Lulu’s first trip to New York

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New York, pets, picture, postaday2015

  

We all came down to New York for the weekend to celebrate our daughter’s birthday and since it was the four of us, that meant that Jack and Lulu were included. Lulu followed Jack’s lead, thank goodness he has gotten over his abject fear of everything New York, because now when he walks down the street, he walks as if he owns the place, not like the scared little puppy of yesteryear. Lulu wanted to stop and say hi to every one she saw, they weren’t too thrilled to be jumped on and licked by a strange pit bull, but she didn’t get offended in the least by their aloofness. Jack showed Lulu how to chase the squrrels and the New York pigeons.

Jack was so excited to show off this brand new turf to his bff, it was adorable the way they sniffed the same things, walked nose and nose to the ground, I heard a few people say “how cute”.

So the picture above is Astoria Park with the Triboro Bridge right behind us, straddling the East River, the snow that you see is fresh from last night. My son took the picture with his handy cellphone. I’m always surprised by the quality cellphone pictures often display.

 

A restful day

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day of rest, New Year, picture, postday2013, self portrait, stuffed mushrooms

Today is the first day of 2013 and it has been a restful one; a beautiful day of rest and relaxation. I had my lovely breakfast of two pieces of rye toast with fig preserves and 3 cups of coffee. I read all of my e-mails, I wrote my daily comment on the state of affairs going on during this fiscal cliff crisis; drives me nuts, and I answered the Plinky prompt. Like I said; a lovely late morning.

My hubby and I are spending time together as always though my hubby and the baby girl watched episode after episode of Doctor Who while I caught up with my episodes of General Hospital. Jack and I did our mile long walk twice already and he was fed his vittels, so he’s a happy camper.

I took a small amount of time to make stuffed mushrooms the way my mother-in-law or Nonnie as we called her, made them. They are the easiest to make; saute two onions and four cloves of garlic, both finely minced, in a mixture of olive oil and butter, add the mushroom stems finely chopped to the onion and garlic along with some dried oregano and thyme and saute until soft. I then add Italian seasoned breadcrumbs with some more butter to the onion, garlic, mushroom mixture until the mixture binds together and then I lightly season with salt and pepper. I stuff the mushroom caps and put them into a 350 oven for about twenty minutes and voila stuffed mushrooms.

Now I am sitting down writing about this beautiful day and the start of a new year. I am not even thinking beyond the next hour; that is how restful this day is.:)