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Northern California, March 2009 Labels: friends, restaurants, vacation


More March Madness Labels: dogs, friends


Little upsets 
Oh no, Papa, not my favorite lip gloss! My favorite lip gloss, Max Factor's "Too Much Wine," fell out of my purse last week. Papa saw fit to destroy it. The lip gloss is from Maxalicious' Naughty line; I think Papa interpreted that literally. Also, doesn't she look like she's had too much wine? Amazingly, there was no gloss on her face or smeared into the carpet. So there's something.

I'm pondering a new, spring-y lip gloss. She must have really hated that shade.

I think Papa doesn't understand when I'm displeased. Maybe because I sigh and then make her pose by her handiwork. My instinct is to snap a photo, not to clean up the mess. Because I don't want to do a reenactment. This is all real, folks!

I'll be in California next week, so I may take a day off from Oh no, Papa. But I have a feeling she'll keep up her hijinx at my parents' house....
Posted by Naomi at 10:41 AM 2 comments: 

Oh no, Papa, it's just the PediPaws! For Christmas, Yukie gave Papa PediPaws. Alas, Papa did not show quite the interest I did.

I don't know if you've ever trimmed your dog's nails and accidentally cut the quick, but that yelping haunts me. So even though Yukie couldn't use PediPaws on Yoshi (her siamese, who can tolerate the noise but not the actual filing), it seemed like it was worth a try.

The instructions were helpful. Because essentially, I do need to pin Papa down when using this. Oh no, Papa. The buzzing is a bit alarming.

But she's such a good girl, she trembles but allows me to file her nails.

And the best news of all: PediPaws actually works. I thought it would be wimpy, but it's powerful. Just be careful not to angle it wrong. That hurts (I tested it first on my own nails, ouch).

I give it four stars. Paws up!
Posted by Naomi at 8:07 PM 4 comments: 

One of my favorite books

So true, isn't it?

And I wouldn't say no to something sweet 
Oh no, Papa, not you, too! 

Coincidence — or sympathy pain? 

Some uses for buttermilk

I bought a quart of buttermilk so I could make scones this weekend. Because I have no idea when buttermilk goes bad — and I’m paranoid about the freshness of dairy products — I wanted to use up the rest. As soon as possible.

Lemon cake sounded yummy, but I could only find recipes that required a loaf or bundt pan, neither of which I own. (I don’t do loaves. Meat loaf, I make in a pie plate or a glass baking dish.)

So I made a chocolate buttermilk cake from a recipe I found online. It was just okay, not nearly as good as the Hershey’s chocolate cake I baked last winter. That recipe requires sour cream. I never have a problem using up sour cream, by the way: I'll put it on soup or tortilla chips or mac and cheese. Maybe I could try it on the chocolate cake....

Back to the buttermilk. I suppose I could make a half recipe of Lindsay’s Grandma Dort’s waffles, but I’m not in the mood for those (or for pancakes or biscuits) after the scones.

Do you have any good recipes that use buttermilk? Maybe as a surprising ingredient?
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