A Thankgiving Eve Ramble
Nov. 23rd, 2011 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunchofgrapesI am officially on vacation! The next four days I can completely ignore the Blackberry. On Monday I can mostly ignore it. We're in the middle of a re-org so I'm sure I'll get an email or four that I'll need to answer.
My vacation will be full of fun things like take two cats to the vet, touch up the wall where the stupid cleaning people scuffed it up (just had the place painted too), run errands like drop off and pick up dry cleaning, rake leaves, and gather up stuff to take to charity thrift store. Envious, aren't you? On the plus side there are five Caps games over the next eight days. I do love hockey.
Every year for Thanksgiving I make sweet potato casserole. It's got a topping that's full of brown sugar and pecans and it really is good. However, given that I've cut back on the sugar, I wanted to change it up and make the topping without the brown sugar. A quick search on the internet and I found an awesome recipe that calls for grinding up pecans until they're very fine, adding in a little natural sweetener and a little butter. I roasted the sweet potatoes and put them into the food processor with cinnamon, nutmeg and some egg whites and honestly, if I didn't have to make this casserole, I'd have made sweet potato pie. This looks to be really, really delicious. I'll bake it up tomorrow and see how it goes.
I know all animals have their little quirks but honestly, I've never had cats like this. First there's Harry. It's not so much that he has his own food bowl. It's more like he has a food bowl spot. And if the bowl in that spot is empty, even though the other two bowls are full of food, he will sit in front of the bowl, staring into space, until I either give him more food or I move one of those full bowls into his spot. Strange cat.
Tucker on the other hand will eat out of all the bowls. His little quirk is that in the morning, after I put the food out, he will sit on the stairs until I come over and shower him with attention. When he feels he's had enough, he'll come and eat. Oh, and if it's already downstairs, he'll run halfway up the stairs to his spot so I can give him the attention he feels he deserves.
Sophie will not eat with the boys. She will eat the food but it has to be away from them. She will eat and then when she's done, I have to move the bowl over with the others. Later, she'll eat, she just won't eat with the boys. Obviously, she thinks the boys are stinky pigs. She is right.
Both Sophie and Tucker are intrigued by the shower. When I turn on the water, Sophie will run over and watch it go down the drain. Tucker stands by the closed shower door (water is off), then when I open it, he will look up at the shower head, then down at the drain. I will turn on the water and he runs away, then he runs back to watch the water, then he runs away, then he comes back. Rinse, repeat. He also likes to watch the toilet bowl fill up. I know that if I leave the lid up, one day I will have a very wet cat running frantically through the house so the toilet lids are always down.
My vacation will be full of fun things like take two cats to the vet, touch up the wall where the stupid cleaning people scuffed it up (just had the place painted too), run errands like drop off and pick up dry cleaning, rake leaves, and gather up stuff to take to charity thrift store. Envious, aren't you? On the plus side there are five Caps games over the next eight days. I do love hockey.
Every year for Thanksgiving I make sweet potato casserole. It's got a topping that's full of brown sugar and pecans and it really is good. However, given that I've cut back on the sugar, I wanted to change it up and make the topping without the brown sugar. A quick search on the internet and I found an awesome recipe that calls for grinding up pecans until they're very fine, adding in a little natural sweetener and a little butter. I roasted the sweet potatoes and put them into the food processor with cinnamon, nutmeg and some egg whites and honestly, if I didn't have to make this casserole, I'd have made sweet potato pie. This looks to be really, really delicious. I'll bake it up tomorrow and see how it goes.
I know all animals have their little quirks but honestly, I've never had cats like this. First there's Harry. It's not so much that he has his own food bowl. It's more like he has a food bowl spot. And if the bowl in that spot is empty, even though the other two bowls are full of food, he will sit in front of the bowl, staring into space, until I either give him more food or I move one of those full bowls into his spot. Strange cat.
Tucker on the other hand will eat out of all the bowls. His little quirk is that in the morning, after I put the food out, he will sit on the stairs until I come over and shower him with attention. When he feels he's had enough, he'll come and eat. Oh, and if it's already downstairs, he'll run halfway up the stairs to his spot so I can give him the attention he feels he deserves.
Sophie will not eat with the boys. She will eat the food but it has to be away from them. She will eat and then when she's done, I have to move the bowl over with the others. Later, she'll eat, she just won't eat with the boys. Obviously, she thinks the boys are stinky pigs. She is right.
Both Sophie and Tucker are intrigued by the shower. When I turn on the water, Sophie will run over and watch it go down the drain. Tucker stands by the closed shower door (water is off), then when I open it, he will look up at the shower head, then down at the drain. I will turn on the water and he runs away, then he runs back to watch the water, then he runs away, then he comes back. Rinse, repeat. He also likes to watch the toilet bowl fill up. I know that if I leave the lid up, one day I will have a very wet cat running frantically through the house so the toilet lids are always down.
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Date: 2011-11-24 05:13 am (UTC)Our pets are entertaining, aren't they? We go through some of the same stuff with the dogs. They have to eat out of separate bowls and in different areas, but they will both drink water out of the same bowl. They stand in line waiting for the other one to finish drinking. We've tried giving them each their own bowl of water, but it will just sit there full, while they drink out of the other one. When outside, together, the older dog has to come into the house first, while the other one follows, but once they are through the doorway, he will step aside and let the younger one charge into the kitchen. Love them.
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Date: 2011-11-24 05:28 am (UTC)Except for the part where the brown sugar and the maple syrup would probably kill me, that sounds really good - especially the pineapple with the pecans and sweet potatoes.
A friend is giving me some fresh pumpkin so I think I'm going to make this pecan topping for either a pumpkin pie or the pumpkin bars I want to make. Honestly, after I mixed it up, I wanted to eat spoonfuls of it.