2012

I Hope Married Life Is Like This

Joe and I have been having the best weekends ever IF (and only if) we plan to do something. Anything.
So Saturday, Joe and I got up rather early. I showered, made cinnamon rolls and then we went to Newville. We filled the vet truck with gas and then mailed almost all of the invitations! I say almost all because there are three or four that need addresses or significant other names. If you are lucky enough to be invited, you should receive your invitation sometime this week. We dropped the vet truck off, hand delivered a handful of invitations and gathered some stuff to vaccinate the ponies and pull Coggins tests. We went out to the barn and I vaccinated and drew blood from Cody. He was a jerk as expected but did reasonably well. I gave Nell her rabies vaccine and pulled some blood from her. Joe then gave the last two vaccines (6 way and Potomac). He also got to draw some blood from Nell. Its a good thing that she's a great pony and patient.
We dropped of the blood-the second time that we did it that day. Mrs. Carpenter came out to greet us. She was concerned about a triplet lamb. The lamb was scrawny to me but still very much lively! I gave my hope that it would do well. Joe and I then went to get gas in the car before heading towards Chambersburg. Joe had mentioned going to the Bent and Dent. As much as the allure of dented cans and expired condiments is my siren song, I opposed it. We went towards Gettysburg and stopped at a handful of antique stores. Joe wouldn't let me get an old sled. :( I did end up with a model of the moon and a glass with pictures of goats on it that bought for Joe. We then went to Mister Ed's Elephant Museum which is really a candy shop (including homemade fudge) with lots of elephants.[EDIT: We ended up stopping at this place that literally had tables upon tables of stuff out front. At first, I was super excited. That went to terrified within 30 seconds when there was a frenzy of barking. I told Joe to go but then the old man invited us to look and 'start a pile'. I easily get suckered in when old men are involved. Joe and I didn't start a pile. Most of the stuff was in piles. Everything was so rotten that the tables were falling out from underneath the dry rotting glasses. Luckily, most of these glasses were upside down thus preventing mosquitos from breeding there. I'm still positive that everything (humans and dogs included) had both Lyme disease and West Nile. END EDIT] From there, we went to the Caprine Delight Dairy which is a goat dairy. Joe bought a half gallon of goat milk and some cheese. While I was looking for two more dollars as well as fighting off a dog and polydactyl cat that wanted to get into my car, Joe somehow talked the owner into showing us around. We looked around and Joe got his goat fill. I got my fill of polydactyl cats that were cute and fluffy. Horses, sheep, goats and cows from the road. We ran home to drop off the milk and then went to Chili's for dinner. Saturday night, we laid around the house.
Sunday, we went to see the ponies, bought groceries, ate Taco Bell, went to the dog park (me too!), ate Mexican food (the Taco Bell got me craving it), made impressions of our fingerprints for our wedding rings and then watched some TV.
Today, I went to see the ponies, did some laundry, enjoyed some dog free time, eventually baked a chicken. I had another Pinterest FAIL with some mashed califlower. I don't really like califlower but a couple of ways-raw with dip and roasted. This recipe stated that it would be like mashed potatoes. Joe is back on the bean diet but I'm not sure how much he's going to actually lose in two and half months. I did leave out a large amount of butter and cheese from this recipe. It probably also didn't help that I don't have the proper equipment to mash califlower. Califlower doesn't mash with a potato masher or with a mixer. A stick blender only works marginally well. Someone better get me a food processor for a wedding present or else heads will roll...I'm currently in a pretty foul mood. I've eaten a lot of candy today. I want some ice cream. Maybe its the spring weather. I'd settle for some cuddling with Joe or a drive (with a soda).

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