On the balcony at the Browne’s – Summer 2010
Oscar
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Oscar loves it out on the balcony in the summer – he’s funny to watch out there – he moves in slow motion across the balcony and sits under one of the chairs against the wall of the house. Then he just sits there like a gargoyle. I don’t leave him out there “unsupervised” because the railings on the balcony are hanging on by a thread. I’ve started putting plant pots against the railing. I guess you call that, “getting ready for summer”.
Guess what? After I posted my watermelon post the other day, Andrea from the National Watermelon Promotion Board in Canada emailed me and asked me if I’d like a CD of watermelon recipes. I completely took her up on her offer and will be trying out the recipes once I get them. In the meantime, I checked out their website and made this watermelon slushie drink. I just halved the recipe. I didn’t need 6 drinks. My liver can only take so much flushing in one night.
Watermelon Berry Slush
Ingredients:
4 cups cubed, seeded watermelon
1 (10 ounce) package frozen raspberries – I had mixed frozen berries, so I used them. YUM.
1 (12 ounce) bottle sparkling mineral water
Instructions:
Drop watermelon through food chute of a blender with the motor running. Add frozen raspberries alternately with mineral water, processing until smooth.
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Delish! Not too sweet and very refreshing. I’ll making that one again.
And again.
You can expect more watermelon recipes from me in the next few weeks. I’m a watermelon convert now.
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It looks like we’re going to make a short video for work, so the next couple of weeks, I’ll be practicing some video making – including editing. And the coolest part? This is the tiny video camera I’ll be using.
It’s a point and shoot Canon and it’s smaller than an iphone. Under the right lighting conditions, the video looks very sharp – very nice. I’ll be practicing that over the next few days. And another thing I have to learn? Editing. Uh, that’s a bit tough. I’ll be learning how to use some online editing software – apparently easy to learn – however, I couldn’t even figure out how to get it started, so I’ve got a lot of learning to do.
Happily, Oscar cooperated with a video today. He usually walks away these days when I bring out my camera (unlike that hambone, Donner).
Please consider this video a “before” edit. I expect to present you with an edited version in the very near future. This 27 second video will be considerably shorter.
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*I have no idea why Oscar’s eyes are looking gigantic like that*
Now that Donner is all settled in, it is not unusual to hear things going smash in the night. Donner and Oscar are good buddies. Other than Oscar trying eat Donner’s food at dinner time – but Donner has been getting better and better about not giving up his dinners these days. It seems right around bedtime, they start tearing around the house. They chirp and call for each other and then we’ll hear them running around the house. And a few times, a big smash. Last night it was just some keys off the ledge. The night before that, it was the garbage can in my office – they tipped it over and the shredder on the top flew off. No one was injured or harmed by their hijinx. The best part is their reaction once they’ve been caught. They just stay still wherever they are – frozen – hoping no one will figure out it was them. They are total goofballs.
You know who else could be in the goofball category? My sister and I, shown here:
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