Wanderin' and Ramblin'

So part of the week before I started work we drove up to Upper Michigan to visit hubby's family.

Saber rode in her her car seat and we stuck her life vest under it to keep it closer to 

the window for her viewing pleasure.

We visited a beach that hubby used to go to.  I thought it was beautiful and was amused about the signs that are posted.  They've been there so long that the trees have grown around them.  Sadly, I only had my pocket camera and not my DSLR for this segment of the trip. 

I wish I could have swam there, but it rained shortly after I took photos.

Wordless Wednesday

I do not like the cone of shame

Guess who got spayed on the 9th?

A couple of weeks ago our neighbor's dog got loose

Meet Logan.

She lives below us with the neighbor girls.  She is about 5 lbs.

A couple of weeks ago, before I started working, she pushed the screen out of the window and escaped.

I have this strange habit of looking out the bathroom window for Hubby because it's easiest to see the cars from there.  I looked down and she looked up at me from the parking lot.  I ran down and saw that I was the only one home and decided to catch her and bring her inside.

She and Saber do not necessarily get along.

Most of their prior encounters involved her hiding on furniture and otherwise teases Saber.

Saber can get on furniture now.

So, for the first hour or so they chased each other about.  But after reinforcing the leave it (her) command they got along well enough to hang out on the same couch. 

In the end they got along well enough.

So a while ago some friends visited from Hawaii

...and they brought their toddler.

She was a bit uncertain of the child at first, but was ok with her later.  She likes small children that can talk better though.  She adores them in fact.

Mild Hiatus

I've been gone for a few days as I am want to do, but this time it is because I had started a new job on Monday and today Saber was spayed.  My poor doped up doggie.  She doesn't like her cone of shame.  Friday is tomorrow so I might get around to posting some of the stuff I wanted to and finish sewing that Appa costume. *crosses fingers*  Here's hoping!

~Lumie

Flag Cake

My mother and I made a flag cake at her home.  It required one white cake with blueberries dyed blue and had a 4 inch core taken out, one white cake divided in half horizontally, and two red cakes (strawberries added) divided horizontally and one layer of that unused.  We assembled all the "junk" parts into a separate cake.  We covered it in store bought cream cheese frosting.  As you may notice, we had a lot of errors and honestly I can pick out 2 reasons why.

Reason one:  We made this at my mother's.  She doesn't have a cake leveler like I do but instead prefers to do what she was taught 15 ish years ago. She uses dental floss.  If you've had a ton of practice it is a good practice.  If you haven't done it in at least 5+ years... not so much.  So the levels were uneven to start with.  Then add the heat and humidity.  My mother has lived most of her life without air conditioning and had decided to forgo it that night.  Store bought cream cheese is used for its fluidity. Let's just say with the heat and the unevenness that the cake was unstable.  Still, I think I would try this again and use buttercream for the inner frosting parts to link the layers and use cream cheese for the outside.  I air condition my house regularly when dealing with hot humid days (I live on the second floor, it's kind of necessary.)  So I think I will make this again sometime and bring it to Mom.