September 2011
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An Incomplete List of Silas' Nicknames
Si (pronounced “sigh”)
Si Si
Sci-Fi
Mr. Dog
Puppy
Puppia (pronounced “papaya”)
Senor Fluffyface
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Silas hates when other dogs are on his turf. In Silas’ world, his territory extends a hundred yards from wherever I’m standing. His sworn enemy is the one-eyed dog with the curly tail; honestly, I can’t blame him - who knows how that dog lost an eye.
This morning, Silas spied a Great Dane that was giant even by Great Dane standards. Typically when Silas encounters a dog on his...
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Goodbye, Summer
Fall started suddenly this past week. The weather went from 95 to 75 overnight. The only peaches left at the grocery store are white flesh California peaches and organic peaches. No standard issue, pesticide blasted, yellow flesh Georgia peaches. The organic peaches were half off because they were a day away from being overripe, so I decided to make a cobbler.
Peach cobblers are my favorite....
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Day Four - Dim Sum and Then Some
Finally wrapping up my California recaps…
On our last day in San Francisco, Ben and I slept in and met Mom and Dad for lunch at a dim sum restaurant. I’d never had dim sum before, but I think all restaurants should be set up similarly.
We stopped by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for an hour. It made me think of when Mom and I were at the Tate Modern, staring at a giant...
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“I just MacGyver’d a chocolate croissant out of Pillsbury crescent roll...”
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I hate to admit it, but I laughed. →
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“I will never cheat on you but I may gain 100 pounds which is a different kind of...”
– http://twitter.com/#!/mindykaling
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Day Three - BIG TREES!
Our third day in California was packed. First on the agenda was an olive oil tour and tasting at Round Pond. I was really excited about this because (a) olive oil nom nom nom and (b) it’s definitely unique. The mill tour was brief because the mill is literally one room.
For the tasting, we tried Italian oil, Spanish oil, lemon oil, and orange oil. First we tasted the olive oils by sipping...
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Decatur Book Festival
Today I went to the Decatur Book Festival to see Victoria do a panel discussion with other authors with witches in their books. She was so cool and poised, and I was sitting in the audience resisting the urge to say to strangers, “Did you know Victoria and I are friends from high school?” I didn’t want to be that girl, but I so wanted to be that girl.
I think it goes without...
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Day Two - Duck Fat is the New Butter
On our first full day in California, we got up bright and early for a wine tasting at Robert Mondavi. I only knew of Robert Mondavi’s Woodbridge, the wine you can get in a magnum for $12 at CVS, so I was prepared to be unimpressed. Turns out they make non-shitty wine, too!
The vineyards were gorgeous. We got to taste chardonnay and pinot grapes. The chardonnay grapes were really tart but...
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Day One - Napa: It's a Region
Installment one of my trip to CA with the fam…
I flew into LA and got on a teeny little plane to Berkeley. Mom and Dad had gotten in the night before to pick Ben up from his summer classes. I was pretty loopy from getting up at dawn and not eating any real food. One of the nice things about a family vacation is that they instinctively knew this and left me alone until I’d eaten. Dad...
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Silas tried to jump on the end of my sleigh bed from the floor. He’s not a big dog. He bounced off. It was like watching a hurdler bite it.
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Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally
….My laptop is back! That explains the lack of updates, dear readers (hi Katy, Amanda, and maybe Matt. Matttt? Hi Matt!).
While my laptop was vacationing with Geek Squad, I went to Napa and San Francisco with Mom, Dad, and Ben. It was incredible. Thanks to Mom’s carefully planned itinerary, we had an action-packed long weekend. I want to recap everything but I’m going to break...
