To Steam or Not to Steam...

I am debating on whether or not to rent the steam cleaner for this weekend and steam clean the carpets. They aren't in dire need of it, but it is spring cleaning time and I finally have the kitchen re-organized. Plus we want the house to be as spiffy looking as possible because we are leaning towards asking our landlord if we can go head and get another dog, and we figure he is probably going to want to come inspect the place to make sure we haven't let our little munchkin tear anything up, which of course we haven't.

Yes Mr. President, we will wait until Saturday to get a new car!

Well, President Obama spoke in Quincy today. It was a HUGE deal. So huge of a deal, we did not make it to test drive the car we have our eye on. OH, we tried, but we were cut off at every street we tried due to the COMPLETE blockade of almost ALL of the south end of town's streets. We tried a few different routes to make it to Broadway with no luck. Every street we tried we ended up having to turn around. We ended up on a road that neither Allen nor I was familiar with. We figured that if we kept following the road, eventually we would come to the highway. What we did not realize was that the road we were on led us straight to the airport that the president was going to be leaving from. LOL! We spent an HOUR on the road to try to get to the car dealership and ended up just going home. We did get to see the cargo plane that the presidents motorcade vehicles flew in on, and the tail end of Air Force One, which I have to admit...was kind of cool. The picture above is a poor cell phone pic of the cargo plane. So...we are hoping the car will still be on the lot on Saturday. We put in an offer online, but the response we got back was a very generic response. Dr's appointment went fine. I had a cyst on my right ovary, but apparantly it's a VERY common thing for women my age, so common in fact, my gyne spent literally TWO minutes with me and made me feel silly for even showing up at her office. I don't like that...at all. Oh well, all is well that ends well!

Off of work today

I'm off of work today for a doctor's appointment to see my gynecologist and then Allen and I are going to Poage's to try and negotiate for a car. We found a nice used one at a decent price, that will give us a reliable car without a giant loan to pay off. We really wanted to buy a brand spanking new car, but decided we'd better not. The next giant loan we take out will not be for a car...but for a HOUSE! We will let you know how it goes.

As promised...

Here is the picture of some of the mushrooms we found! YAY!

and a picture of one of the most amazing burgers I have EVER cooked in my life! I made them for Allen a few weeks ago. It was a recipe from the new Pillsbury bake-off cook book I have. I'm trying to come up with my own great recipe idea. The winners of the contest win pretty big bucks, but before I make up my own recipe I'm going to try out some of the recipes that have been winners in the past to try and figure out what they are looking for.

Mmmm mmmm Morels!

Today we were able to eat fried morel mushrooms for the first time in more than 10 years for both of us! Niether one of us could remember the last time we ate morels, but with the help of Caleb and three hours of mushroom hunting in the windy cold weather today we came home with enough to cook up! We also came home with soaked jeans , shoes, and socks, but it was definately worth it!!!!!! I have a picture of some of the ones we found , but right now my phone is not working to get the picture sent to our email so I will have to post it later.

ARHGH!

EVERYTHING IS COATED IN POLLEN!!!! MY EYES HURT, MY NOSE ITCHES, AND I CAN'T BREATHE!

I really hope that this doesn't last all spring and all summer, or I'm going to have to find something stronger than the OTC Claritin.

Made it to Wednesday...

Two more days to go! I think I can, I think I can...

On Saturday, Penny is going to run in the Dachshund Derby ! THE WIENER DOG RACES! YAY! :)