I'm crap at titles.

I promise our lives involve more than food and our animals... but those are definitely the more entertaining parts (for us?) of our lives. (Andrew adds "Apart from class and work, that might actually be all we have...", but I am unwilling to admit this, however true it may be).

Not helping my point, have a bunch of photos that prove how much of a cuddle ninja Lucy is (realize, though, that she puts herself into all of these positions; Andrew and I don't move her or alter her position to look weirder. Even as I type this, she is laying underneath the computer chair with her head resting on my shoe like a tiny, hard, leather pillow):

(Ben, you're going to have to bring out the big guns over Christmas)

We've had a pretty awesome day. Got up at 7am for some reason, drove to the top of the Avenues to see if we could get above the inversion line to see the lunar eclipse (we couldn't), stopped at Tulie Bakery, walked the dogs at Tanner Park, made lunch AND a lemon meringue pie, I met with a woman I'm going to be doing a poetry reading for and tonight we're going to have dinner with our friend Kristine. Go us!

I have no say whether she cuddles or not, but frankly Roman gets what she wants.

A Bald Eagle Visitor

A Bald Eagle Visitor, a photo by Curlew and Gudolph on Flickr.

I finally had my camera at work while the bald eagle visited. We had an eye-to-eye encounter...through the lens, anyway ;)

Christmas treats

I want to eat these really badly. Oh so badly.

Food!

Andrew and I have been making some neat dinners recently. One of my favorites was lemon and dill salmon with black rice. Also had barbeque salmon with zucchini and cauliflower mash, which is absolutely delicious. I'm a salmon fan.

Tonight we made personal pizzas with dough from Whole Foods, mozzarella, sage sausage and a ton of vegetables. We ended our meal with some homemade chocolate chip cookies.

I've also realized that I am incapable of cooking truly healthy food if it isn't an integral part of the recipe already or a tablespoon of butter wouldn't make it taste better...the latter being impossible. So you see my dilemma.

Unrelated to food, there was a wild bald eagle in the trees at the aviary today. Amazing!

Lucy's cuddling issue continues