Hi, and sorry for the absence. We spent last week (spring break, woohoo!) in New Mexico. We drove all over the state and took in many sights. It was really nice to be in the sun and eat a lot of New Mexican cuisine.
Other than that, I’ve got nothing. I leave for Japan in a week (!!). I’ll be sans e-mail and Internet access for 2.5 weeks!
Hi! THANKS, everyone, for playing along. I used the Random Number Generator to select our winner. Blogless Janis is the winner, and I have sent her an e-mail letting her know!
I would have picked the winner earlier, but I was knocked down by the flu. Thank goodness I had the foresight to make a batch of Jell-O before things really got ugly.
Anyway, thanks for playing, and I hope to have another book giveaway soon (I’ll give you a hint–it has to do with buttons
Yay, it’s time for another giveaway! Death by Cashmere is the first of the Seaside Knitters Mystery series. Set in a small coastal town in Massachusetts, the mystery features a knitting circle and of course an intrepid protagonist who has to figure out who dunnit!
If you’d like to win, please leave a comment on this post with your e-mail address and, let’s see, how about the title of the book you’re currently reading? U.S. participants only for this one, please! I’ll pick a winner the evening of Monday, March 16, so you have until then to enter! Thanks!
On Friday we took Deedle in to get her teeth cleaned. We had had them cleaned a few years ago, and really, it’s something we should do yearly, but last time it cost us almost $900, so, you know, sometimes I kinda forget to make the appointment.
I do try to brush Deedle’s teeth, but she moves her head all around, and it is quite difficult, so I am lazy about it. After this latest teeth cleaning, though, I am determined to brush regularly. Why? Deedle had to have 7 teeth extracted! Some of her teeth were so rotten they were on the verge of falling out of her mouth. No wonder her breath is so horrible. She had come to us with bad teeth to begin with–she had been chained up in the backyard for weekends at a time with a big bowl of food and water that she probably went through the first day, so I suspect she tried to chew through the chain.
But, the moral to the story is, if you have pets, take care of their teeth! I just found out about a product called PetzLife. It comes in gel and spray form and is supposed to be very effective at reducing plaque. The vet did emphasize that you really DO need to brush, though, so that’s what I will do. Really.
I love this whole “blog from flickr” deal! Anyway, Peeps are in season once again, so there’s not much to be sad about, is there? I was a bit sad over the weekend because my computer got infected with MALWARE, and I could not get rid of it. In all these years of surfing the wild wild web, I had never caught malicious malware before, so this was rather unsettling. I cannot say enough good things about the folks at bleeping computer. They provided step-by-step instructions on how to fix my computer!
Somewhere in Japan, Chizu Saeki is laughing really hard.
Anyway, in Saeki’s The Japanese Skincare Revolution
, into my amazon shopping cart it went.
